how did ww2 cause cold war?

Answer 1

~WWII did not cause the cold war. Conflicting ideologies between the US and NATO allies on one side and the USSR and Warsaw Pact allies on the other did, particularly given the stated policy of the Soviets to expand their influence and the US and British history of engaging in like activity. The opposing nations in the cold war, most notably the US and USSR, were allies in WWII, and but for the war materials provided to the Soviets by the US and the millions of Soviet troops who died using that equipment (10,700,000 USSR killed in action vs 407,000 US), the war may well have been lost. Even so, the opposing ideologies made the democracies and communists reluctant allies, at best, and the cold war would have occurred with or without WWII, especially after the advent of nuclear weapons.

Answer 2

After the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, the world became very nervous.
It was when the Russians sent Sputnik into space that the tensions really spun out of control. Armed with the technology to launch rockets, nukes could be sent virtually anywhere on the planet. The U.S. was panicked. Russia could potentially attack the States from without leaving the country! The race began to create more powerful and longer range weapons. When the U.S. began launching rockets, the Russians were nervous. It was a standoff of the superpowers, the cold war had begun. Fear that the other would strike first kept tension very high. America dedicated tremendous resources in an attempt to stop communism throughout the world. Fearing increased numbers of "commies" would increase the chance of nuclear war.

Answer 3

The Cold War was the result of the tension between the USSR and her former allies in the west. Even before the war the western powers had been distrustful of Soviet Russia. But during the war with Germany they had been a necessary ally. Once the war was over and the Allied powers started to discuss the aftermath it quickly became clear that the Soviets had no intention of giving up what they had conquered. This led the western powers to take steps to protect themselves for a potential aggressor.

As a result the world spent many years holding it's breath and praying that nobody would take that one step too far. Since both sides possessed massive nuclear arsenals, nobody was quite willing to take that step.

Answer 4

The only rational way to answer this positively is to say that the strength the U.S. gained in the world and the defeat of Russia's traditional enemies gave the leaders of the Soviet the opportunity and fear to pursue their goals which the U.S. blocked. It was a cold war because the nuclear weapons which WWII accelerated the development of in Germany and the U.S. created such terrible tools that it was a war of development of weapons rather than of aggression and using them.

Answer 5

with the invention of nuclear weapons, which is what the cold war was about