1. Analysis of the Causes of the Cold War
... -occupied France. Both Great Britain and the United States agreed that such a move would be advisable for a multitude of reasons. First, it would remove some of the burden from the Red Army, which until then had done the vast majority of fighting against the German forces. Secondly, it would allow the Western powers to directly influence events on the European mainland ... a changed man.26 However, Trumans actions had the opposite effect of what he had hoped. Stalin saw the powerful Red Army as the only viable counter to the atomic bomb. If the Americans dropped the bomb on the Soviet Un...
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