cold war- peaceful coexistance (1 Viewer)

angel_fire

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i am doing the cold war and starting to panic as i know nothing.. Was the peaceful coexistance was the put forward by the OSviets or American's.. I am sure it is the americans..
 

Don Mackey

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Detente is put forth almost simultaneously by both Kennedy and Krushchev. the catalyst for which was the Cuban Missile crisis of 1962. Essentially the doctrine of co-existence was in contravention to MAD and the skyrocketing military spending which was detrimental to both economies. It was also essentially for the US a way of maintaining strategic control on Nuclear weapons, however towards the end of the sixties the Soviets gained strategic parity in name. The actual result of peaceful co-existence was the new appearance the cold war took on from outright confrontation to subtle influences in the arms race and implication in the developing nations post colonialism.
 

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"Peaceful Coexistance" was the Soviets whilst the Americans had Detente...Khruschev was talking about Peaceful Coexistance when he became leader of USSR
 

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