1. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD

2. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD
USSR
USA
WWII – 400,000 DEAD
WWII – OVER 20 MILLION DEAD

3. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD
USSR
USA
END OF WWII – BOOMING ECONOMY
END OF WWII - DEVASTATED ECONOMY

4. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD
USSR
USA
ENCOURAGE DEMOCRACY EVERYWHERE
SPREAD COMMUNISM

5. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD
USSR
USA
PRIMARY GOAL: PROTECTION FROM FUTURE ATTACKS
PRIMARY GOAL: INTERNAL PEACE & PROSPERITY

6. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD
SOVIET DISTRUST
AMERICAN FEARS
U.S. INTERVENED IN 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
COMMUNIST “WORLD REVOLUTION” A THREAT TO CAPITALISM & LIBERTY

7. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD
SOVIET DISTRUST
AMERICAN FEARS
STALIN WAS TREACHEROUS - HIS INTERNAL PURGES KILLED MILLIONS
U.S. REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE THE USSR UNTIL 1933

8. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD
SOVIET DISTRUST
AMERICAN FEARS
U.S. DELAYED ENTERING WWII
USSR COULD NOT BE TRUSTED - SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION AGREEMENT WITH NAZI GERMANY

9. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD
SOVIET DISTRUST
AMERICAN FEARS
USSR WAS AGGRESSIVE - SOVIET INVASION OF POLAND IN 1939
U.S. DELAYED INVASION OF WESTERN EUROPE

10. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD
SOVIET DISTRUST
AMERICAN FEARS
USA MOST POWERFUL NATION IN THE WORLD
SOVIETS WILL EVENTUALLY DEVELOP ATOMIC WEAPONS

11. Communism Capitalism vs. Free elections and more than one
political party.
Private ownership of the means of
Production (businesses, farms, etc.).
Free Competition – No government
Interference.
They employ workers and keep all
profits made.
Limits on government interference
in people’s lives
Freedom of speech and movement
Usually a one-party state.
Means of production (Industry and
agriculture) owned by the state.
Cooperation -People encouraged
to work for the common good.
Classless society with no individual
profit-making
The government controls most
aspects of people’s lives.
Strong censorship with restrictions
on what could be said or written.