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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In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) was created, under the communist control of the ruthless, Joseph Stalin. ... These included a United Nations (UN) Organisation to keep world peace, although Stalin had not taken part in these discussions. ... The Hiroshima bomb severely angered and worried Stalin as America was now successfully able to call itself the strongest superpower in the world. ... "Stalin had become a popular figure in Europe and in the United States. ... Stalin may have intended to use this bloc as an enormous "buffer" zone for defence. ...

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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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