Immediate conflicts:
... The USA had atomic weapons and the USSR did not. (The US would not share that technology with the Soviets.)
... The USSR did not assure that free and fair elections took place in Eastern Europe -- it saw to it that Soviet-aligned governments were installed there.
... Tensions over the East Germany / West Germany and East Berlin / West Berlin division of territory.
Deeper causes:
The USA was committed to capitalism and democratic institutions of government.
The USSR was committed to communism and imposed authoritarian government.
The Cold War was mostly a tension between these worldviews.
The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
French and Indian war (also known as the seven years war), led tensions between the 13 colonies and Britian. This is because in this war france lost New France to the British. When taxes began to rise in the colonies and Americans were starting to rebel, French were happy to help since it would be a sort of revenge since losing their colony in North America.
<u>Let's match each term or expression with its definition</u>
- Germany and Austria-Hungary: Dual Alliance. It was a defensive alliance founded in 1879, that became part of the system of alliances developed by Bismarck, in order to prevent that Germany got involved in a war.
- Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary - Triple Alliance. It was an agreement signed by Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary, in 1882. It was renewed periodically until they got involved together in WWI, and the agreeement finally expired when the alliance was defeated by the Allied powers.
- Iron Chancellor: Bismarck. Otto von Bismarck (1815 – 1898) governed German international and European affairs between the 1860s and 1890s. He subsquently became the first Chancellor of the German Empire. He was in office betwee 1871 and 1890.
- Divine right German emperor: Wilhelm. Wilhelm II (1859 – 1941) was the last Kaiser (Emperor) of the German Empire. He abdicated in 1918, right before Germany's defeat in WWI became official.
- Title for emperor in Germany: Kaiser. The term Kaiser means emperor in German. It was used to refer to the rightful rulers of the German Empire and the Austrian Empire, and it was an inherited title.
Answer: the correct answer is C) one of them did not actually cause the other to occur.
Explanation: a correlation between variables, however, does not automatically indicates that the change in one variable is the reason or the cause of the change in the values of the other variable. Causation indicates that one event is the result of the occurrence of the other event; i.e. there is a causal linkage between the two events.
