How did the Cold War start

How did the Cold War start

1. Grand Alliance was weak from the start

2. USSR = strong communistic beliefs = West feared a communist world revolution

3. USA = Strong Capitalistic beliefs = USSR feared this

4. After second world war Germany was no longer a threat to these two = because of their opposing ideologies they were no longer together fighting common enemy but eachother

5. West distrusted USSR Because after WW2 USSR annexed Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania and Eastern Poland

   • USSR established Soviet Dominated government in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany, Czechoslovakia

6. Why did USSR distrust the west?

   • They had the policy of containment = contain/ suppress/ stop the spread of communism