between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1940 and 1980‚ was called Cold War because the war between the two countries was triggered by fears of a nuclear scale. The main cause that led to this war occurred because the Soviet Union wanted to spread its communist ideology to everyone‚ which alarmed the Americans‚ who hated the ideology and did not accept this political system. The acquisition of nuclear weapons by the Americans warned greatly the Soviets‚ both countries feared attack by
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War was an economic battle between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was bound to start after the Bolshevik Revolution. Also‚ America’s fear of communist attack are some of the reasons why the Cold War started in 1947; however‚ the failure of the August Coup ended the Soviet Union which is what caused the Cold War to end. The Soviet Union’s fall caused the Americans to win this Cold War in the end‚ leading the Soviet Union unfortunate because of bankruptcy. The Cold War was bound
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Soviet Union The Perceived Thawing of the Cult of Personality Nikita Khrushchev attacked Joseph Stalin at the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in his secret speech. His goals behind the presentation of the speech were self-serving in nature. Khrushchev wanted to consolidate power while at the same time distance himself from Stalin. His lack of political forethought created a specific set of problems for the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. Khrushchev’s program of de-Stalinization had a negative
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ceasing conflict before and after the Cold War. Topics include Soviet thinking‚ nuclear deterrence‚ and several other causes and effects of conflict termination. This source would be useful to a study of Ronald Reagan’s administration’s effect on political Soviet policies during the Cold War because it provides examples of terminated conflicts before and after the Cold War. Funigiello‚ Philip J. American-Soviet
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In late 1950s and during 1960s‚ the Soviet-US tension started to reach its peak. After Khrushchev ended the speech with saying “We will bury you‚” the Communist tried to proof that the era of capitalism over‚ which means that people are reached to the final destination as Karl Marx (a first person to come up the idea of the communism) stated in the communist Manifesto. The Cold War could be seen as the time that dictatorship of the proletariat tried to spread the communism and become a real communist
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understanding of the historical context‚ which of these two sources is more valuable in explaining why the Soviet Union wanted to establish control over Eastern European States? Source 3 by Stalin is more valuable than Source 2 by Churchill in explaining why the Soviet Union wanted to establish control over Eastern European States. Churchill does not ‘directly’ state any reasons why the Soviet Union wanted to establish control over Eastern European States. Stalin’s speech’s topic is basically explaining
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the first part of the war. Right near the river of Volga‚ the town of Stalingrad home of the Russians people. This battle was one marked down as a turning point for the Allied powers. The Soviet Union having to defend their territory because the Germans want to take over. This would be a challenge to the Soviet Union. The Russians would have discovered that the Nazi’s want the town of Stalingrad because “If Stalingrad was taken‚ then the two important trade routes would belong to the Nazis. Seeing
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ally of the Soviet Union. Certainly being in the Western Hemisphere and having a distinct Hispanic culture that was very different from many other allies of the Soviet Union were two. Another fact that foreign policy experts at the time did not appreciate was that Cuba often executed distinct foreign decisions separate from the directives of the Kremlin. While European Communist nations could generally not act on foreign policy initiatives without the explicit approval of the Soviet Union‚ this was
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“Capitalism and communism were prevented from cooperating… because of their ideological differences‚ jealousies‚ suspicions‚ and power politics” (Packet). After World War II‚ the United States of America and the Soviet Union had many differences that made it difficult for these two superpowers to work together. Since the atomic bomb was introduced‚ the threat of nuclear weapons spread across the world and the Allied Powers worked to prepare. Countries either sided with the Western powers and ideas
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| Cause of socialism in the Soviet Union collapsed | Under the economic perspective | | Group assignment – The micro economic | | Group 2: | 11/10/2012 | Nguyen Ngoc AnhTran Thi Thuy NgaTran Thi Hong NhungDinh Pham Viet HoangLe Thi Thu Huyen | Table of Contents Introduction 2 The development and success of socialism in the Soviet Union the first half of the 20th century 3 World War II 3 The basic weakness of the socialist system 4 Productivity‚ quality and efficiency
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