the seeds of conflict

1. Define "The West." Make sure you could identify several countries as examples.
       a threat to the freedoms of democracy and capitalism or the west is a term given to the capitalist countires of western europe and north american during the cold war. the USA was the principal power of the west.

2. Explain the differences in the economic ideology between the West and the USSR.
      the ussr wanted to have a communist economy were the poor and rich would be equal while the west wanted to have a capitalism economy where it holds the traditional economic values.

3. Explain the differences in the political ideology between the West and the USSR.
     the west were a liberal democracies, this political system was valued because it upheld important freedoms, it gave people a coice of goverment and the chance to vote while the ussr was a the communist state where a classless societ was beling created there was no need for different political classes and is a one party state. they had no freedoms like the countries in the west
4. What was the Comintern (Communist International) and why did it concern the West.
      it was an organisation set up in 1919 to facilitate contacts betwwen communist groups throughout the world. the soviet goverment was able to control its activities and the west feared it was being used to undermine capitalism and spread communsit revolution.
5. What occurred during the Russian Civil War (1918-21) that solidified the opposition between the West and the Communists? (Be specific and use key details.)
      that the allied intervention to suppoert the whites in the russian civil war started to dry up by 1921 the bolsheviks had won and the bolshevik regime of lenin survived, the experiance highlighted the hositility of the west toward communism and the face that the west would comtemplate military actions against communism whenever the opportunity might present itself.