Which statement displays the best description of the cold war? a) all of these b) democratic us and communist soviet union competed to support and defend their political ideologies globally between 1945-1991 c) ) a three year war waged in the north sea and arctic circle from 1956-1959 between the ussr and united states to determine who had legal claim to the north pole d) a series of direct conflicts between the ussr and us during the 1970s