The Cold War Heats Up 2

Question

Which of these factors played a major role in preventing a war between the Soviet Union and the United States?

A. 

a successful rebuilding of relations between the Soviets and the Western Allies

B. 

the Soviet Union's stronger military compared to the United States

C. 

more Allied support to the United States than the Soviet Union

D. 

fear of a nuclear war between the two nations

Answer 1

D. 

fear of a nuclear war between the two nations

A big reason we no longer see large-scale wars like that of the two World Wars is because of the prevalence of so many nuclear weapons. If a country with nuclear weapons attacked another country with nuclear weapons, the resulting nuclear war would cause catastrophic damage. The same thing happened in the Cold War: both nations, the USA and the Soviet Union, were afraid of the damage each could to do the other with their nuclear weapons.