Attitudes and ideologies (AQA GCSE History): Flashcards

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Definition of ideology

Set of political beliefs about how society should be organised

Two opposing ideologies in Cold War

Capitalism and communism

Capitalism's view on economic freedom

Right to make money through private enterprise

Who makes better economic decisions according to capitalism?

Individuals better than government officials

Communism's view on wealth distribution

Wealth should be shared equally amongst all

Communism's view on collective vs individual work

People stronger working together towards common goals

Who controls economy in communism

Government, for benefit of everyone

Three freedoms in capitalist democracy

Speech, movement, and religion

Number of parties allowed in communist system

One - only Communist Party allowed to govern

Year of Russian Revolution

1917

What Russian Revolution established

World's first communist state

Definition of Red Scare

Western fears of communist expansion

What was communism's worldwide revolutionary goal?

Workers to overthrow capitalist systems globally

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