
Kennan, the Chargé d'Affaires at the Moscow Embassy, sent a long telegram to the Department of State detailing his concerns about Soviet expansionism. The United States and Britain considered this an abrogation of agreements made at the Yalta Conference.įebruary 1946: George Kennan's Long Telegram and the Policy of Containment

These included Yugoslavia (November 1945) Albania (January 1946) and Bulgaria (December 1946). United States Relations with Russia: The Cold Warġ945-1946: Creation of Eastern European People's Republicsīetween November 1945 and December 1946, a number of the coalition governments established in the Eastern European countries occupied by Soviet troops during the war transformed into Communist "People's Republics" with strong ties to the Soviet Union.
