The Cold War

Based on the telegrams and what you learned in the lesson, write one to two paragraphs in which you respond to this question:

Why did the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union begin?

I believe the Cold War between US and Soviet Union began after World war II. Both countries have a mutual distrust of each other primarily due to a couple of reasons. The Soviet Union leader's Stalin at the time had a tyrannical and communism tendencies in ruling Soviet Union and his post war communism expansion efforts in Eastern Europe made the US feared the Soviet Union had intention to control the part of Eastern Europe. It became foreign policy for US to contain Soviet Union communism expansion tendencies. The Cold War resulted to both countries competitiveness on arms race and space race.

Explanation:

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It was the economic struggle between the two superpowers; the US and the USSR. The Americans became powerful and had access to creating atomic bombs and dropping them on the Soviet Union. This caused tension and both sides retaliated.