2, 3, and 4
2. I think this is what Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill had in mind because Stalin was not stating that that is what he wanted to happen. I think that he was just making a statement about how it is inevitable for this situation to happen. Stalin did believe this was inevitable but he also thought it was the most effective approach to this war because they had more fighting in them and they believed that imposing armies were necessary.
3. Roosevelt and Churchill would not agree with the statements made by Stalin in Source 13 and 14 because in Source 13, Roosevelt and Churchill did not want to impose their armies, they just wanted things to go their way and did whatever was necessary to make that happen. It was about strategy, not control for them. In Source 14, they would not agree because Stalin was trying to make a power play by stating that, even though he did not agree with the actions of the other two nations, he would not try to fight them. He successfully made himself out to look like a victim of America and Britain by saying that he was nicely trying to keep peace and making it look like they were causing all the problems that had occurred.
4. The three developments may have affected relationships at Portsdam because with Roosevelt gone, and Truman being absolutely anti-Communist, there was tension between the US and the Soviet Union. When Stalin would not give in to the US's and British protest, that caused even more tension between the two. Also when America had set off the atomic bomb and Truman told Stalin this would have caused much tension between the two nations. For Stalin to have communist power in a new part of Europe and for the US to be preparing atomic weaponry, there was no agreeing for the three nations.
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