U.S.-Soviet Relations after the Potsdam Conference

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In this article, the writer examines the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. The writer discusses that this rivalry showed itself in terms of the atomic bomb, the Long Telegram, the Iron Curtain, the Marshall Plan, Comintern and the Berlin blockade.

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"Though the United States and the Soviet Union emerged from World War II as putative allies and co-victors in the struggle against Nazi Germany, the reality of the period following World War II is that the United States and the Soviet Union were not allies in any meaningful sense. Whereas the United States positioned itself as supportive of a return to national autonomy in all of Europe, Arnold A. Offner has argued that the Soviets saw a defeated Europe as ... "

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