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Most of the countries on the other side were allied in the Warsaw Pact :
U.S.S.R. and Satellite States(Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary Bulgaria)

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The countries on one side were allied in NATO( North Atlantic Treaty Organization ):
Americans, North Atlantic Forces(NAF: Canada, UK, Portugal, Iceland), Western Front Forces(WFF: West Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway), France, Italy, and Eastern Front Forces(EFF:Greece and Turkey)

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What countries was the Cold war between?

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What countries was the Cold war between?

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3.  Resentment about History

The Soviet Union could not forget that in 1918 Britain and the USA had tried to destroy the Russian Revolution.

Britain and the USA could not forget that Stalin had signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Germany in 1939.

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2. Aims

Stalin wanted huge reparations from Germany, and a ‘buffer’ of friendly states to protect the USSR from being invaded again.

Britain and the USA wanted to protect democracy, and help Germany to recover.   They were worried that large areas of eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control.

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What were the Main  causes of the Cold War?

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What were the Main  causes of the Cold War?

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1.  What they believed ('Ideologies')

The Soviet Union was a Communist country, which was ruled by a dictator and put the needs of the state ahead of personal human rights.

The USA was a capitalist democracy which valued freedom and feared Communism.

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The Cold War was called "Cold" because the two superpowers never officially declared war on each other, they fought indirectly in proxy wars.  It didn't turn "hot"

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The Cold War was a long period of tension between the democracies of the Western World and the communist countries of Eastern Europe. The west was led by the United States and Eastern Europe was led by the Soviet Union. These two countries became known as superpowers. Although the two superpowers never officially declared war on each other, they fought indirectly in proxy wars, the arms race, and the space race.