The Cold War was caused by a chain reaction of events that caused the tension between the US and USSR to grow eventually leading to the Cold War.
The Red Scare: The Red Scare was a moment of fear in the US shortly after WW1 the people were afraid that communism would spread to the US. This fear lead to the US trying to stop the spread of communism so it would not spread to the US. Some ways they tried to stop the spread of communism was to help countries so they would not fall to communism.
The Yalta Conference: The Yalta conference was a meeting consisting of the US, UK, and USSR. They wanted to make Germany surrender and divide it into 4 sections to be govern by 4 different countries this was known as the occupational zones.
Occupational Zones: These were zones that divided Germany into 4 sections to be govern by 4 different countries which were the US, Great Britain, France and the USSR. Germany was completely destroyed after the events of WW2 and the 4 countries were there to get it back on track. Their main goal was to help bring democracy to Germany and once it had a stable government they would leave. However the USSR did not agree to these plans and wanted to control Germany and enforce a communist government onto them. They did this by denying the votes which had to all be agreed on by the 4 countries to go through with it. While other section were recovering the section of the USSR became worse because of how they governed them. This will cause tension between the US and USSR over how one wanted a democracy and the other a communism.
The Red Scare: The Red Scare was a moment of fear in the US shortly after WW1 the people were afraid that communism would spread to the US. This fear lead to the US trying to stop the spread of communism so it would not spread to the US. Some ways they tried to stop the spread of communism was to help countries so they would not fall to communism.
The Yalta Conference: The Yalta conference was a meeting consisting of the US, UK, and USSR. They wanted to make Germany surrender and divide it into 4 sections to be govern by 4 different countries this was known as the occupational zones.
Occupational Zones: These were zones that divided Germany into 4 sections to be govern by 4 different countries which were the US, Great Britain, France and the USSR. Germany was completely destroyed after the events of WW2 and the 4 countries were there to get it back on track. Their main goal was to help bring democracy to Germany and once it had a stable government they would leave. However the USSR did not agree to these plans and wanted to control Germany and enforce a communist government onto them. They did this by denying the votes which had to all be agreed on by the 4 countries to go through with it. While other section were recovering the section of the USSR became worse because of how they governed them. This will cause tension between the US and USSR over how one wanted a democracy and the other a communism.