Cold War Contextualization

Prompt: Evaluate the extent to which differing ideologies caused the Cold War.

Question 1

Short answer

Write 2-4 sentences contextualizing the historical Situation of the following thesis statement.

While the United States and the Soviet Union supported differing political and economic strategies of capitalism and communism, these differences were evident before the end of WWII. Tensions from WWII between the US and the USSR facilitated a series of Proxy Wars and scientific competitions aimed at overpowering each other. Therefore, the Cold War was more directly facilitated by the power vacuum resulting from WWII than competing ideologies.

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