An unnatural alliance that was about to fall apart after the defeat of the common enemy(TM). To what extent does this explain the origin of the cold war?

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‘An unnatural alliance that was about to fall apart after the defeat of the common enemy’. To what extent does this explain the origin of the cold war?

As WWII had ended in 1945, many experts believed that peace would finally come towards them and expected to see no war for a while. However the conflict began again, this time between the two superpowers (USA, Soviet Union). Unlike WWII, the conflict between the two super powers was more like a relation problem rather than actual war conflict over territories. Ironically the two nations met alliance during the battle against Germany and Japan, but as soon as the war had ended, the positive relation got separated. Through the ‘Cold War’ serious conflicts began between the two nations.

As soon as Adolf Hitler declared war on USA in December 11th 1941, this decision automatically made the US army join WWII, making alliances with several European nations. By the time the US had arrived in Europe, pressure was increasing to the German army and slowly they began to lose their territories. USA, Soviets and allies had worked quite well to push the Germans back and in 1944 they were able to invade Normandy (Mostly the victory was deserved to the US). As the US came to Normandy from the sea, the Russians headed to Normandy from land (although quite late), which obviously gave pressure to the Germans.

While War was still going on, ‘Yalta Conference’ took place in Yalta from 4th February 1945 to 11th February 1945 between the leaders of England (Winston Churchill), USA (Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin). The purpose of the conference was to discuss about the aftermath of Germany and other nations, since they predicted that Germany would soon surrender. One of the agreements that the three nations had met was the division of Germany into four territories, each claimed by USA, England, Soviet Union and France. Stalin also agreed that he would send his troops to fight against the Japanese within 90 days after the defeat of Germany. Lots of agreements were made during the conference but some of them didn’t actually come into reality.  

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On May 8th the war finally ended in Europe and Berlin was completely destroyed by the allied forces. From July 17th 1945 to August 2nd 1945, the Potsdam conference was held and the participants were England, USA and the Soviet Union. The leaders were all the same as in the Yalta Conference, just that Winston Churchill was soon succeeded by Clement Atlee on 27th July 1945 and USA had President Truman as their new leader, since president Roosevelt had died in April. The purpose of the conference was to discuss about the destroyed Germany and also some other countries like Poland. Unlike Yalta, the ...

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