The+Cold+War+begins

[|the cold war begins]

__​THE COLD WAR BEGINS..!!__

The leader of italys communist party,palmiro togliati,was one of communisms brighter stars.his was the largest communist party in western europe many members he was cooperating with staling, and his party was a member in good standing in the cuminform.

At the end of World War II, the Soviet army was in parts of Germany and Austria, in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and in Poland. At the Yalta conference in February, 1945, Joseph Stalin, representing the Soviet Union, had promised "free and unfettered" elections in Poland and in the other East European countries that it occupied. Stalin feared, with good reason, that free elections in Poland would bring to power Poles who were critical of him and the Soviet Union. Stalin had been involved in the murder of Poles, including the Katyn massacre. Also, Stalin and his colleagues were mindful of Poland's history of hostility to the Bolshevik Revolution, including Poland's invasion of Soviet territory in the early 1920s, and mindful of Poland having been a corridor for invasions eastward. If Stalin saw it necessary for the sake of security to have a regime in Poland that was friendly to him and his policies it was a calculation that would prove to not work well. A democratic Poland would have been hostile to the Stalin, but it is hard to imagine Poland launching another war against the Soviet Union or contributing to another invasion of the Soviet Union. Stalin's heavy hand in Poland was foremost in turning the United States from what had been its friendship with the Soviet Union. Just before his death in early April, President Roosevelt had been disappointed with and angered by Stalin. Stalin was giving the new administration in Washington, led by President Harry S. Truman, grounds for expressing hostility toward him. Truman and some others in Washington had in the1930s been hostile to the Soviet Union. Stalin, by his policy in Poland and his broken promises, contributed to the creation of the Cold War -- with its enhanced insecurities and enhanced possibility of war.

Harry S.Truman

The cold war..