President John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were two of the most important men during the Cuban Missile crisis; they had a lot of differences in character and response to situation‚ but had some similarities as well. The two were the some of the most influential men at their time‚ especially considering the Cold War and resulting Cuban Missile Crisis. John F. Kennedy was the youngest man to be elected president at his time‚ so you can imagine the pressure he must have felt as a prominent leader
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Stalin industrialism research 1. “Save as” this document in your own documents. Please type all the answers onto the sheet and then print it out for your notes at the end of the lesson. Connect: Google research What was the Stakhanovite campaign? (recap) The Stakhanovite movement began during the second 5-year plan in 1935 as a new stage of the socialist competition. The Stakhanovite movement was named after Aleksei Stakhanov‚ who had mined 102 tons of coal in less than 6 hours (14 times his
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Josef Stalin was one of the most important members of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union succeed the Russian empire in 1922 and lasted until 1991. Stalin shaped the country in the 1930s and continued to help it thrive to victory helping to win the Second World War against Nazi Germany. I am going to concentrate on the myths surrounding Stalin during the Stalin era (1928-1941) and after his death in 1953. After Stalin’s death in 1953 there was no clear successor for his role in the Soviet Union
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3a) Why did Stalin introduce the Five-Year Plans and did they achieve for Russia what Stalin had planned for? Explain your answer. [12] In 1929‚ Stalin took over Russia who was considered one of the most backward economies in Europe. The Russian economy was in a very bad state‚ many of the factories were run-down and most people could not fend for themselves. Hence‚ to improve the economic conditions of Russia‚ Stalin set about transforming her economical and agricultural sectors by introducing
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Causes of the Cold War Ideological differences - Stalin vs Truman The US President Roosevelt died in 1945. He was replaced by Truman who was strongly anti-Communist and‚ as the war came to an end‚ the relationship between America and Russia fell apart. But this was not the only cause of trouble. Historians believed that the wartime alliance between the Soviet Union and America was also wrecked by the huge differences between the two countries in: • Politics - America was capitalist‚ Russia
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the eastern European satellite states during the regimes of Khrushchev and Brezhnev In order to analyze the successes and failures of Soviet policies towards Germany and the eastern European satellite states during the regimes of Khrushchev and Brezhnev one must choose eastern European satellites that were affected by the Soviet policies most and had a direct relationship with Moscow during the reigns of these two leaders: Khrushchev (1953 – 1964) and Brezhnev (1964 – 1982). In this case‚ I decided
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history of the Soviet Union there had been many rulers who led the Soviet Union into a superpower. Lenin and Stalin‚ two of the most controversial dictators of the Soviet Union‚ were those dictators that brought the Soviet Union to that position. Though their social policies were the same‚ the way they ruled the country and their economic policies differed greatly. The aspects of Stalin and Lenin’s rule which made them so similar were that they both rules were similar. They ruled the Soviet Union
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known as possibly the greatest leader of the French Revolution. Stalin is known as one of Russia’s greatest leaders. There are many differences and similarities in each of their reigns as leaders. Both used economic plans and total war effort as a campaign to further there revolution. Stalin and Robespierre used their revolutions‚ however‚ through terror Stalin remained true to his revolution but Robespierre betrayed his. Stalin had an ingenious plan to help his country’s economy get back on track
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Vladimir Lenin’s health‚ Joseph Stalin stepped into the position of the general secretary of the Russian communist party in 1922 (Stock). This was the very beginning stage of Joseph Stalin’s enormous impact on the communist party‚ as well as the rest of the world. Although Stalin’s rule is sometimes considered extreme‚ Stalin had an enormous impression on Russian history as well as the collective history of the world. One of the most important things Joseph Stalin did was develop and enforce the
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fall again after‚ in 1955‚ all restrictions on abortion were lifted. • Distinctions to mother Heroines – In 1944 the scheme was introduced and gave mothers who produced or had more than 10 children at one time would be given huge financial rewards. Stalin provided various financial incentives to strengthen the family unit. This was considered important during the second world war which demanded that the Russian people should maintain unity with the common purpose to “defeat the
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