Soviet Union

on the Soviet Union called operation Barbarossa. It was called Barbarossa in honer of German ruler Fredrick I. Fredrick I had orchestrated a ruthless attack on the Slavic (The Defeat of Hitler). The reason why Germany wanted to seize Soviet union for its prime land for long-term German settlement. Germany was at its strongest at its time with hundred fifty divisions, and three thousand tanks (Williamson Murray). Hitler then ordered a blitzkrieg but on a continental scale. Soviet union has…

America would find itself as the decade for American entertainment. movies, music, introduction to video games all being run by an actor out of Hollywood know as President Ronald Reagan. Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union or the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev would take the head of the office in the Soviet Union. Reagan and Gorbachev had different yet similar milestones to which they would attain the highest offices of their country. Reagan would serve as Governor of California, become president of the…

strength, or, as is seen more recently, through wealth and economic strength. After World War Two, America and the Soviet Union were the two most powerful nations on Earth. While many European countries had been torn apart by the war and in need of much rebuilding, the United States had thrived economically due to the industries that emerged to support the war effort. The Soviet Union…

Dr. Zhivago On September 5, 1958 the romantic novel “Dr. Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak was published in the U.S. The book had been banned in the Soviet Union but still won the Nobel Prize for Literature that same year. Boris Pasternak was born in Russia in 1890 and by the time the Russian Revolution broke out he had become a well-known avant-garde poet. His work was frowned upon during the 1920s and 1930s when under the communist regime Joseph Stalin put strict censorship on Russian art and…

The Cold War was a period of tension between the United States , Soviet Union and the Axis powers; Germany, Italy and Japan after World War 11. There was tension because the United States and Soviet Union did not want Communism and the Axis powers did. During this time period many people were in fear of the Red Scare, or Communism. Schools taught students to safely hide if there is a bomb or even a threat of one. People accused many others for being members of the Communist belief. They felt…

By the end of year 1933, three million children, along with 25% of the population of Ukraine, became deceased (The History Place Staff). Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Stalin mistakenly thought that the people of the Soviet Union wanted to start a revolution against him. Stalin took offence to this and deprived food from his own people. Stalin was a very feared man. If he felt like his people wanted to rebel against him, he sent them to labor camps.…

economics or trade, as exemplified by the European Union. When NATO was created, it signified a change in how the dynamics of the world would be adapting for the present time. Instead of relying on ones own strength as both a diplomat and military power, countries were uniting to create a more formidable force against any potential aggressors. The Warsaw Pact was a response to the underlying threat of what the NATO countries could threaten the Soviet Union…

farmers no longer owned that land. Maybe this would be a little more justifiable if Stalin had only done this to a small number of people, but he robbed 80% of the population of nearly everything. Some people tried to make an escape, to leave the Union, but Stalin blocked the roads, ruling out that…

Soviet occupation in Poland), and bolstered attacks, asserting on the USSR's behalf, their bent on world domination. The United States misconstrued Soviet intentions and assigned ‘world domination' as Stalin's main goal. With such a seemingly aggressive Soviet threat at hand, the U.S. utilized documents and speeches like Kennan's Long Telegram, Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech and the Truman doctrine to acknowledge the maturing Soviet menace. These three documents and declarations deepened the…

USSR also known as the Soviet Union. The war never got the point of any battlefield engagements. It lasted from 1947 to 1991 when the Soviet Union broke apart and many nations were formed from the broken alliance. The US and the soviets were neutral to each other until after World War II when both superpowers rose from the ashes of the war an got paranoid of their allies. In 1939 the Soviet Union engages in total war with the Axis. Though when the war ended in 1945 the soviets were stronger…