Sino-Soviet split

Hannah Arendt, a political theorist, once said “The masses have to be won by propaganda.” This quote exemplifies one of the ruling methods utilized by both Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin ruled Russia from 1924 to 1953, while Adolf Hitler ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. Given that Joseph Stalin ruled for more years than Adolf Hitler, one may reasonably conclude that the impact of Stalin’s rule would be greater than that of Hitler. However, Hitler was much more impactful on his…

“I came here tonight and I didn 't know what to expect. I seen a lot of people hate me and I didn 't know what to feel about that so I guess I didn 't like you much none either,” a line uttered by Rocky Balboa to an audience full of Soviets after defeating the powerhouse Russian boxer, Ivan Drago. Films of the 1980’s relating to the Cold War era influenced culture in the United States more clearly than any other historical era depicted on the silver screen. It is important to know the background…

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -George Santayana This quote best exemplifies the allegory Animal Farm written by George Orwell. It shows that Napolean forgot about all the mistakes that Farmer Jones made and he committed them himself. Many of Napolean’s bad decisions and selfishness led the farm to even worst situations. The Russian Revolution is very similar to Animal Farm because both events resulted in the overthrowing of the government due to many reasons…

Hitler had been planning for a war long before he rose to power with a master plan for the domination of Europe outlined in his book Mein Kampf (1925) and Zwietes Buch (1928). His plans were to unite Germans under one empire, conquer Eastern Europe, end the Treaty of Versailles, create a national army, and exclude Jews from society, which were all causes for war. Hitler’s intentions were demonstrated in the Hossbach Memorandum, but some claim, including James Sheehan, that it was a strategy to…

It caused the death of Over 5.1 million Soviet troops captured over 3.5 million died in captivity The last reason that it was worth the lives lost since Germany did what it needed to do Directive 21 stressed that victory must be achieved quickly. "We have only to kick in the door and the whole…

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”1 This statement was made by Robert Oppenheimer after the first successful atomic bomb test at Los Alamos, New Mexico. At approximately 08:15 AM on 6 August 1945, the way in which states viewed conflict was forever changed in a dramatic fashion. On that day a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing around 80,000 people instantly. Only three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, causing the…

too easy on them (313).” Truman was known for being very stern with Soviet leaders and there was often tension and strong animosity between him and Stalin. On March 12, 1947 can be described as Truman’s final boiling point. It was the day America became involved in the Cold War. In an ongoing back and forth battle (nonmilitary) between the United States as well as Soviet Union, more and more tensions grew on either side. The Soviets, over time, were slowly collapsing and when Mikhail Gorbachev…

In 1985, the Soviet Union had been in a period of stagnation for almost two decades, and before that it had gone through poorly planned reforms in the Khrushchev era. Once Brezhnev had his time in leadership, the country needed to make some drastic changes. By 1985, the USSR had fallen in culture and overall quality of life, the economy was in intense disrepair, and the Communist Party leadership had become ineffective. Gorbachev’s reforms, including perestroika and glasnost, were the major…

European Study Guide Adam Smith: Economist and philosopher who wrote : "bible of capitalism," The Wealth of Nations, in which he details the first system of political economy (concepts of division of labor and economic wealth). This was his first work dedicated to the study of political economy Economics of the time were dominated by the idea that a country’s wealth was best measured by its store of gold and silver. Smith proposed that a nation’s wealth should be judged not by this metric…

different circumstance. The Soviet Union during the first World War had one objective: to assimilate the entirety of the world into Stalinist communism*. After the war was over, clearly the Soviet Union had failed in its objective. Because it already had questionable relations with both the United Nations and the United States, it decided to continue with its nefarious plans. The United States, being the justice- seeking nation that it always is, attempted to stop the Soviet Union. In the…