June 22‚ 1941 Germany Betrays The Soviet Union! Ignoring the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression pact‚ Germany attacked the Soviet Union. The battle was a very difficult and tragic one. • "Operation Barbarossa‚" the largest and most powerful invasion force‚ struck the U.S.S.R. completely by surprise. • Employing the same tactics that defeated the French‚ the Germans attacked east Prussia in the north‚ Ukraine in the south‚ and Moscow in the center.
Premium World War II Nazi Germany United States
The break-up of the Soviet Union (USSR) occurred in 1991 after the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev and the various Republics declaring independence. The term “break-up” can be unpacked to entail the unpopularity of the leadership within the party and Politburo‚ which led to the attempted August Coup of 1991 by the more conservative elements of the Politburo who were unhappy with Gorbachev’s reforms; the unpopularity of the leadership within the people‚ which led to Boris Yeltsin getting elected
Premium Soviet Union Cold War Russia
Neo-Colonial Africa in a Post-Soviet World A continent of rapid change and slow modernization‚ Africa is a place of several failed and rogue states that are key to the international foreign policy of many world powers during periods of both the past and present. The United States of America (USA)‚ the emerging superpower of last half of the 20th century‚ would clash and eventually prevail against the communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) through proxy wars and competition
Premium Cold War Africa World War II
The Cold War was a period of hostility and rising tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union beginning soon after the end of World War II‚ lasting from 1945 until 1989. The Cold War originated from conflict over the type of government in Eastern Europe after the war. The United States pushed for freely elected governments while the Soviet Union denied it. At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945‚ shortly after the death of Franklin Roosevelt‚ the new president‚ Harry Truman ordered instant
Premium Cold War World War II Soviet Union
1984 and the Establishment of the Soviet Union Catherine M. Ricchiuti Our Lady of Mercy Academy The dystopian 1984 novel written by George Orwell is an example of total government control. Orwell was inspired to write this novel based on the Spanish Revolution. However‚ the ideas illustrated throughout the novel can be juxtaposed with other historical events such as the establishment of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin was the totalitarian dictator of Russia and can be equated with Big Brother in
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Background: The First Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842 The First Anglo-Afghan War is widely considered the worst military defeat in British Imperial history. Also known as Auckland’s Folly‚ it was a contest between the British East India Company and the tribes of Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. Approximately 4‚500 British and Indian Sepoy soldiers‚ and 12‚000 camp followers died in the ruinous retreat from Kabul through the Gandamak Pass to Jalalabad. Famously (if exaggeratedly) only one British survivor
Premium World War II World War I British Empire
In 1917‚ two revolutions swept through Russia‚ ending centuries of imperial rule and starting political and social changes that led to forming the Soviet Union. (1) In result of the February Revolution‚ power was shared between the weak provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet. In the October Revolution‚ leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader‚ Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coupd’état against the provisional government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government
Premium Russia Vladimir Lenin Soviet Union
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Diplomacy and United States Aggression The Cuban missile crisis brings to mind visions of a great triumph over the Soviet Union and the defusing of an all-out nuclear war. However‚ this "crisis" was not so much the product of true Soviet advances towards war as much as it was a series of misinterpretations and miscommunications between the United States and Soviet governments that culminated in excessive aggression by the U.S. and unnecessary escalation of tensions
Premium Cold War Cuban Missile Crisis Fidel Castro
Decentralization of Banks in Eastern Europe And the Soviet Union As Soviet communism collapsed in Eastern Europe in 1989‚ the countries of Central and Eastern Europe began the unprecedented transition from a centralized command economy to a market economy. The stages of transition included‚ liberalization‚ stabilization and privatization. All of these steps required decentralization of government assets and financial institutions. One of the most crucial parts of the transition was the decentralization
Premium Bank Fractional-reserve banking Planned economy
Selassie’s speech to the League of Nations is an important moment in the build-up to the Second World War as it represented the triumph of Italian Fascism. The colony of Ethiopia which for so for long had avoided colonialism now became one. The Italian Invasion of Ethiopia was an ongoing conflict that had long been in the designs of Italian minds to re-design a new Roman Empire. (Blinkhorn‚ 2014‚ pp. 43-45) The Leagues of Nation’s economic sanctions proved worthless against the Italians‚ and the British
Premium League of Nations World War II Ethiopia