differentiated leadership and control. At the conclusion of the civil war fight between the Bolsheviks‚ or Reds‚ and anti-Bolsheviks‚ or Whites of 1918‚ was a Soviet Union constitution based on dictatorship. After Vladimir Lenin dies of a stroke in 1924‚ historic Russian leader Joseph Stalin replaces him. Joseph Stalin has an enormous impact on the Soviet Union and implemented many stipulation policies for economic rise. Stalin’s had high ambitions to expand Russian economy to compete with western civilization
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Brief History of the Soviet Union‚ 1917-1944 In the February Revolution of 1917‚ Czar Nicholas II abdicated his position as leader of Russia‚ ending the nation’s imperial rule under the Romanov Dynasty. For more than half a year after the czar’s abdication‚ an ineffective provisional government ran the vast empire. During that time‚ Lenin returned from exile and regrouped his strength and support. Lenin saw in the army’s dissatisfaction with the provisional government an opportunity to gain control
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From the period of 1945 to 1991 the United States and Soviet Union were embroiled in the Cold War. A war that only involved the build up of arms and no actual fighting between the two sides. Although‚ proxy wars did take place such as the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The Cold War came to a turning point during the 1980s. At the time the United States was led by Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union was led by Mikhail Gorbachev. Both leaders came into power with foreign policy ideas that radically changed
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had faced much opposition from the Soviet Union‚ which wanted to make Germany communist. The United States and Germany ended up splitting the country and capitol city‚ Berlin‚ in half; half communist and half democratic. In Berlin City the people just kept moving from the communist side to the democratic side. As a result the Soviet Union constructed a wall‚ in 1961‚ to separate the sides so the United States would end up surrendering the land to the Soviet Union‚ but the United States did not give
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beginning of an arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States of America that stains the textbooks‚ and forever will. This also triggered a thirst for research in transportation‚ weapons‚ and‚ most importunately‚ missiles‚ leading to the largest contribution to science in ages. ICBMs‚ or Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles‚ pioneered the rocket aspect of travel. The discovery that these missiles could escape the Earth’s atmosphere was groundbreaking. The Soviets had seen the potential of this
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Following WW2‚ the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a conflict that became known as the Cold War. There were many conflicts between these two countries. Two problems faced by the United States during the Cold War is the Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The United States took actions against these two problems and which one of them is known as the Berlin Airlift which is a combat against the Berlin Blockade. The United States was successful in solving these two problems
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COMMUNISM IN POLAND ! ! By the end of the Second World War a Communist regime had taken power with the help of the Soviet Union. Poland was a satellite state of the U.S.S.R‚ and were ruled by a one-party Communist regime‚ since the takeover during the Cold War (1945). The Cold War was a brief time of tension between the Untied Sates of America (U.S.A) and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R). Without actual combat‚ the war lasted from 1945 to 1991. The U.S.S.R was trying to gain total power and take
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When the United States decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan their ultimate goal was to intimidate the soviet union. The relationship between the two countries was beginning to unravel. The U.S. decided that the only way to gain the respect from the soviet union was to display the amount of power they truly had. The war between Japan and the United States was a good way to showcase the power that they had. The bombing in Japan made it clear that the United States held all the power. Therefore
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communist era of the Soviet Union led by Joseph Stalin. In Animal Farm‚ Orwell sharply criticized the flaws of Soviet communism taking place in the Soviet Union following World War II. Orwell compared the early
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nations by causing the formation of the Iron Curtain‚ which was the division of a free‚ democratic West and a totalitarian East. Socially‚ NATO and the COMECON were established‚ which formed the west and east into different blocs. Politically‚ the soviet assertion of dominance in Eastern Europe gained momentum in Eastern Europe and economically‚ Germany was separated into two separate states. Socially -NATO= North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Included Belgium‚ the Netherlands‚ Luxembourg‚ France
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