The United States and Soviet Union had two completely different world views that lead to tension between the nations and the Cold war. After world war two the United States and Soviet Union were two of the largest superpowers and were now in the possesion of new weapons of mass destruction. This and different political views on how the government should govern its people lead to a falling out between the super powers that would lead to years of rivalry. The differences between the two nations was communism versus capitalism, conquered territories, and amount of weapons of mass destruction. These competing views caused international tension that would lead to many conflicts before the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990 's.
The United States and the Soviet Union had different views concerning how the government should govern its people. The Soviet Union subscribed to communism which a system in which there is government ownership over everything from production to agriculture. The United States uses the economic structure called capitalism, where the …show more content…
In essence Europe was divided into the eastern half was awarded to the Soviet Union and the Western half was split between the United States, Great Britian, and France. In the Western half the Allies began to organize governments to begin to lead the countries out of the war and into reconstruction. In the Eastern half the Soviet Union set up governments, but they were indoctrinated with the communist system and remained under the control of the Soviet Union. The United States seeing upon seeing this divised a system of containment in an attempt to stem the threat of communism in Eastern Europe and Asia. The containment policy would eventually fail when put into place in the Korean War and the Vietnam war, and the threat of massive spread of communism never came to
The United States and the Soviet Union had different views concerning how the government should govern its people. The Soviet Union subscribed to communism which a system in which there is government ownership over everything from production to agriculture. The United States uses the economic structure called capitalism, where the …show more content…
In essence Europe was divided into the eastern half was awarded to the Soviet Union and the Western half was split between the United States, Great Britian, and France. In the Western half the Allies began to organize governments to begin to lead the countries out of the war and into reconstruction. In the Eastern half the Soviet Union set up governments, but they were indoctrinated with the communist system and remained under the control of the Soviet Union. The United States seeing upon seeing this divised a system of containment in an attempt to stem the threat of communism in Eastern Europe and Asia. The containment policy would eventually fail when put into place in the Korean War and the Vietnam war, and the threat of massive spread of communism never came to