Immediate conflicts:
... The USA had atomic weapons and the USSR did not. (The US would not share that technology with the Soviets.)
... The USSR did not assure that free and fair elections took place in Eastern Europe -- it saw to it that Soviet-aligned governments were installed there.
... Tensions over the East Germany / West Germany and East Berlin / West Berlin division of territory.
Deeper causes:
The USA was committed to capitalism and democratic institutions of government.
The USSR was committed to communism and imposed authoritarian government.
The Cold War was mostly a tension between these worldviews.
<span>This diversity caused what has become to be known as "cultural imperialism". In other words, the culture of the colonizer was reflected in both the colony and the indigenous people that they came into contact with. This led to the expansion of the ideas of individual countries as well as colonies as diverse as Europe.</span>
Ghana. At the time of independence at had a per capita GDP equivalent to South Korea. Unlike Japan, it continued to be an economic success in the 90's and 00's. Furthermore it is not only now one of the most democratic and liberal countries in Asia along with Japan, it has also delivered political stability not seen in Japan with brief exceptions of some phases such as the prime ministership of Junichiro Koizumi.<span>
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The biggest one is speculation on the market. Many would buy stocks on margin, say only meeding 10% of the share amount to buy a share of stock. So great quantities of stock were able to be bought without necesarily having the money to legitimately purchase them.
