The Ideological Fractures of the Cold War

Most people would date the start of the Cold War to the period after World War II. For many, it was described as a marriage of convenience. It wasn't that Britain, France, the Soviet Union and America were joined by any great love for one another. The idea of a marriage of convenient really underpinned a lot of what went on. And as the Germans began to lose and as the war began to go in the Allies' favour, those cracks began to appear more and more.