After WWII, peace was restored throughout Europe, however a growing rift between Stalin, Truman and Churchill already threatened it. ... This second front was important for Stalin, as it would help to take the pressure off the Russians on the Eastern Front. ... When America had created nuclear weapons, it was destined to win the war with Japan as well as to create leverage with Stalin. Truman hoped that Stalin's discovery of the American nuclear capability might stop Stalin from extending his communist expansion throughout Europe and influence Stalin to agree to America's plans. ... ...

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On July 18, 1941, Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin requested that the allies create a second front by invading German-occupied France. ... This operation would also help to reduce Stalins suspiciousness of the West by showing that they were not content to leave the actual fighting to the Soviets. ... This infuriated Stalin. ... It was Stalins belief that a united Slavic people would prevent such an event from ever recurring.9 Though American-Soviet relationships seemed to be on a downturn for the worst following Stalins unilateral recognition of the Lublin Committee, the Yalta conference...

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President Truman was told of the success of the project during a conference with the leaders of Great Britain (Winston Churchill) and the Soviet Union (Stalin) in Potsdam, in occupied Germany. After learning of the project's success, President Truman told Stalin that the United States now possessed a super weapon capable of "awesome destructiveness" (Davidson 554). ... During meetings with Stalin, it was noted by Winston Churchill that Truman "told the Russians just where they got on and off and generally bossed the whole meeting" (Davidson 554). ...

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August sixth, 1945 a devastating day for some and a victorious day for others. August 6th was the day the United States government chose to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and in one flash the world was introduced to the new atomic age. The United States and the Soviet Union were in an arms...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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Without the support of his sea power and air power, his land forces cannot do anything except hold out in isolated beleaguered spots all over the map until bombs, bullets, disease, or starvation killed them off- The Russians, under Stalin, gave notice that it would not renew its existing Neutral Pact with Japan and would enter the war on the Allied side. ...

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