Communism And The Cold War

There were two impulses that ran through America. First, there was did trust, suspicion, and hostility engendered by the Cold War. The Cold War began with the powerful country of America. They tried to use its power to proclaim a new global order based on democracy and capitalism. The Soviet Union denied the American world order. It also wanted to create a buffer of countries that would be friendly to its own system. Germany had invaded the Soviet Union twice and used other countries to help. The Soviets saw a protector barrier of friendly states, but the United States saw communism as a way to dethrone capitalism. The results of that war was an ideological, economic, and military contest known as the Cold War. It shaped American politics,