History · Rise of Indian Nationalism
UGC NET June 2012 History
Who is credited with first popularising the term 'Cold War' in a public speech?
AWinston Churchill
BBernard Baruch ✓ Correct
CGeorge Marshall
DGustav Stresemann
Correct answer: (B) Bernard Baruch — The American statesman Bernard Baruch is credited with popularising the term Cold War, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The American statesman Bernard Baruch is credited with popularising the term Cold War, so that is the answer.
★He used it in a speech in 1947 to describe the tense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.
★The columnist Walter Lippmann then spread the phrase widely through his writings.
★Winston Churchill is famous for the Iron Curtain phrase in his 1946 Fulton speech, not for the term Cold War.
★The Cold War ran from about 1947, the year of the Truman Doctrine, to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union.
★It was a long struggle of ideology, arms and influence rather than open war between the two powers.
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