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Causes of the Cold War By: Koen, Zina, Zahra, and Alex R.

**What is the Cold War?**

The cold war was a series of threats and international fights between the two super powers of the twentieth century- the U.S and the Soviet Union( U.S.S.R or Russia). The many causes of the cold war can be traced back to before WW2 and throughout the war. The Cold War was never an actual war with guns and such but just bullying the other nation. Instead of being faught the normal way, it was fought with economic war, propaganda, and diplomatic haggling.

**My Government's Better than Yours**

The Soviet Union was already wary of the west before the war. The difference in types of governments and the United States having more freedom than the Soviets made it hard for the Soviets and Americans to see eye to eye, so America was seen as a threat. Before the war, Soviet Union was upset at the west so they made a non-aggression pact with Germany. This pact would be broken, but it drew distrust from the West. The U.S, Britain,and France also made their own currency and allowed for free elections (which goes against the Soviets government). Russia saw this as a threat and left the Alliance Control Council (ACC) which only added the to the amount of distrust between the Soviet Union and the West.

__US Government__ __Soviet Union Government__

1. Capitalist democracy 2. Free elections 3. Form political parties 4. Right of:
 * Assembly
 * Speech
 * Press

__ Soviet Union Government __ 1. Totalitarian 2. Communist party 3. No rights Both countries spent a great deal of time and effort to limit each other’s influence outside of their borders. This led to wars in Asia and throughout the globe for example the communist North Korea attacked South Korea and the U.S jumped in to stop the spread of communism. The same thing happened in Vietnam and other parts of the world.

**Russia Man's Up**

During the war the Nazi’s from Germany had invaded Russia. This was a shock to many of its citizens so after the war (which had cost Russia a lot of money and resources) Russia wanted to create a buffer state of Eastern Europe to prevent anyone from invading Russia again. This was upsetting to the U.S because that meant that Russia would be free to spread its communist influence to the Eastern European countries. Nuclear weapons also had a part in causing the cold war because both nations (Russia and America) had the technology to nuclear bombs which made countries very cautious.

**Affects**

During the war there were three meetings between Britian, U.S, and Russia to determine what was going to happen after the war. It was often the U.S and Britain on one side of an argument and Russia on the other side. One of the arguments was on the occupation and who would govern Japan and Germany after the termination of the war. These disagreements showed the cracks of the allies alliance throughout the duration of the war.

So, all of these factors had a share in creating the Cold War- the war that had no actual violence. It was just a bunch of countries getting fiesty with each other.

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