Title: A Cold War conflict
Headings: Cold War conflict
Cold War conflict
Contents
What was the Cold War?
Origins of the Cold War
Anti-communist hysteria
Tensions in the post-war world
The Truman Doctrine
Containment
China changes everything

Content: Between 1946 to the early 1990s, the world was strongly divided between two competing power blocs: capitalist democracies led by the United States and western Europe, and communist states led by the Soviet Union and Maoist China. The Cold War created an atmosphere of tension, suspicion and paranoia. In the West, people were conditioned to think of communism as an evil menace bent on taking over the world and imposing totalitarian rule. Citizens in communist states were taught that Western nations were ruled by greedy imperialists who exploited workers. The Cold War was not just about different ideas and values: it had real and dangerous political and military implications. There was always the risk of conflict and – worst of all – of nuclear war. The Cold War also shaped events in Asia as both superpowers interfered in the political development and domestic policies of smaller nations like Vietnam. Origins of the Cold War
The origins of the Cold War date back to 1917 when communist revolutionaries called the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia.