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The question makes it appear as if the Cold War was already in progress when the US became involved (as it had done in the two world wars), but it did not happen exactly like that. The US and USSR emerged from World War 2 as the two most powerful nations on the winning side, but with diametrically opposed governments and ideologies. In World War 2, Democracy and Communism had combined to defeat Fascism. The Cold War was a predictable struggle for supremacy between the victors, with the US leading Democracy, and the USSR as the leader for Communism. They were unable to fight each other directly without having another world war, so they found other ways (espionage, surveillance, Propaganda, arms escalation, local wars), and that is what made it the Cold War, in contrast to a hot war (aka real war or shooting war).

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