officials’ bellicose rhetoric, arms buildup and strident approach to international relations. Meanwhile, the USSR came to resent what they perceived as U.S.

Soviet expansionism into Eastern Europe fueled many Americans’ fears of a Russian plan to control the world. These grievances ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity that never developed into open warfare (thus the term “cold war”). The Soviets resented Americans’ refusal to give them a leading role in the international community, as well as America’s delayed entry into World War II, in which millions of Russians died. However, U.S./Soviet relations were never truly friendly: Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical rule.

During World War II, the United States and the Soviets fought together as allies against Nazi Germany.

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension marked by competition and confrontation between communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western democracies including the United States.

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