1. Aim: What happened during World War II to create so much tension?
Causes of the Cold War
Aim: What happened during World War II to create so much tension?

2. Economic and governmental differences
Leaders believed that the styles of government (Dictatorship vs. Democracy) and economics (Communism vs. Capitalism) could not coexist.

3. Growing Mistrust

5. Growing Mistrust
Stalin wanted Roosevelt and Churchill to open a western front in 1942.
D-Day was launched on June 6, 1944
Millions of Soviets died in the meantime.

6. Growing Mistrust Over the fate of Eastern Europe
Soviets wanted a buffer to prevent a future invasion.
The West wanted to contain communism.