The Cold War - Main Features
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- The Cold War
- Main Features
- Spying
- To find military developments
- Used Spy Planes
- Propagana
- Ensured that national public opinion supported government
- USSR success in sport illustrated superiority
- Arms Race
- Sides wanted more weapons & technology than other
- MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) acted as a deterrent against war but didn't stop further devolpment
- Space Race
- First it was to launch the first satellite
- First man in space
- First man on the moon
- Effective propaganda for both sides
- Loans and Aid
- Competed to provide loans and aid to less developed and often newly independent states so that they could win their support
- Spying
- Why did the Cold War develop in the 1940's?
- Longt Term Mistrust
- Had existed before WW2, USA suspicious since communist revolution in 1917
- Ideological extremes: Communism and Capitalsim
- After WW2
- Stalin's desire to increase Soviet influence in countires occupied by the USSR at the end of WW2
- West afraid of spread communism
- Peace Conferences
- Hilighted differences that are boiling up
- Communist allies in power
- USSR continued to build up satellite states in Eastern Europe
- Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
- Contained threat of communism in Western Europe
- Berlin Blockade
- Causes NATO formation
- Longt Term Mistrust
- Main Features
- Why did the Cold War develop in the 1940's?
- Longt Term Mistrust
- Had existed before WW2, USA suspicious since communist revolution in 1917
- Ideological extremes: Communism and Capitalsim
- After WW2
- Stalin's desire to increase Soviet influence in countires occupied by the USSR at the end of WW2
- West afraid of spread communism
- Peace Conferences
- Hilighted differences that are boiling up
- Communist allies in power
- USSR continued to build up satellite states in Eastern Europe
- Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
- Contained threat of communism in Western Europe
- Berlin Blockade
- Causes NATO formation
- Longt Term Mistrust
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