... they later started to set limits and restrictions and their nuclear weapons. As the cold war continued the economies of the two superpowers were quite different. WW2 had helped to bring the U.S. out of our depression and after the war our economy just kept on growing. Plus the U.S.'s huge wealth made it the backbone of postwar recovery and global economic growth (Browers). But in Russia things ... got a little better after the war but not much compared to the U.S. The U.S. and our allies had created a free market economy where tariffs were lowered and trade was pretty much open. Russia ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... when Germany would be defeated, this would leave larger part of the continental Europe without any meaningful administrations or governments. The conventional forms of governments in Europe had been discredited, particularly in the East of Europe where the resistances to the German conquests had been predominantly ineffective. The WWII also devastated much of Europe's economy, and the Europe's industrial heart had been laid waste as more than 16m ... founded on attitudes that were more complex than the view of expansionist nature of the communism. For instance, the Soviet Union had been...

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... communism and viewed it as a dishonest and despicable system, one, which was completely incompatible with capitalism. The Western powers supported the Anti-communists in the Russian Civil War proving that they wanted to fight against communism. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939 outraged the West, who thought that Stalin had gone behind their back and even though he had always said he ... . Communist governments sprouted all over Eastern Europe. During the last years of the Second World War, the Red Army was moving forward and leaving behind pro- communist governments. The West saw thi...

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• Grade Level: High School