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...political struggle that developed after World War II between the United States and its Western European allies, on one hand, and the USSR and Communist countries, on another. The cold war initially centered on the use of USSR military forces to install Communist governments in Eastern Europe. These Soviet actions ran against the U.S. government's insistence upon the right of self-determination for the peoples of Eastern Europe and raised fears that the USSR, after gaining control of Eastern Europe, would try to communize Western Europe. From what I learned, the USSR had suffered enormous losses in the war against Nazi Germany and looked upon Eastern Europe as a trench against another invasion from the West. The Soviet leaders considered U.S. objections to Soviet actions in Poland, Hungary, and Romania a betrayal of wartime understandings about spheres of influence in Europe. Thus they placed Eastern Europe behind a military and political barrier known in the West as the "iron curtain" (LaFeber, 1985). Much of the cold war was built upon suspicions and fears between the United States and the Soviet Union;: the two "superpowers." Soviet leaders believed that capitalism would...