COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Soviets had spy planes
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USSR planted missiles in Cuba
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US planted missiles in Turkey and Italy
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Both US and USSR planted missiles in foreign nations
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Detailed explanation-1: -During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical rule of his own country.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Cold War stayed cold for a variety of reasons. Most importantly, the advent of nuclear weapons meant that any conflict between the superpowers risked a nuclear exchange that could have claimed tens of millions of lives and left a swath of destruction in both the Soviet and American homelands.
Detailed explanation-3: -SPREAD OF COMMUNISM As stated above, there was a major ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union at the outset of the Cold War. The United States, led by Harry S. Truman feared that communism as an ideology would spread throughout Europe and the rest of the world.