‘The fact that the USA and USSR could get on at certain points between 1917 and 1939 proves that ideology was not the main cause of the Cold War’ by

‘The fact that the USA and USSR could get on at certain points between 1917 and 1939 proves that ideology was not the main cause of the Cold War’ by https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0 Made with fortitude en-us 2017-09-05 18:00:32 UTC 2025-11-16 12:37:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Situation of the Leaders https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187539147 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

]]> 2017-09-14 13:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187539147 https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187539617 2017-09-14 13:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187539617 Famine Relief for Russia https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187541478 Congress authorized $20 million, and Hoover proceeded to organize the American Relief Administration (ARA),]]> 2017-09-14 13:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187541478 Lack of Common Enemy https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187541584 Allied Forces (America, USSR and UK) are no longed needed to fight the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan)]]> 2017-09-14 13:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187541584 AGREE ARGUMENTS and counter arguments https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187543703 2017-09-14 13:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187543703 Traditional great power rivalry https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187544160 (geo-political inevitability of US-Soviet conflict)
- Russian expansionism
-US interventionism
- power vacuum in Europe after WWII]]> 2017-09-14 13:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187544160 Economic factors https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187546625 US pursuit of global markets to maintain economic growth
'dollar imperialism'
(TRADE)]]> 2017-09-14 13:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187546625 Personality of the Leaders https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187548374 Stalin - Expansionist, suspicious
Churchill -
Truman - Anti-Communist]]> 2017-09-14 13:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187548374 MR HEYMAN https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187548693 Doesn't McCarthy's paranoia suggest the US was fearful of Soviet ideology in a way they wouldn't otherwise have been?]]> 2017-09-14 13:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/187548693 Russia Expansionism https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/188264421 Want to expand their sphere of influence to more Eastern countries, granting them greater power and territory]]> 2017-09-17 20:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/188264421 NO https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/188264512 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]]> 2017-09-17 20:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/188264512 Security Dilemma https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/188264590 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 ]]> 2017-09-17 20:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/188264590 NO https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/188269582 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.]]> 2017-09-17 21:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/188269582 e.g.s of lack of importance of ideology https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/188269920 -ideology did not stop them from working together in the Grand Alliance to defeat Germany and win WWII 1939-44]]> 2017-09-17 21:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dheyman1_1/xzxm834k2ts0/wish/188269920