The+Cold+War

As World War II came to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union started to look at the postwar world. The seeds of the Cold War started in World War II and even before. The Yalta Conference and similar conferences between the Allies during the war laid the ground work for the tensions between the two superpowers. It did not take long for the two sides to test one another. President Truman and his advisor George Kennan developed a policy of containment to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding communism to new areas of the world.