reasons for cold war

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  • Reasons for the Cold War -
    • Capitalism -
      • everyone should be free to make money for themselves
      • individuals are better at deciding what to make and sell than the state
      • trade between countries makes everyone richer
      • based on freedom and democracy
    • Communism -
      • based on fairness
      • capitalism only makes some people rich by exploiting everyone else
      • individuals are not as strong as everyone working together for the same aim
      • the state should take control of the economy and run it to benefit everyone
    • Tension and disagreements-
      • US built atomic bomb without telling USSR
      • disagreements in conferences
      • Stalin made a communist gov in Poland - against what was agreed
    • the grand alliance -
      • Stalin, Churchill and Truman
      • clash in ideologies
      • Churchill and Truman - suspicious of Stalin
    • USSR in east europe -
      • '47-'49 = ussr spread influence to neighbouring countries
      • at conferences, ussr agreed to free elections in satellite states
      • in satellite states ussr fixed the elections so they won
      • the ussr then shut down all opposition parties
      • US saw this as betrayal
    • Attitude of Truman and churchill -
      • USA saw this as betrayal
      • others said it was evidence of the spreading of communist
      • US was determined to contain communism (Truman doctrine and Marshall aid|)
      • USSR claimed he needed to control east europe as a buffer zone ---> protecting attack from the west

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