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Critically examine the various dimensions and phases of the cold war between 1947 and 1962.

  • UPSC 2005
  • The World after World War II

The fifteen years between the Truman Doctrine and the Cuban Missile Crisis compressed the Cold War's entire early arc — from declared containment to the nuclear brink — through a sequence of distinct phases, each adding a new dimension to the rivalry.

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  • Phase One: Containment Declared (1947–48)
  • Phase Two: Berlin and the Birth of NATO (1948–49)
  • Phase Three: Korea, the First Hot Proxy War (1950–53)
  • Phase Four: The Post-Stalin Thaw and Its Limits (1953–56)
  • Phase Five: Renewed Berlin Tension (1958–61)
  • Phase Six: The Cuban Missile Crisis — The Period's Climax (1962)

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