‘He is honest — but smart as hell’: When Truman met Stalin

Harry Truman never became a communist friend. In 1941, after the invasion of Germany in Russia, America at that time. Senator said: "If we see Germany win the war, we should help Russia; if Russia wins, we ought to save Germany and should do this

Three months later, the Allied leaders met in Potsdam, Germany, to discuss the end of the war. In Potsdam, Truman told Stalin that he is casting an atom bomb. "Historians often explain that Truman's attitude towards the US negotiating team that the nuclear capabilities of the United States will improve bargaining power during the negotiations is somewhat robust" (10). - John Hershey 's Hiroshima is in John Hershey' s erosimma, he sees his book from the perspective, that is, the bombing of Hiroshima is an inhuman act. What he did not do was to give the American view. I could not explain the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 and the death of the Bataan camp in Japan in 1942

At the Potsdam Conference in Germany in mid-July, Truman met with the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (succeeded at the end of the Clement-Atree meeting) and the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. From the standpoint of Truman, the conference has two objectives: to build a foundation for the rebuilding of the postwar Europe and to ensure that the Soviet Union participates in the war with Japan. On July 16, the day before the opening day, Truman received the news that the first atomic bomb in the desert of New Mexico was successfully tested. He shared this information with Churchill (Britain is a partner in bomb development), but he just told Stalin that America made a powerful new weapon. Stalin understood the project in detail by pretending to be indifferent. It also repeated the previous promise to attack Japan's status in Manchuria by the middle of August. Truman clearly is not convinced that a single bomb may force surrender, but he is very happy