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    The Nonaggression Pact

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    nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, which Hitler found not a true ally or enemy. However, Hitler strongly disliked communist and the Soviet Union believes in communism. Adolf Hitler set his hate aside towards the communist and tied to build a better relationship. While the deceptive motives of the Nonaggression Pact provided peace between Germany and the Soviet Union, it led to the start of World War II to the invasion of Poland and later the invasion of the Soviet Union. To begin, the…

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    Russian Revolution and mainly research about Stalin, represented in the book as Napoleon, the leader of Animal Farm and my favourite character. Because I was so intrigued by Napoleon’s character I decided in this book task to contrast him with the Soviet dictator Stalin. Napoleon, a boar, is the leader of Animal Farm and as described in the book “not much of a talker”. Accompanied by a pig named Snowball he led the animal rebellion against their farmer Mr. Jones. Not long after the animals…

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    Cuba viewed the United States as a threat to their national security (Medina, 2003). Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev devised a secret agreement with Fidel Castro, assuring Cuba that their borders will be defended for and protected from the United States. The Soviet Union began to ship ballistic missiles to Cuba in May 1960. The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) analysis of Aerial surveillance that showed Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba was disseminated to U.S. President John F. Kennedy…

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    perfectly states how the Cold War was not only a tragedy for the United States and the Soviet Union, but also for the entire world. It also tells how the United States and the Soviet Union were not thinking about the problems that would appear when they “declared” war on one another. The Cold War was an ongoing feud between the two greatest and strongest countries in the world that ultimately led to the fall of the Soviet Union. It has an…

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    Missile Crisis was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. Fifty years ago the United States and the Soviet Union stood closer to Armageddon than at any other moment in history. In October 1962 President John F. Kennedy was informed of a U-2 spy-plane’s discovery of Soviet nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba. The President resolved immediately that this could not stand. Over an intense 13 days, he and his Soviet counterpart Nikita Khrushchev confronted each other “eyeball to eyeball,” each with the power…

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    Hitler, dictator of Germany, had invaded Europe quickly and aggressively. America was adamant about staying out of the war, until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, a peaceful Sunday morning. In 1942, Germany invaded the USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The USSR, led by Stalin, begged America to come help, but the United States stalled and stayed in England to prepare for an invasion in 1944. Although the United States had lost a devastating amount of people…

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    was a thirteen day military and nuclear standoff of the government of America and the Soviet Union and Cuba. The standoff began on the day of October 16, 1962 when a low flying spy plane called a U2 took pictures of soviet missile launch sites in Cuba 90 miles south of Florida. The whole world was worried because of the Soviets the world was on the brink of nuclear war and not just between the US and Soviet Union. This crisis almost caused a third world war although it was resolved by simple…

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    claim that the Soviet Union lost the Cold War Introduction With the disintegration of Soviet Union, the Cold War era, which lasted as long as 40 years, had come to an end. The last Soviet Premier Gorbachev, ironically, been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after his failed reformation and governance in Soviet Union, which, to put it the other way round, could been seen as affirmation for his struggle to pave the way for nuclear agreement and open the seriously bureaucratic Soviet Union to the…

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    WWII had ended. The Soviets had control over the nation of Hungary. Hungarians were not happy about the change of government and wanted a change. The demonstrations started as a demonstration by some college students. The demonstration grew to thousands of followers. The demonstrations became very violent and the revolt against the Soviet government spread throughout Hungary. The Hungarians fought the soviets until early November, the result was 2500 hungarians died and 700 soviet Troops died. A…

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    Iron Curtain

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    The Cold War, the post World War II period of hostility and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, in many ways began before World War II even ended. The United States and the Soviet Union had opposing ideological principles that separated the countries. The United States accepted capitalist society while the Soviet Union believed in communism. Nevertheless, the US and USSR were allies during the second half of World War II, united in their epic struggle to defeat the Nazis.…

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