THE COLD WAR

COLD WAR; SPY VS. SPY

• USSR's actions in the Soviet zone of Germany
• America's refusal to share nuclear secrets
• USSR's expantion in Europe, broken election promises
• USSR's fear of American attack
• USSR's aim for spreading world communism

ECONOMIC SYSTEM

• Capitalism growth depends on private enterprise
• Private interess, hard work, and prosperity brings individual achievement
• Communism takes control over all productive apparatus
• Which is supposed to bring an equal amount of prosperity for the whole population

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

• Started more competition with the two countries
• The race to the moon became more urgent as well as weapons of war

KITCHEN DEBATE

• The heightened tension between the U.S. and Soviet Union
• Which system provided a better material life for its citizens
• Nixon, American freedom amounted to consumer choice
• Khrushchev, argued that capitalist had too many rich, and poor