Truman+and+Stalin

On August 2nd 1945, truman, churchill and stalin met at potsdam to decide the punishment for germany. In march, 1945 russia invited Polish leaders over to discuss things, stalin had them arrested. things had gotten so bad that Britain had drawn up some plans to impose their will on russia. Meanwhile Roosevelt had died and Truman had taken his place. Truman wanted to "get tough" with russia. Truman had learned that the atomic bomb was ready and he now had a HUGE advantage over japan. Truman didn't need stalins help anymore and his main goal was to find out when russia wanted to enter the pacific war, which truman didn't want russia to enter the war. this would lead to tension between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. which would foreshadow the cold war.