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-ideology did not stop them from working together in the Grand Alliance to defeat Germany and win WWII 1939-44

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Economic implications also played an important role. Fear of losing out on European markets, would have great impact on US economy (and would lose place as the top world power). they would have had this fear regardless of Soviet ideology.

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Both powers want to expand to protect themselves from each other, not for power, each power gets more weapons, therefore the other has to rival it as a defence mechanism

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McCarthy;s paranoia may have been slightly due to the ideological fear, however, if Russia was to expand to other Russian countries, it could also be a fear of losing Americans place as the top world power

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Want to expand their sphere of influence to more Eastern countries, granting them greater power and territory

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Doesn't McCarthy's paranoia suggest the US was fearful of Soviet ideology in a way they wouldn't otherwise have been?

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Stalin - Expansionist, suspicious
Churchill -
Truman - Anti-Communist

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US pursuit of global markets to maintain economic growth
'dollar imperialism'
(TRADE)

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(geo-political inevitability of US-Soviet conflict)
- Russian expansionism
-US interventionism
- power vacuum in Europe after WWII

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Allied Forces (America, USSR and UK) are no longed needed to fight the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan)

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Congress authorized $20 million, and Hoover proceeded to organize the American Relief Administration (ARA),

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Churchill - would help USSR as long as they opposed Nazi's
Truman - anti-communist - would only help USSR if it was necessary - Japanese naval base bombing