COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Espionage
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Space Race
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Olympics
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by George Orwell in an article published in 1945.
Detailed explanation-2: -Washington and Moscow competed in numerous ways: over money and natural resources like oil, over allies, over weapons technology, over influence and prestige, over space exploration, over ideas. The Cold War relationship between the two rival nations was often tense.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 1952 Summer Games were the first Olympics in which the Soviet Union participated (a Russian team had last competed in the 1912 Games), and the international tension caused by the Cold War initially prevailed.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Soviet Union joined the International Olympic Committee only in 1951. When they emerged the next year at the Helsinki Olympiad, they shocked the world by coming in a close second in the medal count. They then went on to dominate both the summer and winter Games in 1956.