Why did the Cold War begin?

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Why did the Cold War begin?
- The Conferences
  - Teheran 1943
    - USA and Britain open up a second front by invading Nazi occupied europe.
    - Soviets fight Japan
    - Churchill, Stalin & Roosevelt
  - Yalta 1945
    - When Germany defeated it would be made smaller, pay reparations etc.
      - Stalin agreed to let Eastern Europe have free elections
    - Countries would be democratic
    - United Nations set up
    - Churchill, Stalin & Roosevelt
    - Tensions over future of Poland
      - Stalin wanted it to join the soviet 'Sphere of influence' so it could be a buffer zone.
      - Churchill wanted it to keep being an influence as felt responsible.
    - Tension over who was democratic leaders.
  - Potsdam 1945
    - Council of foreign ministers was set up to rebuild Europe
    - Nazi Party banned and people prosecuted
    - Germany divided into 4 zones. Berlin also.
    - Atlee, Stalin and Truman
    - Lots of tension
      - new leaders. Truman openly anti-communism. Atlee now Priminister.
      - Truman didn't tell Stalin he was dropping Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
        Stalin believed as a way to scare soviets.
        
        led to arms race
        
        broke the trust. biggest events to impact the start of the CW
The Grand Alliance was created in 1941 to defeat Nazi Germany. Britain, USA, Soviets. Shared common enemy.

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