Soviet Ussr
Why didn’t the U.S.A. threaten the USSR with the Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe?
If the USA was so driven by ideological belief against communism, then why did they not threaten the USSR with their newly tested a-bomb with the occupation of Eastern Europe in 1945. The USSR tested and developed their first a-bomb years later and most likely would have surrendered after witnessing the strength of the a-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I’m also pretty sure that Britain asked Truman that they needed to break through Eastern Berlin and into Soviet sphere of influence in order to stop the spread of communism. Instead Truman opted for to do nothing (well except for the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan yeah) until the Soviets developed their own weapons. I dunno haha, just speculating and wondering about it.
Churchill was convinced long before the end of the war that Stalin had expansionist ambitions. American paranoia focused on the spread of communist ideology, and how it might get a toe hold in the US. Truth is this was just an extension of isolationism.
That said, the odds of Britain (tired broke and under a pacifist, socialist Labour government by the end of 1945 had no drive left to push the Soviets back out of Germany, let alone out of Eastern Europe. Politics were also a major concern. The US would have been very hard pushed to have added enough strength against a former ally (Stalin), and it is easy, even in hindsight, to truly underestimate how determind the Soviet leadership and soldiers were.
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