cold war

After WWII, there was an iron curtain dividing eastern and western Europe. And there were also two superpowers left standing, the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States dominated in western Europe while the Soviet Union dominated in eastern Europe. Tensions grew between the two superpowers (once allies) as they both realized the other superpower was a threat. They both did not want the other to dominate the rest of the world. They …

…controlled eastern Europe and didn't have an atomic bomb, but we knew that they would be getting one soon. The cold war became inevitable when the war in Europe ended during WWII. The Soviet Union was very aggressive and wanted to destroy anything that threatened them. They saw the United States as threat, so the united states had to respond to the threat of them expanding. They were once allies, and now they were enemies.