War II. It was a turning point of the war because it was Nazi Germany’s first major loss during the Second World War. Most importantly‚ the Soviet Union stopped Nazi Germany from gaining resources and the war caused a large casualty rate of German armies. From 1939 to 1942‚ Nazi Germany succeed in all of the invasions in Europe‚ Adolf Hitler turned his target to Soviet Union and begun to turn Operation Barbarossa into reality. After one years Hitler indicated the importance of attacking Stalingrad
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offensive attack against Berlin. The campaign would be entirely conducted by the Red Army on the ground. The Red Army massed Marshal Georgy Zhukov’s 1st Belorussian Front to the east of Berlin with Marshal Konstantin Rokossovky’s 2nd Belorussian Front to the north and Marshal Ivan Konev’s 1st Ukrainian Front to the south. Going against the Soviets was General Gotthard Heinrici’s Army Group Vistula supported by Army Group Centre to the south. Moving forward on April 16‚ Zhukov’s men assaulted the
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Throughout the reign of Stalin he was able to establish himself as a successful dictator through totalitarian rule. He became the undisputed leader of the USSR and the factors that enabled him to do so were Industrialisation‚ his social policies and his ability to defeat Hitler in World War Two. However‚ through Stalin’s political career he also encountered many failures. These were Collectivism‚ the purges and the terror he caused by the people living in Russia during his reign. Stalin’s
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The 1956 Hungarian Uprising While the Hungarian uprising of 1956 cannot be considered a major international crisis of the Cold War‚ it does bear looking at as a regional challenge to Soviet domination and a demonstration of the Wests and the United Nations reluctance to become involved in the Soviet sphere of influence. The causes of the uprising can be traced to Hungarian nationalism and their almost sullen acceptance of the imposed communist government post world War Two. Hungary’s long history
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Lenin led the Bolsheviks and Trotsky led the red army. When the Bolsheviks took power‚ they were a small unpopular government but Lenin in a very short time passed decrees‚ which satisfied the people and set up a strict secret police‚ which squashed opposition completely. Lenin used many methods to make his government strong but winning the people over certainly was a major factor as well as the fact that he was strong. Firstly‚ the power of the red army who were led by Trotsky meant that the Bolsheviks
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Statistically speaking‚ Soviet leaders entered into a war with some terrible odds for winning and it seems as though the USSR lost the war before it even began. Henry Kissinger once stated‚ “The guerilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.” (Ewans‚ 2005). The strength of the Mujahideen’ emanated from their Islamic ideals. “They had a fervent belief in their cause and the inevitability of its triumph” (Ewans‚ 2005). During the Soviet-Afghan conflict‚ the Mujahideen
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have on Russia? The war was greeted with more celebrations than in any other country in Europe. The Russians were so keen to get at the Germans that they actually had armies advancing into Germany after only two weeks. This took the Germans by surprise. The Germans had to move reinforcements from France to help their armies in the east. But many Russian units were poorly prepared. They did not have enough rifles or ammunition and their equipment was out of date. Many officers had maps that
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defeating Germany. For Soviet Premier Josef Stalin‚ Berlin was the major prize and he feared that the Red Army might be beaten to the city by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s 21st Army Group that was advancing rapidly from Holland into North Germany after German resistance in the west had more or less collapsed after the failure of the Ardennes offensive in December 1944 and the surrounding of Army Group B in the Ruhr Pocket in March 1945. This was averted however‚ by General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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a Bolshevik initially – he converted from the Menshevik party in 1917. Therefore some of the party members doubted him as 100% trustworthy. Within the Civil War‚ he had created and led the ‘Red Army’ which was still very strong‚ and they feared that if he had the power to do so‚ Trotsky would use the Red Army to begin a violent coup and take over the whole country himself. On top of this‚ Trotsky himself hadn’t tried to build up support within the party and consequently after Lenin’s death when the
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Americans‚ proud of their democratic domain. This fear came about after World War One‚ and came to be known as the Red Scare. Right wing government officials used this paranoia in order to prosecute thousands of left wing activists. This ordeal reemerged after World War Two had ended‚ the Second Red Scare had started. A leading politician of the prosecution of many leftist during the Second Red Scare was senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy fed off of the paranoia that struck America‚ and accused many of
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