Ideological confrontation
- Created by: Georgie Robinson
- Created on: 17-11-14 09:31
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- Ideological confrontation
- Communism
- Differences between US and USSR dated back to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution
- Communist expansion in Asia
- Soviet coordination and control of the wider communist movement
- Actions in Europe
- Some argue that conflict was inevitable because of the USSR's regimes
- Marxist-Leninist doctrine of class struggle
- Promotion of world communism
- fundamental hostility towards the capitalist states
- Soviet encouragement of left-wing dissent in non-communist countries
- Orthadox historians said that their ideological stance let the USSR to become aggressively expansionist in order to undermine capitalism
- This compelled the USA to adopt a policy of containment to prevent the spread of communsim
- The truman doctrine/ the marshall plan/ the formation of NATO
- This compelled the USA to adopt a policy of containment to prevent the spread of communsim
- Differences between US and USSR dated back to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution
- Capitalism
- America's post-war capitalist aims made conflict with the USSR inevitable
- US intended to impose a 'Pax Americana' as a global peace settlement
- Dollar imperialism was a perceived result of the marshall plan in Western Europe
- USA was strongly anti communist
- US intended to impose a 'Pax Americana' as a global peace settlement
- US attempted to force the USSR to accept an 'open-door' policy in Eastern Europe
- US had a drive for markets after 1945
- USA had the post-war confidence to shape the world according to American values
- Us losses were only light
- America had a nuclear monopoly until 1949
- Us losses were only light
- America's post-war capitalist aims made conflict with the USSR inevitable
- Communism
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