Many people think the cold war all leads back to the post war conferences of World War II after the death Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi superiority group of the late 1930’s to the first half of the 1940’s. “The Big Three” which were the three most powerful leaders of the world met with each other after World War II to discuss agreements and decisions that had to be made for the super power …showed first 75 words of 1713 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1713 total…power countries. Some may say the Cold war just happened and there was no way to stop it but others may think it could have been prevented without making the Soviet Union the United States archival. Bibliography 1. Burns, James MacGregor. The Crosswinds of Freedom, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 2. Nisbet, Robert. The Freeman. Chicago: Formen’s Publishing Company, 1991. 3. Cayton, Andrew; Perry, Elizabeth Israels; Winkler, Allan M. America: Pathways to the Present. Needham, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 1995.