Warsaw Pact

Hitler, when he came into power, basically spat in the face of the treaty, and changed and violated it in several ways. Firstly, he completely violated the military terms set forth by the treaty. In 1934, shortly after take power, he figuratively demolished the League of Nations Disarmament Conference. He demanded an ‘equality of arms’ with both Britain and France. Clearly, this is not what the treaty intended, that which being a disarmament of Germany. He continued to breakdown the treaty’s…

This investigation responds to the question: why did the Polish destalinization riots succeed and the Hungarian rebellion fail during the Cold War? The scope of this investigation is Hungary and Poland in 1956. Two sources that help answer this question are a memorandum of a meeting from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (the CPSU Politburo) and an article authored by Johanna Granville named “1956 Reconsidered: Why Hungary and Not Poland?”. Both encompass the two cases of Hungary and…

America with deep sorrow I tell you this. America if we can see farther than others it is because we have stood on the shoulders of giants, and up here on those shoulders I can see 90 miles off the border and see Cuba there I see that the USSR has put nuclear missile parts there and more are on their way by ship. If we do not react I fear that the outcome will be not in our favor. The united states and the USSR have been in the cold war now and I fear that they will try to end the cold war here.…

this invasion illustrates Brezhnev’s intention of protecting and restoring the orthodox Communist rule throughout the Soviet Bloc. Brezhnev regarded the far-reaching liberalization in Czechoslovakia as a fundamental threat to the cohesion of the Warsaw Pact. He was concerned because the development in Czechoslovakia could encourage other satellite states to follow, which would lead to a widespread rebellion against the Soviet’s leadership. Moreover, the rise of the anti-communist national…

If we don’t put money and effort into saving these small countries and the USSR does then the Warsaw Pact will take over and the world will become Communist. We may all be destroyed if the whole world becomes communist unless they force us to surrender. Either way it will become a terrible outcome if the USSR takes over, so these small gains are worth…

of NATO the USSR decided to form its own group of nations called the Warsaw Pact in 1955. Both of these are examples of Collective Security, the basic definition of Collective Security is, if one country that is in NATO or the Warsaw Pact gets invaded or attacked, the other nations that are in the group have to help out the country in distress. NATO still exists today and now has 26 members, including Russia, and the Warsaw Pact disassembled in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s…

order to establish the People’s Republic of China. 3. How do the authors characterize the Cold War (What was it like?) As 45 years of high level tension and competition between the superpowers but with no direct military conflict. 4. NATO & the Warsaw…

Though the North Atlantic Treaty Organization originated on April 4, 1949, with the signing of the Washington Treaty, but the story and ideas begin in 1945 with the end of World War II, resulting in the desire and need to create a stable and secure world. Alliances are created to protect their members from an outside threat. For the creation of NATO during the Cold War, this threat was the rising power of the Soviet Union. The Alliances creation was part of a broader effort to serve three…

period may bring about a new comprehension, with the new evidence available. In 1945: The War That Never Ended, Gregor Dallas takes a new approach to the view of World War II and the Cold War that followed, starting from the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939 to the end of the 1950s. In these years, he describes the Soviet Union’s war against the Western World. Through this commonly pitched work states how the “war that never ended” was a battle between Stalin’s Soviet Union against a…

Atlantic Treaty. The original members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, were Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. The treaty served as a security pact which stated that an attack against one member country…