The cold war affect Europe by dividing it between communist and Democratic countries, which essentially divided Europe into Western Europe and Eastern Europe. This divide caused tension, political unrest and economic difficulties.
<span>Truman’s
Letter indicated that he didn’t trust Soviet Union. </span>Truman
was skeptical about Soviet Union and believed that the Soviet Union was
untrustworthy. He believed that Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s General
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, could not agree to
the terms that they had previously agreed to.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his speech "Four Freedoms", in 1941, mentioned some things that can be considered inconsistent with the US policy, because when he says: 1<em>) "The need of the moment....is to meet this foreign peril. For </em><em>our domestic problems are now a part of the great emergency</em><em>" and 2) "Just as our national policy in internal affairs has been </em><em>based upon a decent respect for the rights and the dignity ofall our fellow men..." </em>are not consistent with all the discriminatory practices blacks faced at that time.
