contain+communism+kh

= __containing communism__ = == = = with all the tensions with the soviet union most american officials still believed that they could get the Soviets to cooperate. In 1945 the foreign ministers from the war allies met in London and then in Moscow to decide the future of Europe and Asia. Both British and American officials pushed for free elections in Eastern Europe, but the Soviets would not give in. As one of the British ministers said, "Our relations with the Russians are drifting into the same condition as that in which we had found ourselves with Hitler."