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Why did tensions increase between the Soviet Union and the United
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How to implement the agreement at Yalta was the purpose of Potsdam and tensions between Russia and the U.S. grew between both nations; Truman was now president of the U.S.and was disturbed by Stalin's movement into eastern European nations before WW II's end.

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Tensions and suspicions between the United States and the Soviet Union grew partly during WWII because of Soviet disregard to Allied goals, and dramatically increased in the post-war world when the spread of communism seemed to be threatening the free world that Franklin D Roosevelt had envisioned.

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