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On no the Russians are coming. We must stop them!! After World War II, the United States and Soviet Union stood face to face. Capitalism, democracy, and freedom of expressions were against communism, dictatorship, and limited freedoms. Soviets wanted to enlarge. George Kennan was a US foreign service agent in Moscow, he suggested containment. Containment is the idea that the Soviet Union and Soviet Communism should not be allowed to spread. These three events clearly demonstrate the US's policy…

Since the establishment of the United States of America, the power of the President has increased dramatically and has continued to expand over time. Specifically regarding foreign policy, is where the power of the President has continued to expand over time. Presidential power has continued to expand for many reasons. First, presidents do not believe they need congressional approval with international legal sanction. Presidents Clinton and Bush both relied on international legal…

The Berlin wall Hi my name is Caleb and i am going to tell you about the Berlin wall. The Berlin wall was a guarded concrete wall that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 constructed by german democratic republic starting on 13th august 1961, the wall completely cut off land west Berlin From bordering east Germany and from east Berlin until government officials opened in november 1989 its deconstruction officially began in 13th of june 1990 and complete 1992…

When looking at the Soviet Union in the 1930s, the establishment of Stalinism immediately comes to mind. During this period of time, the Soviet Union was a victim of many misfortunes and encountered many external threats. The Soviet Union was at this time a diplomatically isolated Soviet Union trying to triumph Communism but the Comin tern, composed of a group of the communist working class ordered the communist party to help the Nazi (National Socialist German Workers' Party) who were an…

A period of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War acted as a key period in world history. The Cold War lasted from 1945 through 1991. Through numerous clashes coming from the spreading of communist ways, both the U.S. and Soviet Union indirectly fought each other. During this period, the two nations attempted to negate the other’s ability to have an impact on conflicts. In my opinion, the “Cold War” was not very much a cold war at all. Even though indirectly, the…

The “Cold War” as a term refers to the hostilities, tension, and competition that defined the relationship between Western powers and the Soviet Union. With a particular interest in the relations between the American government and that of the Soviets, the war presented a single cause of conflict that saw both nations view the other as a possible threat in the post-Second World War period. Notably, the countries did not prepare for the Cold War as they did for the Great War in which existing…

Czechoslovakia was a satellite state of the Soviet Union and one that was considered the model satellite state. Antonin Novotny, the first secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, was replaced by Alexander Dubcek in January of 1968. Dubcek represented the moderate reform element in the party and as a Slovak he also represented the Slovak interests that had been neglected. However, changes in Soviet rule over the Czechs allowed changes to be made in Czechoslovakia. For example, during…

How did the U.S. Contain Communism? Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Soon after World War II ended on April 25, 1945, at the the Elbe River, the U.S. soon found themselves in political tensions with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union and the United States had major differences. The Soviet Union, under Stalin's…

After the end of the second World War, the fragile alliance between the United States and the USSR (otherwise known as the Soviet Union) was quickly shattered. This was due to a dislike of how one country disliked the other’s form of government of how they ran their country, secrets to the devastating atomic bomb, and the ultimate fear of being attacked by one or another. The dissolution of this frangible friendship is what lead to the forty-five year long rivalry between the United States and…

For 30 years, the Berlin Wall was the central symbol of the Cold War that separated families and keep opportunities in the West bloc from those in the East bloc. The wall was built by the Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev to prevent the East Germany defectors from crossing the border over to the more booming West Germany. Specifically, the wall was built all the way around West Berlin. The American-British-French…