Dean Acheson

advised on many international decisions

during war:

  • supportive of USSR
  • agreed to the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
    • gave communist countries lots of $
  • even proposed to give up nuclear weapon to international control

after 1946

  • SU taking more territories in EE and Asia
  • Acheson convinced SU intentions to take over the world
    • percieved communist threats similar to Nazis

wrote the speech for Truman on the Truman Doctrine speech
designed the Marshall Plan that certain conditions must be agreed

  • free trade, democracy, etc.
    • upsetted UK b/c had to give up monopoly in colonies

involved in the Lend Lease program

Molotov

hardliner against the US

decided the Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939

SU interests go first

Western interventions in Russian civil war convinced Molotov that the westerners are neg

unimpressed by the allies’ willingness to fight

  • thought the SU paid the blood price for WW2

He was a true believer that communism is better than capitalism

Tehran conference 1943

  • SU & Molotov demanded opening of second front & lands in Poland