Moscow

Summer Olympics A tradition starting in ancient times as entertainment is now a phenomenal event for the whole world, all 6 continents. At the Summer Olympics, athletes competed and represent their country. From around the world athletes come from the four corners of the world to strive for gold, and few where a seconds can change their life. The Olympics have been around for countless years and have always been a world bonding event. The Summer Olympics have changed drastically since the first…

The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, popularly known as St. Basil Cathedral, is located in Moscow Russia. The Cathedral goes by many names but one of the first official names came from the capture of Kazan that occurred on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin. The Russians called it Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat. It later became known as what we call it today. The construction began in 1555 and was completed in 1561. For reasons unknown there was a fire that had…

The Life of Mr. Kandinsky Wassily (or Vassily) Kandinsky was born to his mother Lidia Ticheeva and father Vasily Kandinsky on December 16, 1866 in Moscow, Russia and at the age of five him and his family moved to Odessa. Kandinsky was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. He is best known for his abstract paintings and was part of the expressionism and abstract art movement in his lifetime. Kandinsky did not, however, just create art. As a young boy, he learned to play the…

Stanislavski Konstantin Stanislavski was born on the 5th of January 1863 and he died at the age of 75 and that year was 7th of August 1938. He was born is Moscow and also died in the same city of Moscow and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery. Stanislavski created a new way to preform acts and other parts of theatre, this way of theatre made its way all over the globe and is now one of the most used ways to preform acts at shows and other places. This new way of preforming was to make the…

The Soviet-Afghan war would go down in history as the Soviet Union’s “Vietnam war”, was an attempt by the Soviet Union to enforce the Brezhnev Doctrine—Which states that any country that becomes socialist, Moscow would never allow it to return to capitalist roots. This was the first time the Soviet Union had attacked any country outside of the Eastern bloc, and constituted worldwide condemnation. Among many major participants in this conflict, the United States would play an active yet…

on Finland soon came to the realize they could not hold off the Soviet Union’s military forces and were forced to give in and sign a peace treaty with the Soviet Union. The Moscow peace treaty essentially divided up a huge parts of Finland’s land to the Soviet Union. Afterwards “the entire Finnish people considered the Moscow peace a gross injustice but submitted to it and proceeded honestly to fulfill its terms” (Wuroinen, p. 81). However, the aid that Finland desperately needed came to the…

Fidel Castro Cuban Revolution Embargo Soviet Union Eisenhower Cuban Exiles JFK Bay of Pigs Air support Khrushchev Blockade Turkey Cuban Missile Crisis Agreements In 1959, Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba, Cuban Revolution. As a result of Castro taking over many of the American companies, America instituted an embargo against Cuba. However, Fidel castro began to accept help from the Soviet Union, both economic and military aid. Later on, in 1960, President Eisenhower agreed to let the CIA…

Hitler (Reader's Digest Association). Reluctantly, after months of urging from his generals to capture Moscow Hitler finally gave in, but he resumed the drive too late in the year and winter was about to wreak havoc (Reader's Digest Association). By the time they reached Moscow, the Nazi had confronted heavy resistance, and the resistance stopped the Germans everywhere on the front around Moscow (Reader's Digest Association). On December 6, General Georgi K. Zhukov of the Red Army attacked.…

Snowden flies from Hong Kong to Moscow to seek asylum. D. Snowden’s motive BODY I. One June 5, 2013, the British daily newspaper The Guardian reveals classified documents. A. Reveals how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered Verizon to hand over millions of phone call records…

On 18 December 1940 During the Second World War, Adolf Hitler authorized Operation Barbarossa which was Nazi Germany's code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler’s primary targets were seizing the Baltic region, Moscow and Ukraine to exterminate communism, eliminate the Soviet Unions as a military power and capture strategic resources needed to defeat Germany’s remaining rivals. “If I do not get the oil of Maikop and Grozny then I must finish this war. — Adolf Hitler” On 22 June…