mb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is when the USSR and the rest of the world for that matter actually found out that such a destructive bomb had existed. The droppings, proved to Stalin (who was not told by the US that they had such a bomb) that the United States would never trust the USSR and that it would, after the war, attack the Soviet Union. Similarly, the United States felt that Stalin had expansionist ambitions and that he would try to bring as many states as he could under the USSR's sphere of influence. This was partially true. As the war was coming to an end, Stalin aimed to exploit the military situation and spread as much Russian influence in Europe as he could. After the defeat of the Nazi armies, Stalin aimed at expanding Russian territory as far as he could. He tried to take over land from east European countries like Poland, Finland and Romania. This greatly alarmed the United States, which saw this as Russian aggression and also convinced t
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