<p>Okay, so I have this six-essay test tomorrow and we got a list of topics. Now I have the gist of almost all of them and if I don't I will cram them in tonight thanks to Wikipedia and the World Book Encyclopedia.</p>
<p>However, there is one thing that I cannot find anything on...the Molitov Confrontation with Truman. I know it has something to do with Poland but every account I can find is either vague or is one of those stupid sites where you have to pay and I'm not spending one red cent on this stuff for information I will have to know for exactly 80 minutes.</p>
<p>Wikipedia has nothing. World Book has nothing. And I can't find anything on other websites. Oh, and Google sucks, so don't tell me to use it. Been there, done that, got lots of foreign results or stuff about Molitov Cocktails.</p>
<p>If anyone knows anything about this, which I think dealt with Poland and happened on April 23, 1945 or so, please give me some feedback.</p>
<p>I'm already ticked off enough about this test. I already cut one of my knucles open in rage when I was cursing my computer, have a lot of leg pain right now from smacking myself, and have a headache for the same reason.</p>
<p>It's got the basic gist, but I need some more details. There are good articles for other Cold War subjects like the Marshall Plan out there, but why not the Molotov Confrontation?</p>
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<p>The Molotov Confrontation is an event that has only documented by a few people close to Truman, and thus exists in only a few documents; last semester I studied it as part of a larger essay on Cold War by reading a note by Truman himself. I could scan it, but it's currently buried with the my last semester papers.</p>
<p>I think I can help you out a bit.
It was because of the Yalta-agreement that the leaders decided upon the liberation of Europe.
Poland was to be a free country with free elections.
Stalin and Molotov aproved of this.</p>
<p>When the Truman administration was questioned about continued cooperation with the Soviet, it was confirmed that Soviet had formed an socialist regime loyal to Soviet and Stalin but with official sovereignity. </p>
<p>Truman adressed Molotov with this, very straight forward, almost in a rude way.
Telling him that for further cooperation between the U.S and Soviet, it had to be two-sided, not one sided. The U.S lived up to their commitments and that the Soviet should live up to theirs.</p>
<p>The Polacks viewed this as a betrayal by the allies, that they let the country be governed by a socialist government.
Their economy and life situation went downhill...</p>
<p>That helps, but one question--does Polacks refer to everyday Polish people or to their leaders? I've never heard the term before, and I am actually 5% Polish so you think that wee bit of me would know!</p>