Tehran Conference Research Paper

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Paradoxically, the Soviet Union and the US fought together and won the war against Nazi Germany, and two years later they turned into complete enemies. How did these two countries become enemies so suddenly? And most importantly, if the mutation was so fast, did a real friendship ever exist between the USSR and the US during WWII? For sure, the USSR and the US were not hostile during WWII, however they could not be described as friends. The US and the Soviet Union could not win the war separately, so they had to join forces and create strong offensive against Nazi Germany. Meanwhile, their ideas were deeply divergent regarding the European future. Especially when WWII was coming to an end, the two major super powers started to show their real …show more content…

The Tehran Conference was a strategic meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. On one hand, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany by the Western Allies. On the other hand, the conference addressed the relations between the Allies, the operations in Yugoslavia and against Japan, and most importantly The Big Three discussed the post-war settlement (Leahy 70). All the players at the table were rushing to draw the post WWII era. Security for the Big Three at The conference was a top priority NKVD. In fact the agency was able to implement a massive operation to prepare the location for the event (Omel'chuk and Iurchenko 82). Some scholars have described the Tehran meeting as a big farce. During the Tehran conference it was already clear what the world was falling into. On one side, the Soviet Union and on the other side the US and the UK. However, a direct confrontation was still premature and not beneficial. Even though WWII was coming to an end, there was still a war to win and an enemy to capture. Hence, at that time there were still no formal allies or enemies between the Big Three, there were just friendly country planning their next …show more content…

The strong political propaganda made by both USSR and US during Cold War, had driven the world to useless and pointless assumptions. The Cold War was the result of the expansionist political and economic policies of both USSR and US. On this topic, in 1962, President John Kennedy

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