Soviet Union

Truman years 1. Why did relations between the United States and the Soviet Union deteriorate after World War II? The end of World War II brought the United States and the Soviet Union into conflict over the future of postwar Europe, especially Eastern Europe and Germany. At the end of the war, the Red Army occupied the majority of Eastern Europe, while American and British forces held Western Europe. Stalin and the Soviets viewed control of Eastern Europe as paramount to their future…

The Soviet Union agreed to Cuba’s request to ship nuclear missiles to them when the US started placing missiles in Turkey and Italy. Cuba requested the missiles because the Bay of Pigs incident, which was an American invasion in Cuba. Cuba was worried that there would be another attack. By May 1962, Cuba and the Soviet Union had agreed to secretly build missile installations and transport missiles to Cuba. The Americans…

Gorbachev came to power as the head of the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and during his time in office he introduced a series of reforms which were seen to contribute to the communist bloc’s disillusion. His primary reforms were economic and political, but the policies associated with Gorbachev were glasnost (publicity, openness), perestroika (restructuring), uskorenie (acceleration) and demokratizatsaiia (democratisation). The reforms were so destabilising as the economic reforms were…

employed by the US during that time. The cold war period occurred immediately after World War II, and it was mainly due to suspicion by states and the struggle for communism and capitalism. The two main players as is portrayed by the film were the Soviet Union and the United States. Caveat policy was one of the foreign policies that were employed by the US government during the cold war period. This is a policy in which the United States uses force to get its way. This is depicted clearly in…

Sometimes, people attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union to Khrushchev’s destalinization after Stalin’s death in 1953. Many also regard the USSR victory in the Great Patriotic War as the most brilliant success of the Soviet system. However, Juliane Furst demonstrates that the Soviet actually achieved a Pyrrhic victory, and the turning point of the history of the Soviet Union is years earlier than Khrushchev’s rise to power. She finds that the youths in the late Stalin era are the main force…

At first Russia had been successful with having a Tsar rule, but that soon turned into communist being in power. Then Russia had been a part of the Soviet Union. Although achieving many goals, the Soviet Union soon fell, and Russia elected Boris Yeltsin as president. He had done what he could to achieve the goals that the former Soviet Union couldn’t achieve, but even achieving greatness led him to drink heavily. Which led to the end of his term in office. Finally, Vladimir Putin was put the…

concentration camps. Stalin viewed many people in the Soviet Union to be his enemy. The fate of these people was to be either killed or sent to forced labor camps, known as the Gulags, due to a variety of reasons. Political leaders, wealthier peasants (known as kulaks), criminals of all types, and essentially anyone suspected of opposing Stalin’s rule were sent to these concentration camps to provide free labor for the benefit of the Soviet Union. Their primary tasks were in the production of…

The period from 1945 to 1991 is most commonly known as the “Cold War”. This was a time of fear and suspense. The arms race drove both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) to do drastic things to keep up with each other’s weapons. The cold war negatively affected the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R., and the world by taking money to spend on arms, giving some children ptsd, and by degrading and endangering the lives of many people. The cold war negatively affected the U.S.A…

Before the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union disagreed on almost every political and economic issues. From communism and nuclear weapons to the space race there was not a lot that the two sides agreed on. The Cold War occurred because of political tension and differences between the US and the USSR. The Cold War was given its name because of how the war was fought ("Military."). The Cold War was fought indirectly. This means that when the war took place, the US and the USSR did not…

On 18 December 1940 During the Second World War, Adolf Hitler authorized Operation Barbarossa which was Nazi Germany's code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler’s primary targets were seizing the Baltic region, Moscow and Ukraine to exterminate communism, eliminate the Soviet Unions as a military power and capture strategic resources needed to defeat Germany’s remaining rivals. “If I do not get the oil of Maikop and Grozny then I must finish this war. — Adolf Hitler” On 22 June…