By the end of the Potsdam Conference any hopes of a post-war alliance between the allies had disappeared. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

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By the end of the Potsdam Conference any hopes of a post-war alliance between the allies had disappeared. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Many historians believe that after the Potsdam conference any hopes of a post-war alliance between the allies had disappeared, but some disagree with this and say that it is not right in saying that there was no hope because they may still have been some hope. I personally agree with the statement but only to a certain extent, because it wasn't said to have disappeared, and maybe with time they could have sorted out their differences and formed a strong alliance.

By the end of the Second World War the allies of the time America, Britain and France had started to disagree with Russia, but they tried to comprise because they all had one common enemy which was Germany. There was tension between the allies and Russian this was due to the fact that Stalin, the leader of Russia, wanted the allies to invade Europe, however the allies where unwilling to invade Nazi-occupied Europe and Stalin found this hard to accept.