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I think you are getting it back the front.

After World War Two there were two major world powers - the USA and the Soviet Union. Both had been very distrustful of each other before the war, but were allies during the war due to a common enemy. In the post war era both sides went back to their mutual mistrust.

Since the war had changed the balance of power in the world, both sides feared the other side, thinking they would try to expand their influence and possibly overthrow them.

This led to the cold war.

So the presence of two superpowers led to the cold war, not the cold war leading to two superpowers.... in fact the cold war finally led to the collapse of one of the superpowers (USSR)

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tensions after WW2, since US had the bomb and they didn't, disagreements on how to run divided areas like Germany, USSR secrecy like unknown troop nos adding to fear

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