• 1945-1991
• Clash of ideology
• Unofficially started in 1917
• Period of distrust and misunderstanding
• Capitalism is when an economic and political structure where private proprietors, acting for their own financial gain, control a nation's trade and industries.
• Communism is a theory or method of social organisation where everyone shares in the community's ownership of all property and gives and gets based on their needs and abilities.
• Capitalist believed in:
  • Laissez Faire Economy (Free Market Economy)
  • Privatisation of resources
  • Freedom of the press
  • The ability to criticise the government
  • More economic freedom
• Communist believed in:
  • Nationalisation of resources
  • Equal Pay for equal work
  • State Control of industries
  • No freedom of the press
  • Abolition of the private sector
  • Communism ultimately leads to a dictatorship or authoritarian government
• Domino Theory-
  • If one nation became communist, neighboring nations would follow
  • Many African and Asian countries gained independence
  • Under developed nations likely to follow communism
  • This applied especially in Vietnam since its neighbouring nation, China was already a communist.
    • It became more severe in Vietnam due to the fact that China’s neighbouring nation was the USSR.
    • Ho Chi Minh was also trained in the USSR (specifically Moscow) which meant he already had a communist ideology.