14) What two events lead to the end of the Cold War?
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2 EVENTS? Oh it was very cold so thats what started the cold war people hated the cold I know I do :OO
I found this because it summarizes it nicely: "The actual events that triggered the Cold War were, at the Yalta Conference Stalin promised the allies that the USSR would respect the rights of the people in liberated countries to elect their own post war governments. Then, at the end of the war, the Soviets broke that promise and forcefully installed Communist puppet governments in the East European countries they occupied. At the Potsdam Conference at the end of the European conflict Truman met Stalin, and decided he could not trust him. He was afraid that as soon as the United States packed up their Army and went home after the war the USSR would roll its tanks to the English Channel and install puppet governments in Western Europe they way they had in Eastern Europe. The USSR and the US/UK coalition also disagreed on how to occupy and administer the defeated Germany. Truman decided to leave the US Army deployed in Central Europe and not bring it home. This blocked the route the Red Army would have to take to invade Western Europe and set off the opening acts of the Cold War."
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