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the arms race was a competition because both sides trying to make better weapons than each other. this caused more and more effort put into the new creation of weapons.

it was also them trying to get more power than each other. by seeing who could find new weapons and who could make them better.

lastly it was seeing who had a better military than each other. by proving who could find it first and who could say they had more of it.

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post 6 Why did the US believe they had a Missile Gap in the Cold War?

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post 6 Why did the US believe they had a Missile Gap in the Cold War?

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there was a report that the united states had fewer missiles than the soviet union this caused the united states to think that a solvent attack could happen because they thought that the missiles could not be detected by radar.

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post 5 What is an ICBM? What did it add to the arms race

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post 5 What is an ICBM? What did it add to the arms race

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it was an intercontinental ballistic missile. it was able to reach both counties and anywhere in it and it could be immune to defensive measures.

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 post 4 How did the atomic bomb help destroy a friendship between the US and USSR? When would the Soviets test their own bomb?

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 post 4 How did the atomic bomb help destroy a friendship between the US and USSR? When would the Soviets test their own bomb?

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The united states did not tell the soviet union that they were not going to drop the atomic bomb on japan. the soviets would test their own bomb in 1949. this would cause tension between them because of trust.

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post 3                                                                   What was the hydrogen bomb? How was it part of the arms race?

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post 3                                                                   What was the hydrogen bomb? How was it part of the arms race?

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The hydrogen bomb was first tested by the united states in 1952 it was the first of its time and it was more powerful than the atomic bomb and it had given the united states the lead in the arms race. but the soviet union shortly tested their own hydrogen bomb the next year. The hydrogen bomb only made the arms race more deadly than it had to be.

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Post 2                                                    How did the Treaty of Versailles actually start an arms race?

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Post 2                                                    How did the Treaty of Versailles actually start an arms race?

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When Germany started to rearm itself and break the Treaty of Versailles. France and Great Britain started to arm themselves and the United States and Japan started their own arms race. This started an arms race that would go into wwll.

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The cold war was about who could make better of a product than the other and also who could make more of the product over the other. it was also who could make a new or find something new before the other.