Peoples, cities and states have traded since antiquity but in the medieval period, things escalated so that goods travelled ever greater distances by land, river and sea. Great cities arose thanks to commerce and international trade such as Constantinople, Venice and Cairo.
Easier to travel and transport get to places much faster at so little time
Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1944 around the age of 23 he refused to go the governments incarceration camps for Japanese Americans and was arrested and convicted of defying the governments orders.
They were all plants at one point
The cooperation had already degenerated because Stalin had already reneged from his prior commitment to allow for free and fair elections in the eastern Europe region where soviet union had already exerted control. This was in line with Stalin plan of containing the vestiges of capitalism and spreading communism.