why did America and Russia become enemies after WWII?

Answer 1

Both were empire building and trying to gain control of a Europe devastated by the war.

Answer 2

The US and Russia were never very friendly after the communist revolution in 1917. The American government saw it as a threat to our form of government and with good reason.

During the great depression of the 1930's, communism in the US was increasingly popular, fueled by what people saw as a failure of capitalism. During WWII, The US and Russia became allies only because they recognized that Fascism was a threat to both.

After WWII, the traditional powers in Europe were all devastated by the war, so the US and Russia stepped into that power vacuum. With Fascism defeated, the two allies no longer had a common purpose and began to see each other as rivals for control of the world.

Answer 3

The U.S. has always had an underlying fear of the Soviets (think Red Scare) and, in turn, the Soviets are not too fond of the U.S. The U.S. and Russia became enemies after WWII because of an escalating want to be on top. Neither wanted to be second best to the other. Each was afraid that the other would attack it. Both countries had atomic power and both were striving to stockpile it as well as to further their research in weapons. In short, they were rivals in all things.

Answer 4

We were no treally friendly with them before WWII. Winston Churchhil had a quote after Germany attacked Russia and Russia declared war on Germany. "Any enemy of the nazi's is an allie of ours" or something to that effect. I beilive germany and russia actually had a treaty before germany invaded russia agreeing to how eastern europe would be divided up should germany win the war. We simply were fighting a common enemy. And to be honest we were not really supporting russia at all. It was like two seperate wars going on. germany vs. usa/britain. and germany vs. russia. The fact that we left the actual capture of berlin to russia became a part of it too, because they were dealing from a position of power after the war. Having all ready occupied all of eastern europe. Plus once the nazi's were defeated it went back to democracy vs. comunists

Answer 5

the real point is : We were never really on friendly terms.

The soviets had issues with the Allies after attempts to destroy the Revolution in WW1 - we launch expeditionary forces into Siberia and across the Manchurian border. So we weren't on the best of terms as is.

Additionally there was a race to capture berlin - we lost - and THATS were the overt tensions became military build up.

After that you know how the story goes.... So yeh - hope this helps...

Answer 6

They weren't really happy with us from our invasion in 1918/1919 (if you didn't know we had troops in Russia then, you're not alone), and we were never friendly with the Soviets, only allies of convenience against Germany. We couldn't get them to restart hostilities against the Japanese until it was obvious they were on their last legs, and they thought our putzing around in the Mediterranean cost them too much. Oddly, this last was a British idea, as Marshall had wanted an early invasion of France just as Stalin did.

Answer 7

that was one of the greatest shows on Earth
they were publically enemies and in the movies

but the leaders were /are genetically related to the American Leaders and the European Royalty.

behind the scenes they were colaborators
the USA president had a direct line to the Russian one and they were coniving together all the time

the public Agro was for business reasons,the motives financial,and the backing was Mason

Answer 8

Paranoia created by intelligence agency's that America had something the Reds under the Beds wanted.
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Answer 9

The very short answer is ideology. The long answer takes up billions and billions of words.

Answer 10

Communism (them) vs. Democray (us). There was a lot about invading eastern europe and setting up a bunch of puppet communist regimes too.