Question by i187 BadKids: What were the reasons the US and the Soviet Union ceased being friends and became enemies during the Cold War?
Here is the official essay question, The United States and the Soviet Union were allies during World War 2. What were the reasons they ceased being friends and became enemies during the Cold War? I was sent home from school yesterday for pink eye and wont be able to return till tomorrow which is test day, my teacher always goes over them but I wasnt there to review it with him please help!
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Answer by A M Frantz
There were several reasons, but the principal one was the Soviet Union’s action to take political control of the nations it had occupied in Eastern Europe in violation of the Yalta agreements.
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Think tank Timmy says
Russia fought and won wwII. USA entered toward the end when Nazis did a bitzkrieg in London. Russia penetrated and shut down 90% of the concentration camps. The US just pushed Germany out of France on the ground. Russia and China had planned to march into Japan with traditional warfare. US Sneak attacks and drops psycho einstein recipes on Japan out of an airplane, then occupies it before Russia can get there. This began the capitalist cowboys and psycho killers competition against government, they called the "cold war".
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
Ed Smurf says
They were never friends. They had a need for the help of the other.
Will says
They both mistrusted each other. One country believed freedom was the way to go and the other believed Communism was the best. Their suspicion of each other went so far as to building up chemical and nuclear weapons and almost causing an end to the human race.
Anthony B says
I can't really answer you in a school type fashion but I can give you the basics. The U.S. and Soviet Union were never really friends. They became allies during WW11 to defeat a common foe Germany, but that was an allegiance based on need rather than desire. Since the Bolshevik Revolution and rule under Stalin, and communism there was no common ground between the 2. So even during the course of the war and being allies there was a tenseness between the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union. After the war things got worse with the advent of the nuclear age, and the ensuing arms race. But some of the bigger falling outs that happened were because the way the big three divided Germany up after the war, the West and East Germany sectors, in doing so they also divided Berlin the capitol city into east and west. But Berlin was well into the east sector of Germany, so Stalin tried to force the west to give up all of Berlin by surrounding it and blockading all the roads into it. The people of west Berlin began to starve, but the U.S. came up with a plan of airlifting everything they needed in by plane. This was the biggest airlift ever and they flew in food medicine water gasoline you name it. Eventually through negotiations Stalin allowed for a corridor through east Germany for a roadway to be built as neutral zone, this was the start of the Autobahn. But then after that Russia under East German pretence, constructed the Berlin Wall which separated the east and west sections, of Berlin, until 1989 I think when it came down at the hands of the people.