Causes of the Cold War
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- Causes of the Cold War
- Different ideologies
- America - Capitalism
- USSR - Communism
- 'Marriage of convenience' over
- no common emeny
- could disagree on things after the end of the war
- Truman
- replaces Roosevelt
- Truman hated the communists and the Soviet Union
- he was also afraid of it
- 'I'm tired of babying the Soviets.'
- 'The Russians only understand on language-strength, force and armies'
- Atomic Bomb
- America didn't tell Russia that they had an atomic bomb even though they were allies
- Russia already knew because they had spies working on the Manhattan Project
- The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan made Stalin upset and angry
- Distrust - suspicious of each other
- America didn't tell Russia that they had an atomic bomb even though they were allies
- Germany
- disagreements
- The Americans wanted a strong Geramny
- trading partner
- avoid the mistakes made after WW1
- Russia wanted a weak Germany
- stop any future invasions from the west
- Different ideologies
- replaces Roosevelt
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