What were the events leading to the Cold War?

I was thinking about this earlier, and remembered that the Soviet Union was our ally during World War II, but the Cold War began in 1945 (with the end of World War II). What were the events leading up to the Cold War?

What were the events leading to the Cold War?paramount theater

The Cold War did not actually begin in 1945; at the end of the Second World War, there actually was great hope for mutual cooperation among the victorious Allied powers, the United Nations had held its inaugural session in San Francisco, and the world was united in the seeming resolve to reconstruct and move past the horrors of the just-completed war.

There was the notion that in the liberated countries of eastern Europe, there would be fair, democratic elections held to ensure governments of the type desired by the people, and to frustrate any rise of totalitarianism such as had helped to foster an environment of the type that had brought on the war. There were some minor issues to be addressed by the powers, but all in all, there was every indication of mutual goodwill on every side.

The fact of the matter was, however, that the Soviet Union, having suffered grievously in the war, and mindful of the fact that this was the second time in the century that she had suffered so(World War I was the first), wished to look to its own security. This was understandable, and the Soviets were very conscious of their weakness in regards to the West, particularly America. America had just demonstrated its military might in the war, including its superior technology, as evidenced in the atomic bomb, a weapon that the Soviets did not have at the time. There also was the resurgent memory of Western hostility to the Soviet regime, from the time after the First World War, when the Allies sent expeditionary forces to Russia, and supported the Whites in their struggle to overthrow the Communist Reds.

All of these things taken into consideration, the Soviets wished to have a barrier of friendly buffer states between themselves and the West, and so it sponsored the over-turning of the democratic governments of eastern Europe, and the installation of sympathetic Communist regimes. The Soviets could do this, as they militarily were in occupation of eastern Europe, and the western Allies were too exhausted from the war, and looking to their own reconstruction, to become too greatly involved.

By the end of 1947, then, there was a great change in climate between East and West, In Churchill's words, an "iron curtain" had descended on Europe, dividing it, and those nations that lived behind it were seen as Soviet satellites. The change in relations fostered by this promoted mutual distrust among the former allies. The Soviets were seen as wishing to dominate Europe, and eventually, the world, by the West, and by the same token, the West, particularly America, was seen as wishing to continue the old Imperialism of the prewar years, as evidenced in the colonial powers, supported by the United States, returning to their colonies and attempting to continue as before.

In this situation, each side grew more paranoid, and the Soviet success in gaining an atomic bomb of their own helped to foster the feeling that each side was preparing for the next war, and each side wanted to have the most going for it in the event of such. Thus, jockeying for power and influence around the globe became the hallmark of international diplomacy for the two superpowers, and the rest of the world could only watch in dismay, join one coalition or the other, or try precariously to steer an independent course.

The situation more or less remained in this frame until the reforms of Gorbachev in the 80's, although the policy of "detente" in the 70's had tried to address the possibility of peaceful co-existence of the two sides.

What were the events leading to the Cold War?theatre opera theater

We never liked them; we simply had a common enemy. It was mostly due to them being a communist country.
it was very cold %26amp; people got really upset
The Soviet Union was on the German side until the Germans violated their own pact with Stalin and invaded Russia. The Soviet Union was a dictatorship and a communist country, whereas the US and UK were democracies and capitalist. Even before the war ended analysts were predicting problems between the two victors of the war. The Soviet Union wanted to control Eastern Europe and other parts of the world and saw the West as their enemy. Russia has always looked askance at the West--and Putin does today, even as I write.