Causes of the cold war

• During WWII, the USA and the USSR were members of the allied and fought against the Axis. But after 1945, their relationship changed and became unfriendly.
• This unfriendly relationship between the USA and the USSR led to the event known as the cold war.
• The western (the Capitalist bloc) was represented and headed by the USA but the eastern (Communist bloc) was led by the USSR or Russia.
• It covered from the end of WWII, 1945 continued to the late 1980s.
• Capitalists(USA) follow a free market economy and multi-party system which is the direct opposite of communism(USSR)
• Communists (Socialists)-follow a command economy and single-party system.
• Both powers were interested in expanding their respective ideological influence and interested to control the world. This situation led the world into a bi-polar political system.
• The bi-polar is a political system of world order in which the majority of international economic, military, and cultural influence was held between two states the USA and the USSR
• Cold War was not a direct military conflict, rather it was a war fought with words, propaganda, economic weapons, and diplomacy between the US and the USSR.
• Bloc- a group of countries that work closely together, during Cold War period (1945-1991) based on similar ideology