During the second world war, the US and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the axis power but the relationship between these two nation was a tense one. After World war II, there was overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity between the two nation's. As a result, there was Soviet expansionism into Eastern Europe to nation's such as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Poland. This made many Americans to fear that there was a Russian plan of controlling the world. The end of World war II was the beginning of this 45 year-long international crisis. America's defeat of Japan in 1945 marked the beginning of this turbulent era, which only ended upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Conflict between the two super powers was fought like a game of chess with smaller third world countries being used as pawns by the careful chess masters. Allies become enemies which leads to Yalta Conference, creation of the United Nations, differing US and Soviet Goals. Also the Soviet rise in power as Soviets build a buffer, an iron curtain divides East Germany as Communist while the west Germany as democratic. United States tries to contain Soviets-containment where US plan to stop the spread of communism, the Truman doctrine, Marshall plan and the Berlin Airlift. In conclusion, the major cause of the Cold war was the differing ideologies between the US and Soviet Union as USA encourages capitalist, while Soviet Union lives for communism.
Outcomes of the second world war that helped to the emergence of Cold war
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