Korean War World War II was the biggest war in history. Most countries such as Britain, Germany, and Japan were damaged and a lot of people died in the war. Albert Einstein contended “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” (Goodread). After World War II, United States, the Capitalism country, and the Soviet Union, communist country, were in the Cold War which means “Ideological, political, and economic conflict in which…
A. Plan of the Investigation This investigation seeks to evaluate the circumstances that led to the Sino-Soviet “split” during the Cold War. The main body of this investigation will assess the political and ideological relations, national interests, as well as varying views of regimes between China (PRC) and the Soviet Union (USSR). The split devastated the international communist movement while laying down the path that would later spark relations between China and the United States…
enemy nationalities, and the purges of 1937-38 purges should all be classified as the “crime of crimes”: genocide. Currently the four events are simply viewed as massacres or mass killings of a gargantuan scale. He goes further to assert that it was Stalin alone who facilitated and enabled these genocides to occur. By reclassifying them as genocide, Naimark hopes that Stalin’s crimes will finally get the recognition and proper classification that they deserve. The text focuses on these four key…
Alliance systems have long been a theory on the cause of war, or an explanation for action taken both before and during wars. The theory proposes that alliances cause war in a few different ways, mainly through creating a security dilemma, and creating the opportunity for buck-passing and entrapment. These are the main ways in which an alliance can increase the likelihood of war. Throughout this portion of the essay I will begin by explaining the prevalence of alliances in the post-World War…
Joseph Stalin When people hear the name “the man of steel” should they think of Clark Kent, the crime-fighting hero from the comics? Well how about Joseph Stalin, mass murder and dictator of Communist Russia. One may associate murderer and dictator in a poor fashion, but Joseph Stalin contributed immensely to the future of Russia during his rule. Joseph had the mentality that if you opposed his views then you should be eliminated. The result of that view was an estimated 20 million dead people…
the end, symbolization wasn’t needed for the USSR genocide. Stalin called the kulaks many things, including “swine”, “dogs”, “cockroaches”, and “enemies of the people.” Joseph had a son whom he did not like. Moreover, he would beat his son, Iasha, severely. Before Stalin, Vladimir Lenin called kulaks “bloodsuckers,…
that the idea of Caesar becoming king and gaining too much power is metaphorically killing them. Furthermore, even when warned by a soothsayer (fortune teller), Caesar still doesn’t believe his fate. Whether or not the fates of Julius Caesar and Joseph Stalin’s army were fate or just an unlucky play of events, both parties suffered immensely. To start, Julius Caesar is the leader of Rome and has just returned to Rome prior to defeating Pompey’s armies in a foreign land. Caesar doesn’t…
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…
Either good or bad, the person has to do something that year that changes and contributes something to the world. Like Franklin D Roosevelt (32) giving hope to the American people being elected to president. Or Joseph Stalin (39) and his Non-aggression Pact with Germany. As well as Harry Truman ending the war in the Pacific with dropping the Nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These people all contributed to the world one way or another and Time acknowledged them…
In August 1945 2 powerful weapon were dropped on Japan. These weapons were called atomic bombs that were dropped and it forever changed how the world worked. President Truman was the one who decided to drop the bombs on Japan so that he could end WW2 and to show off the atomic weapon power to its rival the USSR. He wasn’t the only person involved in making the decision in dropping the bomb. Secretary of War Stimson,and the Interim Committee which included top scientist that were working on the…