The Soviets were Accustomed to Roosevelt's friendly, patient style, Molotov was shaken. "I have never been talked to like that in my life," he reportedly said to Truman.
When FDR met with Stalin he was a sick man and Stalin took advantage of this at Yalta. Truman was not going to mess around. He wanted to be strong and show he was in charge. The Russians wanted control and we're heading into a stance that would lead to the "Cold War".
FDR was sick when they met with him so got concessions that had he been well probably wouldn’t have happened. Truman was not sick and viewed the Soviet policy of expansion of communism as one needing containment.
President Roosevelt related decrypted Soviet information on the Verona intercepts to Vice-President Truman when he took office.
Roosevelt died in May of 1945. The Truman Administration negotiated the cold war agreements with the USSR.
Harry Truman could have chosen to go to war with the Soviet Union. He could have chosen to ignore Soviet expansion.
Truman's response to the Soviet Atomic Threat was to forge ahead with a new weapon to maintain America's nuclear superiority.
The foreign policy of the Truman administration manifested by the policy of his name was rooted in containing Soviet aggression and expansion. Flashpoints of the Truman Doctrine were in attempts of Soviet subversion of Turkey and Greece after the War.
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The West German government advised Truman the Soviet Union was not a normal government and would not be treated as such.
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the Soviet Union and China.
Atlee, Truman and Stalin...were the main leaders at the Potsdam conference although Churchill did sit through some meetings.
Ideas from the Soviet Union.
ordering a massive airlift