World history/WHME103/WWII aftermath/Cold War origins

Reading

Read the below article, from the Saylor Foundation. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• What fundamental ideological differences between the US and the USSR contributed to the Cold War?

• Who was the stronger power at the end of World War Two?

Saylor Foundation, 'The Origins of the Cold War', February 2013.

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• Truman ...

• In Berlin ...

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