The_Cold_War

The Cold War THE COLD WAR The Cold War between the superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union was a clash of distant ideologies in a changing world. Friction developed between the two on many occasions as either side tried to expand their spheres of influence in politics, geographical surroundings, and even space. Continued clashes between the US and Soviet Union began to tense their relations during this era as it became evident to all that the cord of discontent could snap at any given moment. Western countries wanted the liberated states of Eastern Europe to be ruled with a democratic government and a capitalist economy. Joseph Stalin felt entitled to rule the Eastern European countries it occupied in World War II. Stalin wanted these countries to be used as a buffer to protect USSR boarders. Communist governments in these Eastern European countries would be under the control of the USSR, thereby protecting it. The Russian army, ready to attack Berlin, was halted to that the Yalta Conference between the “Big Three” (Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt) could determine the war’s end. The purpose of the Yalta Conference was to re-establish soviet, nuclear, west, each, united, states, war, union, germany, berlin, missiles, country, countries, space, both, wanted, russian, first, east, cuba, cold, world, between, before, wall, ussr, russia, race, president, one, either, began, zones, weapons