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The Cold War Era

Question
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Describe the motives of the smaller states to join the two power blocs. What were its results ?

Solution
(a) The motives of the smaller states was to get promise of protection, weapons and economic aid against their local rivals, mostly regional neighbours.

(b) The entire world was divided into two camps or two alliance system i.e., the Western and the Eastern alliance. These are called the ‘Western’ and the ‘Eastern’ because the western Europe sided with the US and the eastern Europe sided with Soviet Union.