Which best describes the cold war? o o o o a forty-year period in which the world's superpowers engaged in armed conflict a tense, forty-year standoff between the soviet union and the united states a competition between the united states and the soviet union to put a man into space a race between the united states and the soviet union to build nuclear weapons n/a?

What was the impact of the united states involvement in the soviet-afghan war? 1.american involvement established a democratic government in afghanistan that allowed for freedom for its citizens. 2.american involvement led to the first instance of combat between the united states and the soviet union during the cold war. 3. american involvement led to a protracted war for the soviet union that ultimately aided in an economic collapse. 4. american involvement allowed for the mujahideen to carry out terrorist attacks on the kremlin.