1. Yalta Potsdam
Beginning with the Yalta Convention in 1945, and continuing with the Potsdam Conference later that year, the United States and the United Soviet Socialist Republic became disillusioned with each other over the division of Europe. ... Therefore, the United States sought free flow of capital and the "open door" economy. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. ... Stalin understood that the United States wanted to cripple the Soviet Union by weakening its economy. In February...
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