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Cold War Origins

 


             ground in case Russia turned on them. Even before the war was over Russia had .
             believed that the US did not open a second front on Germany because they wanted .
             Russia to have further casualties against Germany. The United States got extremely mad .
             when the Soviets decided to blockade Berlin. This had it's benefits for the Soviet Union .
             however. It created a way for Stalin to keep all his power. If the German people decided .
             to go anarchy than Stalin would have lost his army, the economy would have plumated .
             and he would have lost his dissintegrating power. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact .
             was misleading for Americans. The French and the British went to Moscow to try and .
             make a deal with Stalin not to go into negotiations with Hitler but Stalin saw this as an .
             opportunity for the Allied countries to get Russia in a war with German. This was not the .
             case but Stalin signed the agreement with Hitler not to go into war with each other. Hitler .
             could not attack Russia unless he felt threatened by a Soviet attack through Poland. The .
             communists wanted to end capitalism all together in order to have communism reign. The .
             soviet Union wanted to bring down all the capitalism and they wanted to have a .
             communist dictatorship over the world. Capitalism was the root in which the American .
             economy thrived. The American people were not up for that so the Soviet Union was .
             ignored. They were not recognized as a diplomatic country until 1933 because of .
             their "rudeness" and their request for the communist world. Stalin and his Russian armies .
             were scared of the atomic bomb and they asked the United States to share the .
             technology. The U.S. did not want to put an atomic bomb plan into the hands of a man .
             that would backstab them and kill the American people if he had the means. At the .
             Potsdam conference Stalin asked for reparations from Germany which Truman was not .
             willing to grant. The last thing that Truman wanted was a repeat of the Treaty of Versailles.


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