What were the major causes of the Cold War?

Question: What were the major causes of the Cold War!?
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Interesting perspectives posted thus far!.

The Yalta conference laid the foundation for the "cold war!."

Stalin drew a vail over the territories he controlled and, no one being allowed to see in, those in the west grew suspicious!. Add to this, Stalin's going back on his word about allowing free access to western Berlin via the highway was cause for great concern!.

There were many milestones!.

Eisenhower's spy flights over Russia

Kennedy's basing Nuclear missiles in Turkey

Castro's Russian missiles based in Cuba

Numerous proxy wars in Central, South America, Africa and Asia!.

Coupes and assassinations galore!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

1) Occupation of eastern Europe by another totalitarian govt ie Soviet Union!.
2) Allowing the Soviets to dominate Germany and surround Berlin!.
3) Huge Soviet military presence in the "liberated" territories of eastern Europe!.
4) Economic abuse by the Soviets of the "liberated" areas!.
5) The mass murder and human rights violations by the Soviets which exceeded the crimes by the Nazies!.
6) The desire to dominate all of Europe by the Soviets and the fear that they might succeed!.
7) Patton's statement that we (the western allies) had been fighting the wrong people all along (the Germans) and his demand to rearm the German troops and get them to helo fight the Russians and "kick their a**** back into Russia where they belonged"!.
8) The most important reason was who would dominate Europe after the war and therefore (at that time) the world!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

From 1945 to 1948 the Soviet Union strengthened its hold on Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany!. But the Cold War was marked by other effects of the policies of the two superpowers—possession of nuclear weapons; the attempt to establish spheres of interest and alliances with other nations; the division of Europe into two military alliances, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact; attempts to start or prevent revolution in smaller nations; and several less-than-total confrontations between the superpowers such as the Berlin Blockade of 1948–49 and the Cuban missile crisis of 1962!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Short answer: the two biggest kids on the block usually don't like each other!.Www@QuestionHome@Com