Economic fear caused by two vastly different ideologies, communism and capitalism, was a major factor promoting America's distrust of Russia and the subsequent Cold War. The spread of communism was viewed as a threat to American businesses who already felt vulnerable because of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Things came to a head after Stalin publicly emphasized capitalist ill-will and hostility by claiming that capitalism harbored elements of general crisis and armed conflic
t. As a result, Truman became irate and adopted a tougher line instead of continued compromise, prompting the United States not to recognize Rumania and Bulgaria, to insist on internalization of waterways such as the Kiel Canal, the Rhine-Danube and the Black Sea Straits, to try to control Japan and the Pacific, and to attempt to create a strong central government in China and Korea.1
The Americans were also threatened by what it perceived to be Soviet aggression. After the w
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