Cold War Ideology week one day 7 - Cold War Ideology Cold...

Cold War Ideology
Cold War Ideology and Policy
HIS135 American History
University of Phoenix
Mark Watson
May 27, 2011
Laura King

Tensions did not end when World War Two ended. As America and the Soviet Union rose
from the war as the two superpowers, so did the hostility and tension as two countries with two
different belief’s who once had a wartime alliance now compete to gain alliances in the new
world where peace was dominant. Although no physical conflicts or battles took place danger
was still around from fear produced by both countries.
America founded in the early century on the idea of freedom from England. American
citizens valued and held belief in the right of freedom, from fear, from want, the freedom of
speech, and the freedom of belief. Americans had individual rights and providing opportunity
based on Capitalist principles. An economy that was formed on profit and free competition,
along with private ownership. This was not the practice or the ideology of the Soviet Union and
Communism, society was very different and so was the belief’s.