In Europe, Russia. They took Berlin, not Americans or British. In the Pacific, the U.S. finished the war. By some standards this "ended World War 2" because Japan surrendered after Germany.
==Another opinion== Germany did NOT surrender.
US had the bomb. The USSR distrusted the US starting from the end of the Bolsevik revolution.
See: COLD WAR
The USSR by invading country's and not leaving them after the war.
No, the US did not end the war with help from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, along with Britain and other Allied Europeans, ended the war with some help from the US. World War II was not America's war, it was Europe's. The US only entered after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
the cold war ended because of the destruction of the ussr there for there was no opposition left
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There are several factors that lead to the end of the Cold War. These include the weakness of USSR's economy, 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, rivalry between the US & USSR and lastly, US's containment Policy.
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Russia with it bomb building program. The US people feared communism like it was an anthrax plague or ricen. The Cold War started at the end of World War 2. An arms race between the US and USSR ensued. It took 50 years for this war to end and communism in Europe to end.