Cold War Inevitable

I think that the Cold War was inevitable. When there are two countries that are so powerful competing on the world stage to become the next Super Power, things could get pretty ugly. Another thing that certainly contributed to the inevitableness of the Cold War is how conflicting the political philosophies were (Representative Democracy v. Communism), and, therefore, a fear of the opponant on both sides of the conflict. Tensions were extremely high. The fact that both countries were nuclear armed (at that time, among the very few nuclear armed nations) didn't help at all. There was a constant fear that, because there was not at that time a definitive World Super Power (and there were two nuclear armed, powerful nations vying for that title),