Congress of Soviets

Adolf Hitler of Germany and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union were authoritarian leaders who had a major impact on the economic state of their respective countries in the early to mid 20th century. Their respective economic policies mainly focused on the industrialisation and modernisation of their countries as both countries had a relatively weak economy in comparison to the rest of the Western world at the time. Furthermore, both countries practiced autarky and rearmament as a means of…

Within Truman’s first few weeks of presidency, Truman attended the Potsdam Conference in 1945. The Potsdam conference was a conference where Stalin, Churchill, and Truman nicknamed the Big Three, met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate the end of World War II (The Potsdam Conference). The Potsdam Conference was a significant event mainly because it gave the all of the leaders a chance to discuss their plans so that there was no confusion amongst the allies regarding post-war plans in Germany and…

Definition Imperialism is defined as propagation by spreading power and dominion on other nations or places in various aspects, for example, political and economic. However, imperialism has often considered disgraceful because it concerns the use of power such as army force and another indirect method. The term ‘Imperialism’ was commonly used in international propaganda to decry and degrade an opponent’s foreign scheme. Imperialism in Japan 1) Meiji Restoration, modernization and…

Wag the dog This movie was directed by Barry Levinson which show us the relationship between the media and public. The movie is from 1997 and it is one hour and 37 minutes. The title of the movie is asking America why dog wag its tail? Dog wag its tail when they are happy. If the tail controlling dog, the dog will be stupid. if the tail wagging a dog mean that something big such a war happened by something small such as sex scandal. in this movie, The title describes that how media manipulate…

Argument Research Essay My topic for this paper is communism. My opinion on this topic is that although the idea of communism appears good as a theory, if it were to be put into practice, to run a society, or promote the system to other countries, it would not be as effective as it appears in theory. The reality of communism would show actual flaws, that would not keep up the system ideals. What is communism? To begin, a simple way to explain communism is that it is an idea that everyone in a…

Connection Two and Text Three Lies and deceit are used by my texts to show the effect of control on the freedoms of the individual. In Animal Farm, the animals dream of more freedom but are deceived by the pigs and their freedom becomes less than that of just after the rebellion. Before this rebellion takes place, a pig named ‘old Major’ calls all the animals together to give a speech. In his speech he says that “The life of an animal is misery and slavery...”. This idea becomes one of the key…

Animal Farm is representing life when stalin was a ruler. Many of the characters in the book replicate something that has happened to influence the fall of the country. But, instead the book is replicating the fall of the farm. The book is about how the animals take over the farm and begin to follow old major’s, a pig, plan and or dream. His dream was for the animals to take back what was theirs, and to being doing things their way. Toward the end of the book the plan falls due to the fact that…

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley describes a totalitarian government that controls every aspect of every citizen's life. The government controls its citizens with science, technology, factories, and an industrial based religion. Throughout the book Huxley uses these themes to show the kind of society the World Controllers are trying to create. He does this to show what science and technology can do to a society. Huxley also shows that when technology is in the wrong hands society can take a…

Assessment 3 task outline: Argumentative essay. Name: Ho Wei Da Student ID: 1727718 World War Two was fought by the Axis forces and the Allies. The war took place in two different place, which is in the Pacific and Europe (SparkNotes 2005). In the Pacific, the war was fought between the Japanese from the Axis and United States of America from the Allies (SparkNotes 2005). The war begin on December 7, 1941 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, a U.S. Navy base in Hawaii (SparkNotes 2005). The turning…

“Tracefossilim” of Melodramatic Cuba There has been a resurgence of melodrama in Cuban film since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Indeed, two of Cuba’s most prominent and historically significant filmmakers, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Humberto Solás, have produced highly melodramatic films in the almost two decades since the Soviet collapse, a time known in Cuba as the special period. 1 While there are certainly melodramatic tendencies in other post-revolutionary Cuban films, melodrama has…