THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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monarchy and mercantilism
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totalitarianism and communism
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democracy and the free enterprise system
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dictatorship and capitalism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Historians have identified several causes that led to the outbreak of the Cold War, including: tensions between the two nations at the end of World War II, the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear weapons, and the fear of communism in the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Soviet Union was a communist country. Communism is an economic system where most property belongs to the government. The United States had a capitalist economy, where property usually belongs to individuals. The United States and the Soviet Union competed for world power.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did the political and economic life change during the Cold War years in the United States? The civil rights and women’s movement expanded democracy, while the country enjoyed economic prosperity.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Cold War was a global political and ideological struggle between capitalist and communist countries, particularly between the two surviving superpowers of the postwar world: the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).