Summary.
After World War II Russia and the United States continued to have an effect on Eastern Europe. America lived in fear of Communism becoming a reality as speculated through the Domino Theory while Stalin attempted make communism a reality
A Bi-Polar World
- Russia
- Largest army
- Influence to satellite states (friendly states separating hostile nations)
- Stalin and Communism
- Show trials
- Feared counterrevolution
- The Iron Curtain
- Divided East and West Europe
- Ran through East and West Germany
- United States
- Following World War II the Americans were much richer
- They had the largest Navy and Airforce
- Owned the most nuclear weapons
- 20 billion in gold reserves
- Largest industry
- McCarthyism (A fear of Communism)
- Domino theory was feared
- Department of Defence
- National Security Council
- Central Intelligence Agency
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