Joseph Stalin

George Kennan was particularly critical of the Soviet's Communist ideology and also the way in which the Soviet leaders ran their country. He begins his argument by criticising the fanatical views of the Soviet leaders, as their fantasy of grandeur and power resulted in them being far too jealous to imagine there being a greater international power in the world sphere than themselves. All competing power was to be eradicated, and past the border of the Soviet Union, all other nations were…

Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact was founded in Warsaw, Poland on March 14th, 1955. The Warsaw Pact was a Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance. This mostly revolves around “Western Germany, which is being remilitarized, and her inclusion in the North Atlantic bloc, which increases the danger of a new war and creates a threat to the national security of peace-loving states.” The passage was referring to the decision by the US and other members of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty…

Name: Institution: Question: Explain why Canada joined NATO in 1949 and evaluate its role in NATO up to 1967? Introduction The vital motivation behind the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was to defend the freedom and security of every member who had signed the treaty in Europe and North America (Kaplan, 2003). To accomplish this, the Alliance utilized both its political impact and its military ability to secure its signatories (Beloff & Spencer, 1960). Brief History of Canada and NATO…

Russia is using this plate as propaganda for the Communist revolution. The worker and the factory in the background are painted red to symbolize that the production facilities are government owned rather than ran as a capitalist system. “The former Imperial Porcelain Factory, founded in 1744, worked exclusively for the Russian Royal Family and Imperial Court. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the factory was renamed the State Porcelain Factory”…

Europe’s economy to that of the USSR. -This aid would prevent Eastern European countries to rely on American aid and instead reorganize their trade with the Soviet Union. -Stalin feared the US, thus believed that the USSR needed a barrier between Soviet territory and the US’s allies in Western Europe, the capitalist nations. -Stalin feared a Western invasion of Russia from Europe as had occurred in 1918 (during the Russian Civil War) and in the Second World War (from Nazi Germany).…

“Life has become better; life has become more fun” (166). This is the chant that Stalin forced his people under his rule to proclaim…including the Ukrainians during the period of 1932-1933. During this time, the question of whether or not a mass starvation of an entire country of people would be considered as a true case of genocide? This has been the debate for the last half-century between the Communist Party in the Soviet Union and the Ukrainians.“The authorities of the period denied that a…

as allies against the Axis powers. After World War II tensions between the United States and Soviet Union, lasted for much of the second half of the 20th century. Americans had been cautious of Soviet's communism and concerned about their leader, Joseph Stalin’s. The war among the US, and Soviet Union was called the Cold War which neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wanted to openly fight each other because they were afraid of each other’s power. America and the Soviets had fought on…

During World War 2 (1939-1945), the rationality was that the Soviet Union and the USA were allies because they were fighting towards the same enemy – Nazi Germany. From this it was thought that after the war, the two forces would have a firm relationship. Yet the appearance of this was a powerful illusion. Once Germany surrendered in 1945, by 1947 the U.S openly formulated a policy of ‘Containment’ and at the beginning of 1948 the Cold War had soar. Containment was the plan to diminish the rise…

It can be said that the biggest force that divided the West and the East was the different political views between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The United States were capitalist, and had a democratic government. They believed that an individuals right’s included economic freedom which can be seen as a free-market. On the other had, the Soviet Union were communist, and they had a totalitarian government. The state had control and owned all the properties and…

without much effort, Germany was ready for even greater blitzkrieg. In addition, Hitler’s “Final Solution” to eradicate the Jewish population proceeded with increased ferocity. Yet, the people in the Soviet Union were unaware of German atrocities. Stalin entered the treasonous pact with Hitler in 1939, and the press, acting on the Party’s directions, did not cover crimes committed against Jewish population in…