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Stalin is described as both popular and loved by the Russians and people around the world.
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Stalin is characterized as captivating politics throughout the world, and he is known as the man who is stopping Hitler.
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Countries including the US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, gather to elect Winston Churchill as the Prime Minister of Britain and discuss how to defeat Nazi Germany.
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This event is part of the start of building tensions between the US and the Soviet Union because of nuclear bombs.
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This bomb proved to be a signal of American military strenght the Soviet Union and the world.
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The end of the war gave a temporary calm to the relationship between the Soviet Union and the the United States, because they both shared in the victory.
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Kennan explains the horrors of allowing communsim to spread, saying that it must be stopped. However, he held the optimistic view that the US would probably not have to go to war if they were able to show their strenght to the Soviets.
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Churchill tells Americans that Britain the the US will have to work together to fight communism, and he outlines some of the current problems with the spread of communsim.
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In an interview with a communist Soviet magazine, Stalin clearly disapproves of Churchill's speech and even compares Churchill to Hitler.
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In a speech at Harvard University, the Marshall plan is introduced which outlines the plan for helping Europe in its current economic and social disaster.