THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Question
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The US dropped bombs on the Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union dropped bombs on the US
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The two countries have different viewpoints of government and economy.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -1941-1945: The United States and USSR become allies The relationship between the United States and the USSR had always been strained because the political ideologies each supported, capitalism and democracy in the US and communism and a command economy in the USSR, were opposed to one another.
Detailed explanation-2: -Explanation: The visions of what would be best for the world between the Soviet Union and the United States were diametrically opposed. The Soviet Union strived for world dominance similar to its control of the previously independent countries of Eastern Europe. The United States opposed the spread of communism.
Detailed explanation-3: -To help discourage Soviet communist expansion, the United States built more atomic weaponry. But in 1949, the Soviets tested their own atomic bomb, and the Cold War nuclear arms race was on.
Detailed explanation-4: -Fanned by the fear of Communist expansion and the rapid deterioration of European economies in the winter of 1946–1947, Congress passed the Economic Cooperation Act in March 1948 and approved funding that would eventually rise to over $12 billion for the rebuilding of Western Europe.