COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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the Soviet Union began developing nuclear weapons.
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the Marshall Plan failed to rebuild war-torn Europe.
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Communists and Western capitalists distrusted each other.
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the United States threatened to invade Soviet satellite states
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Detailed explanation-1: -Introduction. After World War II the United States and the Soviet Union were the superpowers of the world. They became rivals as they each sought to prevent the other from gaining too much power. The period of tension that existed between them came to be known as the Cold War.
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 Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted for decades and resulted in anti-communist suspicions and international incidents that led the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear disaster.