1945-1990 us vs ussr. political strategic struggle between us and soviet union. spread throughout the world-europe, asia, africa, and latina america.
cause of war- us had demcrcy and freedom, ussr had communism and hated capitalism. both hated each others ways.
stalin broke promises, america feared of communist attack. ussr feared nuclear attack.
big 3 agreements- establishment of united nations, germany to be devided into 4 zones, free elections allowed in the states of eastern europe.
goals for us- wanted to promote open goods for markets, promote democracy, and stop spread of communism.
ussr goals- create security for themselves, feared strong germany, spread communism around the world.
1948 3 western control zones united. wanted the east to join, and control the west so he cut off roads and canals to control them but west berlin got airlifts to survive and in less than a year they got enough to lift the blockade.
stalin died in 1953, he was an okay dictator in ww2 but after he was not well liked.
khrushchew takes over and talks of peaceful co-existance and destalinization.
space race- ussr put first sattelite, but us was first to land on moon, ussr put anumals into sace and they all died.
fidel castro overthrew batista and is a communist guy.
berlin war set up, east communistic, west is non communistic.
we tried to overthrow castro but all the people who were sent were either killed or captured.
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