Causes of the Cold War
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- Causes of the Cold War
- The US policies
- It was democratic
- Isolationism Withdrawing from international policies
- Now faced with communism extending into Eastern Europe
- Prepared to help countries becoming capatalists
- USSR policies
- Lower standard of living than US
- But there were less unemployed
- Wanted to protect themselves from being attacked again
- Stalin felt he was only safe if the countries near him were also communist...
- Lower standard of living than US
- After WW2
- Lost millions of it's people
- Feared communist take over as many were sick and homeless
- By 1945, their military strengths were huge
- Increasing tensions
- Stalin started to expand communism
- No longer had a common enemy (Hitler)
- Disagreement over Germany after WW2
- Red Scare in US
- Thousands of communist immigrants arrested and assulted
- Truman bombed Japan without telling Stalin
- Iron Cutrain
- March 1946
- Churchill gave speech saying there was a clear divide between Communism and Democratic Nations on the map
- European states had communist government
- May 1948
- Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Poland
- The US policies
- Increasing tensions
- Stalin started to expand communism
- No longer had a common enemy (Hitler)
- Disagreement over Germany after WW2
- Red Scare in US
- Thousands of communist immigrants arrested and assulted
- Truman bombed Japan without telling Stalin
- Iron Cutrain
- March 1946
- Churchill gave speech saying there was a clear divide between Communism and Democratic Nations on the map
- European states had communist government
- May 1948
- Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Poland
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