Sino-Soviet split

This was meant to keep the people in the communist Berlin in, and if any attempted to leave they were executed immediately. On the other side of the wall was a capitalist nation which the residents in the Soviet Union longed to be in. Finally, in 1991 the Cold War was brought to an end as the Berlin War was torn down bringing the “prisoners” of Berlin together with the rest of what is now Russia. A decade of peace stretched from the end of the Cold War to…

How do you prevent something from spreading further than it already has without damaging the surrounding area and the area already contaminated. After World War ii Russia, Britain, France, and the U.S had split germany in 4ths, alongside it capital. After the years following all 4, except Russia had given up their shares. Russia, then later began to block roader leading to their share and along side the capital, which lay in Russia’s territory. After much time it was clear that Russia was no…

States of America and the Soviet Union have been direct competition and rival for longer than 15 years. The Cold War period reflects the intense military and political tension between the two world superpowers, significant conflicts such as the Berlin Blockade in 1948, the “fall” of China to communism due to the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War in the 1950s, and also Berlin Crisis in 1961, increased the tension between the anti-communist America and the communist Soviet Union. Unlike some other…

The significance of War Communism implemented by the Bolshevik Party from 1918-1921 can be measured in a number of different ways such as how it represented an important turning point for the Soviet Union, how it affected many Russian people and their lives, how it led to other important events, the impact it had on industry and the economy and how it had long-term political consequences. Although War Communism was significant for all those reasons mentioned above it was most significant because…

and the place is the infamous Communist Bloc. The Communist Bloc is a collection of Eastern European countries that were either “persuaded” or simply influenced by the Communist Soviet Union. The Communist Bloc was all because of what happened in World War II. What happened in World War II was the Germans attacked Soviet Russia after a very recent non-aggression pact. So instead of leaving themselves open to be attacked again, they made a buffer for themselves out of Eastern European countries.…

of the Soviet Union? Once, it was America’s greatest opponent in the arms and space race: the iconic communistic government. Nonetheless, in time, the Soviet Union crumbled but not without leaving behind a legacy. One of its main legacies was the creation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea. Named the Hermetic State, it stands as one of the few totalitarian countries today. However, the current regime in North Korea would not have come to life had there been no Soviet…

business, and where Anne and her sister attended school. Although Anne did not like school, she had a passion for writing. When Anne was four years old, Adolf Hitler took office, and later having more power than anyone in the country as he controlled the Soviet Army (Holocaust encyclopedia). Anne was thirteen years old when she when she received her first diary (Anne Frank A Hidden Life).In her first couple of entries she wrote about her everyday life (Anne Frank Museum Amsterdam). Hitler…

Totalitarianism is the absolute control of people by a government or person. Totalitarianism restricts freedom and liberty. Totalitarianism controls the people. It controls their actions, opinions, life, speech, and happiness. Totalitarianism is a form of slavery, but there is not much rebellion. North Korea, Nazi Germany, USSR is all totalitarian countries. They all repress and oppress rights, but rebellion is not prominent. Oceana and the Republic of Gilead are both fictional dystopian…

The most influential person in European history was a man who only ruled his country for eleven years. Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, accomplished more in these eleven years than many men had in their entire lives. Khrushchev had a huge impact on history during the Cold War era, and many things might be different today if he had never been in a leadership role. The innovations that were made in the USSR under his command, were innovations that would send the…

stage trials, as Seventeen Moments In Soviet History states, “The Great Terror was punctuated by three elaborately staged show trials of former high-ranking Communists. In July-August 1936 Lev Kamenev, Grigorii Zinoviev, and fourteen others were convicted of having organized a Trotskyite-Zinovievite terrorist center that allegedly had been formed in 1932 and was held responsible for the assassination of Sergei Kirov in December 1934,” (Seventeen Moments In Soviet History, 2015). Because of his…