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Causes of the cold war.

Why was there mistrust/ differences between the East and West before 1945?

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Historians have identified several causes that led to the outbreak of the Cold War, including: tensions between the two nations at the end of World War II, the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear weapons, and the fear of communism in the United States. Relations had been bad since 1917 as Russia had become communist and the West had interfered to try and stop it.

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