The Cold War is a term used to describe the period of non-violent conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies, between the mid-1940s and lasted until the early 1990s. ... Roosevelt by Harry S. ... In may of 1942, United States President Franklin Roosevelt promised the Soviet Unions Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, that he would attempt to have a second front established in Europe by the end of 1942. ... Communication was made all but impossible, as 36,000 postal, telegraph and telephone offices were demolished. The Soviet power industry was ...

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But he wanted to avoid war at all costs, and in 1939 he signed the Nazi- Soviet Pact, which pledged that the two dictatorships would not attack one another, and granted Stalin permission to take over the Baltic States and eastern Poland, and prosecute a war in Finland. ... It was the end of any trace of "normal" family life for Stalin, and witnesses saw tears in his eyes at her funeral--the only report that we have of the great dictator crying. ... So began the "Great Terror," the aptly named period when Stalin effectively liquidated all traces of opposition to his rule. Large-scale purges s...

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