HA2 - 3 / 4 February

Cold War Concepts

Turn

in your vocabulary assignment

Take out notebook paper for notes

Bellwork

What motivated the Cold War conflict?

Essential Question

What motivated the Cold War conflict?

More specifically, was it
competing Economies?
Political ideals?
or
Nationalistic rivalry?

Essential Question

competing

Economies =
communism v. capitalism

Political

ideals =
democracy v. authoritarianism
(The Communist Party)

Nationalistic

rivalry =
US v. USSR (Soviet Union)

Breaking it down

Capitalism v.
Communism

(industrial)

capitalism = economic
system that relies on machines and
technology that are used to increase
production of marketable goods

In

other words
Better tech efficient production
cheaper goods more demand better
tech
(like the Industrial Revolution in the
1800s)

Capitalism

Investors

(business owners / contributors)

Means

of production = resources and

structures for producing goods
(factories, farms, delivery trucks, etc.)

Capitalism

Markets

goods

= people buying and selling

People participate in markets by choice

(freedom)
Human

Nature to trade / compete

Free

Enterprise = the freedom of private

businesses to compete to make profit with
minimal government regulation

Capitalism Underlying
Assumptions

Capitalist culture promotes.

Taking risks
Creating new technology
Valuing high profits

Capitalist Culture

In the 1800s, it led to

Child labor
Long hours
Low pay
Terrible work conditions
Workers created unions and organized
labor to deal with these repercussions

Capitalism Criticisms

First

lets define socialism

Socialism = economic and social system
in which all means of production,
distribution, and exchange are owned and
regulated by the community as a whole
Compatible

with anarchy (no govt), state

communism (like in the Soviet Union), or
social democracy (like Obamacare)

Communism

Communism

= a kind of socialism

advocating
Class warfare
That all property being publicly owned
That each person works and is paid
according to their abilities and needs

Communism

Intent:

to empower the workers to

eliminate social classes

In

practice: High ranking Communist

Party members got extra benefits and had
all of the control

Communism

Work

(labor) gives life meaning (and so it

is noble to be a worker)

Humans

are social and sharing is best for

them collaborative work results in
better society

Communism Underlying assumptions

Intent:

workers own the economic

structures and are empowered and in
control

In

practice: workers and economy are

under strict government control

Communist Culture

In practice, it led to
Social classes
Deaths of many workers under violent
dictators
Need for rationing

Communism - Criticisms

Which system sounds better

to you?
Consider the ways that these systems are
intended to be and how they actually play out.

What do you think?

What do Cold War Era politicians and

people mean when they say
communists?
1)
2)
3)

People who believe in the economic and

social theory
People who are from the Soviet Union or
other communist countries
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union

What do they mean by

Communism?

Political ideals:
Democracy v.
Authoritarianism

Democracy

= a system of government
by the whole population or all eligible
members of a state, typically through
elected representatives

Democracy

Freedom

(life, liberty, the pursuit of

happiness)

Equality

(for eligible members)

Democracy Underlying values

Authoritarianism

= a way of governing
that values order and control over
personal freedom, usually headed by a
dictator

Authoritarianism

Control

Authoritarianism Underlying
values

Which system sounds better

to you?
Consider the ways that these systems are
intended to be and how they actually play out.

What do you think?

Nationalistic Rivalry:
United States v. the
Soviet Union (USSR)

Assumed

global leadership at the end of WWII

Has

the most productive and functional

economy in the mid-1940s

Has

the strongest military and weaponry

Wants

to increase world trade with free

enterprise system

Wants

USA

to spread democratic culture

Occupies

all of eastern Europe after WWII

Has

fundamental disagreements with the

democratic West

Quickly

develops nuclear capabilities

Wants

to spread communism and its

values around the world

Soviet Union

Use an orange textbook to

Identify

the NATO and Warsaw Pact

countries
Locate Cold War countries of interest on
the map

Map Activity