Cold War Document D Harry Wallace

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Cold War Document D Harry Wallace

This is a private letter from this man to Truman.

Wallace was Vice President under Roosevelt and Secretary of Commerce (Economy & Trade). He is an advisor that Truman appointed to this cabinent position.

Poll

Sourcing: How reliable is Wallace to speak about foreign affairs in your opinion?

Extremely reliable

very reliable

reliable

not reliable

Multiple Choice

Context: Letter from Secretary of Commerce and former Vice President Henry A. Wallace to President Harry S. Truman, July 23, 1946. Before or After Novikov in September 1946?

Before

After

Multiple Choice

His letter starts "I have been increasingly disturbed about the trend of international affairs since the end of the war." What war is he referring to?

World War I

World War II

Wallace Continues "How do American actions appear to other nations?

I mean actions [like] the Bikini tests of the atomic bomb
and continued production of bombs, the plan to arm Latin America with our weapons
and the effort to secure air bases spread over half the globe from which the other half of the globe can be bombed.

Background info

(Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. ... The test weapons produced a combined fission yield of 42.2 Mt of TNT in explosive power.)
Some of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean — such as the Bikini and Enewetak atolls — are still more radioactive than Chernobyl and Fukushima, even though more than 60 years have passed since the United States tested radioactive weapons on those islands, a new study finds

Poll

"I cannot but feel what these actions must make it look to the rest of the world as if we were only paying lip service to peace at the conference table." Your opinion: Having a large military promotes war.

Strongly agree

Agree

Disagree

Strongly Disagree

Multiple Select

Wallace continues..."These facts rather make it appear either...

Question: Which of his predications is more correct?

(1) that we are preparing ourselves to win the war which we regard as inevitable or

(2) that we are trying to build up a predominance [largest amount] of force to intimidate the rest of mankind.

Multiple Choice

Our interest is establishing democracy in Eastern Europe, where democracy by and large has never existed, seems to [the Soviets] an attempt to reestablish the encirclement of unfriendly neighbors which might serve as a springboard of still another effort to destroy [them]. Who is Wallace blaming for the start of The Cold War?

USA

USSR (Soviet Union)

Multiple Choice

Which text evidence best explains why Wallace an loyal American is blaming the USA for the Start of the Cold War?

"seems to [the Soviets] an attempt to reestablish... an effort to destroy [them].

"paying lip service to peace at the conference table."

Cold War Document D Harry Wallace

This is a private letter from this man to Truman.

Wallace was Vice President under Roosevelt and Secretary of Commerce (Economy & Trade). He is an advisor that Truman appointed to this cabinent position.

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