Vyacheslav Molotov

The Iron Curtain first began to manifest itself at two conferences designed to navigate postwar peace, held between the leaders of the big three in 1945. The first, held in Yalta in February 1945 , was the final meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Stalin and Winston Churchill . The Yalta conference aimed to coordinate post war elections in occupied Europe as well as establish an agreement on the division of Germany after the Nazi’s impending surrender . At first glance the conference…

The Soviet Union’s stance on the Second World War was confirmed on august 23, 1939, just days before Hitler began his attack on Poland September 1, 1939. Stalin’s protégé and soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov shocked the world when he negotiated a non-aggression pact with German foreign minister Joachim Ribbentrop. Originally an attempt was made to join the allied powers but this never did go through. The soviet non-aggression pact was created by direct order of Stalin turning the…

The integration of West Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (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…

Totalitarianismrefers to an authoritarian political system or state that regulates and controls nearly every aspect of the public and private sectors.Totalitarianismregimes establish completepolitical, social, and cultural control over their subjects, and are usually headed by acharismatic leader. In general, Totalitarianism involves a one party rule, typically led by a dictator; an attempt to mobilize the entire populationin support of the official state ideology; and an intoleranceof…

“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”1 These words were quoted by Robert Oppenheimer after the first successful test of the atomic bomb, the Trinity Test. The atomic bomb was being tested and designed by the “Manhattan Project,” a top-secret nuclear weapon development organization for the purpose of attacking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The idea of creating the weapons was originated when Albert Einstein5 heard about the efforts of Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be…

nation Britain could ally with to prevent Hitler from continuing was the Soviet Union. Hitler feared this kind of association and tried to sympathize with the Soviet Union , ending with the Hitler-Stalin Pact , also known as the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. The Non-agression pact stated that the two nations would not take any military actions on each other…

Most books usually convey a message to their audience. For example, many dystopian novels convey how not to govern, how not to behave as a society. Some of the novels are based on real events, real societies and governments that existed when the book was written, like communist regimes for instance. Two of the most famous dystopian novels are Animal Farm and 1984. Surely, these two books have a lot in common like how both books were set in England, written by George Orwell, and based on the…