Origins+of+the+Cold+War


 * Capitalism -vs- Communism

-** Miniumum state interference -VERSUS- Everything owned by the people. - Individual work incentives & rewards -VERSUS- Even distribution of goods - People choose govt. through voting -VERSUS- One party state - Liberal democracy -VERSUS- Individual freedoms = not valued - More than 1 party. -VERSUS- One party state

-** Russian revolution 1917 (including foreign involvement); Result was first Communist state, foreign capitalists intervened on the side of the whites (anti-Communist tsarists etc.) - Marshall Plan; capitalist recovery program to prevent spread of Communism in post-war Europe - COMINTERN; league of Communist nations, promoted spread of Communism - Division of Berlin (East/West); showed the differences of capitalism and communism to the rest of the world (ex.DDR citizens fleeing to FGR) - Potsdam conference, Yalta conference, Teheran conference; summits where Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill met (later Truman replaced Roosevelt at Potsdam) and internal animosity within the allies started to evolve - Influence; both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. wanted to influence other countries through their ideologies as they believed their own ideology to be superior. They also feared the other ideology (as it threatened their own respectively)
 * Key events which escalated tension between ideologies:

/Johanna, Andreas, Ida