How did the Yalta Conference start the cold war?
I suggest you read the full source entries for the proper historical perspective. These excerpts should give you an idea how to proceed. Good luck! Antagonism between East and West: The antagonism between the Soviet Union and the West that led to Churchill’s speech had various origins…The United Kingdom, France, Japan, Canada, the United States and many other countries had backed the White Russians against the Bolsheviks during the 1918–1920 Russian Civil War, and the fact hadn’t been forgotten by the Soviets. In the build up to World War II and in the face of the Western appeasement of Hitler the Soviets signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany, one of the intentions being to divide the border states between them to form a buffer zone. Following the war Stalin was determined to acquire a similar buffer against Germany with pro-Soviet states on its border, leading to strained relations at the Yalta Conference (February 1945) and the subsequent Potsdam Conference (August 1
