The Breakdown of Trust
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- The Breakdown of Trust
- Without a common enemy to fight, tensions between the USA and the Soviet Union intensified
- No trust (ideological differences and USA possessing nuclear weapons)
- Ideology - a set of political ideas about how society should be run
- USA saw USSR as a threat to its economic interests in Europe.
- USSR resented USA's nuclear monopoly (until 1949)
- Capitalist views
- Communism enslaved people to the state
- Based on freedom and democracy
- Everyone free to make money themselves
- Individuals are better at deciding what to make / sell than the state
- Trade makes everyone richer
- Communist views
- Capitalism exploited the workers to make the rich richer
- 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
- State controls economy to benefit everyone
- The Long Telegram (1946)
- Secret report from US ambassador Kennan in Moscow to President Truman
- USSR saw capitalism as a threat that had to be destroyed
- USSR building military power
- Peace between a capitalist and communist country impossible
- Novikov's Telegram (1946)
- Report from Soviet ambassador, Novikov, in USA to Stalin
- USA wanted world denomination (building military strength)
- USSR was the only county left after war that could stand up against the USA
- USA was preparing its people for war with Soviet Union
- Without a common enemy to fight, tensions between the USA and the Soviet Union intensified
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