How are the soviet and the us goals similar

U.S.-Soviet Alliance, 1941–1945. 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.

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Americans wanted to bring democracy and economic opportunity to the conquered nations of Europe and Asisa. The soviet Union wanted to rebuild in ways that would protect its onw interests. They wanted to establish satelline nations to do this.

The answer would be a.