The New Deal helped some Americans through the Great Depression, but it wasn’t until the U.S entered WWII against Japan and Germany that the economy finally escaped the the Great Depression. After Germany and Japan were defeated, the U.S.A and U.S.S.R (Russia) were the most powerful countries in the world (known as superpowers). The United States and the U.S.S.R fought allies through two worlds wars against Germany , but by the end of the Second War (1945) their relationships was falling apart. Conflicts arose in friendships. If one would argue that the origins of the Cold War should be traced to World War II and the breakdown of the wartime alliance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. This all started by one act of betrayal. For example in Document C where Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov states that “ The foreign policy of the United States ,which reflects the imperialist tendencies of American monopolistic capital, is characterized in the postwar period by striving for world supremacy.” The belief that freedom and democracy would die under the communist rule caused the United States to start a problem or feud that would last for a long time. The decisions made by the United States in W.W.II caused tensions to start between the U. S. and the Soviet Union.
Communism spread though the nation. Therefore, the United
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For example in Document B when Truman states “One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion.” This quotation means to me that the treaties of the post war world further separated the two superpowers of the world for the decades to follow. The wars through other countries also strengthened Cold War