Soviet partisans

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…

novel, Orwell uses satire to describe what life was like during the Russian Revolution. The novel contained many different symbols to represent the Russian Revolution. In the allegorical novel, it is viewed for the rise and decline of socialism in the Soviet Union. George Orwell incorporated symbols into his novel that are significantly related to what happened during the Russian Revolution. Some of the many symbols in the novel include the pigs, Animalism, and the Windmill. These all…

During World War 2, the Soviet Union and the United States were still allies fighting against Germany and other Axis powers. At the end of World War 2, people could start seeing that both allies had many differences. The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union eventually became known as the Cold war. Both sides didn’t have any weapons physically, but they did economically and socially wise. They both used propaganda, they engaged in spying, and they had different ideas to gain an…

they were no longer needed. It is estimated that the pharmaceutical industry alone laid off 27,000 jobs in 1993, showing the drastic number of jobs created in this industry alone. Biochemist, Dr. Richard L. Chappel said at the time that, “After the Soviet Union launched the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the United States gave scientists a substations amount of money for the fear that they would lose the Cold War.” This shows the need and want of scientists in the US at the time. It has been…