CAT Question of the Day The statements below are the summary of the given paragraph. Choose the option that best represents the same:
The United States hoped to encourage East European countries to break away from the bloc through their own efforts but wanted to avoid a US-Soviet military confrontation, as escalation might lead to a nuclear war. For these reasons, US policy makers had to consider other means of diminishing Soviet influence in Eastern Europe. This led to the development of containment policies such as economic and psychological warfare, covert operations and negotiation with the Soviet Union regarding the status of the Eastern states. | OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | The need to break up the Soviet Union, without military warfare, led to the development of atypical warfare. | | | 2) | The need to hamper Soviet influence in Eastern bloc led to the US developing of unconventional warfare. | | | 3) | The Soviet Union – Eastern bloc alliance was broken by the US using economic and psychological warfare. | | | 4) | The US successfully alienated the Eastern states from under Soviet influence using direct and indirect means of warfare. |
Tip of the Day While answering the questions of an RC, never assume the correctness of the outside knowledge that you may be having about the topic of the passage. There are certain questions that are deliberately framed in such a way so as to make this trap possible. Last year's Question of the day (05-Jan-13) Kartik lends Rs. 6 on the condition that the loan is payable in 10 years by 10 equal Installments of Rs. 1 each. If r is the effective interest rate per annum, then which of the following is correct? (Assume compounding.)
| OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | 0 < r < 10 | | | 2) | 10 < r < 20 | | | 3) | 20 < r < 30 | | | 4) | None of these |
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