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Did the Cold War have to continue into the late 1980s or could it have ended earlier?

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It could have ended earlier
User Hassan Mussana
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it could've ended much earlier but it became a competition between the USA and the Soviet Union to see who was/ could be the strongest and most powerful country.  it also contributed to the 'race to space' between the two.  
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