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What is the name of the term given to the era of confrontation and competition between the US and the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1990?
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∙ 12y ago
It was called the Cold War.
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How did soviet foreign policy lead to difficult relations with the West?
The Soviet Union wanted to spread communism to the whole world. The West had a capitalist system and tried to limit the spread of communism. This created the environment for hostility between the two factions.
What led to separatist movements in eastern in the 1990s?
The fall of the soviet union
The eastern bloc was made of?
Commy countries led by the Soviet Union
Which major powers were responsible for the Cold War?
The Soviet Union and the United States.
What role did communist China play in the Cold War?
It alarmed and scared the US while by being communist and making alliances with the Soviet Union. Bonds with the Soviet Union weren't strong due to many border skirmishes and ect.
What confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union led them to the brink of war?
Cuban missle crisis
How did The space race was a competition between the US and the Soviet Union to develop technology to?
yes
What was the important symbol of the cold war?
Fierce competition between the US and the Soviet Union
The space race was a competition between the US and the Soviet Union to develop technology to .?
yes
What was once important symbol of the cold war?
Fierce competition between the US and the Soviet Union
What was the competition between the US and the Soviet Union was known as?
the Cold War was the second world war in america.
How did collectives in the Soviet union avoid the competition that drives free market economy?
By not
What was the first confrontation between the us and the soviet union in the cold war?
The two most famous confrontations were the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949 and the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1963. In the latter, the two sides were on the brink of nuclear war. Peripherally, the Soviets supported North Korea during the Korean War (1950-1953) but the intervention by China was the major Communist influence in the war.
The extended post World War 2 confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union?
The Cold War come on guys, that one was easy, did you really have to look it up?
What is the difference between the Soviet Union and Soviet Bloc?
The Soviet Union was the actual country itself. The Soviet Bloc was a group of supposedly independent countries which were really controlled by the Soviet Union.
What was the competition between the US and soviet union to build weapons was called the what?
The competition between the US and the European allies versus the Soviet Union following World War 2 was called the ColdWar. It was characterized by escalating arms buildups, developing more and more deadly weapons and the Soviet Union restricting Soviet citizens access to information about the world outside of the 'Iron Curtain', the figurative wall around the Soviet Union that kept people and ideas out, except for those that could serve as propaganda. The Soviet Union was also very strict about allowing its citizens to travel outside the Iron Curtain. The culmination of the Cold War was the 'space race'; the competition between the US and the Soviet Union to be the first in developments and accomplishments in space exploration.
What kinds of conflicts resulted from the global confrontation between the two superpower?
The main confrontation was the fact that the United States and the Soviet Union had such drastically different political and economic ideologies. The Cold War was the MAIN conflict, however, the Cold War in general can be very vague. More specifically, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
