title: The Cold War
abstract: Harry Truman had not been president for a full twenty-four hours before he asserted to his Secretary of State, Edward Stettinius, "We must stand up to the Russians," and suggested that President Franklin Roosevelt had been too easy on them.1 Perhaps Roosevelt had decided the same before his death in April 1945. The agreement concerning postwar Europe—negotiated at the Crimean Black Sea resort of Yalta in February 1945—had quickly disintegrated over Russia's refusal to allow pro-Western Poles mea
journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks