Leonid Brezhnev

30,000 European students protested this war. Some of these protests led to violence because of such radical opinions. The Soviet Union made a few significant changes by Leonid Brezhnev was not for the changes in experimentation. He created a Doctrine that stated they could intervene if socialism was vulnerable. Poland had its own reform which they called Solidarity which was a labor union. The economic problems in Eastern…

Containment Policy (1945)- Containment was part of the US policy to stop Communism from spreading. During this time, the Soviet Union had gained control over multiple Eastern European countries. The Soviet Union was also planning to take over Greece and Turkey; however, President Truman supplied military and economic help until this threat went away. George Kennan, from the State Department, then called for the Containment Policy to prevent the spread of Communism. In order to also prevent the…

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, which are more well known under common parlance as the S.A.L.T, were conferences between the U.S.A and the former Soviet Union that were used to create a detente between nations and a decrease of nuclear missile counts and a halt to nuclear weapons production. This essay will show the people and places that took part in the conferences, how the conferences were caused by multiple problems and created multiple solutions, and answer the question of what…

Significance: Xiaoping left behind many of the communist doctrines and brought in components of the free-enterprise system into the economy. He developed reforms that were able to restore China back to economic growth and stability. 19. Term: Leonid Brezhnev/1906-1982 Definition: First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and President of the Soviet…

succeed at doing. Mikhail Gorbachev would create reforms that he hoped would help save the Soviet Union; instead, it would do the complete opposite, it would end up destroying and breaking up the Soviet Union. It all began during the rule of Leonid Brezhnev and the…

The end of the Second World War brought an economic and political crisis to the Soviet Union. The Cold War added forty-five years of geopolitical tension between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. The Soviet Union and the United States of America fought as allies in the Second World War. However, their relationship during the war was simply the result of having Nazi Germany as a mutual enemy. Rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States of America to become the…

what is now known as the Reagan Doctrine. Leonid Brezhnev, a man who molded himself in the shadow of Stalin and was responsible for the death of millions, ruled unchallenged in the Soviet Union. He also desired expansionist policies for the Soviet Union just as Stalin did. In fact, Brezhnev suggested that once a country became communist, any attempt to reverse that would fail, either through the people’s will or through military force. Known as the Brezhnev Doctrine, it went unopposed in the…

In 1945, delegates from fifty countries, formed a global league that they named a United Nations. The charter’s mission wanted human rights, equal rights for men and women and to promote social progress for larger freedom. After WWII, America was rich and productive, and Russia was destroyed but they had the biggest army in the world; they also reached out to other smaller countries, making sure they bordered off Germany completely. The West and the East of Germany were fighting for power,…

History Final The Communist Manifesto The Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and published on February 21, 1848. The Manifesto is a call to arms against capitalism and the bourgeoisie. They illustrate in simple terms so everyone can understand, that with the overthrow of unequal hierarchies of feudalism, came a split between classes because of capitalism. They state “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps - the…

transformed from a peasant society to a military superpower. Khrushchev’s leadership marked a return in Soviet politics to Leninist policies and a firm rejection of Stalinist techniques. Through a series of high ranking leaders that followed, such as Brezhnev and Gorbachev, the Soviet Union diverged from Stalinist methods and transitioned to a system of managerial Leninism, heavy bureaucratism, and attempted transparency. There were several key internal and external factors which allowed for…