Question

Create a bullet-point list of how the United States and Soviet Union were alike during the Cold War? How were they different?

Answer 1

The United States and the Soviet Union were the two global super powers, and they had both differences and similarities.

Similarities:

• Both had expansionist ambitions;
• Both were trying to spread out their influence in all parts of the world;
• Both were intensely developing their military and technology;
• Both formed military organization, NATO and the Warsaw Pact, in order to protect their interests;

Differences:

• USA was mostly capitalist politics, while the USSR had communist politics;
• USA was striding towards multiculturalism, while the USSR had an ongoing ethnic cleansing;
• USA was a democracy, while the USSR was an autocracy;