How was the Cold War fought?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. Although the United States and the Soviet Union did not directly go to war against one another, they fought each other in other ways.
b. They competed with one another for allies: the United States led NATO, and the Soviet Union led the Warsaw Pact.
c. When the Soviets blockaded Berlin, the Americans responded with the Berlin Airlift.
d. Civil wars in Korea and Vietnam created the battleground for the Cold War as the United States and the Soviet Union supported opposing sides.
e. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the two countries came to an actual war; a last-minute diplomatic solution saved the world from a nuclear holocaust.
f. Both tried to outdo one another in the nuclear arms race and the space race.
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