THE COLD WAR

ORIGINS

• Heavy tensions after WWII
• Communism vs democracy
• Who would be the dominant superpower

ORIGIN OF THE NAME

CAPITALISM VS COMMUNISM

• In capitalism a small group of wealthy people usually own a large amount
• of resources putting the economy in their hands
• In communism all the wealth is distributed and everybody has equal
• opportunity and resource

SOVIET CONTAINMENT

• US trying to stop spread of communism
• Soviets began more heavily competing with the US
• Space race
• Nuclear race

KITCHEN DEBATE

• Between Nixon and Khrushchev
• Heated argument over communism and capitalism
• and over living conditions and technological advances
• Showed the competition between the two with no clear winner or fight