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These grievances ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity that never developed into open warfare (thus the term “cold war”). The Soviets resented Americans’ refusal to give them a leading role in the international community, as well as America’s delayed entry into World War II, in which millions of Russians died. However, U.S./Soviet relations were never truly friendly: Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical rule.

During World War II, the United States and the Soviets fought together as allies against Nazi Germany. 'customers' are labelled 'Turkey', 'Hungary', 'Bulgaria', 'Austria'.The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension marked by competition and confrontation between communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western democracies including the United States. Magazine Punch shows Truman and Stalin as March by the suspicious suicide of the popular minister Jan Masaryk.Ĭongress was scared, and voted for Marshall Aid on Scoring the basket labelled 'European recovery'.Īt first, the American Congress did not want to give the money forġ948, the Communists took power in Czechoslovakia, followed on 10 This cartoon was drawn c.1947 by Edwin Marcus,Ĭaricaturist for the New York Times. Instance, one of its rules was that all inventions had to be shared. To control the Iron Curtain economies for the benefit of Russia - for Union of the Communist countries in eastern Europe. This allowed Stalin control of the Communists in Europe. The Soviet Union hated Marshall aid (see Source D).įorbade Communist countries to ask for money.ġ947, he set up Cominform. Malenkov, a Soviet politician, speaking in 1947 about the Marshall Plan. Imitating Hitler, the new aggressors are using blackmail. It has hatched new war plans against the Soviet Union.

The ruling gang of American imperialists has taken the path of open expansion, of enslaving weakened capitalist countries.