COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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conflict between armed opponents
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competition for economic and political power
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conflict that involves exchange of atomic weapons
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competition for petroleum resources in the Arctic
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which best describes the Cold War? A tense, forty-year standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States. Which best describes the main goal of the U.S. policy of containment? To keep communism from spreading around the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -The global competition between the United States and the Soviet Union took many forms: political, economic, ideological, cultural. At times the constant arms race burst into armed conflict. But overshadowing all was the threat of nuclear war.
Detailed explanation-3: -cold war. noun. a state of political hostility and military tension between two countries or power blocs, involving propaganda, subversion, threats, economic sanctions, and other measures short of open warfare, esp that between the American and Soviet blocs after World War II (the Cold War)
Detailed explanation-4: -On this day in 1947, Bernard Baruch, the multimillionaire financier and adviser to presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman, coined the term “Cold War” to describe the increasingly chilly relations between two World War II Allies: the United States and the Soviet Union.