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At the Yalta Conference of 1945 the Western Allies had given Stalin the right to keep the countries that Russia had liberated from the Germans within his 'sphere of influence'.
Stalin's wish was only partly dictated by ideological motives such as 'the spread of World Communism'. Mostly it was dictated by Russian fear. Russia had sufferered innumerably larger losses than all the other Allies put together in WW 2. It did not even want to consider a renewal of the war in the form of a concerted action to "defeat" Communism: both Britain, France and the USA had actively fought the rise of Communism only two decades ago on Russian soil and several of the eastern liberated countries had been actively fighting Russia alongside Nazi Germany.
The Allies had conceded eastern Europe to the Soviets because at the time they were in dire need of Russia's armies to finish the job and do most of the battlefield dying for them. After 1945 they started sorely regretting their generosity, but not unnaturally Stalin held on to what he had been given. It did however quickly sour relationships, which were worsened further when Stalin (unsuccesfully) tried to force the Allies to give up their toehold of West Berlin in his newly Communist eastern Europe.
The clincher was Russia's development of an atomic bomb of their own, a thing which the US strongly supected could only have been done through espionnage within the USA on a massive scale. It was this last development which led to an unprecedented arms race in building litterally thousands of atomic missiles on both sides.
So finally it was the combination of traditional anti-Communist feelings in the West, resentment against Russia for holding on to the conquests they had been allowed in Yalta, and the subsequent arms race that led to the Cold War that was to end only in 1990.
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How did the US win the Cold War?
The soviet union government collapsed
What of the following describes a major factor in the conflict that the US had with the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
The United States opposed the Soviet Union's communist system.
Who where the American adversaries during the cold war?
Soviet Union and Red China.
Why was the soviet union afraid of the us during the cold war?
They were afraid of the spread of communism.
What is America's current status in the cold war?
The Cold War has been over for a long time.... The Cold War began as World War II was ending. American leaders saw the power and ambitions of the Soviet Union as a threat to our national security. The Cold War was a war of words and ideologies rather than a shooting war, although at times the Cold War turned “hot” as in Korea and Vietnam. Basically, the Cold War was a rivalry between the United States as leader of the western democracies, and the Soviet Union and the nations that were controlled by the communists. The Cold War continued through the decades of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Today there is talk of a return to "the Cold War" because of Russia's invasion in Georgia, but most in "the know" doubt if that will happen.
The cold war was the cooling of relations between the soviet union and western what?
The Cold War was between the Soviet Union and Western democracies.
What was the rivarly for world leadership between the US and soviet union called?
The Cold War.
What was the conflict for world supremacy between the US and the Soviet Union called?
cold war
What did the cold war result from?
The Cold War resulted from lack of trust between the U.S and The Soviet Union.
What was the rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union?
They simby (kerglish) did not like each other
The cold war was between the US and?
the Soviet Union
What was the term for the conflict between the US and Soviet Union after World War II?
The Cold War.
What was the conflict between the US and the soviet union during the four decades after world was 2?
The Cold War.
What was the conflict between US and the Soviet Union?
Cold War
What conflict between the US and the Soviet Union?
Cold War
What was the name of the century conflict between the US and the Soviet union?
The Cold War had no direct involvement between the united states and the Soviet Union that's why it's called the cold war
What was the decades long conflict between the US and the Soviet Union referred to?
cold war
