Premier of the Soviet Union

war over religion. Looking at the world through a different perspective, as well as comparing and contrasting is required to prevent a war like this from happening. An example of a war over a different set of beliefs is the American-Soviet Union cold war. The Soviets believed that communism was the ideal government, “where there would be no class systems” ensuring that no people are above others, and making sure that “everyone no matter how poor gets an education” (Chief Editor). While Americans…

in to following him in his nationalist communist revolution. The signing of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance in February 1950 seemed like an alliance of two shared ideologies, Mao however, did not ally with the USSR due to this reason. China consequentially allied with the USSR and had secured themselves strong economic links and national security, which was Mao’s aim rather than a Communist Union. The attempt to forge…

destalinization riots succeed and the Hungarian rebellion fail during the Cold War? The scope of this investigation is Hungary and Poland in 1956. Two sources that help answer this question are a memorandum of a meeting from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (the CPSU Politburo) and an article authored by Johanna Granville named “1956 Reconsidered: Why Hungary and Not Poland?”. Both encompass the two cases of Hungary and Poland and show the different relationships and how it might have…

John F Kennedy As mentioned throughout the textbook, “ Kennedy close advisers believed that Eisenhower’s foreign policy establishment was stultified, slow moving, overly reliant on brinksmanship and massive retaliation, and complacent” (pg.675). They feared the State Department would be unable to implement a new international vision. Even though many felt as such, Kennedy was determined to control foreign policy through a young energetic staffer who was capable of making their own informal…

This was a war fought without engaging in full armed combat and is a war that is still fought today. Although the Soviet Union and the United States fought as allies during World War II, the relationship between the two powerful nations had become tense which then resulted in fighting for supremacy. Europe was the first battleground of the Cold War, especially in Germany. The Soviets built the Berlin Wall as a solution to separate Berlin from East Germany…

assassinated because he posed as an imminent threat to them, showing that he had goals of disbanding their entire agency. Secondly, the KGB and Soviet Union seeked the President’s death as he had forced them out of Cuba, destroying their morale and general respect, all while proceeding to secretly get closer to winning the Cold War. By killing the President, the Soviet Union would have gotten the upper-hand in the war, and would regain some sort of self-pride. Lastly, the Mafia despised Kennedy…

As World War II concludes, another war begins for America. Unusually, this war will be fought with no direct military campaigns between its primary adversaries, the United States and the Soviet Union. America fears that the Soviets push to globalize communism is a direct attack on America and democracy; therefore, the U.S. utilizes their Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to coordinate covert operations in an effort contain the threat of world domination. Consequently, the conflict becomes known…

was merely a compromise. Thus came the German Question. No one would give in and agree to unify Germany, especially the United States and the Soviet Union because the Cold War had just begun. The U.S. was afraid that if they gave in then communism would spread. At the time, leader of East Germany, Walter Ulbricht, wanted to stay in power and have a Soviet style economy, which is why the USSR refused to give in. Finding an answer to the German Question would be one of the driving factors behind…

homeland, often criticising composers who left after the revolution, he was also very critical of the social injustice present in their new society (Bryner 1). He had become such an important figure in Russia, due to his music’s popularity, that the soviet government attacked him and his music, being incredibly critical and even blacklisting Shostakovich for many years. Shostakovich…

Joseph Stalin watched the fall of the Romanovs, the rise of communism, helped win a world war, and killed millions of his own people. All of this started December 18, 1879, the day he was born. Originally he was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Born to a poor family with an abusive father his mother encouraged him to become a priest. She enrolled him do so he enrolled in a school. However in 1899 he dropped out and left his hometown of Gori, Georgia. He then joined the Social Democratic…