After 1945 the wartime alliance between the USA, Britain and the USSR began to break down. Winston Churchill and Harry Truman became increasingly alarmed by Stalin’s actions in establishing a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. The Red Army had occupied the whole region by the end of the war and quickly established control over all the countries it liberated from the German army. President Truman, who had always been suspicious of the Soviets and Stalin, decided he had to respond and shape an appropriate policy in reaction to Soviet actions.
In this article we will look at three key documents that show the development of US foreign policy between 1945 and 1947 and use them to begin to examine the view that ‘Truman’s policy of containment was a reaction to Soviet actions in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1947’.
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