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Causes of the Cold War, Blame? - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Truman not informing Stalin on the use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
      - With nuclear weapons the US could dictate the terms of diplomatic debate. However the USSR already knew about the bomb through espionage and were rapidly catching up
    - - Lend-Lease Agreement with the USSR was curtailed, in hopes that Stalin would become more co-operative in carrying out the Yalta Agreement. However Stalin only had the impression of a double agenda in the US, that they were trying to extract political concessions through crude economic pressure.
- - - - Links to the idea that the Soviet Union best exists as an expansionist force, by giving victories to convince its people of the legitimacy of the ideology
  - - - Hostility by the US against the USSR was inevitable after WW2
        
        Refused to recognize the USSR's existence until 1933
        
        Convinced that the USSR was trying to promote worldwide communist revolutions
        
        Only recognized USSR dipllomatically in 1933 amidst harsh economic circumstances and external threats
        
        Economic crisis of the Great Depression left the US without trading partners - It was despearate and used the USSR for this purpose
        
        US couldn't deal with Japan alone. It needed the aid of the USSR
        
        1918 - US troops intervened in Russia to prevent a Communist regime (unsuccessful)