Roosevelt, War, and Anti-Communism

what did Roosevelt grant the Soviet Union in 1933?

diplomatic recognition his Republican predecessors had withheld in the aftermath of the first Red Scare

how did conservatives react to the diplomatic recognition?

This worried considerable numbers of conservatives, and few Americans had any sympathy for the Soviet Union when it was invaded by Hitler in June 1941.

what did Roosevelt consider the Soviet survival?

essential to Germany's defeat and to US security, and gave aid to the Soviets. Isolationists and militant anti-Communists were critical but 72 per cent of Americans eventually supported that aid.

what were the US and USSR after Hitler declared war on the US?

wartime allies

what did the countries enter into in August 1965?

The Cold War

what was Roosevelt’s relationship with Stalin?

He got on reasonably well with Stalin in order to win the war, but his suspicions of Stalin and Communism led him to keep the development of the atomic bomb secret from his Soviet, but not the British, ally. The equally suspicious Stalin employed spies and learned about the bomb anyway.

what did Roosevelt tell the Cabinet?

Roosevelt summed up the nature of the Soviet-American wartime relationship when he told his Cabinet that the Russians were frequently sending him a friendly note on Monday, spitting in his eye on Tuesday, and then being nice again on Wednesday'.

what did both countries promote?

their differing political systems in the nations they liberated and thereby confirmed the belief of both that the other was expansionist.

was the cold war inevitable?

The Cold War was surely inevitable, given the power and the ideologies of the United States and the Soviet Union. The wartime alliance had simply been a marriage of convenience.