The United States and the Soviet Union were allies during WWII. What led to the immediate rise in tensions between the two Nations after the fall of Nazi Germany? What were the causes of the friction? How did these tensions lead to what is termed “The Cold War”?
Conceptions of the Cold War
As your Reading and Discussions point out, one of the biggest issues that citizens and politicians confronted during the 1960s was the Cold War, which might be defined as the geopolitical tensions, and proxy wars fought between the United States and the Soviet Union. Indeed, for anyone who grew up