Stalin and Communismchanges drastically and the time where Truman begins his diplomatic journey with theforces in the Soviet Union, one that will engulf him for the rest of his tenure in office. This also must be noted as being America’s fault. A country’s attitudes cannot visuallyand verbally change so radically so quickly. Roosevelt should have briefed Trumanheavily on dealing with Stalin. America could stay on Stalin’s good side, leaving someremote chance of having a settlement work itself out after the war. An angry Stalin ismuch harder to reason with than a content Stalin, especially taking into consideration thathe was absolutely insane, something you can’t play with carelessly. The next event that shaped the world’s history and marked the official beginningof the Cold War was the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. After talking withRussia and getting their consent on joining the war on Japan, the United States again actswrong and hastily by dropping a device that blew up the city of Hiroshima. Theagreement was with Russia that on August 8th, the Soviet Union would declare war onJapan. Taking this into account, the United States went ahead and dropped the bomb onAugust 6th, two days before. In another bold and careless move, the second bomb wasdropped on Nagasaki. This bomb was dropped before the Japanese even received anultimatum from the United States about an unconditional surrender before they willdestroy another city with one of their new weapons. That aside, the pertinent issue is thatAmerica did not even talk to Russia about their plans to drop the bomb before it wasalready done. So, the Red Army had to use the resources, raw materials, and not tomention the man-power to move their troops over to Japan from Eastern Europe,something that was taking in the ballpark of three months. Once they officially got there,the war is over, and the United States gives them a bold statem...
