Cold War/Iro Curtain

The United States supported democracy and capitalism, while the Soviet Union supported communism and government control.

The United States supported monarchy, while the Soviet Union supported democracy.

The United States supported communism, while the Soviet Union supported capitalism.

The United States and the Soviet Union both supported the same ideology.

To divide communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe

To create a trade route across Europe

To unite all European countries under communism

To establish a new European government

United States

Russia

Soviet Union

United Kingdom

The United States controlled atomic bombs

The Soviet Union controlled Eastern Europe

Both sides began stockpiling nuclear weapons

The United States suffered 27 million casualties in World War II

To stop others from entering

To stop people from leaving East Berlin

To separate themselves from the world

They did not want to fight with anyone anymore

If one country fell to communism, others would follow

Countries would unite to resist communism

Superpowers would directly fight each other

Nuclear weapons would prevent war

Ordered a naval blockade

Launched a nuclear attack

Signed a peace treaty

Sent troops to Cuba

President Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev

President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev

President Kennedy and Soviet leader Khrushchev

President Carter and Soviet leader Andropov

Glasnost

Perestroika

Upravlyat'

Plastnost

The United States represented capitalism and democracy, while the Soviet Union represented communism and government control.

Both the United States and the Soviet Union represented democracy.

The United States represented communism and the Soviet Union represented capitalism.

Both countries had the same political and economic systems.