... Soviets, the West now possessed the atomic bomb wanted to pursue a quest for all the raw materials and markets that they could get. Stalin said that the Soviet control of Eastern Europe would balance for America's overwhelming economic and military superiority. Everything started at Poland. The Allies ... wanted freedom restored to the country. The Soviets didn't. Roosevelt and Churchill insisted Stalin permit free elections in Poland, and he retorted, "The Prime Minister has said that for Great Britain the question of Poland is a question ... is not only a question of honor, but of secu...

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... was brewing, fueled by ambitions on both sides for world domination and the opposing ideals of communism and capitalism. On one side, Stalin sought to spread his influence in Eastern Europe by setting up pro-Russian governments in these states while America, feared for their power ... which nation- Russia or America- was to blame for the outbreak of this war that lasted for nearly five decades. It can be argued that Stalin's political incursions into Eastern Europe caused unnecessary conflict between Russia and the West. By 1948, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Alban...

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... pressure upon the Soviets and push them from Iran. Another problem during 1946 was the intrusion of the eastern Mediterranean. America saw the threat when Stalin decided to send 25 Soviet divisions into Turkey. SO America decided to flex her arms and really show how powerful the U.S. is by showing off ... event that brought up the most amount of hostility between America and Russia was the Berlin Blockade. Stalin was upset that the allies did not leave Berlin at the end of World War II. Stalin believed that the allies would not fight for the land that was Germanys capitol during the war ...

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... using the bomb was just under the circumstances. Though this is the case, the fact that the U.S. possessed such technology was a threat to Stalin. After the bomb was used, Stalin insisted on the U.S. giving him the formula, but we declined. Dr. Leo Szilard, who was a physicist who helped persuade President Roosevelt to launch the atomic bomb project, had a change of ... ...

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... did not spread to the extent he thought it would.(Museum of Communism) In fact, once communism was associated with individuals such as Stalin and Mussolini, the party started its spiral downward in America. When the purging of Joseph Stalin in Russia hit the news in America, and the fascist action of Mussolini, many citizens of the United States who had turned ... ...

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... . Great leaders led the Allied powers. On the political front, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman served as presidents for America during the war; Winston Churchill led Great Britain; and Stalin led the USSR. Roosevelt served three full terms as President but died during his fourth term in office near the ending years of the war. His four terms were the ... important decisions regarding D-Day and dropping the bombs. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England, inspired his people with great courage and a vow to never give up fighting for his land. Stalin, at first, was allied...

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... and which again meant each eastern European country that was near to the Soviet border had to have a loyal communist government in power with leaders who would do what "Stalin" wished. Elections were never going to be fair. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania all ended up with communist governments and had leaders who looked to Moscow for advice as ... ...

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... it and the U.N. did nothing. Saddam Hussein, one of the most ruthless government rulers in the world today governs Iraq. Hussein has been compared to the likes of Hitler and Stalin, and much like the cold war; the war against terrorism has been described as a "long twilight struggle". It's a never-ending fight in the dark that we can only give false ... ...

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... whether Europe went to war or not. "Gold was flowing in from Europe's capitals. Orders were mounting daily for equipment and supplies of all kinds. America was building a battleship for Stalin, aero-engines for France." (Overy 277) For most of the 1930's the United States traded as openly with Germany and Japan, as it did with any other country. Japan relied ... ...

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... like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within." Quoting Josef Stalin, this statement conveys the threat that America faced during the 1950s. Commonly referred to as the "red scare", American citizens feared the destruction of capitalism. In 1956, the cult film ... ...

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