THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Question
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The United States wanted to spread communism.
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The United States wanted to encourage a dictatorship.
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The United States wanted to contain the spread of communism.
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The United States wanted to discontinue their democratic government.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The goal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War was to keep control of Eastern Europe, and to spread communism. The goal of the United States, along with Britain, was to stop the spread of communism into Western Europe and worldwide.
Detailed explanation-2: -Before entering these battlegrounds America’s goals were “defend Western Europe, contain Soviet or communist expansion, prevent/deter nuclear war.” (Fact sheet n.p.).
Detailed explanation-3: -During the Cold War, the United States was based upon capitalism and democracy while the Soviet Union was based upon communism and dictatorship.
Detailed explanation-4: -Stalin and the Soviets wanted to expand communism into Europe and around the world; Truman, his nation, and the free world wanted to preserve freedom where it existed and spread it where it did not. World War II had merely revealed that the ideals of two former allies directly conflicted with one another.