The Post World War Was Primarily Shaped by a Clash Between Communism and Capitalism

THE POST WAR WORLD WAS PRIMARILY SHAPED BY A CLASH BETWEEN COMMUNISM AND CAPITALISM. With the common enemy Germany defeated in 1945 the allies’ United States, Britain and Soviet Union found themselves in confrontation with each other pertaining the shape of world (Kegley, 2007:110).The division was enhanced by difference in ideologies in which one was bound to follow in its quest for conquest and expansion of spheres of influence thereby upsetting the other (Campbell,2004:112).Thus according to Churchill an “iron curtain” was created which meant the hostilities between these two blocs emerged. Different events occurred both in Europe, Asia and Africa which were caused directly or indirectly by the clash of communism against capitalism. (Thomson, 1990:856). According to Kegley (2007:10) the Soviet Union supported communism principle in which there is only one party state and means of production are owned by the state and on the other hand Riasonovsk and Steinberg (2005:70) states that the United States, Britain supported capitalism in which many parties contest in elections (democracy), pertaining the issue of industries and trade they are privately owned. The period after world war was characterized by ideological confrontation cold war between the two leaders of communism and capitalism United States and Soviet Union respectively. These two countries never went to war against each other however they used other countries as battle grounds to fight for the success of their ideologies. It was the difference in ideologies that later led to proxy wars such as the Korean war which divided the countries in two blocs the communist and capitalist (Ikenberry,1996:3). Tensions between the Soviet Union(East), United States and Britain(West) started during a meeting at Potsdam which primarily marked the division of two opposing forces into two hostile camps, with the Soviet Union supporting communism and United States supporting capitalist ideology...