Congress of Soviets

Beginning in the late 1950s, the Space Race was a competition during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States to develop artificial satellites, space probes, and human spaceflight. It had a major impact on society and culture in America. If the Russians could launch successful satellites into space, maybe they could launch nuclear missiles as well. In many aspects of the Space Race, the Soviets were ahead; they launched the first successful, unmanned satellite, and then a…

Thirteen Days is participant Robert F. Kennedy's memoir of the Cuban missile crisis that occurs from October 16 to October 28,1962.This event is precipitated when Soviet offensive weapons are found in Cuba, contrary to public and private promises by Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev.President John F. Kennedy an Executive Committee of the National Security Council or "Ex Comm," whose members talk, argue, and fight their way to giving him recommendations to act on. One faction led by Defense Secretary…

The Cold War was a state of tension between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, better known as the USSR, lasting almost forty five years from 1947 to 1991. There are an abundance of reasons as to why The Cold War broke out after World War II including the fear of communism, and the competition of nuclear weapons. The Cold War also heavily impacted the United States of America politically, socially, and economically. One of the causes of The Cold War was…

new Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, did not reinstate the terror of the Stalin years; however, he sought to strengthen the role of the party bureaucracy and the KGB and encouraged the further clampdown on reform in the satellite states. In 1968, disaffection with this step backward led to the emergence of a reform movement in Czechoslovakia. The main goal of this “Prague Spring” was to bring about a more humanistic socialism within certain limits, such as keeping the nation within the Soviet…

employed by the US during that time. The cold war period occurred immediately after World War II, and it was mainly due to suspicion by states and the struggle for communism and capitalism. The two main players as is portrayed by the film were the Soviet Union and the United States. Caveat policy was one of the foreign policies that were employed by the US government during the cold war period. This is a policy in which the United States uses force to get its way. This is depicted clearly in…

At the Second Congress of the Russian Democratic Labor Party, it was agreed upon that Russia was in need of a revolution as the workers and peasants of the country were becoming dissatisfied with the Czar and the government. The end goal of the revolution was to be socialism. However, Congress split into two parties: the Bolsheviks (the majority) and the Mensheviks (the minority). The main disagreements revolved around party membership, with the Mensheviks arguing for a broad-based membership…

lasted nearly 45 years because neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wanted to compromise their political or religious ideals. Both nations considered their way of thinking to be the best, and the looming threat of nuclear warfare further escalated the tension. A stalemate resulted from the countries’ inability to address their differences, especially those on politics, economics, and religion. When the United States and the Soviet Union began to address their differences, both had seen…

Brought Down the Soviet Union The 1980s was a pivotal era in world history. After decades of America’s failed containment policies which strengthened and helped spread Communism across the globe, a change in direction was desperately needed. Ronald Reagan fundamentally shifted American foreign policy as president, which in turn, greatly influenced the collapse of the “evil empire” by the early nineties. Although the Reagan Administration did not live to see the collapse of Soviet Communism,…

age, and the Spanish American war. Briefly, I would like to provide examples of American democracy through each of these era’s. The reconstruction era: did not show equal citizenship, they were prejudice against the black race. “During this time congress approved and sent to the states for ratification of the fourteenth amendment, which placed in the constitution the principle of citizenship for all person born in the United States, and which empowered the federal government to protect the right…

Petrograd Soviet wanted the war to end because it was draining Russia’s army, which had no spirit to fight anymore. This allowed the revolution to push forth and Lenin gained more followers. In the April Theses, Lenin stated that there is “no support for the Provisional Government” (Packet). The Bolshevik Party joined the Petrograd Soviets and won the majority of the Constituent Assembly. Through this, Lenin achieved the dictatorship of the proletariat. He created the Congress of Soviets and the…