Long-term Causes Of The Cold War

Question 1

Russian revolution, 1917

Answer 1

• The first socialist state was established

- The west viewed this with fear as it seemed to represent a threat to capitalism, democracy and freedom

Question 2

Russian Civil war, 1918-1921

Answer 2

• wests support for the whites who sought to topple the communist state

Question 3

War debts

Answer 3

• the soviet union refused to pay back WWI debts to the west since it viewed the was as an imperialist event
• directly opposed to imperialism

Question 4

The ComIntern, 1919

Answer 4

• Communist international

- spread the communist revolution

Question 5

The red scare, 1919

Answer 5

• American communist society founded in 1919 a red scare moved through the states
• Jan 1920, 6,000 suspected communists were arrested and many deported

Question 6

The Nazi-Soviet pact, 1939

Answer 6

• August 1939 Stalin signed a pact with Hitler which guaranteed neither would invade the other
• showed how Stalin was willing to work with the enemy to get what he wanted

Question 7

Conflicting ideologies

Answer 7

• capitalism vs communism