The Cold War

DEFINITION

• The state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda,and other measures short of open warfare in particular.

Facts

• The cold war was a state of political and military tension after World War ll between powers in the western Bloc.

Facts

• The term cold was used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides. although there were major regional wars, known as proxy wars, supported by the two sides.

The

Additional Facts

• The cold war split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences.

The political differences

• Communism - a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
• Capitalism - an economic political system in which a countrys trade and indutry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the state.

Cold war leaders and events

Arms Race

• Denotes a rapid increase in the quantity or quality of instruments of military power by rival states in peacetime.

President Harry Truman

• The 33rd president assumed office following the death of president Franklin Roosevelt also was in the white house from 1945 to 1953.

Joseph Stalin (1878-1953)

• Was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953.
• Under Stalin the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into a industrial and military superpowers.

The Red Scare

• The red scare led to a range of actions that had a profound and enduring effect on U.S. government and society.

The cold war ended in 1991