Blog number six is over post world war two presidents. I have Harry Truman. assassination and scandal
Bolshevik Revolution ("communist")
-Comintern (communist)
-US Red Scare\
-stopped immigration
Karl Marx
Definition
- A political, strategic and ideological struggle between the US and the Soviet Union
- Spread throughout the world- Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America
Discussion
- Communism vs. Democracy
- Socialism vs. Capitalism
Causes
- Different political systems
- Us is based on Democracy, capitalism and freedom
- USSR is based on dictatorship, communism and control
- Both thought their system was better and distrusted the others intentions
- Stalin despised capitalism
- Stalin breaking his problem to allow free elections at he Yalta Conference
- American fear of a communist attack(Red Scare) and USSR's fear of US attack
- USSR's fear of the atomic bomb
- USSR's actions in their German zone
- USSR's goal to spread communism around the world
- This feeling of suspicion lead to mutual distrust and this did a great deal to deepen the Cold War
Yalta Conference
- Before the end of the World War II, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt met at Yalta to plan what should happen when the war ended. They agreed on many point.
- The establishment of the United Nations
- Germany to be divided into four zones
- Free elections allowed in the states of eastern Europe
- Russia promised to joint he war against Japan
Post WWII/ Cold War Goals for US
- Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
- Promote democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa
- Stop the spread of communism
Post WWII/ Cold War Goals for USSR
- Wanted to create greater security for itself
- lost tens of millions of people in WWII and Stalin's purges
- Feared a strong Germany
- Establish defensible borders
- Encourage friendly governments on it's borders
- Spread communism around the world
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