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shawks · Joined: 12 May 2010 Posts: 12

1. The U.S.A. and Soviet Union were "strange bedfellows" because they shared the same basic enemies during the war: Germany and Japan. They both agreed to unite in order to help get rid of their enemies' power. However, U.S.A and the Soviet Union disagreed on many issues so this alliance wouldn't last.

2. The U.S.A. during the war mainly wanted to attack the Japanese as a response to them attacking Pearl Harbor. They also wanted to bring peace to Europe by freeing captured countries such as France and Poland. FDR in particular wanted to create a United Nations so countries around the world could discuss their problems peacefully. All of these goals conflicted with the Soviet Union who just wanted to defeat Germany for the sake of earning money from Germany's reparations and American loans. The Soviets also wanted more territories from Eastern Europe. Americans did not want to give the Soviets lots of money because they had just earned a big profit from the war and did not want to give it up. They also feared that the Soviet Union might become too powerful with new land just like Germany had.

3. The cartoon suggests that Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were trying to negotiate solutions, but they disagreed on many things. Stalin was fighting aggressively to get what he wanted. Churchill was looking away from Stalin because he was suspicious about giving Stalin too much land after the war. Roosevelt was facing both of the other leaders constantly trying to compromise.

sarahislahf · Joined: 11 May 2010 Posts: 21

1. They were strange bedfellows because their alliance was stretched over growing mistrust and shifting goals but held together during the war because of their common enemies-- the Hilter Machine. (The enemy of my enemy is my... bedfellow?)

2. The U.S.'s primary goals were to defeat Japan and Germany and to increase their influence. A issue that the Soviets and the U.S. differed on was the United Nations and the World Bank, with the Soviets wary of such an organization, and feared it would be run by corporatist capitalists and would be a threat to their socialist system.

3. I mulled over this one for a while. While Hitler is the only one visible, behind what looks like a screen the three real fate-determiners are deliberating. Because they are kind of ominous silhouettes, it gives them a sinister edge, suggesting that bad things might come out of this union/their decisions.

Kandice · Joined: 12 May 2010 Posts: 14

1. The USA and the Soviet Union were strange "bed fellows" because although they had previous conflicts in world war 1 and their ideologies differed, they came together to fight one common enemy.

2. The primary objectives of world war 2 was for the USA to play the middleman as far as choosing to help or ignore the problems of the Soviets. This mindset hindered an early action as far as a second front in World War 2.

3. This cartoon depicts a strategy used to fight Germany.

ohg2012 · Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 15

1.Soviet Union and USA had totally different political opinion. They were rather ‘enemy’ than alliance. However, in order to not be defeated by their common enemy, German, they inevitably allied even they don’t trust each other. This is why the US and the Soviet Union are called as "strange bedfellows"

2.US wanted to keep their country safe as well as defeating Germany and Japan. Also they wanted to enlarge their political power over the world by spreading communism.

3.The three men in the globe should represent Soviet Union, US and UK, who formed allay against German, trying to spread thier influence over the world by winning in this war.

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