THE COLD WAR

ORIGINS

• Pre-ww2 tension between the Soviet Union and U.S
• Cold war started after WW2
• The invasion of Germany and influences on European countrie
• There was no actual war
• The name was given because of the tension with the USSR and the U.S

COMMUNISM

• All resources owned by the state
• System of government is totalitarian
• Wealth distributed equally
• All social classes are equal
• No free enterprise

CAPITALISM

• Small group of people own alot of resources
• Putting the economy in the hands of the wealth
• Driven by free enterprise
• Freedom of class distinctions

U.S POLICY CONTAINMENT

• U.S prevented the spread of communism
• Soviet union reacts by
• Cuba missle crisis which was almost
• The start of a nuclear war

KITCHEN DEBATE

• A series of impromptu exchanges
• Nnixon and soviet Nikita Khrushchev
• Debated in a model kitchen about
• Capitalism and communism