America's Attitude Towards Communism in 1945 - 53

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America's Attitude Towards Communism in 1945 - 53

America and the USSR both had different opinions on communism and how a country should be run.  The USSR believed communism was the perfect way to run its country and people.  Communism consisted of a one party state which owned the whole of the industry business and the agricultural business too.  There would be no individual profit making and everyone was equal and received an equal amount of money.  America, however was a capitalist state which meant that there was freedom of speech, free elections and more than one political party.  The people could make individual profits and the state owned neither industry nor agricultural businesses.  

        America completely disliked the idea of communism and both it and the USSR had different governments and their two societies were organised around very different ideals.  America as a superpower felt threatened by communism both in values and way of life.  There was also a dislike of Stalins dictatorship tactics which had caused many deaths and the purges of the 1930's.  Stalin had also signed the Nazi - Soviet pact in 1939 which had divided Poland and caused America to drift further away from liking the USSR and its policies such as communism and equality.

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        America became more against communism when the USSR decided to create a "buffer" zone of friendly states between it and Germany basically meaning they wanted to make sure no future invasions of Russia from the West or Germany were easily carried out.  They planned to do this by redrawing Poland's boundary.  These two issues were the main talk of the peace conferences at Yalta and Postdam in 1945.  The Yalta Conference in February was when Franklin Roosevelt,  Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill met at Yalta in the Soviet Union.  Because  the war was drawing to an end decisions had to ...

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