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under the leadership of Hitler. Adolf Hitler became the German dictator. WWII then began as the Allies felt that the spread of fascism and undemocratic practices needed to be halted. At this time, the Allies included both the United States and the Soviet Union; they were fighting on the same side, as the Big Three with Great Britain. After WWI, Stalin began to turn his back on promises he had made to the Allies at…

be divided into East and West Germany between the Yalta Big Three – Franklin D. Roosevelt (United States), Winston Churchill (United Kingdom), and Josef Stalin (Soviet Union). This territorial division resulted in Germany being separated politically. The German Democratic Republic, commonly referred to as East Germany, was under the Soviet Union’s influence, and they were ruled under communism. The Federal Republic of Germany, commonly referred to as West Germany, was under the Allies’…

There was the Soviet Bloc, which later, after the Korean War, solidified into the Warsaw pact, The U.S. led NATO, and also a group of non-aligned states. Intermixed with these huge alliances were other smaller ones mainly between the two superpowers and other smaller…

President to remember for the many exquisite actions he did while in the White House. As told by Margret Thatcher, Reagan solved the pressing issues, that comes with presidency, with grace. From the “domestic pressure or when his allies came under Soviet, Reagan was “firm and unyielding”. Continuing to relive the heyday of President Reagan, Thatcher goes on to describe her dear old friend as “great” repeating the adjective to truly express how amazing he was. While “enemies testes Americans…

during the war. Through my paper, I intend to answer the historical question, “What happened to the Polish people during World War II, not only at the hands of the Germans, but also the Soviets?” Therefore, my topic will be to compare and contrast the genocide and mass slaughter conducted by the Germans and the Soviet Union on the people of Poland, following the fall of Warsaw and the division of Poland in 1939. As a way of explanation, I plan to discuss the relocation of Poles into— and…

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…

Q1. New Economic Policy: Leonid Brezhnev During the 1920’s, Vladimir Lenin was in charge of what he had recently renamed, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This was a time of distress for the people of the USSR. Famine had struck and the majority of the population was starving in many cases it even led to death. Lenin’s response in aiding the economic situation was to implement his “New Economic Policy”. Although Lenin’s ideologies truly lied in communism, he was willing to leave…

to communism from spreading throughout Europe. This was mostly directed towards the Soviet Union, because they, “had sought a warm-water port on the Mediterranean, mandating control of the Black Sea Straits”. (Kissinger). So the Allies goal was to contain communism into just the Soviet Union, and not throughout Western Europe. Some people blame the containment policy for starting the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. There are three different standpoints, represented by…

with the Soviet Union. After the fall of Nazi’s regime, the Soviets were forcing their influence of communism and military control over the region. While the white house insisted that the European nation should follow the American path by open their minds the ideas about democracy and free trade business. In contrast, the Soviets were determined to…

Primarily a war between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War proved a dark mark in international history. With a clear and distinct line drawn, the United States fought for capitalist principles while the Soviet Union for communist goals. Through proxy wars, wars incited by major powers utilizing external strife to attack each others interests, the United States and Soviet Union battled. Two examples of proxy wars during the Cold War include the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The…