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Year 6History

Why did the USA and the USSR enter a cold war?

Lesson outcome

In this lesson, we will learn about the power vacuum that was left in central Europe following the defeat of Germany in the Second World War. We will learn how two competing ideologies, capitalism and communism, competed for influence across Europe and the rest of the world.