Which best describes the Cold War?

a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to put a man into space

a race between the United States and the Soviet Union to build nuclear weapons

a forty-year period in which the world’s superpowers engaged in armed conflict

a tense, forty-year standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States

D. a forty-year standoff between the soviet union & the u.s c:

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n:

d the wampanoag the pilgrims because the pilgrims protected them from their native americans foes.