This began after the success of their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. A neutral faction arose with the Non-Aligned Movemen.
Causes of the Cold War in 1945
American fear of communist attack
* Truman’s dislike of Stalin
* USSR’s fear of the American's atomic bomb
* USSR’s dislike of capitalism
* USSR’s actions in the Soviet zone of Germany
* America’s refusal to share nuclear
secrets
* USSR’s expansion west into Eastern Europe + broken
election promises
* USSR’s fear of American attack
* USSR’s need for a secure western
border
* USSR’s aim of spreading world
communism
This feeling of suspicion lead to
mutual distrust and this did a great deal to deepen the Cold War
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Causes of the Cold War in 1945
American fear of communist attack
* Truman’s dislike of Stalin
* USSR’s fear of the American's atomic bomb
* USSR’s dislike of capitalism
* USSR’s actions in the Soviet zone of Germany
* America’s refusal to share nuclear
secrets
* USSR’s expansion west into Eastern Europe + broken
election promises
* USSR’s fear of American attack
* USSR’s need for a secure western
border
* USSR’s aim of spreading world
communism
This feeling of suspicion lead to
mutual distrust and this did a great deal to deepen the Cold War
148
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