Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the Cold War. As World War II transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased. However, Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor created an alliance between the United States and the USSR. Western Allied leaders did not forget the initial nonaggression pact made between Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler in 1939. Tensions between the United States and its unlikely ally in the Soviet Union persisted throughout World War II. Top image courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, 198923.
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