Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also known as NATO, was created in the year of 1949. As stated in the article, “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization”, “NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. From its inception, its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation.” In other words, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an alliance between North America and Europe. This alliance was formed in fear that the Soviet Union, a communist state founded approximately in 1922, might forcefully take control over American and European lands and convert their original systems into a communistic one. Thus, this alliance provided a mutual…

to scout the military information of the Soviet Union. On May 1st, 1960, Khrushchev issued a decree for the Soviet missile troops to bring down a U-2 aircraft. This event is known as the famous U-2 Incident. Even though this offensive move maintained the sovereignty of the Soviet Union and the dignity of international law, the influence of this incident is far reaching by creating tension between the world’s superpowers. Specifically, the U-2 aircraft incident diminished the “Camp David Spirit”…

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…

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…

the Soviet Union was primarily caused by the pressures of the arms race during the Cold War. After reading Kotkin 's book Armageddon Averted it is clear that the internal changes that were going on inside the Soviet Union were far more influential in the collapse of the Soviet Union than in any external pressures brought on by the Reagan era arms buildup. The internal changes that were going on in the Soviet Union during this time that contributed to the collapse were the reform movement…

Wehrmacht (German armed forces). Despite this, many suspected that the Soviet Union would capitulate within months of the commencement of Unternehmen Barbarossa (the German invasion of the Soviet Union); including Winston…

between the USSR (Soviet Union) and the US that had global effects. It was defined by tensions, hostilities, and confrontation between the two nations. The beginning of the war is seen due to the dividing of Germany. With the Allies taking Western Germany and Western Europe, and the Soviets taking Eastern Germany and Eastern Europe, all occurring 1946. So once can see that the world is divided into two, each with their differing ideology. This is also knows as the “Iron Curtain”, Europe was…

Defining Nazi-Soviet Relations by Political Philosophy Communism and Fascism, at one glance, seems to be similar in the philosophy of collectivism and anti-democracy. However, the two philosophies cannot coexist due to the striking differences in loyalty and social roles. Both philosophies agreed on two major ideas that people should blend into their communities and that capitalism was unfair and harmful. However, Communism believes that the people are loyal to their social class, so they are…

Introduction The Soviet Union, or the USSR, has had its fair share of leaders since its conception on November 7th, 1927. Throughout the Cold War alone there was a total of seven leaders. Arguably, one of the most famous of the seven leaders was Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev was the last head of the USSR, and many believe he was to blame for its ultimate downfall and the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union. There are a variety of viewpoints when it comes to the leadership of Gorbachev. Two…

Changes in the Soviet Role in the Cold War changed during the period from the mid 1940’s to mid 1960’s because of the many major events like the COMECON conference and death of Joseph Stalin. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union and USA changed from being allies to enemies and not trusting one another. The destalinization process that happened after Nikita Khrushchev took control marked the start of change like beginning to want to repair the image that Stalin had previously set. They…