US Intimidated the USSR

So I've been doing some research with Michael Lung tonight on the US intimidating the USSR with the use of the atomic bomb. The best quote I was able to find was, "I'm going to make Stalin back down from what he got from Roosevelt. I'm going to force him to open up the ports in Manchuria to the United States and to other trading nations." Which was said by president Truman during the Potsdam conference.

My general thesis or prompt is that the US used their use of the atomic bombs in Japan to intimidate the USSR and scare them. During WWII, the US and the USSR were technically allies, but they were as close to enemies as allies can be. The USSR was a communist state, whereas the US was capitalist, and the US hated communism as a whole. When the US was in its war with Japan, the USSR stepped in near the end in hopes of gaining land in that area, and the US did its best to end the war quickly enough so that the USSR didn't get invested enough to claim land in that region of the world. This is one of the reasons the US used their atomic weapons, so that the war would be over and the USSR wouldn't take anything in that region. After Japan was done with, conflicts between the US and the USSR only heightened until the Cold War, when communism was going strong and Stalin was livin' large. During these times, the US and the USSR basically threw threat after threat at each other, hoping the other would back down.

Here are some of the sources I've gathered and used so far.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=554125

http://revolution.allbest.ru/history/00003291_1.html

http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/70711.html

http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=23634

http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/ahas/bomb_historiography.html

http://www.essortment.com/all/presidenttruman_rywp.htm

http://www.philosophyparadise.com/essays/wastheuseoftheatomicbombmoral.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/truman/filmmore/it_3.html

Artistic talents 2

So we're done doing art now. I'm unhappy because I really had fun. Bummer city.
Remember, just because something is here doesn't mean it's the way I wanted it to turn out or that it's finished.
Your critiques help.


(Unfinished)

(I like this except for the big boot)




(I like that a lot)






(That is my favorite piece that I've made)



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Strangely enough, many of the pictures were somehow partially covered by blogger, so if the picture is horizontal, then you may want to drag it into a new window or something because it's not all there.

Paints and Pigmints 2

As you may know, I recently wrote a mock article on Paints and Pigments. Now I revised that paper and just generally tried to make it better. I honstly didn't change much, but here it is if you'd like to review it.

Paints and Pigments 2