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Early US-Soviet Relations
Long telegram (1946)
Long telegram was a top-secret memo sent by George Kennan(US) to USSR
Truman believed Soviet Union was a threat to capitalism
USSR had to be destroyed
Peace between the USA and the USSR was impossible
Soviets were building up their naval, military and nuclear power
Salami tactics
salami tactics' are used fix elections for soviets
Soviet Union had agreed to hold democratic and fair elections at the wartime conferences, they broke their promise between 1945 and 1950
In 1950, the Soviets had satellite states in East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland
Soviet candidates would imprison or kill the winning candidates and take control
Soviet satellite states(impact)
soviet Union had been invaded twice by Germany (in 1914 and 1941)
Stalin viewed the satellite states as a necessary buffer against invasion
Britain and the USA saw this as expansionism
allies had agreed at Yalta that Poland would be run under a democratic model
Stalin broke this promise, turning it into a satellite state
The Polish communists, Gomułka and Bierut, led a movement driven by the Soviets
atomic bomb (1949)
USA had a atomic bomb by 1945.
It dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on the 6th of August 1945
USSR had a bomb in 1949
removed US technological edge
arms race increased the suspicion
Novikov’s telegram (1946)
He wrote a telegram to Josef Stalin saying that the USA aimed to be the greatest power in the world
Only the USSR could stop complete US control