Cold War Presentations start tomorrow. Blog discussions start Thursday. No blog assignment this week. Every 6,7,8 days we will take a group test. Test includes what we go over today, presentations and blogs.
The Cold War 1945-1990
US vs Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...Soviet Union or USSR
A political , strategic and ideological struggle between the US and the Soviet Union
Spread throughout the world-Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America
East-Communist lead by Soviet Union, West-Democracy lead by US
Communism vs. Democracy
-we have a representative democracy
-democracy-government for the people by the people,
-communism-Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the ones who started it, rich would get richer poor would get poorer, poor would revolt from the rich, poor control everything and even things out so everyone is equal...share the well, land and resources. Never happened in history
-Bolshevik Revolution-is when Russia dropped out of WW1 and became communist...caused the red scare after WW1 in the US
-Valdimir Lenin was a true Marxist...believed Karl Marx...starts the process
-Stalin started Nationalization-stalin taking over factories and Collectivization-government takes over farms
Socialism vs. Capitalism
-capitalism people run and control businesses...college is capitalist
-socialism businesses are owned and controled by the government....schools are socialist
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