Summary:
Reasons for the post-World War II Cold War included disagreements between the West and the Soviet Union at the Yalta Conference, deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations following the defeat of the Nazis, vastly different government and economic philosophies, and Stalin's Communist goal of world domination.
The Cold War could not have been avoided. The arrival of the Cold War after World War II had always been imminent. There were already disagreements between the West and the Soviet Union at the Yalta Conference. There are also many factors that contributed to the Cold War and most of them were unavoidable.
The first factor is that during World War Two, the USA and the western powers had worked together with the Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany and its allies. However, the alliance was based solely on the fact that they had a common enemy- Germany. Once that enemy was near defeat, disagreements began to emerge. The West and the Soviet Union were never really 'friends'. Towards the end of the war, relations between the West and the Soviet Union deteriorated so drastically that.....
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