Cold War

ORIGINS

• After WWII U.S. and U.S.S.R. were elevated to glabal power
• Could not agree how to rebuild Europe and Germany
• Sought to spread their respective views on politics and economy
• Referred to as "cold" war because the heat of battle
• Instead all conflicts were indirect and in "cold"

CAPITALISM VS. COMMUNISM

• Capitalism is Democratic, Communism is totalitarian
• In Capitalism there is private property, in Communism the state owns all property
• Uneven wealth distribution in Capitalism, everyone paid the same in Communism
• Capitalism supports free enterprise, Communism doesn't
• Capitalism supports free press, Under Communism the gov. controls press

U.S. Foreign Policy

• U.S. began the Foreign Policy of Containment
• Russia was forced to compete with the U.S.
• Military technologies advanced (nuclear programs)
• Space Race was initiated

KITCHEN DEBATE

• Debate between Nixon and Khrushchev
• Nixon Advocated Capitalism
• Khruschev defended Communism
• Illustrated the high tensions between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.