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The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union began gradually. For two years, the nations tried to adjust their differences over the division of Europe, postwar economic aid, and the atomic bomb through discussion and negotiation. Harry Truman liked Stalin when they first met at Potsdam in 1945, but within a short time, relations between Truman and Stalin and between the United States and the Soviet Union turned bitter.
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