“It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.” Vladimir Lenin said this‚ he was the founder of the Soviet Union‚ a command economy that collapsed in 1991. This quote summarizes the type of control that he believed was required to create a utopian country. In a command economy‚ the government makes all decisions on jobs‚ land‚ and production‚ which leads to many social and political ramifications. This fact‚ along with a multitude of other factors‚ led to the
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Germans were crossing into the West every day. Many of the refugees were skilled laborers‚ professionals‚ and intellectuals‚ and their loss was having a devastating effect on the East German economy. To halt the exodus to the West‚ Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev recommended to East Germany that it close off access between East and West Berlin. With this idea the Berlin Wall was built it had effected so many people because some people’s parents were over there. Here are some of the stories of the wall:
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Essential Question: How did the spread of Communist ideals and power affect American policies during the Cold War? During the 1900’s‚ American’s witnessed the largest growth of Communist ideology in Europe‚ Asia‚ and finding a new way to seep itself into our government after the fall of totalitarianism in Europe. Americans had only just defeated the rule of totalitarianism in Japan‚ Germany‚ and others. The citizens of the United States were prepared to protect our home by employing new policies
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Following the Second World War‚ the US was engaged in the Cold War primarily against the Soviet Union‚ with many American presidents adopting the policy of containment to prevent the spread of Communism around the world. There was an active arms race afoot between the two superpowers with both of them focusing on nuclear capabilities. President John F. Kennedy pursued one of the largest peacetime expansions of the US military arsenal and capabilities. That expansion included the placement of Jupiter
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Soviet leaders repressed people’s free speech and limited what art could be made or distributed in Russia. Most media involved propaganda for the government and against western culture. This censorship later diminished with Nikita Khrushchev’s policies as ruler‚ but when Khrushchev left office his reforms were ended by Leonid Brezhnev and the country regressed. This conformist and conservative government continued until Mikhail Gorbachev’s positions as president. If the USSR had never been formed‚ these
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in Cuba approached. The relationship between Cuba (Fidel Castro) and the Soviet Union (Nikita Khrushchev) is an important one to mention. The connection between these two nations resulted directly with Kennedy’s apprehension to the idea of communism gradually spreading to neighboring countries. The relation between Castro and Khrushchev developed during Eisenhower’s presidency (1960 to be exact)‚ when Khrushchev gave aid to Cuba. As Eisenhower learned about this growing relationship between the two
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Cold War DBQ Between 1945 and 1950‚ the tensions increased between the United States and the Soviet Union. Both superpowers‚ with varying standpoints on global affairs‚ were brought to the brink of war. As the United States pushed for the containment of communism‚ and the development of capitalist democracies‚ the Soviet Union continued to impose communist rule amongst itself and its satellite nations. Eventually‚ these conflicting views would lead to the start of the Cold War. Fueled by the disagreement
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Throughout the period of the early 1960’s the world was at the brink of all out nuclear war‚ a war that would have destroyed the globe leaving irreparable damage to all regions. Tensions during this period were due to the spread of Communism throughout the world‚ this lead the United States to become very wary of any advancement of Communism in countries who were experiencing an over through of the government. The United States were supporting countries who were in the search of self-determination
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there was around 2‚000 eastern Germans crossing this way every day. The huge numbers of people emigrating were having a substantial effect on Eastern Germanys economy as many of those laving were skilled labourers or very high up intellectuals. Nikita Khrushchev saw the devastating effects and was desperate to save eastern Germany and so proposed that it cut off all access between east and West Berlin. It was during a night in the middle of August‚ that barbed wire began to be placed down; almost 30
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arrests and executions ordered by the Bolshevik government and implemented by the Cheka. This idea of control through repression and terror continued in Russia under the leadership of Josef Stalin (OGPU‚ NKVD‚ NKGB‚ MGB). After the death of Stalin‚ Khrushchev implemented a period of ‘de-Stalinisation’ (KGB) with the aim of ridding the state of its secretive and repressive nature to open up and make allies with the west which was the first time since Alexander ll. Alexander ll became Tsar in 1855 after
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