... Soviets into a four-power consortium that the United States would dominate" (Cumings 1983:4). But American foreign policy suffered a major setback in April 1945 when President Theodore Roosevelt died and President Harry S. Truman was forced to re-evaluate the future of the corporative relationship with Russia (Cumings 1983:68). The verbal agreements that Roosevelt and Stalin had come to were vague, and ... ...

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... the Soviets succeeded in creating their own atomic bomb. The U.S. feared the spread of communism and also the idea that the Soviets would use their atomic weapons on the U.S. President Harry Truman and his advisors decided to drop the bombs for two main reasons. First they were dropped to make Japan surrender quickly instead of having a long, bloody war with them ... ...

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