just been reading an account of how Rooservelt betrayed everyone by thinking he could controll Stalin , any .?

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more comprehensive writings than Alan Clarke`s Barbarosa on this subject?

the very fact that USA brought about the cold war on them selves deserves close study with view to modern events.

Answer 1

Yes it is true that Roosevelt felt that he could "temper' Stalin with certain concessions and he was advised not to by Churchill. Roosevelt was wrong but it wasn't done at Yalta As Peter252350 said because Roosevelt was dead when Yalta was held and Truman was Prez. It was at Tehran in 44 the deed was done. Roosevelt felt that he use a carrot and stick approach with Stalin in diplomacy with him but he didn't realize how wily Uncle Joe could be. Stalin bugged the rooms of the other allied teams and knew what the plan was from day one.

You must remember that the aim of Stalin and the Soviet Union was always to expand communisuim to the world and his post war policies bear it out. Stalin wouldn't have blockaded Berlin in 1948 if he had not though that the Allies would retreat from Berlin. The idea that you could supply a city from intierly for the air had never been done. The plan to spread communist idea's was under threat from the Marshall and Truman Plans and the attempts to keep places suppled by air in WWII had been small scale, Chindit support in Burma 1943-44, short Term ,Demyansk pocket support 1942, or outright failure, Stalingrad 1943. What he didn't plan for was the total commitment of the Western Powers and the growth in the American Aircraft industry before and during the war.

Read any book like "Allies at War" by Reynold, Kimball and Chubarian which looks at the Second World War much more pragmatically and from a diplomatic POV. Remember also that Roosevelt and Churchill were two different sides of the same coin; Churchill was a conservative patrician who didn't trust the Communist government of the USSR ,nor England's more liberal policies, he believed that the class system was necessary as the salvation of order and government. Roosevelt was a liberal patrician who believed that the wealthy and the powerful had to protect and help the people. From the start of their friendship Churchill tried to control the war effort and could up to the Casablanca meeting when it became clear that Great Britain was the subserviant member of the Western Alliance and was not to be relied upon as much. Also remember that the politics of Europe are convoluted and Byzantine. Old rivalries and friendships drove diplomacy at all times.

Roosevelt was only a human being. Since the warwe have placed him on a pedistal that seems to make him inviolate . Yet, he was human and made mistakes Post War Europes problems can be placed at the feet of all the people involved in it's inception. Churchill, Stalin and even DeGaulle played ther parts in it. I hope that this tells you more about it .

Years of 30 years of studing World History in the 20th Century.

Answer 2

The book "Sacred Secrets" by Jerrold and Leona Schecter details how soviet agents within the Roosevelt administration were able to influence American foreign policy in ways favorable to the Soviet Union. Among these was convincing Roosevelt to intense pressure Japan to pull out of China. A war between the USA and Japan would relieve Japanese pressure on Russia's far east and allow the Soviets to send troops against Hitler. Soviet Agent Alger Hiss attended the Yalta conferences and relayed the private discussions Roosevelt was having in regards to the US position on post-war Europe especially Poland.
Clarke is correct in stating Roosevelt was naive in thinking he could control Stalin. Roosevelt ignored or suppressed any reports, katyn for example, that showed Stalin as a ruthless totalitarian and deviated from the genial "Uncle Joe" he believed he was.
Post war history might have been different with a less niave and Soviet influenced foreign policy. But we will never know.

Answer 3

What could the Western allies do? The Yalta agreement reflected the military realities . By February 1945 Stalin had already occupied much of Poland, while the Anglo-American forces had only just reached the Rhine. The only areas which were not yet under Stalinist control by VE-day, but came under his control later were Thuringia and the Czech Republic (Bohemia-Moravia). Stalin on the other hand was persuaded to give up support for the ELAS partisans in Greece.

Answer 4

You'll probably want to do a lot more reading about the entire era before you draw sweeping conclusions.

By the end of WW II the citizenry was sick of war in the US. The Soviets had, arguably, the strongest army in the world, positioned in Eastern Europe. Our own military was scattered throughout the Pacific and West Germany.

To push Joseph Stalin out of Eastern Europe would have required the use of the atomic bomb.

The Soviet Union was our ally in defeating Germany. Our citizenry had been propagandized to death for several years to help them justify the Soviets as an ally.

Politically, it was probably a bit early to consider turning on them and bombing the bejesus out of them without obvious justification.

The US Army, French, British, didn't defeat the Axis countries of Eastern Europe. The Soviet Army did.

Franklin Roosevelt was a practical man.

Do some more reading. There's no shortage of material.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

If anyone was fooled at Yalta, they were fooling themselves.
Stalin had or was going to have 'boots on the ground' in Eastern and Cantral Europe, and could do as he liked.

Answer 7

Antagonistic religious revolt.
Or, the organic unfurling of mankind.

Answer 8

That's a pretty narrow view of things... you need to do a lot more reading...