The end of WWII should have heralded in a new age of relatively stable peace. The Axis powers had been defeated and Nazi Germany was no more. Instead, the U.S. and the USSR plunged the world into the Cold War. Unlike any previous war, it was one of the longest confrontations in U.S. history. It spanned five decades and across continents, involving millions in the battle between capitalism and communism. There isn’t a simple answer as to how the Cold War came to be. However, there is a trail of decisions and differences in political/economical views that can attempt to explain. The Cold War began due to the highly conflicting ideologies of communism and capitalism, the uneasy alliance of the U.S., the U.K., and the USSR during WWII, and the
