WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

DECOLONIZATION PHASE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Define the Cold War
A
Indirect conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union at that began at the end of WWII
B
Fighting that occurred between Soviet Union and The United States until 1945
C
Conflict between the Communist Nations of North America and Capitalist Nations of Europe
D
War between Korea and the United States
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was called the Cold War because neither the Soviet Union nor the United States officially declared war on each other. However, both sides clearly struggled to prevent the other from spreading its economic and political systems around the globe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Indirect conflict was in Korea and Vietnam. Conflict in these countries are tied to the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union supported groups in these countries to either spread democracy or communism. If the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in nuclear war then then we would destroy each other.

Detailed explanation-4: -As World War II transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased. Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-5: -Historians have identified several causes that led to the outbreak of the Cold War, including: tensions between the two nations at the end of World War II, the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear weapons, and the fear of communism in the United States.

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