Cold War Tension

The relationship between America and the Soviet Union was filled with tension even during the World War; the tension intensified over the following decade. Major influences of the tension included The Yalta Conference and The Korean War. These events not only strained their relationship even more with each other, but turning them into enemies in what was known as the Cold War. A main reason for the two powers tension was their different visions. Before the Yalta Conference, the Tehran Conference in 1943 may have seemed finish but left a very important future issue unsolved. Whether or not the Soviet Union would take Poland and make it into a pro-communist nation was still up in the air. In February 1945, the Yalta Conference like the Tehran …show more content…
Stalin did nothing to appease these requests, he just alluded to an unspecified future date and a vague agreement. There was also an unresolved issue about Germany. Stalin and Roosevelt had differing views on whether to dismember them as a nation and make them a reparations, or reconstruct and reunite them. This was resolved similarly to the polish issue with vague and structurally. Great Britain, France, US, and the Soviet Union took a zone of the occupied Germany. Though Berlin, the capital, was in the Soviet’s zone the four divided it. Germany would be reunited, but that date wasn’t specified. Also reparations would be paid in future commission. Addressing the rest of Europe, the conference made generalized statements of their governments having broad democratic elements, as well as being responsible for the people’s will. The entire Yalta Conference made little to no resolutions to the postwar issues, but Roosevelt Stalin, and Churchill felt satisfied with what they perceived as progress. This however lasted only so long, because of how differently Stalin and Roosevelt viewed their agreements. Roosevelt was worried when he saw Stalin