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THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

THE COLD WAR

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Read the description provided. Which Cold War leader could have written this statement? As a leader during the Cold War, my decisions could have resulted in a nuclear war. It was my decision to build missile silos in Cuba. As a result, this caused wide spread fear around the world. When the United States discovered this, they created a naval blockade around Cuba. The President said he was going to fire upon my boats if they tried to reach Cuba. I had already sent my boats filled with nuclear missiles there. As a result, I was forced to turn around the boats carrying the missiles.
A
Joseph Stalin
B
John F Kennedy
C
Lyndon B Johnson
D
Nikita Krushchev
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.

Detailed explanation-2: -President Harry S. Truman confronted unprecedented challenges in international affairs during his nearly eight years in office. Truman guided the United States through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the dawning of the atomic age.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which best describes the Cold War? A tense, forty-year standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States.

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