Soviet Union

America and the Soviet Union- two superpowers who came out on top after World War II, were engaged in a conflict for nearly forty five years called The Cold War. Essentially, America and the Soviet Union were on the brink of a full-scale war during this time, which would’ve resulted in a nuclear war that has the capability to end life as we know it. One of the most dangerous situations America has ever dealt with in history was the Cuban Missile Crisis. In The Cold War, 1962 was when the…

start with the general idea of the relation of the cold war and space exploration as a whole and will work my way in figuring out why those reasons of competition then union amongst the powerful nations of the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States. The Cold War cause a terrible fear between the United States and the Soviet Union and competition, but what was it that caused that. Effects of the Cold War included competition between the nations whether they were weapons, marine technology,…

would lead to the end of the Cold War and bring down the "Iron Curtain" only five years later. The reforms, called Perestroika and Glasnost, gave the Soviet-controlled countries more free will, which led to chain events resulting in countries pulling away from communism one by one. On December 25 1991, the world watched on in amazement as the Soviet Union officially disintegrated into 15 separate countries. Mikhail Gorbachev 's reforms, namely Perestroika and Glasnost, ultimately eased tensions…

War This was a time of political, economic and military rivalry between USSR and the US. This happens after the Second World War in which problems arose due to ever-changing international power. The Soviet Union was aiming to get extra land while the United States was trying to prevent the Soviet Union from gaining what they wanted. The war was cold because the United States and the USSR used not to fight each other in a directly military conflict, instead they threaten each other by wiping…

years from 1955 to 1960, the United States of America developed and utilized U-2 aircraft to scout the military information of the Soviet Union. On May 1st, 1960, Khrushchev issued a decree for the Soviet missile troops to bring down a U-2 aircraft. This event is known as the famous U-2 Incident. Even though this offensive move maintained the sovereignty of the Soviet Union and the dignity of international law, the influence of this incident is far reaching by creating tension between the…

Stalin’s death in 1953 transformed the Soviet Communism and way of life in many different ways. Essentially, the transformation of Soviet life after the Thaw can be said to have undergone three phases: introduction of reforms during Khrushchev’s era, the Brezhnev stagnation, and Gorbachev reforms that ultimately led to the Soviet Union dissolving in 1991. When Nikita Khrushchev rose to power, he made significant reforms including policies of peace between the Soviet and other nations and…

Since the 1920s, Soviet communist advisors had been sent to help the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) become organized and carry out the communist revolution, but the Soviet communist advisors’ advice almost led to the complete and utter destruction of the Chinese communists at the hands of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party, hereafter KMT). Another issue between the two parties was the fact that Mao based his communism on the idea of the mobilization of the Chinese peasantry, which was not…

Films of the 1980s seemed to all have one reoccurring theme, conflicts against the Soviet Union. In the mid-1980s, as tensions between the U.S and USSR was reaching an all-time high, a sense of fear started to grow amongst Americans. Films of this decade not only aided the morale of people but also were strong factors in shaping general belief. The film…

perfectly states how the Cold War was not only a tragedy for the United States and the Soviet Union, but also for the entire world. It also tells how the United States and the Soviet Union were not thinking about the problems that would appear when they “declared” war on one another. The Cold War was an ongoing feud between the two greatest and strongest countries in the world that ultimately led to the fall of the Soviet Union. It has an…

States and the Soviet Union. Arne Westad argues that “the Cold War was a continuation of colonialism through slightly different means” (Westad, 396). I believe this statement is a description of World War II’s colonialism ways transitioning onto another international conflict; the Cold War. The Cold War began as a disagreement between the Soviet Union and America when it came to communism. The Soviet Union was afraid of America’s atomic weapons, as America was afraid of the Soviet Union’s…