INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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Great Britain and US
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US and Soviet Union
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Germany and Italy
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Korea and Vietnam
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Detailed explanation-1: -The United States and Soviet Union emerge from World War II as the world’s two superpowers. The United States and its Western allies worked with the Soviet Union to divide Europe into spheres of influence.
Detailed explanation-2: -But in 1949, the Soviets tested their own atomic bomb, and the Cold War nuclear arms race was on. The United States responded in 1952 by testing the highly destructive hydrogen “superbomb, ” and the Soviet Union followed suit in 1953.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) By the mid-1960s both the United States and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear power to obliterate their opponent.
Detailed explanation-4: -The nuclear arms race was perhaps the most alarming feature of the Cold War competition between the United States and Soviet Union. Over the decades, the two sides signed various arms control agreements as a means to manage their rivalry and limit the risk of nuclear war.
Detailed explanation-5: -The global standoff for dominance between the United States and the Soviet Union created in the aftermath of World War II affected all aspects of life in the postwar world.