HIST 2057 Chapter : Week 11
Document Summary
Us uses power to claim new global order by using democracy and capitalism. Ussr favor communism and world revolution in the name of the worker. Ideological, economic, and military contest between the us and the ussr. Cold war > a sustained struggle for geopolitical superiority between the united states and its allies and the soviet union and its allies. The cold war lasts from the end of world war ii (1945) to the collapse of the soviet union (1991) Us as most powerful country in the world. Us new global order democracy and capitalism. Ussr is the only one in the way of us dominance. Alliance based on convenience and necessity not trust. Truman on the germans and the russians. Help whoever is winning so can kill off whoever else. National determination vs. soviet reclaiming of poland. Did not want to give other countries opportunity to attack westward. Disagreements over what to do with poland.
