Question

Two gymnastics teams are intense rivals. The first team has started
recruiting new gymnasts from different cities and even foreign countries in an
effort to build a stronger team. After learning this, the second team begins its
own recruitment campaign to find even better gymnasts. Over a period of
months, each team recruits dozens of players, each time trying to find a
better recruit than its rival's most recent addition.
Which idea from the Cold War is most similar to this scenario?

Answer 1

Answer:

Arms race

Explanation:

From the example above, The two gymnast team compete to get the best gymnasts for their team's victory.

During the arms race between united states and soviet union, both of these countries compete to gather the best scientists from across the globe in order to help them develop the better mass destruction weapons.

Answer 2

The idea from the Cold War most similar to your "gymnast recruitment" scenario is the arms race that took place between the USA and the USSR.  At the beginning of the Cold War, only the United States had the supreme weapon of war: the atomic bomb. By 1949, the Soviet Union had developed its own atomic bomb technology, and the nuclear arms race was on. Each side kept advancing its nuclear technology. They went from fission bombs to fusion bombs (hydrogen bombs). They developed better and longer-range ballistic missile systems to deliver the bombs.  Each side spent billions and billions on the nuclear arms race, each trying to become more powerful than the other.

Further explanation

During the Cold War, the US and USSR each stockpiled tens of thousands of nuclear warheads -- so much so that they could have destroyed each other and the whole world if they had used the weapons. This became known as the possibility of "Mutually Assured Destruction" (MAD).  The scariness of such a situation was portrayed even by children's author Dr. Seuss in a book called, The Butter Battle Book.  

Eventually, the two sides began to negotiate with each other in a period of détente (or "loosening") of the tensions between them. They began to work out a series of agreements on nuclear disarmament.

Learn more

• The nuclear arms race: https://brainly.com/question/10284550
• How did the arms race affect the Cold War? https://brainly.com/question/10261572
• What treaty led to US-Soviet disarmament in Europe? https://brainly.com/question/1440750

Answer details

• Grade: Middle school, high school
• Subject: History
• Chapter: Cold War

Keywords

• Cold War
• arms race
• atomic bomb
• hydrogen bomb
• nuclear weapons
• Mutually Assured Destruction
• détente