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Compare And Contrast Truman And Stalin

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Despite the common goal during World War II of defeating the Germans, shortly before the end of the war and continuing afterwards, the Allies’ differences of opinion began to emerge. At the Yalta Conference in the U.S.S.R., Josef Stalin, President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the leaders of three Allied Nations met to plan on how to deal with the post war aftermath. Poland, which the Germans had invaded earlier on, had been liberated by the U.S.S.R. as they were on their way to Germany. Stalin had encouraged the Poles to set up a Communist government due to the fact that he wanted to spread the idea of Communism and have a government that would allow Russia to use the land as a barrier against Germany, who had frequently …show more content…

and the U.S.S.R became more strained. Truman and Stalin talked at the Potsdam Conference about the matter of war reparations. Stalin had already taken much of Germany’s industrial equipment to compensate for the reparations, which Stalin still felt were needed immediately. Like Roosevelt, Truman disagreed with Stalin’s tactic, and he believed that they should wait to take reparations until the economy and industry had recovered. Despite this disagreement, Truman allowed Stalin to take industrial items from the three non-Soviet zones. Stalin only accepted this deal because it was the only way he would be able to get more reparations from Germany. This leader of the U.S.S.R. began using his army to influence and control Eastern European countries having them create Communist governments. These countries were called the satellite nations because they were ‘pulled in’ by the ‘gravity’ of the Soviet as the satellite in space is to the Earth. Other Allied nations saw this as a violation of a previous agreement which allowed countries to choose their form of government, and therefore were not pleased with this. Winston Churchill described the separation of Eastern and Western Europe as if an iron curtain had fallen between the two halves. The Allies’ different ideas as how to handle the end of the war caused great stress among them, which, in turn, lead to the Cold War, an era of dislike and competition

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The Cold War was an icy rivalry that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II. This rivalry first developed because the two conflicting nations had different ideas of successful economies. The United States believed that capitalism, in which private owners control trade and industry was more efficient than Communism, in which the state or government control trade and industry. In addition, many of the events that occurred at The Yalta Conference played a significant role in the cause of this era of competition that lasted from 1947 to 1991. At Yalta, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed that Poland’s government would include members of the pre-war Polish government and that free elections would be held

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The Yalta Conference dealt with four problems. The first one was the status of Poland. Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that Poland should be able to choose its own government. The Polish leader who left Warsaw when Germany invaded demanded that pre-war anti-Russia and anti-communist government was seen as the real Polish government. Stain, who had set up his own little government before Yalta had no intention of giving the power back to the Polish leaders who had left Warsaw.

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This meant that Stalin was unaware of any type of atomic weapon research. The conversation was kept breif and genial, which was also good since they wouldn’t have to answer any questions and go into depth about. The US-Soviet relations could still be ruined though since Truman never told him the full truth about what type of weapon they had. A disadvantage of Truman’s approach was the Soviets

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Instantly following the end of the Second World War, the fears of the American people rapidly began accumulating as the mistrust between, the United States and the Soviet Union intensified. During World War II, tension between the two world powers began to emerge through ideological differences such as political beliefs and contrasting views regarding the future of Poland that took place at both the Yalta conference and Potsdam. This lasting skepticism only increased as the Soviets started to become more advanced through nuclear weapons and developments in space technology. Despite Eisenhower’s acknowledgment of these widespread fears, he was not particularly successful in addressing them. The American people lived in constant fear of the spread

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Tensions were very high between the Soviet Union and America at the end of WWII, and would only continue to escalate. America and the USSR rarely agreed and during WWII they were only able to work together because of the common enemy of Germany. At this point in time the USSR was communist and expanding their hold on land around them. At the Yalta conference in 1945, America and Great Britain agreed to give the Soviet Union control over Poland and Ukraine, and in return the Soviets agreed to use free elections in those countries. The Soviets went back on their word and ruled with communism.

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Truman and the A-bomb The drop of the Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the following Japanese surrender on September 2nd was the way Truman and the United States ended the bloodiest war ever fought in history. Nowadays there is a lot of speculating on whether or not the president chose the best option by using doing so. Although there is still a strong moral controversy about the bombing, this writer’s opinion is that Truman made, after all, the best thing among his other options. Just saying that dropping the A-bomb was the right thing to do is not enough without the proper explanation.

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