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.
Answer:
A. A historian who organizes the past by region focuses on a specific start and end date, whereas a historian who organizes the past by period focuses on the most influential individuals.
Explanation:
To the extent that history is continuous and inapplicable, all systems of periodization are additional or less impulsive. However without named periods, but clumsy or inaccurate, the diversion would be nothing but dispersed events without a structure to assist people to perceive them
Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary, born in Venezuela, who liberated 6 countries in northern South America from Spanish forces sent by the then king of Spain, Bolivar traveled to Europe to ask Spain to withdraw its military forces from America, stop repressing the people and taking advantage of their wealth, but they ignored him, then he returned to South America from where he undertook a battle to free the countries, achieving the objetives and winning almost all of the fights.
The navigator who wanted to reach Asia by sailing west from Europe was "Christopher Columbus," since it was unknown at this time that the land that would soon be known as the New World lay in the way.
