HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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It was a competition between the US and Soviet Union and their respective allies.
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It was a ideological war between the superpower
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It triggered an arm race
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The US and USSR were engaged in direct Wars
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which among the following statements about the Cold War is incorrect? Answer: [D] The US and USSR were engaged in direct wars. Notes: The fourth statement that as a result of the Cold War, the US and USSR were engaged in direct wars is incorrect.
Detailed explanation-2: -As World War II transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased. Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the Cold War.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cold War: Postwar Estrangement The Western democracies and the Soviet Union discussed the progress of World War II and the nature of the postwar settlement at conferences in Tehran (1943), Yalta (February 1945), and Potsdam (July–August 1945).
Detailed explanation-4: -The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two superpowers, but they each supported opposing sides in major regional conflicts known as proxy wars.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Cold War, a global geopolitical and ideological struggle between (western) capitalist and (eastern) communist countries, fueled a generations-long, multifaceted rivalry between the remaining superpowers of the postwar world: the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).