The BiPolar World
- The American Position
- Even richer than before WWII
- Largest, navy, airforce and monopoly on nuclear weapons
- Largest trading & industry in World
- Influence in Asia & Europe
- 1919 exaggerated: they are the ultimate world power
- The Russian Position
- Largest army in the world
- Production not at pre-war levels
- Stalin looked inward again & put effort toward Communism at home
- Began to influence over satellite states in Eastern Europe
- Many POWs kept on working in Russia
- Show trials returned
Causes of the Cold War
- War of ideologies
- Communism vs. democracy (capitalism) (east vs. west)
- Nationalism
- Imperialism
Fears & Concerns
- The Domino Theory: the fear of allowing countries to go Communist
- Satellite States & the Iron Curtain: Many Eastern European states became puppet communist governments