Cold War overview

nt Franklin D. Rosevelt, that other nations might try to produce weapons with this fusion of Uranium. The President immideately started the Manhattan Project, and it was under the direction of the American physicist named J. Robert Oppenheimer. The actual project had many scientists working on it form all over for quite some time, and they had many nuclear tests to practice on before HiroShima came into the picture. When the bomb was ready to be
             dropped on someone Sir Winston Churchill told Joseph Stalin, who was a
             secretary of the communist party, in a "casual" tone of voice that the Americans had just developed, "A bomb of unusual destructive force."2 The Manhattan Project was over and the invention of the Atom Bomb was complete. Was this a good thing? Or did it just ignite the flame of the Cold War? Only time will tell.
             Yalta is a city in southern Ukraine, on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula. Yalta is the area in which the "Big three" met to decide how World War II should end. The "Big three", as they were called, were President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the USSR. The Russian army of 12 million had taken control of Poland and was already in the areas that the Germans had occupied. The Russian army was ordered to hold its position for a week, which was how long the meeting at Yalta was to last. Over the course of the next seven days (February 4-11) the "Big three" worked out three agreements. What this whole meeting was for was the re-establishment of the nations that were destroyed by Germany. The first
             agreement was that Poland was given back its Independence and given an election date to elect a new independent government. Yugoslavia was given its old government as well, which was run by elderly men, NAZI and Fascist
             leaders were prohibited of course. Se...

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