
This is their final effort to turn one nation against another in the vain hope that they may be settling with one or two at a time - that any of us may be so gullible and so forgetful as to be deuped into make "deals" at the expense of our allies.Ĭold War confrontations were nearly always conducted through surrogates - or by economic pressure, selective aid, diplomatic maneuver, propaganda, assassination, low-intensity military operations - in order to avoid a direct confrontation that could have led to a nuclear war. They seek to create the idea that if we win this war, Russia, England, China, and the United States are going to get into a cat-and-dog fight. In an attempt to ward off the inevitable disaster, the Axis propagandists are trying all of their old tricks in order to divide the United Nations. Roosevelt assured the American people that any thought of a breakup of the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union was simply Nazi propaganda:

Initially a dispute over the future of Europe, it grew to include confrontations around the world.įollowing the Casablanca Conference at the height of World War II unity in 1943, President Franklin D. Conflicts of national interest caused the World War II alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union to be replaced by a Cold War that lasted 45 years.
