THE COLD WAR 3. Based on the information above, who started the Cold War? Support your answer with evidence.
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We have to get tough with the Russians. They don’t know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.
What can be surprising in the fact that the Soviet Union, in a desire to ensure its security
for the future, tries to achieve that these countries should have governments whose relations to the Soviet Union are loyal? How
Truman speaking in April 1945
can one … qualify these peaceful aspirations of the Soviet Union as ‘expansionist tendencies’ of our government?
Explain each quote in one line using your own words. Truman’s quote: Stalin’s quote:
Do these quotes change your opinion on who started the Cold War? Explain your answer. Stalin speaking in March 1946