WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE EUROPEAN THEATER IN WWII
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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They thought he was secretly helping the Italians.
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They thought he was secretly helping the Japanese
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They thought he would join Hitler again and turn on them
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They thought he wanted to spread Communism and he had a previous deal with Hitler
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stalin was deeply suspicious, to the point of paranoia, of both Roosevelt and Churchill. He knew his capitalist allies would likely oppose any attempt to expand Soviet influence in eastern Europe when the war ended.
Detailed explanation-2: -Churchill, wrote Sulzberger, thought Stalin “a great man, above all compared to Khruschev and Bulganin, ” and quoted Churchill as follows: Stalin never broke his word to me.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did Churchill of Great Britain and Roosevelt of the United States not trust Stalin of the Soviet Union? These western leaders believed that Stalin had another agenda to fulfill and was just using the war to fulfill this agenda.
Detailed explanation-4: -Postwar Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe fueled many Americans’ fears of a Russian plan to control the world. Meanwhile, the USSR came to resent what they perceived as American officials’ bellicose rhetoric, arms buildup and interventionist approach to international relations.