Question

When the US was attacked in December, 1941, the Soviet Union and the Allied powers formed an alliance against Germany. While the United States supplied both the British and the Soviet militaries, Stalin remained highly suspicious and believed that the British and the Americans had plotted to make the Soviets armies battle the worst fighting against Nazi Germany. Thus, Soviet opinions of the West left a lot of tension and hostility (anger) between the Allied powers.

The name "Cold War" comes from the English writer George Orwell, after the dropping of the first atomic bombs in 1945. It described a world where the two major powers—each owning nuclear weapons and thus could destroy each other —never met in direct military combat. Instead, in their struggle for global power and influence, they fought psychological warfare (mind games) and in regular indirect confrontations in other regions of the world. Cycles of relative calm would be followed by high tension, which could have led to world war.

1. Why do the Soviets distrust the US and its Allies?




2. Instead of fighting directly with each other, how are the two Superpowers going to fight each other?

Answer 1

Answer:

During their Second World War alliance, Britain and the United States had been closer friends than either was with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had asked the United States and the Allies to start a second front during the War, which they did with D-Day in 1944. Stalin, however, felt that they waited longer than necessary so that the Soviet Union would be weakened by Germany. This planted seeds of distrust