Question

Which best describes the cold war? o o o o a forty-year period in which the world's superpowers engaged in armed conflict a tense, forty-year standoff between the soviet union and the united states a competition between the united states and the soviet union to put a man into space a race between the united states and the soviet union to build nuclear weapons n/a?

Answer 1

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B. A tense, forty-year standoff between the soviet union and the united states.

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Answer 2

Go with B. as top answer.  C. and D. can count also.  Not A. because their were only proxy wars between the countries, but not direct war.