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America
After the Long Telegram
On 2 September 1945, Japan signed the official surrender to the United States and the Second World War was over. Almost immediately (although both the USA and the USSR heavily demobilized), the Cold War started.
In February 1946, the US State Department carefully read the ‘long telegram’ of the American chargé d’affaires in Moscow, George F. Kennan. The Soviets, Kennan said, were aiming at eroding the capitalist nations and imposing their ideological rule on the world, and they were doing so in order to justify their internal power in the face of their population’s sacrifices. On 12 March 1947, President Harry Truman addressed a speech to the Congress, declaring that the USA, as the leader of the Free World, ...
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