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The Transition from Roosevelt to Truman The Transition from Roosevelt to Truman
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Differing Interpretations of the Yalta Accords Differing Interpretations of the Yalta Accords
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Recriminations over Other Agreements Recriminations over Other Agreements
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Assessments of Compliance Assessments of Compliance
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Lessons for Contemporary U.S. Policy Lessons for Contemporary U.S. Policy
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6 Adherence to Agreements: Yalta and the Experiences of the Early Cold War
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Published:October 2019
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Abstract
This chapter charts a middle road between traditional and revisionist scholars on the Cold War and highlights how ambiguities and uncertainties influenced the behavior of both Washington and Moscow. It reveals that the Yalta agreements were vague, purposefully so, because Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were seeking to pave over their differences, sustain the wartime alliance, and establish a framework for postwar cooperation. Once victory was assured, the impulse to cooperate waned as new circumstances and new fears intensified mutual distrust and catalyzed unilateral moves to insure security. These actions were coupled with harsh condemnations of one another's treachery. Yet neither the Americans nor the Russians really wanted to antagonize the potential rival; they wanted to seize upon ambiguities in the wartime agreements to enhance their respective notions of security. By engaging in rhetorical overkill, leaders in both capitals made compromise and accommodation more difficult. Few Americans, however, understood how their own rhetoric, charges, and actions contributed to the collapse of the wartime alliance.
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