Soviet Union

The end of World War II introduced nuclear weapons to the world, little did they know it would be the cause of their next conflict, the Cold War. The Cold War was a non-violent struggle for power between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the current president at that time, Ronald Reagan, were trying to resolve their conflict peacefully. The leader that was primarily responsible for ending the Cold War was Mikhail Gorbachev,…

“I came here tonight and I didn 't know what to expect. I seen a lot of people hate me and I didn 't know what to feel about that so I guess I didn 't like you much none either,” a line uttered by Rocky Balboa to an audience full of Soviets after defeating the powerhouse Russian boxer, Ivan Drago. Films of the 1980’s relating to the Cold War era influenced culture in the United States more clearly than any other historical era depicted on the silver screen. It is important to know the background…

the 1950s; (2) pollution that comes in from Selenga River, which collects industrial waste; and, (3) pollution tied to increased agricultural chemicals. How do population dynamics in the Transcaucasus or Central Asian areas of the former Soviet Union compare to those in the Russian Federation? What cultural factors may explain the disparities? What role does voluntary migration play? What might occur to the Russian Federation’s dominance of the region if current trends continue? ·…

Throughout the drama the USSR gave vague and often conflicting orders to their Hungarian satellite. The Hungarians responded by attempting to fulfill their soviet overseers orders to no avail. The Hungarian leadership then was thrown into turmoil, and under the leadership of Imgey Nagy the Hungarians demanded some concessions from the soviets in an attempt to avert the revolt from turning into an open revolution. During the events the United States through Radio free Europe encouraged…

Svetlana Alexievich compiled Secondhand Time by amassing numerous stories about life in the Soviet Union and Russia, which were collected from former Soviet citizens of various backgrounds. The Nobel Prize winning book remarkably portrays the human condition in a way that only real stories of human life can. On the surface, Secondhand Time displays Russian life as pessimistic and death centric, however when one views the book from a deeper level they can see that Russians are driven by love,…

Dinh Diem south of the line. 5. To create a new communist government Third World : during the cold war, the developing nations not allied with either the united states or soviet union. Nonaligned nations : the independent counties that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union Foreign aid Espionage Multinational Alliances The two superpowers tried to win allies by giving financial aid to other nations Fearing the enemy might be gaining…

against Iraq and Iran. Also during this time period the Cold War was also taking place. The cold war started in 1947 and went till 1991. The cold war was against The United States and the Soviet Union(Who Used Whom? Baathist Iraq and the Cold War). While Iraq and Iran where in a war with each other the Soviet Union and the United State had not wanted anything to do with Iraq during the war. After the war ended with Iraq and Iran the United States started to work with Iraq. This helped Iraq…

(NATO) petrified the Soviet Union and caused them to create their own military and economic alliance known as the Warsaw Pact. Even though it was initially referred to as a Treaty on Friendship, the Soviets became increasingly authoritative in regard to the actions of their so called allies and provided these nations with the impetus to withdraw from the Pact. Two countries that felt the sting of Russian authoritarianism were Russia and Czechoslovakia. The inability for the Soviet Union to…

Germany. The Berlin wall was created to stop the frightened people of East Berlin from defecting to West Germany, creating the political conflict created by the Russians compromising the East Berliners ability to move about the world freely. The Soviets tried to control the number of defectors to the West by building the Berlin wall, creating conflict for East Germans by compromising the rights and freedoms of the East Germans.…

the soviets trained their soldiers, pilots but they also helped the CCP with establishing the PLA as a modern force. Stalin advised Mao to consolidate his beings in the north…