General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Andrew Chen Ms. Bergen AP European History 4 June 2018 Josip Broz Tito: The Rebel Communist Josip Broz, more commonly known as Tito, was born on May 7, 1892 in the village of Kumrovec in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Croatia). He was the seventh of fifteen children in a large peasant family, with a Croat father and a Slovene mother. At the early age of seven, he began working on his family’s farm. He entered primary school in Kumrovec at…

and the Soviet Union but also within the country itself. The second wave of the Red Scare was a direct result of the Cold War and changed the overall moral of the country for a period of time. There were many cases that came as a direct result of the widespread panic and anxiety over the infiltration of Communist influence into society. Together, The Smith Act, Dennis versus U.S. and the HUAC hearings of the members of the entertainment industry embittered relations between social parties in…

Perestroika is widely regarded as one, if perhaps not the sole reason, that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or U.S.S.R, came to a dissolution on December 26th, 1991. The economic reforms that it pushed for and prompted are what allowed non-communist aspects to be incorporated into the Soviet Union and caused an uproar in political reforms such as Glasnost and the eventual fall of a traditional eastern communist system to a new western style capitalist system. To understand why…

of Gori, Georgia. He then joined the Social Democratic Labor Party and worked for the revolution. In 1905 he married his first wife, Yekaterina Svanidze. He had a child with her, but she died during labor in 1907. Then in 1917 the Russian revolution took place which put Stalin’s party in charge. At this time Lenin was the leader of the party, but Stalin was still an active member. This changed in 1922 when Stalin was appointed the General…

Germans and the Soviet Union during World War II was named the Battle of Stalingrad. “The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million,”(History.com Staff, Battle of Stalingrad) The Battle of Stalingrad was a huge turning point in World War II. This battle had two of the biggest forces in World War II. The battle was between the invading Germans and the defenders of their homeland, the Soviet Union. The…

the First World War Americans began to develop a fear communist subversion within American society, this fear became known as the Red Scare. This fear of communism was compounded during the Cold War because of the paranoid beliefs of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who developed a set of anit-communism ethos known as McCarthyism. The purpose of McCarthyism was to minimize the communist threat to America by accusing and detaining suspected communists by claiming that they were a national security…

Stalin was challenged by Leon Trotsky who was originally the next leader of Soviet Union. Lenin himself were sure that Trotsky were to follow his steps, thinking that Stalin would be too dangerous to hold such great power as the leader of the huge country and he also had stated in his Testament that he would abuse his powers if he…

East was also facilitated by various transnational contacts. These ideas made many people as well as states in the East to abandon the conservative ideas that they held on to. This subsequently contributed to the collapse of the influence of the Soviet Union and subsequent end of the cold war (Jervis, 2006). The end of the cold war can also be attributed to the economic successes that the West was registering. The economic successes were to a large extent more appealing to many of the states…

started reading the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx. He shortly got expelled for not doing his work, and instead got into the revolutionary against the Russian monarchy. He started to do things for the revolution, he was imprisoned many times. When he was in his 30's he changed his name from Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili, to Stalin…

The Soviet-Afghan War began with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on December 24, 1979, and ended with the withdrawal of Soviet forces on February 15, 1989. It was a war that had a global impact and indirectly led to the fall of the USSR. Afghanistan in the 50s and 60s, was a country that was beginning to modernize and industrialize with the help of both the Soviet Union and the United States. As animosity grew between the two world superpowers, the U.S. quickly created military ties with the…