USSR = strong communistic beliefs = West feared a communist
world revolution
USA = Strong Capitalistic beliefs = USSR feared this
After second world war Germany was no longer a threat to these two
= because of their opposing ideologies they were no longer together
fighting common enemy but eachother
West distrusted USSR
Because after WW2 USSR
annexed Estonia , Latvia ,
Lithuania and Eastern
Poland
USSR established Soviet
Dominated government in Poland,
Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, East
Germany, Czechoslovakia
Why did USSR distrust the west?
They had the policy of containment = contain/ suppress/
stop the spread of communism