In WW2 the United States and the Soviet Union were allies. So what caused all this tension and rivalry between them in the first place? That eventually led to the Cold War. There were three main reasons that I believe were the stepping stones to this, difference in government, distrust and anger. At the time Russia was a Communist country meaning that no one owns land, or their own property, and instead of like the US where some people are more wealthy than others, everyone is at the same level. While in comparison the US (who has a capitalist government) is quite the opposite. Document A expresses what George Kennan, a foreign military officer for the US government, thought about their differences in government and how they took part in the …show more content…
Not only did they disagree on the type of government each other had, but they also tried to spread theirs and contain the other, this as you’d expect caused conflict. In a speech Winston Churchhill gave at a college in Missouri he states “The Communist parties which were very small and all these eastern states of Europe have been raised to pre-eminence and power far beyond their numbers are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian”( Document B). At the end of WW2 Germany was forced to give up the countries that they had imperialized. The US is angry because those were the countries that they helped free from the control they were under, and now the Soviets are forcefully turning them into communism. Hilter betrayed the Soviet Union, by breaking a secret treaty and invading them. The Soviets join the Allies. The allies, especially Great Britain and the US, don't trust them, so when they make the first atomic bombs to use in Germany they don’t tell the