Cold War

BEGINNING

• Right after WWII
• Initially began with atomic bomb
• The Warsaw Pact had an impact
• Got its name because not heat gunfire
• There was only cold political maneuvering

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

• Communism
• State takes over economic productivity
• Capitalism
• People deal with economic productivity

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

• US Policy of containment
• Stop spread of communism
• Keep communism contained
• Stop spread from Russia and China
• Soviets got aggressive

KITCHEN DEBATE

• Debate in Kitchen
• Capitalism vs Communism
• Showed U.S. did not know much about Communism
• Showed the U.S. feared Communism