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View each group's resource, and respond to it with a post, using one of the following prompts. Title your post with your name.

I used to think that what started the Cold War was... but now I think that it might be... because...

This resource confirmed my understanding that the Cold War broke out because of... as the resource highlighted that...

This resource challenged my understanding that the Cold War broke out because of... as the resource highlighted that...

This resource made me think of why the Cold War broke out in an entirely new way... as the resource highlighted that…

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By the end of the lesson on Monday, 18 March, create a post in this column with your group number and members in the Title. In the post-it, indicate what resource you will be creating. An example is provided for you below.

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Please submit your compulsory tasks here (e.g., upload the Google Document as a post and ensure the sharing rights are granted to your Teacher as Editor and the link is set to "Anyone with the link can view")

In the Title of the post, indicate your group number and members e.g., Group 7 (Stalin, Molotov, Novikov, Khrushchev)

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Group 10 (Truman, Kennan, Churchill, Marshall)

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Group 10 (Truman, Kennan, Churchill, Marshall)

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We will be creating a 6-minute video that focuses on... We aim to help our peers understand more about our assigned research area by highlighting in this video...

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1. What tensions were visible during and immediately after WWII? (Part 2)

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1. What tensions were visible during and immediately after WWII? (Part 2)

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1. What tensions were visible during and immediately after WWII? (Part 2)

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1. What tensions were visible during and immediately after WWII? (Part 1)

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1. What tensions were visible during and immediately after WWII? (Part 1)

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1. What tensions were visible during and immediately after WWII? (Part 1)

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Mahenderan, Zhi Yuan, Sye Lyn

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Simple Green and Beige Vintage Illustration History Report Presentation

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This reinforced my understanding that the major factor leading to the cold war was influence. It shows that the USSR had attempted to counter-influence more of Europe as a form of resistance against the Truman Doctrine which they perceived as a way of influencing Western Europe.

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This resource confirmed my understanding that the cold was due to strong rivalries economically, includeing the split of post ww2 europe due to things like the marshall plan

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this resource made me think of why the cold war broke out in an entirely new way as the resource highlighted that the different parties' feelings played a big role in the start of the cold war

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This resource made me think of why the Cold War broke out in an entirely new way as the resource highlighted that the Marshall Plan had revitalise the European economy and help they post WW2 which was seen an act against the spread of communism across Europe which cause tensions to rise between the US and USSR

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this resource confirmed my understanding that the cold war broke out because of the contradicting political and economical idealogies and beliefs that the ussr and the us had as it highlighted the ways in which the ussr managed to gain control over eastern europe, how they justified their actions as well as how the us did not agree with their actions at all and instead thought that it was unjustifiable, especially because the us supported capitalism while the ussr supported communism. in that case, the us believed that the sovietisation by the ussr was unjustifiable as it did not give the people freedom of speech, which is clearly one of the beliefs that the us supported, while the ussr did not.

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This resource confirmed my understanding that the Cold war broke out because of marshall plan deepening the divide between the US and USSR, causing tensions between both of them, as the resource highlighted that “The weaknesses of the Marshall Plan is that it deepened the divide between the US and USSR and the amount of money spent. The marshall plan was offered Eastern Europe, which was under USSR control was rejected by the USSR. It also promoted non-communism to western Europe to stop the spread of communism , which caused clashes of ideologies between capitalist US and communist USSR.”

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this resource challenged my understanding that the Cold War broke out because I underestimated the effects and impacts of having different ideologies as the resource highlighted how much each country were willing to implement new plans and laws in order to restrain or influence Eastern Europe of the different ideologies. The US was willing to spend billions just to end communism in Eastern Europe and to lower the chances of the USSR invading them. The USSR also came up with plans to resist the Western influence and to ensure that communist ideas were spread, uniting communist factions against Western influences

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this resource made me understand more about the suspicions the US had of the USSR and about how they were afraid they might gain influence over the European Nations and becoming puppet states of the USSR

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this resource made me think of why the Cold War broke out in an entirely new way due to Stalin's desire to defend the Soviet Union by taking control over others while the Western were against it since it took away people's rights as the resource highlighted that Stalin's main priority was to defend the soviet union by creating a buffer zone and manipulating other countries, while the Western though it was unjustifiable since it did not grant people freedom of choice.

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this resource made me understand the pros and cons of the Marshall plan and made me understand the process in which the plan was implemented, and its strengths as well as weaknesses.

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This resource confirmed my initial assumption that the Cold War happened partially due to conflict of ideologies, including economical conflict as attempts for European reforms (the Marshall Plan) led to what seemed like a halt in the USSR's attempts to spread communism. This led to tensions between the 2 communist and capitalist sides.

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this resource made me understand more about soviet intentions and desire for strong soviet security. It also made me understand more about the measures implemented by the UK to minimise the likeliness of another war arising and causing discord

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This resource confirmed my understanding that the Cold War broke out due to the West and USSR being unable to come to terms with each other's conditions. For example, they were not able to decide on the government governing over the freed European countries, and political freedom was often restricted in these places. The government was decided by the Big powers and not the people. Due to conflict over whether the countries should be communist or democratic, the cold war broke out

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this resource confirmed my understanding that both the USSR and US had a deepening ideological divide, and went the extra mile to extend their sphere of influence. focusing on the US independently, the Marshall Plan was implemented for the purpose of revitalising the European economy, promoting a sense of stability within the nation

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This resource shows that the relationship between the US and the USSR post WW2 was much more complicated - that both nations came to a compromise on many parts regarding the futures of Germany and Poland. However, it is rather clear that the US had much more power regarding European reformation, as the resource showed that both Germany and Poland were both redeveloped the "democratic" way. Not to mention, the smaller struggling nations did not have much of a say regarding their own government. Peace settlements were still unresolved and this, along with all that is mentioned above, were one of the causes leading to the eventual Cold War.

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This resource confirmed my understanding that the Cold War broke out because both sides disagreed with one another and found it hard to split post was Germany and Poland effectively, especially because they disagreed with each others ideologys

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this resource confirmed my understanding that the cold war broke out because of the sovietisation of eastern europe as the resource highlights that many countries were sovietised so as to create a buffer zone between the russians and the capitalist party, which from a western perspective might not have been justifiable

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The resource confirmed my understanding that the cold war was caused partly by disagreements between the Usssr and the Usa, the countries had agreed to compromise and follow certain guidelines laid by either party but did not follow through. For example : America wanted a demilitraization not only of post war germany but of the entirety of europe to reduce risk of war breaking out again. However the soviets refued to adhere to the guidelines placed. This definitely fueled a mistrust between the powers which contributed to the outbreak of the cold war. As such I can infer that despite negotiations, soviet refusal to adhere to compromised terms let to a breakdown of trust which contributed to the Cold War beginning.

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this resource made me think of why the cold war broke out in an entirely new way whereby not only was there conflicting political and economical ideologies between the us and the ussr, but other factors such as how they were unable to reach agreements and terms during the Yalta and Potsdam conference due to objections from respective sides and suspicions of inadequate policies. the resource highlighted the many conflicting issues that were brought forward during both conferences.

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Group 2's resource helped me understand the clashing views on the prospected of the newly freed satellite states. It helped me understand why Russia (which was still haunted by the massive launches it sustained during invasions) wanted to Sovietise the geographical region around its own territory, to create a buffer zone to protect itself. It also helped explain how the Western allies might have seen this move to be a threat, as they held (capitalist) ideology that completely contradicted the Soviets belief in capitalism

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This resource confirmed my understanding that the Cold War broke out because of their different goals, where Stalin wanted to expand and spread his ideals in order to provide safety for the USSR after the war. This can be seen when the USSR had objections towards the draft treaty as they had doubt of its adequacy in ensuring deNazification and democratisation of Germany. They also had concerns regarding the reparation after the war

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The resource confirmed my understanding that the Cold War broke out because of the distrust and doubts that countries had with each other and the difference in ideology as the resource highlighted that at the Yalta conference there was a lot of differing opinions.

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this resource confirmed my understanding that the cold war broke out because of disagreements over the establishment of the iron curtain. USSR justified that it was for protection from invasion from the west, as they had been invaded twice by Germany before in the world wars. To increase their national security, they spread influence to the surrounding countries to create a buffer zone. However, the US felt that such action was unjustifiable as it did not give the people a right to choose their government, and freedom of speech with they believed in. They decided to contain the spread of communist influence as the were against the sovietisation of eastern europe

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This resource made me think of why the Cold war broke out in the disagreements and concerns the USSR had during the Potsdam and Yalta conferences. Both the West and the USSR was unable to come to a agreement with each others conditions after the war. the USSR had objections to the draft treaty and doubt its adequacy in ensuring deNazification and democratisation of Germany. they also had concerns that were not address during the conference. These disagreement could have led to the cold war.

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This resource confirmed my understanding that the Russian infiltration of eastern countries in order to increase their sphere of influence intensified the rivalry over control of Europe, leading to the Cold war

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this resource challenged my understanding that despite the fact that USSR strategically sovietised many countries for the sole sake of creating a buffer zone for their benefit to ensure their national security/stability, this aggressive act can be deemed justifiable because as a leader of the USSR, Stalin's natural instinct is to find ways to increase their safety and not fall to capitalism. the somewhat "selfish" act of gaining control over countries was also the best solution for Stalin and is indeed justifiable and his actions are not wrong

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This resource made me think that the cold war broke out in an entirely new way as the resource highlighted that the allies tried to find ways on how to handle Germany but both side have contradicting ideas on how to handle Germany due to them have different ideologies. This causes them to not come to terms with each other and making their relationship worst.

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This resource shows Stalin's convoluted motives and his motivations to assert power over other European nations through heavy military, political and economic control so as to form a large sphere of influence to protect the USSR. These intentions were ultimately misread and misunderstood by the capitalist and democratic nations, leading to conflict and ultimately the Cold War.

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this resource confirmed my understanding that the Cold War broke out because of the difference in ideologies as the resource highlighted that the west did not agree with the way Stalin was consolidating different countries under his power and thought it was their duty to protect these countries but stalin saw no problems with his way of doing things and believed that the west was unnecessarily meddling in their affairs.

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good resource but a bit lengthy

helped me understand the deeper meaning and reasons behind the cold war like the Poland issue and what were the reparations from Germany, as well as the changes in Europe that helped made present Europe today.

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This resource confirmed my understanding that the west did not approve of Ussr's expansion of influence, thus causing retaliations and increases in rivalry, leading to the Cold war

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this resource confirmed my understanding that the Cold War broke out due to conflicting viewpoints and both powers could not come to an agreement on political issues, building up more distrust and doubts of one another, highlighted at the Yalta Conference where there was dispute about the political freedom that the government should be granted

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this resource confirmed my understanding that the cold war broke out because of different beliefs between the political and economic superpowers and the resource highlighted that Mr Kennan stated that "After the war, the USSR was surrounded by countries that just were not amended to its communist ideology, everyone had different beliefs and actions." While Mr Churchill stated that "The sure prevention of war on the continuous rise of global unit organisations will not be gained without the fraternal association."

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Brings into question the motivations behind the treaties, the way the Allies allowed USSR to keep Eastern Poland suggests that they were on good terms as they were not opposed to the territorial expansion of USSR.

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This resource made me think of why the cold war broke out in a entire new way as the resource highlights that the West saw the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe as unjustifiable and the Soviets believe its justifiable. the Soviet believe that its justifiable as they needed a geographical barrier in case it got invaded again. They also needed a buffer zone to hightened its security as Stalin knew the ideological differences will cause conflicts in the future. The West view sovietisation as unjustified as it did the grant the people in that certain country the freedom of choice which did not align with the international law.

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this resource confirmed my understanding that the cold war broke out because of the contrasting political ideologies that the us and the ussr had as the resource highlighted that the us created the marshall plan as a way to boost its economy as well as "contain" communism in war-torn europe. this shows the objections that the us had against communism, which was the ideology that the ussr supported. other than that, as a response to the marshall plan, the ussr also created 2 strategies to further spread the influence of communism in europe, showing the opposing natures that the us and ussr had.

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This resource made me think that of why the cold war broke out in an entirely new way as the suspicions of each other could play a bigger part in leading to the war than I thought. The US and USSR were already on poor terms due to their conflicting ideology, and since they had been allies during the war, the parties were aware of the other's military prowess and was cautious and weary of their plans. Particularly the US, was concerned that the USSR could pose a threat to their capitalist system with the spread of communist influence in Europe

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this resource challenged my understanding that the cold war broke out because of being unable to maintain peace as the resource highlighted that they couldn't come to term with each other conditions and are discontented causing Europe to fail to fully recover

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helped me to understand the reasons behind the soviets' formation and the issue of freedom and ideologies between the West and the Soviets, and the issue of balance and national security. It also helped me understand Stalin's motives.

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this resource confirmed my understanding that the Cold War broke out because of the difference in ideologies. this resource highlighted how the US and USSR used money to get countries to side with either one of them. As the US wanted to stop the spread of communism and the USSR wanted to stop the spread of capitalism as both sides did not agree with each other's ideologies

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This resource helped me understand in detail what exactly the Marshall and Molotrov plans are, as well as the history and reasons for these plans. I know understand how the USSR and US made use of the economy to gain political control and influence in the economically drained Europe

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This source challenged my understanding that the cold war broke put mainly due to the different ideologies. However, this source further challenges my understanding by showing how the need for security and safety in the USSR led them to be more cautious which made the US believed that they wanted to expand and become like the Nazis. This shows that their perception and feelings they had towards each other plays a big role in how they reacted to each other which had a big influence to the start of the cold war

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This resource made me understand more about the tensions between the US and the USSR, that the US feared of the potential spread of communism throughout Europe. Although the US and USSR were wartime allies during WW2, the 2 comrades decided to turn against each other in the midst of suspicions and not so wrongly led fears. This resource also confirmed my assumption that the War happened partially due to a conflict of ideologies.

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helped me to understand the aggressions and perspectives of the US and the UK against the USSR and the worries annd fears they made have. it also showcased the stark ideology difference between the West and the Soviets.

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This resource confirmed my understanding that the truman doctorine directly effected the Soviet plans to influence most of Europe, intensifying their rivalry, causing the cold wat

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This resource confirmed my understanding that the cold war broke out due to different economical stances. The US supported the eastern countries under their influence with food and essentials after the war, allowing the countries to rebuild themselves. However, it showed the capabilities and profitability of capitalism, promoting it in the countries under communist rule. This caused distrust and conflict between US and USSR, leading to the cold war

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This resource made me think of why the Cold War broke out in an entirely new way as the resource highlighted that due to the USSR aggression to expand the their influence to other countries, the West feels threatened by the USSR's growing influence on other nation so this causes suspicion from the West and when the West addressed the situation. The USSR thought that they were trying to accuse them

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This resource made me think of why the Cold War broke out in a entirely new way as Soviets were very aggressive in their expansionism to promote Communism which the West did not like. They try cause unrest in the European countries by stirring rife between political parties. this cause ideological differences between the communist USSR and caplistist US

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This resource confirmed my understanding that the cold war broke up as both sides, USSR and the West, are unable to come to terms with each others' conditions. The resource states that the Soviet Union had objections to the draft treaty. Citizens including their government, should be peacefully disposed towards the soviet union and soviet military troops should be withdrawn. However, the big 3 powers have agreed to recognise these countries only after their governments have reached a certain democratic standard. Due to these different beliefs, the cold war broke out.

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Shows how USSR can be seen as expansionist and exerting control over helpless countries from one perspective and just trying to ensure security of itself and other states under its control so that it does not have to suffer large casualties from invasions that are difficult to be prevented.

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this source made me understand more about how the different ideologies affected the way they perceived each other and how the much the US was determined to resist the spread of communist influences

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this resource confirmed my understanding that the cold war broke out because of the contrasting ideologies that the us and the ussr had, as the resource highlighted the extent to which both the us and ussr would take to spread the influence of their ideologies on other parts of the world, as well as the actions that they were willing to take to contain the other's ideologies.

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Shows the 2 opposing view points of how the USSR was trying to boost its security and also how the USSR was being expansionist.

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Shows how the US made its stance clear as opposed to communism, letting the USSR know that they were unfriendly and did not support them, leading to increasing tensions.

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this resource made me understanding how the different ideologies and beliefs led to the spread of influence and increasing the tension between them, resulting the cold war to break out.

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This resource made me think of why the Cold War broke in an entirely new way as the resource highlighted that both the US and the USSR were scared of each others influence as they have very contradicting ideas and if the others influence is more, then they might face threats if another war comes which causes them to heighten their alert to one another.

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this source made me understand that the Truman Doctrine directly impacted Soviet intentions to exert influence over much of Europe, heightening their rivalry and contributing to the Cold War.

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this resource confirmed my understand that differing ideological beliefs and divides were one of the key factors which led to the Cold War, due to unfriendly treatment between the two powers and increasing tensions

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This resource confirmed my understanding that Sovietization of Eastern Europe was primarily fueled my the Soviet's desire to protect Communism. Democratic and Capitalist means of running a country were extremely lucrative to war-torn countries, and once recognizing the threat the Soviet's understood to protect communism they used the reasoning of repatriations and the fact they had "liberated" those countries as valid reasons to control those countries.

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This source confirmed my understading that the Cold War soley did not break out due to conflicting ideologies but due to Soviet Security Interest. It was evident that capitalist economies were popular among the war-torn countries, which lured countries to abandon their communist parties. This was a threat to USSR as it placed them outgunned and out-numbered against the democratic West. Thus Soviet's Controlled the Eastern Bloc as they wanted to protect themselves against the West.

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This confirmed my understanding that the US was scared about the spread of communism in the aftermath of WW2. Fearing that the rampant poverty and dire conditions ripe for Communism, the US decided to become aggressive against Communism.

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this resource confirmed my understanding that the cold war broke out due to both parties differing ideologies and the wests disapproval of the USSR's expansion and spreading of communism.

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This resource made me understand more about the truman doctrine which was the US official declaration of anti-communism, and the US fear of the USSR's growing influence and power as both parties had differing beliefs

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this source confirmed my understanding that the cold war broke out due to the marshall plan which deepened the divide between the US and USSR, and even promoted non communism to western europe which caused clashes of ideologies between capitalist US and communist USSR

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This source reinforced my understanding of the ideological differences between the US and the USSR, as well as the factors that came into play that led to the further divide between the two superpowers

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This resources helped me better understand the extent of fear the two superpowers held of being (politically) dominated, and how the measures they took to "defend" themselves, led to even more unease and tensions

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this resource made me think of why the cold war broke out in an entirely new way as the resource highlighted that many nations often had conflicts that led to wars such as ideological differences and issue of Poland, they could not see eye to eye with each other causing tension and leading to the Cold War.

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this resource made me think of why the cold war broke out in an entirely new way as the resource highlighted that countries that used to be allies would turn against each other, causing disagreement and more problems between each other, causing suspicion.

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This resource reinforced my belief that the Cold War happened due to a conflict in ideologies. There may be numerous ways to resolve this conflict, but by choosing to spread propaganda against one another, the US and the USSR created even more tension amongst themselves and ultimately turned two former allies against each other head on.