Question

Two gymnastics teams are intense rivals. The first team has started recruiting new gymnasts from different cities and even foreign countires in an effort to build a stronger team. After learning this, the secondteam begins its own recruitment campaign to find better gymnasts. Over a period of months, each team recruits dozens of players, each time trying to find a better recruit than its rivals most recent addition. Which idea from the cold war is most similar to this scenario

Answer 1

Explanation:during the Cold War they didn’t actually fight and they didn’t use weapons hence why it’s called he Cold War and during that time all they did was trash talk each other but never actually did anything which relates to the gymnastics team as they didn’t compete and all they try to do is one up each other

Answer 2

The correct answer is B) arms race.

The idea from the Cold War that is most similar to this scenario is the arms race.

During the Cold war years was the permanent dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union to have better nuclear weapons. Both countries wanted to have the supremacy in the production of Nuclear weapons for security and dominant reasons. The United States had the advantaged after the launch of the nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II, but years after this, the Soviet Union discovered Uranium reservations in Eastern Europe and they began building nuclear weapons. The first Soviet bomb was detonated on August 29, 1949.

The other options of the question were a) Nonalignment, C) Communism, and D) Proxy wars.