Communism In The 1900's

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During the 1900’s, Communism was on a major rise, so much so that it would even be the main cause to an immense conflict; The Cold War. The Soviet Union had embodied these Communist ideals, and these ideals were the complete opposite of those that the United States had symbolized, and were also the ideals that they were striving to suppress. At the time, it would not have been known how grueling and lengthy this time of unrest would have actually been. In all the Cold War had carried on through six Soviet Union leaders until it reached it’s last in Mikhail Gorbachev. It had also been through seven presidents before it would finally been handed off to president Reagan, the man who would get the job done. Although many executives before him had

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