THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR
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led to increased defense spending.
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decrease tensions with communist nations.
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sparked revolution in Cuba.
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infuriated the American people.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The arms race also helped launch the space race, as the superpowers competed for dominance in space. Sending rockets into space with satellites attached demonstrated the capability to do the same with nuclear warheads.
Detailed explanation-2: -Truman’s aim of intimidating the USSR into compliance over Eastern Europe backfired. Stalin reacted with anger rather than fear. Tension was greatly increased as a result of the developing arms race which served to militarise both sides and bring war closer.
Detailed explanation-3: -This destructive power and the decades-long arms race that it caused left the Soviet Union with a huge military arsenal that turned out virtually worthless, and a devastated economy with tremendous budget deficit and very low living standards.
Detailed explanation-4: -The arms race led many Americans to fear that nuclear war could happen at any time, and the US government urged citizens to prepare to survive an atomic bomb.