HARRY TRUMAN-USA:All nations under threat from communism can seek our help.
TENSION BETWEEN THE TWO GREAT POWERS-The Yalta and Potsdam conferences towards the end of the World War 2 showed the increasing tension between USA and USSR
HARRY TRUMAN-USA:we have developed nuclear weapons under our Manhattan project. We will soon use them against the enemy.
Soon there was a race to create nuclear weapons between the 2 great powers.
JOSEPH STALIN-USSR:cannot trust the USA. I have to develop a stockpile of nuclear weapons myself.
JOSEPH STALIN-USSR:We have to spread communist ideology far and wide.
IDEALOGICAL CONFLICT (CAPITALISM VS COMMUNISM)The USSR was a communist nation based on principles of socialism and collectivism. But the USA was a modern liberal nation based on principles of individualism.
This ideological conflict continued the Cold War. The USSR tried to promote communism to countries around it and the US worked to contain it.
HARRY TRUMAN-USA:we have developed nuclear weapons under our Manhattan project. We will soon use them against the enemy.
JOSEPH STALIN-USSR:cannot trust the USA. I have to develop a stockpile of nuclear weapons myself.