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    Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 to 1953. He was born December 18‚ 1878 and he died in 1953. He was born in Georgia. He was the leader of the Soviet Union‚ he ordered every citizen to the Soviet Union to not surrender and to use a single drop of blood. By saying this he is ordering a massacre killing 27 million soviets in WW2. He killed dissidents‚ sent millions of untrained Russians into the war and industrialized the Soviet Union‚ which required more killing

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    Dissolution of Copper

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    Equations: 1) Cu + 4H+(aq) + 2NO3-(aq) Cu2+ + 2NO2 + 2H2O 2) Cu2+(aq) + 2-OH(aq) Cu(OH)2 3) Cu(OH)2 + heat CuO + H2O 4) CuO + H2SO4 Cu2+(aq) + SO42-(aq) + H2O 5) Cu2+(aq) + Zn Cu + Zn2+(aq) Stage 1- Dissolution of Copper Mass of vial & copper = 3.537g Mass of vial = 2.505g Mass of Copper = 1.032g Moles of copper = mass (g) ÷ (63.5g/mol) = 0.0162 mol (3s.f) Copper description: Initially‚ the copper was a solid that was cut into

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    The Holocaust was the systematic killing of Jews Slavs Gypsies homosexuals and the disabled. Many factors led up to Holocaust such as : The Treaty of Versailles‚ The Great Depression and Hitler’s rise to power were major factors in the Holocaust. The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that ended World War One. The treaty was signed on June 28‚ 1919. The treaty was signed by France’s Premier Georges Clemenceau‚ Britain’s Prime Minister Lloyd George‚ United States President Woodrow Wilson‚ and Italy’s

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    The cold war began around 1945 and relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union continued to deteriorate for 40 years. During this time tensions between The U.S and its NATO allies and the soviet union grew along with dooming pressures of nuclear war. The Soviet Union tried to spread communism while the U.S. fought against their political ideology. The Soviet Union was more responsible for causing this cold war. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed by the U.S.‚ Canada‚ and ten nations of Western

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    The Cold War in the 1980s was driven by Reagan’s policies and attitudes towards the Soviet Union. In this period the implications of his policies and attitudes had a major impact on the United States and Soviet relations and created the path to the ending the Cold War. Reagan’s attitudes and policies were aggressive and there were fierce tensions but Mikhail Gorbachev sparked a turning point and Reagan’s attitudes and policies became less hawkish. Through the policy of the Strategic Defence Initiative

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    The late middle ages were years filled with turmoil. Famine‚ plague‚ turmoil in religion‚ and a war lasting over one hundred years all happened within the same two centuries. Many feared that these ages were the apocalypse‚ as these signs were those of the four horseman predicted in religious scripture. Several people ran from urban surroundings in order to escape the chaos and disease spreading in the cities. The late middle ages were the ending of something old and the beginning of something that

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    What was the political‚ social‚ and legal environment of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s? - The Soviet Union’s push to industrialize no matter the cost ultimately led to frequent shortages of food and other consumer good. Bread lines were a common site throughout the 1970s and 1980s. As can be seen‚ the divide between wealth of the Politburo and poverty of Soviet citizens created backlash and younger people refused to adopt the Communist Party ideology as the generations before them previously

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    Under the governance of Joseph Stalin since 1928 saw the Soviet Union governing a large territory especially in the Eastern Europe and raising its importance as a world wide power throughout the Cold War. The Stalin system revolutionized the Soviet Union and turned out to be the foundation for the expansion of communist persuasion into the bordering regions and territories. The Stalinist system was distinct in that; it was a solitary party system governing political assignations‚ monetary policies

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    To what extent was the GDR controlled by the Soviet Union in the years to 1961? The German Democratic Republic was formed from what once was the Soviet Zone of Germany. After the tensions of the cold war became too hostile for all participants Germany was divided into East Germany and West Germany and were renamed the GDR for the East and the FRG for the West. The GDR was formed in October 1949 and was governed by the SED‚ a political party made up of the Communist Party and the Socialist Party.

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    Why did the Soviet Union intervene in Hungary and not Poland in 1956? ‘Given the growing sense of national euphoria sweeping eastern Europe in 1955-1956‚ a full-scale decolonisation of the Soviet Empire was not considered beyond the bounds of geopolitical possibility’. The decision of the Soviet Union to invade Hungary in 1956‚ whilst acknowledging the need to control events in Poland‚ came about through a myriad of complex reasons as well as the collapse of the old Hegemony‚ following Krushchev’s

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