The Road To Pearl Harbor, 1919-1941
Season 1 • Episode 12: The Recognition of Russia: A Climate of Mutual Distrust • Watch with subtitles
Episode 12: The Recognition of Russia: A Climate of Mutual Distrust
March 5, 2002
From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until the Roosevelt administration officially recognized the U.S.S.R. in the first detente in 1935, American relations with the Soviet Union were mistrustful and hostile. Cold War attitudes can be traced back to this period and the national paranoia over Bolshevism.
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