History of Europe

How did president eisenhower use brinkmanship and the threat of massive retaliation to prevent war with Soviet Union?

President Eisenhower played a very risky game against the soviet Union known as '' brinkmanship. In his new look, policy Ike increased US reliance on nuclear bombs to make up for our weaknesses with ground troops by promising retaliation and a threat of war to deter the soviets from taking action

The policy aimed to deter Moscow by signaling that any conflict might escalate to unthinkable nuclear levels of destruction this strategy did indeed discourage sovietadventures during this period even to the point of forcing a Soviet retreat during Berlin crisis of 1958-196l but brinkmanship was a gamble and was risky for either country might overstep, resulting in full - scale war