how could have the cold war been avoided?

Question

basically what the question asks.

Answer 1

I differ from the earlier answers.

At no point towards the end of WW2 did the allies have the strength to go against the soviet union militarily.

To avoid the cold war, two very improbable things would be needed. A better relationship with Soviet Russia post-WW1 and, in particular, not sending troops to support the White Russians...

And preventing WW2! After the invasion of Soviet terrritory virtually to Moscow, Stalin was looking for buffer states under his influence, if not control, to prevent that ever happening again.
(Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968)
That was never going to be acceptable to America.

How to avoid WW2? Another issue, involving
the Versailles treaty, American isolationism, the League of Nations, and the political and economic treatment of the Weimar republic.
Again, it could have happened, but not with a high hypothetical probability.

Answer 2

By diplomacy on both sides of the Cold War. The Eisenhower Doctrine helped keep the Mid-East quiet until 1967.

Answer 3

The whole world could have rolled over and offered orifices to the only doctrine in modern times that wanted to control the world,

Answer 4

Yep, George Patton. Truman should have listened to him and put Patton in charge of the Allied forces.

Answer 5

General Patton should have been allowed to go against the Russians.

Answer 6

instead of destroying the German army America should have united with it and destroyed the Soviet Union and ended communism right then and there.