THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Question
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The Soviet Union already had an atomic bomb.
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The United States did not trust the Soviet Union.
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The Allies would have been against its development on moral grounds.
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Scientists were unsure if they would be successful.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the United States not share the plan to develop the atomic bomb with the Soviet Union during World War II?-The United States did not trust the Soviet Union.-The Allies would have been against its development on moral grounds. Why did the United States and Britain begin the Berlin airlift?
Detailed explanation-2: -BACKGROUND: why did the USA and USSR start to mistrust each other? The 2 sides were enemies long before they were allies in WWII. Relations had been bad since 1917 as Russia had become communist and the West had interfered to try and stop it.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Manhattan Project was the US government program during World War II that developed and built these first atomic bombs.
Detailed explanation-4: -Years ahead of what Americans thought possible, the Soviets had exploded a nuclear device. Truman reacted by requesting an intensive re-evaluation of America’s Cold War policies by the National Security Council.