The Cold War

USSR

The ________ was a communist country with a dictatorship.

USA

The ________ and the USSR (Soviet Union) were the two world Superpowers.

USA

The ________ was a capitalist society with a democracy.

The USA did not want communism to spread any further

they were worried about the domino effect (one country becomes communist, then another, then another etc)

The Cold Wat

The tension and rivalry between the USA and the USSR

Cold War Characteristics

Political, strategic and ideological struggle between the US and the USSR that spread throughout the world

Struggle that contained everything short of war

Competing social and economic ideologies