How did the Cold War actually start?
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After WWII the Soviets annexed Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and all of Belarus and Ukraine.
Poland, East Germany and a bunch of other eastern European countries were satellite states of the Soviet Union.
The Soviets wanted to push west and dominate **all of Europe**.
Britain and France didn’t like that idea. America didn’t like it either, for entirely selfish reasons.
Nobody was in the mood for another conventional war.
US said to the Soviets: invade any more of Europe and we’ll just nuke you.
Then the Soviets developed nuclear weapons and were like nuke us and we’ll nuke you back twice as hard.
Anyway, this stand-off was known as the Cold War.
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