Eastern Hemisphere

The communists during the Russian Revolution believed that human nature is inherently good, and the government is what causes people to do wrong. Yet, during that period in communist Russia millions of people died as a result of Stalin’s purges. Also, in 1945 the German regime was revealed to the world, Auschwitz and all its horror was released. Both totalitarian governments, and we are meant to believe human nature is essentially good. This was the context in which George Orwell wrote his book,…

The Cold War had a variety of causes and consequences that affected the world superpowers at the time. There were many positive and negative effects of the Cold War. Most of these effects fell in favor with the U.S. and led to the demise of the Soviet Union. Even though the U.S. and the Soviet Union were allies during World War II, they disagreed on the way they wanted to bring about change in the world and thus became enemies. “Together, these nations and others brought about the downfall…

During the Cold War, the U.S came up with a foreign policy to prevent and stop the spread of communism throughout the other nations, by the use of diplomacy and foreign aid. The U.S would do anything necessary to stop communism from spreading by the Soviet Union. The two allied nations after WWII, Soviet Union and the U.S, quickly had different ideas on how to run their nations. The Soviets wanted to spread communism and the U.S wanted to spread democracy. So to prevent it the U.S took action…

The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO, or the Communist Bloc. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the First World, while the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and their allies represented the Second World. This terminology provided a way of broadly categorizing the nations of the Earth into three groups based on political and economic divisions. The Third World was…

End of the Cold War Sunny Sidhu Athabasca University Calgary, AB Adam Lajeunesse HIST 455 Nov, 16, 2015 The foundation of the Cold War was built on several different disagreements such as the two superpowers at the time having differing opinions, the way the security of the nation should be dealt with, and the governments neglecting each others opinions. All of these disagreements escalated into the war that killed many innocent civilians. Many were injured and disabled…

After the end of Second World War, the two power bloc was raising in world politics and the revelry between the blocs was on top. The cold war politics emerged as a bitter experience of international relations. Both blocs were mollifying the other countries of the world. It had to become stronger because of many newly independent countries. For the sake their independence many countries choose the third path to avoiding war and keeping their independence, they framed NAM (Non-alignment Movement)…

Communism in the Soviet Union was greatly feared throughout the rest of Europe. From its beginnings in Lenin to the end of it when the Soviet Union fell and Boris Yeltsin became the government leader in Russia, the Red Scare ran throughout not only Europe but the whole world. Lenin was the first to come up with the Communist party, and it was enhanced by Stalin. Stalin became a totalitarian dictator of Russia, and used fear and terror in the Communist Party to enforce their ophilisoihpies.…

3 - How Stalin aimed to establish Soviet Security with the ‘Iron Curtain’ and Eastern buffer zones surrounding the USSR As the Second World War had drawn to an end Stalin had two main immediate aims; the economic recovery and reconstruction of Soviet territory backed by reparations, which was already partly covered in the previous segments. The other was to establish a Soviet Sphere of influence in the occupied Eastern European countries, as a means of making a ‘buffer zone’ against future…

The Cold War is a war unlike any other that if a person would ask different historians or people who lived during the time what it was, that person would get so many different and varied answers. Fear and hysteria dominated the public and political atmosphere during the time after World War II because of the start of a conflict that what was to be called the Cold War. This war dragged on for decades lasting from 1945 to 1991 when the Soviet regime finally fell. It was an unusual war that saw…

In a treasury of the world history, there are many prominent political leaders, who contributed significantly or changed the world. Every day we encounter names of those who preserved or betrayed nations. One of most widely discussed is notorious historical leader, Joseph Stalin, Russian soviet politician. Although Stalin’s contribution to industrialization of Soviet Union was immense, usually the name of this person elicits associations with war, hunger, and tyranny. In memories of millions of…