Cold War - Growing tensions between the West and the USSR 1941-43
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- Created on: 30-11-18 14:08
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- Sources of growing tension between the West and the USSR (1941 - WW2)
- Ideological differences
- Capitalism vs Communism
- Fear of Bolshevism spreading throughout Europe
- Inherent conflicts in societal functions
- Different ideas of how a society evolves
- Communism doesn't believe that God rules society, capitalism does
- Created an anti-Communism approach through the Church
- Pope John Paul II of Poland's election enforced this belief in anti-Communist Poland.
- Created an anti-Communism approach through the Church
- Proletariat vs Bourgeoisie & Democracy
- Capitalism vs Communism
- Post-WW2 Aims
- USSR
- Security
- Had been invaded by Germany through Poland multiple times in the past
- Reparations
- Russia wanted Germany to pay them reparations because of the damage caused by the war
- May 1945 - Est. 25 million causalities from war-related incidents
- Russia wanted Germany to pay them reparations because of the damage caused by the war
- Territory
- Russia wanted to keep a section of annexed Poland to act as a buffer zone against any potential German attack.
- Compensated the land by offering German territories beyond the River Oder
- Re-integrate: Estonia, Latvia, and Lituania into the USSR
- Wished to re-claim lost territory in Finland
- 1944
- Areas under direct Soviet control: Poland, Romania, Bulgaria etc
- 'Intermediate Zone': Neither capitalist nor communist --> Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary etc
- non-Communist Western Europe: Including Greece
- 'Intermediate Zone': Neither capitalist nor communist --> Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary etc
- Areas under direct Soviet control: Poland, Romania, Bulgaria etc
- Russia wanted to keep a section of annexed Poland to act as a buffer zone against any potential German attack.
- Security
- USSR
- Ideological differences
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