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Why did the US and the Soviet Union never go directly to war against each other?
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∙ 12y ago
Their huge nuclear arsenals would mean that a war could completely destroy both countries.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 12y agoNeither country wanted a World War III, especially with the presence of nuclear bombs. Should either country have launched nuclear missiles against the other, it is likely we would have entered nuclear winter with horrible consequences.
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∙ 10y agoIt was partially fear. Both sides had weopons of mass destruction and both were afraid of the others and their own. And neither of them wanted it; the idea of world communism died with Trotsky. The later rulers of the USSR would support communism to boost their own power, but didnt want to risk their power by starting a major conflict. And the US was rhetoric about supporting the cause of Capitalism and wanted the war to stop the spread of communism, but Truman had a policy of containment not removal, and in the end no war happened. Also the US thought the USSR would win because NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) vastly overestimated the power of the Soviet Union, while the Soviet Union knew they would lose due to their bad economy, low poulation, and less money they were able to spend. Both sides doubted their chances to win the war, therefore neither were willing to start it. So there you have it.
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Their huge nuclear arsenals would mean that a war could completely destroy both countries.
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∙ 12y agobecause of the nuclear war treat and because us were the underdogs against the russians.
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∙ 13y agoThe USSR and the USA were allies at the time of WW2
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∙ 11y agoThe US and the USSR never directly conflicted because the result would be a nuclear war which would be a completedevastationfor both countries. This war was called the Cold War.
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∙ 8y agoTheir huge nuclear arsenals would mean that a war could completely destroy both countries.
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∙ 12y agoThey wanted to avoid the nuclear war.
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