Zach Gross- Causes of the Cold War
Americans feared Communist
Truman disliked Stalin
Russia's fear of the atomic bomb
Russia's dislike of capitalism
Russia's fear of an american attack
Ideological
The United States and the Soviet Union represents two opposing systems of government
The United States government is elected by free election
People can form political parties to start there political opinion
They posses the right of assembly
Economic
The U.S. wanted to encourage free trade all around the world
Russia feared that free trade with the west would envolve the risk of Russia being opened to western influences
Power Rivalry
After the second world war with the decline of Europe power was largely shared between the Soviet Union and U.S.
They both wanted to dominate each other and conflicts started
Rivalries of the Cold War
Two Rivalries of the cold war were the us and the soviet union
the riveraly lasted from the late 1940's till the collapse of the soviet union
the super powers threatend each other
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