Unit 8.2 - The Cold War
"Real cold, hope it doesn't go hot"
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Rivalry
- Economic Rivalry to prove that communism or capitalism is a better economic system
- Capitalism Won and is better
- Democracy & Authoritarian
- Prove which is better
- Which one advances further
Satellite Countries
- Each side had a major player (USA & USSR)
- They controlled or at least had influence in a foreign country
- Used to benefit the major powers of each side
- Also used to indirectly fight with each other
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Proxy Wars
- Related to Satellites countries
- Each side funded an opposing side
- Lead to conflicts escalating and exploding
SPACE RACE
- So the USSR launched a ball into space
- The United States got scared and began investing into space
- Was built upon military technology
- A lot of rockets were former missiles
- Many Funding for projects also had a lot of military influence.
Politics
- Each side had doctrines
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USSR: GLOBAL REVOLUTION
- USSR wanted to spread communism
- They wanted to control every communist country
- Lead to them funding revolutions everywhere
- Also developed into many countries separating ties from the USSR
- Sino-Soviet Split
- USSR & Yugoslavia
- Cuba (Kinda)
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USA: CONTAINMENT
- Stop Communism from spreading
- Funded democracy and capitalism in countries to build up Economy and influce
- If the countries are prosperous then communism can’t spread
- Good idea
- In the end it worked with Communism being mostly stuck in Asia and Europe
- A lot of countries wanted to abandon communism due to oppressive rule
- Capitalism and Democracy worked really good