The Cause Of The Cold War

In this essay, the author

• Explains that stalin believed that russian security meant that eastern european states should stay under soviet control.
• Explains that the western press believed the conference was successful, but there were still problems and disagreements between the soviets and the anglo-americans.
• Explains that both the u.s. and the soviet union claimed they did not want use hydrogen bombs, leaving the world in doubt on what would happen next.

• Explains that stalin believed that russian security meant that eastern european states should stay under soviet control.
• Explains that the western press believed the conference was successful, but there were still problems and disagreements between the soviets and the anglo-americans.
• Explains that both the u.s. and the soviet union claimed they did not want use hydrogen bombs, leaving the world in doubt on what would happen next.
• Opines that the nuclear arms race was central to the cold war and that america and russia massively increased their abundance of nuclear weapons.
• Explains that both american and soviet experts aimed at using nuclear weapons to bring out concessions from the one another, or from powerful countries like china.
• Analyzes how stalin's pre-cold war actions were the reason for the cold war.
• Explains harbutt, fraser j. yalta 1945: europe and america at the crossroads. rhodes, richard.
• Explains that roosevelt, churchill, and stalin met in the crimean city of yalta to discuss allied war aims. stalin wanted to gain economic aid for his dismantled nation, regain the territory he lost during the russo-japanese war.
• Explains that stalin wanted germany to pay twenty-thousand dollars in war reparations, in which half of the money would go to the soviet union. churchill and roosevelt were not satisfied on the agreement on poland.
• Analyzes how truman and the soviet union entered into an arms race, each side attempting to match or outdo the military strength of the other.
• Compares and argues on two viewpoints debating whether yes, stalin needed the cold war in order to be a good reason for restraint in the u.s.
• Analyzes how the source gives two different opinions on stalin's decisions and actions on whether or not he wanted the cold war to take place.
• Explains that "levine, isaac don" is a primary source; in 1939 levine spoke with the soviet intelligence.
• Analyzes how levine's source provides us with an unfiltered access to the record of stalin’s regimes.
• Describes groueff, stéphane, roberts, geoffrey, stalin's wars: from world war to cold war, 1939-1953.
• Argues that the yalta conference was accountable for the creation of the united nations, saying the soviets should not have acquired veto power.