Which of the Following Best Describes the Arms Race

question 37

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the arms race?

• A)the rapid movements of world governments to arm and thereby protect Eastern European countries from attack by the Soviet Union in the wake of World War II
• B)a tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s during which each side was striving to procure more weapons than the other
• C)the U.S.race in the early twenty-first century to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction to unstable governments
• D)the efforts to rapidly reduce the number of nuclear weapons held by the United States and the Soviet Union

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