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Soviet: a) Refusal to hold free elections in Poland

b) Red Army's occupation of Eastern Europe

c) Occupation of Iran

United States: a) Truman Doctrine's Anti-Communism

b) Intervention in Greece and Turkey

c) They misunderstood and underestimated Soviet fears of invasion

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The only reason for a cold war was due to nuclear weapons. If nukes had not been invented, the US and USSR would have fought each other in the conventional way, world war two all over again; called WW3 this time.

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MONEY! The US thrives on capitalism. The Soviets tried to live on socialism. MONEY WON.

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Their endless lust for power. Stalin mostly was the one who wanted it. Ruthless expansion of the Soviet Union by Stalin.

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