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 * ** America ** || **Soviet Union** ||
 * **Free elections** || **No elections or fixed** ||
 * **Democratic** || **Autocratic / Dictatorship** ||
 * **Capitalist** || **Communist** ||
 * **‘Survival of the fittest’** || **Everybody helps everybody** ||
 * **Richest world power** || **Poor economic base** ||
 * **Personal freedom** || **Society controlled by the NKVD (secret police)** ||
 * **Freedom of the media** || **Total censorship** ||

__//**The Cold War.**//__ The Cold War was soon after WWII. The main event in this part of history, in the eyes of America, is keeping Communism from spreading and a competition against the Soviet Union (Russia). The U.S. was the most powerful in economy and military of all countries before WWII but after the war the U.S. earned competition. Russia which had fallen under the Kaiser grew into a powerful Communist country during WWII and soon began to compete against the U.S. in military power, technology, industrialization, the Race to Space and most tensing the race to create the most powerful weapons... also known as the A-Bomb and the H-Bomb. The start of the Cold War was caused after WWII, when the war ended, the U.S. wanted to give Germany a fair trial but Russia wanted to strictly punish them for starting the war. This began the differences between the U.S. and S.U. When one country excelled the other felt desperate to do better than the other, at any measure they tried to excel. This all happened in different areas in the world. Where there was war for communism or democracy it was part of the Cold War, such as Vietnam, Korea, China mostly those with a big population and an economy going bad or a bad leader.

Personal Thoughts
The Cold War in a word seemed pointless. It also seemed to be on the brink of extinction during the whole war. As it's known is the race to power and fear...the fear of nuclear war. The U.S. and S.U. were almost willing to destroy the world and for what gain, if the world would be destroyed! Fight for power is completely stupid and as you can tell dangerous. What's amazing about this war is that how long it lasted.

http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?title=The_Seven_Phases_Of_The_Cold_War&video_id=80375 http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/what%20was%20the%20cold%20war.htm