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Truman’s biggest concern was how Stalin might react to America’s development of an atomic bomb.  Stalin simply shrugged his shoulders and took an attitude of “so what?”.  One explanation is that Stalin knew more from his spies about the atomic bomb than Truman did.  Another explanation is that Stalin had just acquired control of half of Germany and all of Eastern Europe and did not fear the United States in the slightest.{{fact}}

Truman’s biggest concern was how Stalin might react to America’s development of an atomic bomb.  Stalin simply shrugged his shoulders and took an attitude of “so what?”.  One explanation is that Stalin knew more from his spies about the atomic bomb than Truman did.  Another explanation is that Stalin had just acquired control of half of Germany and all of Eastern Europe and did not fear the United States in the slightest.{{fact}}

Truman and Churchill failed in their attempts to discourage Stalin from dominating Eastern Europe after the war.

At the Potsdam conference, it was agreed that the German economy should not be permitted should not be permitted to recover higher than the standard of living of 1932, at the bottom of the depression, the level, in fact, which had brought Hitler to power in 1933.  <ref>''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'', Carroll Quigley, Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pg. 901. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref>

Remarking on the Potsdam conference William Henry Chamberlain wrote,

Remarking on the Potsdam conference William Henry Chamberlain wrote,