Answer: b) it pitted communism against democracy
d) it never became an actual war
Explanation: The Cold War began after the imposition of Communism in East European countries by the Soviet Union that is Stalin. Western countries were concerned about the expansion and strengthening of communism, and they carried out democratic elections and supported democracy as a resistance to the spread of communism to the west. Thus, two opposing political, military and allied blocs emerged. Stalin was consistent in the implementation of the so-called World Communist Revolution, which led him to a strict dictatorship and ban on any western influence in East European countries. Cold War got this name, not because there was a war between controversial policies and ideology in the true sense of the word. It involved a weapons race and a race in the space program in order to gain the advantage and prestige at the world level and so favoured one of the policies of the opposing blocks.
