How did the cold war ideology that crystallized after WWII changed wartime alliances that existed during war?
During the war, the United States was alligned with the Soviet Union (Russia) against Germany and Japan. It was also allies with China against Japan. Despite being allies, the United States and the Soviet Union did not trust one another. This distrust was present during the war, as well. Information that the United States shared with Great Britain was not always shared with Russia. These feelings enhanced when the iron curtain separated East Germany from West Germany, with the Soviet Union ruling East Germany and the U.S. and Western Europe rebuilding West Germany. Even with the defeat of Japan, there are many resources that state that the atomic bomb was dropped so that Russia could not have influence on post-war Japan. (If the war had lasted longer, Russia was going to invade Japan.) When the Chinese Revolution took place, the United States felt that it had “lost China” to Communism, and this deeply concerned the U.S. From here, it vowed to prevent the spread of Communism in the worl
