WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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Sputnik and the space race
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diminished military sizes and spending due to technology
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the Helsinki Accords
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was through third parties (wars by proxy)
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Detailed explanation-1: -In order to try and slow down the Arms Race, the countries agreed to reduce arms through the SALT I and SALT II agreements. SALT stood for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. For the most part, the Arms Race came to an end with the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Detailed explanation-2: -"The war is won, ” he said in December 1945, “but the peace is not.” The development of the atomic bomb and the subsequent arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union ushered in a new conflict: the Cold War. Einstein feared this battle would end with the destruction of civilization.
Detailed explanation-3: -This destructive power and the decades-long arms race that it caused left the Soviet Union with a huge military arsenal that turned out virtually worthless, and a devastated economy with tremendous budget deficit and very low living standards.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.