Soviet Union

superpowers after WWII; the US and the Soviet Union. It is a clash of two different ideologies – capitalism and communism. It is the tension between the Soviet’s insistence on security and control in Eastern Europe versus the US and Britian’s desire for open and democratic societies. The Soviet Union was responsible for the cold war for it’s eagerness to spread communism, and it’s rejection towards the Marshall plan and its use of violence for achieving it’s goal. The Soviet Union’s rapid…

realization that the Soviet Union was less dangerous and more capable than the West had previously understood. Kissinger thought that the Soviet Union would think it necessary for security reasons to cooperate with the US, because the Soviet Union at this point was economically stagnant, had recently split with China and had to deal with the rising tensions in Eastern Europe1. All of these factors, Kissinger thought would lead to a time of cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United…

world at the time: the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The U.S. wanted to contain communism while the Soviet Union wanted to spread it, causing conflict. The cold war lasted from “Roughly from the end of World War II in 1945 to 1991” (Cubanmisslecrisis.org). The Cuban missile crisis began when Fidel Castro began a revolution to overthrow the Cuban government. Eventually he was successful and now he had a choice; he could side with America or the Soviet Union. Castro began nationalizing…

Perestroika is widely regarded as one, if perhaps not the sole reason, that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or U.S.S.R, came to a dissolution on December 26th, 1991. The economic reforms that it pushed for and prompted are what allowed non-communist aspects to be incorporated into the Soviet Union and caused an uproar in political reforms such as Glasnost and the eventual fall of a traditional eastern communist system to a new western style capitalist system. To understand why…

took place during 1989 in Eastern Europe. Moreover, this particular event was crucial to the sudden changes that unfolded in the Soviet Union, both in terms in domestic issues and international relations with the West. The fall of the Berlin Wall and its repercussions prompted three major changes for the Soviet Union: a separation in interests between the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, institutional and political consequences resulting from these separate interests, and how the West…

the Cold War and American dominance and control in the Middle East. The book provides the reader with a compelling case that the U.S. and the Soviet Union involvement in the Middle East provided the basis for the complete break down of democracy in the region and lead to not only regional conflict but global conflict. The effects that U.S. and Soviet Union intervention are not only still felt today but are felt all over the world. In Sowing Crisis Khalidi begins by saying that the Cold War…

about the Soviet Union we immediately must talk about the following factors that apply to it. The first factor has to be the impact of Soviet federalism on the non-Russian peoples. The other factor is what the Soviet Union did to the surrounding countries. We will discuss whether or not the Soviet Union created nations, harmed nations, or both. Two important historians will help shape my argument and maybe even each other’s. Whether it was a positive or not, the fact of the matter is Soviet…

Brought Down the Soviet Union The 1980s was a pivotal era in world history. After decades of America’s failed containment policies which strengthened and helped spread Communism across the globe, a change in direction was desperately needed. Ronald Reagan fundamentally shifted American foreign policy as president, which in turn, greatly influenced the collapse of the “evil empire” by the early nineties. Although the Reagan Administration did not live to see the collapse of Soviet Communism,…

to racing against the technological advances of the USA, the Soviet Union constantly maintained its position as a great power in the world throughout the twentieth century. Under Stalin’s dictatorship, nationalistic propaganda and anti-capitalist sentiments inundated the people, spurring the country into the cold war. As World War II ended and the new cold war began, Stalin’s tightening grip on the government was felt across the Soviet nation as labor camps reopened, artists denounced, and…

Germany had been divided into two, the Berlin Wall was built to stop the flow of East Germans who went to East Berlin and the opposite way. The wall was made of steel and lots of traps and explosives. Churchill called The wall the Iron Curtain. The Soviet sector became East Berlin the capital of East Germany and West Germany Bonn. In 1967 students demanding reforms in education and politics of West Germany demonstrated. Over West Germany regained some economic stability. East Berlin was an…