Goals of the Soviet Union

The goals of the Soviet Union:

• Demonstrate communism as a successful, practical model. 
• Organize a space program superior to the United States (space race)
• Construct a nuclear program equal to or greater than the United States
• To keep the satellite nations unified under the U.S.S.R. model
• Offer a viable alternate economic system to capitalism and imperialism
• Rally in support of the Warsaw Pact

The conflict between the U.S.S.R. and the United States was due to a fundamental difference of ideals and government. It was in the interest of the U.S.S.R. to spread communistic ideals throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The United States responded in many ways, perhaps beginning with the Truman Doctrine, that stated the U.S. would support any nation that was opposed to communism and desired assistance in defiance of the Soviet Union.