COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Question
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During the Cold War Era, which best explains why the United States and the Soviet Union avoided real military conflict with each other?
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They did not want China to get involved in an armed conflict.
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They did not have weapons powerful enough to use in a war.
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They were concerned about the possibility of global nuclear war.
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They did not have any allies to help them in a war.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Cold War stayed cold for a variety of reasons. Most importantly, the advent of nuclear weapons meant that any conflict between the superpowers risked a nuclear exchange that could have claimed tens of millions of lives and left a swath of destruction in both the Soviet and American homelands.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1962 the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities. The confrontation that followed, known as the Cuban missile crisis, brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles.
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