B. CDI
Explain the causes and effects of the ideological struggle of the Cold War.
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Historical Development
Historical Development
The global balance of economic and political power shifted during and after World War II and rapidly evolved into the Cold War. The democracy of the United States and the authoritarian communist Soviet Union emerged as superpowers, which led to ideological conflict and a power struggle between capitalism and communism across the globe. Groups and individuals, including the Non-Aligned Movement, opposed and promoted alternatives to the existing economic, political, and social orders.
Key Words:
Key Words:
Iron Curtain
Satellite countries
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Non-Alignment Movement
Marshall Plan
The Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement is a forum of 120 developing world states that are not formally aligned with or against the Soviet Union or the United States.
Symbolic Superiority:
Space Race
Symbolic Superiority:
Space Race
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a competition in technological development by seeing who could be the first in space. This included such events as who could put the first manned spacecraft into orbit and who would be the first to walk on the Moon. The Space Race was considered important because it showed other nations -- world -- who was winning the Cold War, and thus who had the best science, technology, and best economic system to pay for it all.
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a competition in technological development by seeing who could be the first in space. This included such events as who could put the first manned spacecraft into orbit and who would be the first to walk on the Moon. The Space Race was considered important because it showed other nations -- world -- who was winning the Cold War, and thus who had the best science, technology, and best economic system to pay for it all.
Symbolic Superiority:
The Olympics
Symbolic Superiority:
The Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviet Union, which hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics, and its allies would later boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
The "Miracle on Ice": 1980 Winter Olympics; USA & USSR, America, the underdog shocks the world & wins!
Officially, the Soviet Union beat the United States, 51-50, in the gold medal game at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich on a desperate basket at the final buzzer.
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