HIST 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Totalitarianism, Lavender Scare, Marshall Plan
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Must convince the world that your way is the right way. Soviet union is communist run by joseph stalin. Communism is everything for the state economic system. In soviet union it is more totalitarian. The us is about freedom and liberty and democracy. Both sides will accuse one another of being wrong and being hypocritical. Both countries are not used to being super powers and being in that position. Want to remake the world in their image. The us came out of wwii with the best economy, the strongest military, and the atomic bomb. With the 2 superpowers being polar opposites cause conflict. By 1950 the us has hydrogen bombs, soon after the su has hydrogen bomb. Stalin, on a good day, is paranoid. Stalin only trusts communist countries, distrusts the west. Yalta conference, how the allies want the world to look like after the war is over.
