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[[File:Joseph_Stalin,_Franklin_D_Roosevelt_and_Winston_Churchill_on_the_veranda_of_the_Soviet_Legation_in_Teheran,_during_the_first_'Big_Three'_Conference,_November_1943._A20710.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Teheran, Nov. 2943]]__NOTOC__
Although relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had been strained in the years before World War II, the U.S.-Soviet alliance of 1941–1945 was marked by a great degree of cooperation and was essential to securing the defeat of Nazi Germany. Without the remarkable efforts of the [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080271594X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=080271594X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=72cb5ceeffbcbbb89999241eeeea1cff Soviet Union on the Eastern Front], the United States and Great Britain would have been hard-pressed to score a decisive military victory over Germany.
====In 1939, the US and USSR were Enemies not Allies====