Who Started The Cold War
The United States of America is responsible for starting the Cold War with the Russians. The Cold War broke out shortly after the Allied powers defeated the Axis powers in World War II. The Cold War was an arms race between the Russians and the Americans that lasted until the 1980’s. The United States and Russia, two very different nations, united to bring down a common enemy. That enemy was Nazi Germany or the Axis powers. However, the US did not uphold their end of the agreement until D-Day in 1944. Up until D-Day, there was only one offensive against the Germans, and that was the Russian front. To the Russians, it seemed that the Americans were simply pushing the danger towards Russia. Russia was left devastated after World War II because so much of it was fought there. Russian resentment of US resulted from the lack of American support in World War II. Furthermore, in August of 1945, the US dropped not one but two atomic bombs on Japan, which effectively ended World War II. First of all, Russia had never heard of a bomb with that type of payload, and it would not create its own atomic bomb until September 1949. This alone was enough to cause a great scare in the Russ
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