How did the u. s. and USSR compete, and in what ways did this competition escalate overtime?

The United States under President Truman pursued a reactionary policy of containing communism simply called containment. This was the idea that the United States could use a series of foreign policy tools to prevent communism from emerging in places it hadn't been before, especially in the decolonizing world. Truman reasoned that poor, hungry, and desperate people were more likely to accept a totalitarian government that promised to meet their needs. Comfortable, well-fed, happy people would be less likely to comply. This came to be called the Truman Doctrine.

Space Race: Sputnik, gagarin, apollo program

Arms race: With the possibility that a cold war could turn into a hot war at any time, both sides built up huge stockpiles of conventional and unconventional weapons. Each side hoped to become so mighty militarily that the other side would never dare strike. The effect, however, was that the weapons each side developed became more and more destructive.

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Explanation:

The U.S and USSR where enemies mostly during the mid to late 20th century during the cold war they both competed for weapons such as nuclear weapons although they never fought on land they another war almost started. In 1961 after the bay of pigs invasion on Cuban soil Nikita Khrushchev made a secret agreement with Fidel Castro to allow soviet missiles on Cuba to detour the Americans from invading them again.  In 1962  a U-2 spy plane caught images of nuclear weapons and that started a huge debate in which resolved by Khrushchev writing a letter to Kennedy involving the soviet removing the nuclear weapons in which the Americans not invade the island