I would make the argument that nothing in history is inevitable, but to really understand US/Soviet relation we must extend our gaze back to before the Second World War, right to the moment of revolution.

David Fogelsong's America's Secret War Against Bolshevism is a great read to begin to engage with the nexus of America's relationship Communism and the Soviet Union. It begins by quoting Woodrow Wilson, who said in 1919: "Did you know that the world is now all one single whisper gallery?" The quote is apt for Fogelsong's purpose. US interest in international order was not the invention of the postwar period, but rather grew conterminously with the consolidation of the Soviet state. Thus, the Bolshevik revolution, as Wilson would say, through "steamships, sliently under the cover of the Postal Service, through the tongue of the wireless and the tongue of the telegraph" whispered the suggestion of "disorder" for American political and economic interests.

So, following the October Revolution, the U.S government extended its existing trade embargo over Germany to also cover Russia. Heck, the US had even sent troops into Russia to protect its interests in 1918, as this famous photo depicts. Now, the U.S did not "invade" Russia in 1918, however through publicly supporting the White Army and not recognizing the legitimacy of the USSR in the 1920s, the battle lines had already been drawn, long before the outbreak of the Second World War.