Traditional Great Power Rivalry
- Created by: Georgie Robinson
- Created on: 15-11-14 17:14
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- Traditional Great Power rivalry
- geopolitical inevitability of US Soviet conflict
- the cold war was an inevitable outcome of the two powers' struggle for power
- Plans over Asia sparked rivalry, as the Russians had expended East, and the US West.
- Russian and US expansionism brought the two into closer contact, which generated rivalry.
- the cold war was an inevitable outcome of the two powers' struggle for power
- Traditional Russian expansionism
- Stalin's foreign policy was a continuation of the expansionist Tsarist Empire
- Stalin acted as a Red Tsar after 1945 by seeking to extend Russia's influence
- Aim towards global communism
- Russia's communists continued authoritarianism and the desire to expend territory
- Stalin's foreign policy was a continuation of the expansionist Tsarist Empire
- Britain and France attempted to maintain the status quo against the challenge of germany
- Soviet foreign policy was driven by insecurity, and was therefore defensive
- Russia had been invaded in 1606, 1812,1915, 1918 and 1941
- The power vacuums created by WW2 created conflict between the US and USSR
- They attempted to further their influence
- geopolitical inevitability of US Soviet conflict
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