Tension began to mount

The cold originally started because the former allies crashed under the foll0wing three circumstances economically, militarily, politically. During the start of the cold war Truman was president. He held a big confrence called " The potsdam confrence" in 1945. The confrence was held with the group called " The Big Three". Tension began to mount spreading democracy and Stalin was demanding for territory. Leading Soviets to tighten up the grip on the eastern front. They needed more communist so the "Satellite Nations" were created and they took over their nations. Which also became a battle capitalism vs. communism. When the policy of containment was created for the United States the Soviets became a major threat to us. Truman is the one that created the new foreign policy called " Containment".