Peculiarities of the relationships between the USSR and the USA in July - October 1942

Abstract

The article examines the relationship between Washington and Moscow in the second half of 1942. It was at this time that the Western allies decided that it was impossible to open a second front in Europe, as Joseph Stalin insisted, and chose the Mediterranean version of the military-political strategy. The author’s key task is to study the mechanisms that the Soviet leadership used to keep the United States in line with the strategy they proposed, to study the key contradictions that arose during this period in the relationship between the two key partners and ways to resolve them.