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Ideologies of Cold War (Capitalism (Commonwealth (Australia, Canada, South…

- - - - Japan
        
        Japan benefited from the US investing heavily back into it's defeated forces and infrastructure. This also extended to them being given a democratic capitalist system of government.
      - South Vietnam
        
        South Vietnam was created as a traditional successor to French Indochina, gaining support from the French themselves and included many supporters and advisers to the last Vietnamese Emperor Bao Dai. As a result of their quest to differentiate themselves from the communist north, they became more and more capitalist.
      - South Korea
      - Philippines
        
        The Philippines benefited in a similar way to the Japanese after the war. It had been destroyed after four years of Japanese occupation and as it was an American client state, it received major funding to get it back onto it's feet.
    - - Italy
        
        Italy's transition to a democracy involved deciding what to do with the monarchy. After the fall of the Blackshirts and other fascist groups, many were unsure which direction to go. A referendum was held and in the end Victor Emmanuel III abdicated in an attempt to gather more support from the people, his son Umberto II still lost the referendum though and Italy started transitioning to the democratic ideas of the west.
      - West Germany
        
        West Germany was created to become a much more successful democracy than the Weimar had previously been. In the end all Allied occupation zones within Germany had been unified to form West Germany. Their ideas differed from the Western Allies as they were more focused on reunification and at times competition with the Soviet-backed East.
      - France
        
        France was more focused on actually achieving political stability after the tumultuous 1930's where multiple Presidents were in power and there was a huge socialist scare in Paris after many communist candidates started gathering steam in the political world.
- - - - Czechoslovakia looked favorably onto Russia after World War one, seeing them as their saviors as they were liberated by them. In fact, the Communist party of Czechoslovakia had a solid following from the people from the 1920's, when the nation was a democratic state.
    - - After World war, Bulgaria becomes a communist state due to the Soviet expansion of Stalin's party. It was dominated by Todar Zhivok, a communist party leader for 35 years.
    - - In Romania, Soviet occupation following World War II lead to the rise of a communist political party, ultimately leading to the forced abdication of the Romanian King and the establishment of a single party republic in 1947. .
  - - - The Cubans were getting less and less satisfied with the corrupt and useless 'democracy' that they had. The reality was more of an oligarchy, and the people wanted change. Revolutionaries such as Che Guevara, Field Castro and Raul Castro wanted change and were inspired by the socialist revolutions in Europe and were inspired to have their own. They proved to be a very useful ally as they were geographically right underneath the Americans.
    - - After the French left Indochina during the insurgency there in the late 1940's, there was a power vacuum. This eventually split the country, between the capitalist South, which was more western and Francophile, and the socialist north, led by Ho Chi Minh, which was much more nationalist and advocated for the people.
    - - After the Japanese left Korea in 1945, there was a power vacuum. Two general sides broke out, the Russophile Korea in the north and the Americophile Korea in the south.
      - The North Korean political doctrine was based more off a Nipponphile cult of personality, essentially the cult of honour and personality around the Emperor in Japan, combined with the communist teachings of the Russians and Chinese.
    - - Communist China originally arose out of the confusion after the abdication of Puyi, the last emperor of China, and the warlord states that sprung up afterwards. During the Japanese invasion they formed an uneasy alliance with the Kuomintang and attempt to repel the invaders, but after the surrender of Japan they went back to war and were supported by the USSR. They eventually won the war under the leadership of Mao, and drove the Nationalists to Taiwan. However after this there was a significant Sino-Soviet split and the two were no longer close allies.