<span>The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. It established a weak central government that mostly, but not entirely, prevented the individual states from conducting their own foreign diplomacy.</span>
It set a post war objective of democratization and liberalization of eastern Europe countries.
by the second conference, however, Stalin had already reneged on the plan and had started establishing satellite communist states in the region, which ultimately destroyed relation and brought about mistrust among the allies.
