Key term for AQA GCSE History, used in The Cold War: East and West (1945–1972).
Pushing a dangerous situation to the verge of disaster (like nuclear war) to pressure an opponent to back down.
Brinkmanship appears in AQA GCSE History revision content for Wider World Depth Studies, especially The Cold War: East and West (1945–1972) and Berlin Wall.
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