Communist Ideologies: The Cause Of The Cold War

Communist ideologies were opposed and even feared by Capitalist ideologies and democratic ideologies a like even from the start of WW1. These ideological clashes between Communism and Capitalism were inevitable due to the opposing views and the fear of the threats each caused to the other’s ways of life. With communism being the political ideology that emerged in Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1918 that regulates the economy and productions shared equally by the society and also aimed to over throw Capitalism. Whereas Capitalism is the political system which has their countries trade industry controlled independently for their profit rather than for the state. These two opposing ideologies naturally would fear each other. This
With the clashing two ideologies of whose agendas were defeating each other, a blame game was being played, Communists blamed capitalists for the war and vice versa. With the constant boasting and bickering between the two ideologies. While Stalin and Roosevelt stayed civil, Churchill and Stalin often teased each other just as Churchill claimed the prosperity of Russia’s army in the Russian Archangel in World War One stating ‘That he deserved a medal for teaching the Soviet Army how to fight so well through the intervention of Archangel’ (International Relations 1945-1990). The fear of each other made their powers do irrational things to their own countries because of their suspicion. The USSR had carried out espionage activities inside America with the aid of their own citizens after and during world War II. As the fear of infiltration rose, ‘On March 21, 1947, President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) issued Executive Order 9835, also known as the Loyalty Order, which mandated that all federal employees be analysed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government’ (Scare, 2018). The fear of communism infiltrating their capitalist countries drove them to turn against their own freedom ideologies. This is a country that providence that they were driven by fear as it is unlike
Americans were forced to fear communism as the government started nuclear bomb tests in 1949. This extreme measure made American’s believe Communist takeover of the U.S. was very possible. Schoolchildren ‘Practiced duck and cover exercises and air raid drills. Civil Defense signs were affixed to buildings designated as fallout shelters. Suburban families dug bomb shelters in their backyards and stocked them with non-perishable foods’ (Classroom.synonym.com, 2018). In attempt to dilute the fear in America, President Harry Truman crated the ‘Loyalty Review Board and charging it with verifying the loyalty of all government workers’. And ‘By 1951, more than 200 federal employees had been fired and thousands more had been pressured to quit their jobs on suspicion of loyalty infractions’ (Classroom.synonym.com, 2018). But this action only acted as proof that Communists were already living and working among them and only told them to fear communism even more. The fear of communism within the citizens was so great the government could abuse its power to persuade its own people into despising and fearing communism. And so, when a war would break out, its people would not hesitate in creating the spark and fighting against something they believed was