Global+balance+of+power

Global balance of power.

Soviet tanks face U.S. tanks at Checkpoint Charlie
 * //1.Cold War Era.//**
 * U.S. and U.S.S.R. - no direct fighting
 * Evenly matched share of global power.
 * Democratic capitalism vs. communism
 * Military arms race.
 * Both nation are more wealthier and powerful than any other power.
 * Political, social, ecomonic, ideological and cultural struggle between the super powers.
 * Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe and created independent communist regime.
 * US response- Containment- free world keeps USSR from expanding ..
 * Truman doctrine - moral and material aid to countries figthting communism.
 * 1949 - US creates Nato and USSR has nuclear bomb.
 * //2 .The Cold War ends.//**
 * Steady internal collapse of USSR
 * Gorbachev tries to reform USSR but they cant keep up with USA
 * Allows Eastern European nations to free themselves
 * Enter into arms negotiation.
 * Berlin Wall comes down in 1989
 * 1991 - USSR collapses


 * //3. Post Cold War//**
 * One Superpower remains - United States.
 * Alliances and coalitions constantly shifting.
 * China increases in power.
 * New kind of war - terrorism against citizens of enemy nations - Islamic fundamentalism led to the 9/11 World Trade Center bombing.