WORLD HISTORY

COLD WAR ERA

IMPACT OF COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Arms Race was a competition
A
between the US and USSR to develop large numbers of nuclear warhead and superior military technology during the Cold War.
B
among the Satellite Nations to create the first Hydrogen Bomb.
C
between Kennedy and Khrushchev about who had bigger biceps.
D
to find and prosecute suspected communists in the government.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The nuclear arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union became engaged in a nuclear arms race. They both spent billions and billions of dollars trying to build up huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons.

Detailed explanation-4: -How does the concept of competition relate to the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War? The two nations wanted to best one another in the development and stockpiling of nuclear weapons, which drove the competition between them.

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