President Woodrow Wilson's Involvement In The United States During The Cold War

Subsequent to World War I, after the clash of ethics, Communist and Capitalist, the Cold War began. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson attended the European Peace Conference. Wilson’s Peace Settlement excluded Bolshevik Russia, enraging the Russian Empire. During the Russian revolution, both the United States and Britain sent troops to support the White, or Capitalist Army. In Russia the people were so devastatingly poor from this revolution that they resorted to cannibalism. Only a few years later, the United States faced a less dramatic but similar financial crisis.

In 1929, Wall Street crashed. In only weeks, through the richest nation on earth, millions of people faced extreme poverty. During the Great Depression, unemployment in America

Considering the fact that Stalin needed to be on the winning side of World War II, he had Hitler fly his foreign minister Ribbentrop to Moscow. The Nazi-Soviet pact was signed. This enraged the Americans, up to this point, the Soviets and the Americans were allies. Soon however, the Americans would need to forgive Stalin because of their need of support in their battles.

On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy bombed Pearl Harbor, killing and wounding 65 servicemen. One day later, on December 8th 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a declaration of war on the Empire of Japan, launching the United States headfirst into World War II. Since Hitler was rapidly advancing through eastern Europe, he needed to be stopped. The only country that had the power to stop him was the Soviet

It was decided that Stalin would decide upon Europe except for Poland which would be left a free nation with elections for a government, this was decided loosely because the United States was so caught up in their battles with Japan.

On April 12th, 1945, aged by war and polio, Franklin Delano Roosevelt died. This death left the United States with worry, the new President was Harry Truman, a Missouri farmer that was only Roosevelt’s running mate to obtain votes in the midwest. Many Americans wondered how this man who had never even spoken to a Russian before let alone one of the most powerful dictators of all time would bring the war to an end.

During the Potsdam meeting, Truman revealed the most terrifying secret yet, he had the atomic bomb. However, thanks to Soviet espionage, Stalin already knew. As World War II was wrapping to an end, the United States threatened Japan with their nuclear weapon of unimaginable strength, however the Japanese refused to surrender. So, on August 6th, 1945 a uranium fission bomb code named, “Little Boy” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, destroying it. After this attack, the United States asked Japan for unconditional surrender, they refused. Three days later on August 9th, 1945, a plutonium implosion-type fission bomb code named, “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki. In total 200,000 Japanese