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US & USSR Alliance Breakdown
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US and USSR alliance breakdown 1945-1946: Ideology
USSR
- Communist - all industry owned and run by the state
- One-party dictatorship, even with elections, all candidates were Communist Party members
- Economic superpower due to rapid industrial growth in 1920s and 1930s
- Unemployment and extreme poverty rarer than in the US
- Leaders wanted to spread the communist model
- Rights of individuals not important as the good of the whole society
- USSR not led by communist ideology of spreading revolutions, rather pratical decision-making
- USSR saw USA's actions as selfish; focus on economic gain and political influence
USA
- Capitalist - businesses and properties are privately owned
- Democracy - government elected in free democratic elections
- Wealthy capitalist country, with extremes of great wealth and great poverty
- Freedom from control of the government was important for citizens
- Americans believed their way of life should be the way for other countries
- People feared the spread of communism
- Government policies seen as 'doing the right thing'
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