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How The Arms Race Shaped History

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The Arms Race was one of the greatests events that happened in history, it also shaped history as it is today. I will take you through the Arms Race and what happened. Although foreign countries were beginning to join the war it was becoming a dangerous problem, all Humans and small businesses were being affected by the Arms Race, because everybody wanted weapons so the government wanted a greater demand for weapons and also a better police force. The Arms Race took over many people's lives and also made people very mad at the government because they were not getting any money. This made a lot of businesses shut down and put the world in a major debt. One of the worst times of the Arms Race was when innocent people was being killed over weapons and saying no about joining the Race. There was a huge demand for weapons and there seemed like there was never …show more content…

The reason it had a major effect on citizens was because people were being forced to fight in the race and they were not given a choice. If people did not want to fight in the race they would be killed , and this out a lot of fear in people's eyes and this also affected small children being left without no parents and if old enough they were out into the small war as also. There was also a huge amount of weapons being stolen during this time from overseas and being brought back over to the United States. This was becoming a very big problem and put the United States in a lot of danger. This made other countries very mad at the United States and made them stop supplying us with weapons. At the time the United states were taking over anyone they can to be able to sell get weapons out of. This was one of the major turning points of the arms race because this let other countries know that the United States could not be trusted and they would do anything to get

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