The breakdown of trust

• Reasons why relationship between USA and USSR intensified

  • No common enemy to fight
  • Differences in ideaology
  • Mistrust due to USA, unlike the USSR, having nuclear weapons
• What was the long telegram 1946?


  A secret report from the US ambassador Kennan, in Moscow to Truman
• What did the long telegram say?

  • The soviet union saw capitalism as a threat to communism and wanted it destroyed
  • The soviet union was building its military power
  • Peace between USA and soviet union was not possible due to different ideologies
• What was Novikov's telegram 1946?

  A report from the soviet ambassador, Novikov, indirectly to the United States, but to Stalin
• What did Novikov's telegram say?

  • The USA wants world domination, so was building military strength
  • The soviet union was the last country after the war that could stand up to USA
  • The USA was preparing its people to go to war with the soviet union