HIS242H1 Final: 2009 exam question on stalin and the cold war (yalta and postdam conference)
Document Summary
During world war i i, the united states and the soviet union were strong allies that, although ending in favour of their victory over hitler"s nazi regimes, wreaked havoc during the next few years. The wartime allies became enemies in a struggle of differing political ideologies. In order to understand how stalinization caused the cold war, one has to begin by discussing world war i i itself. Two meetings had had specifically sparked the cold war. Both of which rendered a series of misunderstandings between the soviet union and the united states that acknowledged the beginning of the cold war. Upon leaving world i i, the united states shared very different ideologies than that of stalin and the soviet union. For the u. s. , they strictly adhered to the declaration of self- determination of which its principles are most pronounced in woodrow wilson"s fourteen. According to wilson, nations should be granted opportunity to choose their own government.
