USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After World War II, the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its satellite states began a decades-long struggle for supremacy known as the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-2: -In World War II, the three great Allied powers-Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union-formed a Grand Alliance that was the key to victory. But the alliance partners did not share common political aims, and did not always agree on how the war should be fought.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cold War Leaders Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev and U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy are forever linked by the Cuban Missile Crisis, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek by the Chinese Civil War, and U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev by the roles they played in bringing the Cold War to an end.

Detailed explanation-4: -After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were the world’s strongest nations. They were called superpowers. They had different ideas about economics and government. They fought a war of ideas called the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-5: -On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town of Potsdam to discuss the fate of Germany.