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LaFeber America Russia and the Cold War Cover
America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945 - 2002: Updated, 9/e
Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
Open Doors, Iron Curtains (1941-1945)

Primary Source Documents

Roosevelt-Churchill Talks at the Atlantic Conference, August 11-14, 1941; The Atlantic Charter, August 1941.

The British Loan What It Means to Us

British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden records his talks with Stalin

Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill discuss the problem of Poland

The Declaration of Liberated Europe at Yalta Conference

Secretary of War Henry Stimson Memorandum to President Truman on postwar Germany

Discussion of Poland and Germany by Truman Churchill and Stalin

President Harry S. Truman Restatement of Foreign Policy of the United States

Secretary of War Henry Stimson Memorandum to President Truman on the control of atomic bombs



1

How did American policy makers envision the ideal postwar world? How did that ideal shape their decisions and interactions with the Soviet Union?
2

What were Soviet priorities and concerns at the close of World War II? Why did their goals and policies bring them into conflict with the United States?
3

How did the three powers differ in their views of how to treat Germany after the war? What concerns underlay those differences?
4

Why was Poland a matter of dispute during the negotiations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. and Great Britain both during and after the war?
5

How do you think relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union might have changed course if President Truman had heeded the advice of his Secretary of State, Henry Stimson?








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