Question

The Cold War was an ideological conflict. Discuss. Describe the ideologies involved and how the rivaled one another.

Answer 1

The Soviet Union was ideologically a Communist country, being ruled by a dictator had put the needs of the state above any personal human rights. While the democratic capitalist West democracy valued freedom and liberty of people as the most important factor. US foreign policy was directed towards the containment of communist and the Truman Doctrine, promised to support nations at risk from communism. Thus the Cold War was a long period of tension, suspicion, and paranoia, beginning after the end of World War II and lasting until the 1990s. It was a political, ideological and cultural struggle between the communist nations in eastern Europe and Asia and the democratic capitalist West.