reasons for cold war
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- Created on: 22-04-24 15:54
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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
- Capitalism -
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