2. Why did the US-Soviet alliance begin to break down in 1945?
The wartime allies met three times during the Second World War to discuss the state of the war and the post-war settlement for Europe and Japan. It was during the last two of these meetings (or summits), particularly the final meeting at Potsdam in July 1945 that the US-Soviet alliance began to break down. How did the 1945 summit conferences lead to the breakdown of the US-Soviet alliance? When Nazi Germany launched...