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 US 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 distinct differences in the political systems of the two countries often prevented them from reaching a mutual understanding on key policy issues and even, as in the case of the Cuban missile crisis, brought them to the brink of war.
Detailed explanation-4: -As made by Gar Alperovitz more than forty years ago, the original revisionist argument maintained that the atomic bomb was used primarily to intimidate the Soviet Union in order to gain the upper hand in Eastern Europe and to keep Moscow out of the war in the Far East.