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COLD WAR ERA

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

Detailed explanation-3: -But the leaders of both superpowers recognized the devastating possibility of a nuclear war and publicly agreed to a deal in which the Soviets would dismantle the weapon sites in exchange for a pledge from the United States not to invade Cuba.

Detailed explanation-4: -In response to these factors, Soviet First Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev, agreed with the Cuban Prime Minister, Fidel Castro, to place nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba to deter a future invasion.

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