06.+The+Cold+War



= **// Cold War //** =


 * //Soviet Union-Communist nations //** 
 * //United States-Democratic nations.//**
 * //---Their difference in government created conflict between the two nations//**

 
 * **//Communism= A classless society where people within the nation don’t have a say in the government (Soviet Union)//**
 * **//Democracy= Government in favor of the people (US)//**

 
 * **//Both nations thought that they personally ha//****//d the right form of government to follow.//**

  
 *  **//The United States wanted to form world trade, to increase export and import sales between all nations. This would create a friendly relationship between each nation and the economy would become stronger and better around the world.//** **//But, the Soviet Union didn't agree with that, they wanted to isolate their nation.//**
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 * **//Isolationism- Is when a nation decides to cut themselves off from other influences//**

__**//A few reasons why the Soviet Union would rather not trade with other nations://** __<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> <span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">**//-The personal economy in their nation would improve because the money would circulate within their nation; people only bought goods made and sold within their nation.//**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-They didn’t have to be effected by western influ//****//ence.//**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-The government could have more control over their people.//**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-They wouldn’t have to communicate with other nations.//**

<span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//Therefore the U.S and Soviet Union couldn't really compromise or come to any kind of agreement with each other because of how entirely different their mindsets were.//**

<span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 216.09%;">__**//After the Second World War the two nations with the most power were://**__ <span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">**//-The United States//**
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-The Soviet Union//**

<span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//This led to further problems between the two nations because they both wanted to dominate each other and have the most power.//**

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 216.09%;">__**//President Roosevelt//**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> <span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">**//Didn’t have a//** **//major problem with the//** **//Communists//**
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-Died before the Cold War started//**

<span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> __<span style="color: #099a09; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 216.09%;">**//President Truman//** __ <span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">
 * <span style="color: #099a09; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">**//-He came into power after the death of President Roosevelt//**
 * <span style="color: #099a09; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-He was a major cause of the Cold War//**
 * <span style="color: #099a09; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-He strongly disagreed and disliked Communists//** [[image:HarryTruman.jpg width="158" height="198" align="right"]]
 * <span style="color: #099a09; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-He didn’t want Communism to spread//**
 * <span style="color: #099a09; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-He didn’t have the same views and desire for neutrality as President Roosevelt did//**
 * <span style="color: #099a09; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-Passed the Truman Doctrine which was//** **//anti-communist//**

<span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//Within just a few years the relationship between the Soviet Union and U.S went from bad to far worse.//**

<span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 216.09%;">__**//Marshall plan//**__ <span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">**//-The United States tried to help out after World War ll.//**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">**//-After World War two the U.S wanted to help build up the global economy by sending out aids to different nations.//**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//*The Soviet Union did not want it. They rejected the U.S's help because the government didn't want to subject//** **//themselves to//** **//western influence which could weaken the totalitarian government//**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">**//-The Soviet Union thought that the U.S was interfering//**

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 * **//When the Cold War began the relations between the West and the East became//** **//interrupted and had problems.//**

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 216.09%;">__**//1953-54//**__ <span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;"><span style="color: #912b91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;"> <span style="color: #912b91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 182%;"> <span style="color: #099a09; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%;"> <span style="color: #00bdff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 156.511%;">
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;">**//-The problems between the Soviet Union and the United States began to subside.//**
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-Both nations had created very powerful weapons that would completely destroy each other if they were to be used.//**
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//-The U.S and Soviet Union got along better at the end of the//** **//Cold War.//**
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 147%;"> **//- After the death of Stalin the Soviet Union had a loose form of government and allowed their//** **//people to have more say in their nation.//**