Warsaw Pact

Feeling threatened by NATO, the USSR created the Warsaw Pact six years later in order to preserve communism and their country itself. According to document #2 the United States and its allies were the members of NATO while the USSR and allies (Eastern European countries) formed the Warsaw Pact. Based on the different government types of the two alliances it can be inferred that this alliance was a matter of Democracy vs…

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 became a revolt between the Hungarian People’s Republic and the Soviet Union. The hotspot began October 23, and lasted until November 10th, 1956. It started when student began demonstrated against the Soviet Iron Fist rule. This cause attraction from thousands of citizens as they were marching through central Budapest to the Parliament building; they were trying to broadcast the whole situation and give the Soviet their…

The United States challenged the Soviet Union igniting what became known as the Cold War, which lasted for nearly fifty years from 1947 to 1991. The war was not actually fought between the two nations on the battlefield, but rather was fought through espionage, propaganda, the supply of weapons to allies and the the arms race for nuclear supremacy. The origin of the Cold War was conflict between Communism and Democracy. Russia sought to expand Communism globally, whereas America sought to spread…

Treaty Organization, or NATO to counter Soviet power. The Soviet Union and its allied Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, known as the Warsaw Pact. The primary purpose of NATO was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.The alignment of almost every European nation into one of the two rival camps explained the political division of the European continent that had…

Cold War, between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted for about 45 years. The United States, which was involved in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO was a defense team against the Soviet Union, which was involved in the Warsaw Pact. During the final few months of World War II, tensions rose between the two rivalry countries. In the United States, president Truman coming into office and their ownership of the atomic bomb, raised more tension between the United States and…

After the evacuation of German forces from Greece in 1944, the Greek civil war broke out and was fought in Greece from 1947 to 1950 between the Greek government army (backed by the United Kingdom and the United States), and the Democratic Army of Greece, a military branch of the Greek Communist Party backed by the Soviets. The Greek Civil War is often referred to as the first battle in the Cold War as it was the first battle between the super powers of the United States and the USSR . In 1949…

tells the stories of five people; two Jewish and three Nazis, with the use of 60 photographs Dan Porat unravels the history of the people involved. Porat gives a personal account of the lives of the five people who lived through the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto 1943. Dan Porat examined Nazi soldier, Josef Blösche who was identified as the Nazi who aimed his gun at the boy in the photograph. Porat tells the story of the Nazi photographer, Franz Konrad a Nazi solider who could have been the…

The invasion played out exactly as planned. The plan was to send in a division of panzer units to break through the enemy lines. Those panzer breakthroughs made room for four separate attacks directly headed for warsaw and Brest-Litovsk to begin. Two attacks headed for Warsaw from Germany, and two for Brest-Litovsk from Czechoslovakia and East Prussia. The invasion worked out very well from the start. The polish air force was eliminated by the luftwaffe in two days, and the panzer units…

victories were won by Russia (Zawodny 69). The continuous blows to the Polish state weakened Polish forces as well as their economy and led to its eventual partitioning in the 18th century (Garlinski xv). To what extent did Soviet involvement in the Warsaw Uprising lead to the defeat of the Polish rebel army at the hands of the German army? Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 The Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920 was a fight for the newly independent…

war. Therefore, the Soviet Union rebuilt their own defense to make sure other countries won’t invade it. The Soviet Union knew that there was only one country in the world could threaten it which was the U.S, so the Soviet Union constitute the Warsaw Pact to against the North Atlantic Treaty. In some ways, the Cold War has brought some benefits, that it helped the whole world to avoid the Third World War. The Soviet Union and the U.S. both had nuclear weapons, and the Cuban Missile Crisis…