To what extent were Stalin's actions before the Cold War the reason for the Cold War? Between 1945 and 1991, military and political problems emerged between the powers of the Eastern and Western bloc. Stalin's insistence that the Soviet Union take control of Eastern Europe was not without justification. Stalin wanted Soviet control of Eastern European nations, which Americans saw as Stalin wanting world domination. all this marked the start of the Cold War. To determine the extent of Stalin's effect on the Cold War, the investigation will compare the two interpretations: the fault for the start of the Cold War was that Stalin and the USSR failed to keep promises that 'they had done. had made at the Yalta conference, and the application of Russian regimes in these countries, as well as the interpretation that the reason for the Cold War was the fault of President Truman because the United States had not shared the atomic bomb technology with Russia at the end. of World War II.B. Summary of EvidencePlokhy, Serhii. Yalta: the price of peace. New York: Viking, 2010. Print. Harbutt, Fraser J. Yalta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads. New York: Cambridge UP, 2010. Print. Rhodes, Richard. Arsenals of madness: the creation of the nuclear arms race. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Print.Yalta Conference (Plokhy 55)On February 2, 1945, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin met in the city from Yalta to Crimea to discuss Allied war objectives. Stalin had three goals that he wanted to gain from the Yalta conference. His first goal was to get an accolade...... middle of paper ...... aggravated between the superpowers since the conference.The start of the race (Groueff 145-178) (Roberts 210-215)The nuclear The arms race was at the heart of the Cold War. Many feared the direction the Cold War would take, with the impression that the more nuclear weapons we had, the more efficient and powerful we were. America and Russia have massively increased their abundant quantities of nuclear weapons. The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare. American and Soviet experts aimed to use nuclear weapons to extract concessions from each other or from powerful countries like China. However, the risk of using these nuclear weapons was very dangerous, as they avoided what John Foster Dulles called brinkmanship. Americans lacked confidence and in the 1950s hoped for non-existent bombing space..