Soviet Union Essays
Posted: October 2nd, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: American Politics, History, Law & Politics, The Cold War | Tags: Berlin, CIA, Communism, Harry Truman, Marshall Plan, Mccarthyism, NATO, Russia, Russian, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalin, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia | Comments Off
The Cold War – Who Was to Blame?
As early as 1948, blame was being placed for the yet to be concluded Cold War era. In that day, the predominant view was that the fault lay not on the West, despite the unclearness of intentions and the icy tone of the Truman administration’s relations with the [...]
Posted: July 20th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, The Cold War | Tags: Berlin, Berlin Airlift, Germany, Soviet Union | Comments Off
With the Nazis defeated after World War II, the Western powers finally thought the string of wars was over. On the contrary, the USSR had other plans for the newly conquered Germany. Berlin, Germany’s capital, was divided among Great Britain, the United States, France, and Russia. While this division was intended to keep peace, the [...]
Posted: July 20th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, The Cold War | Tags: Berlin, Berlin Wall, Communism, Germany, Soviet Union | Comments Off
The Berlin Wall, built in August of 1961, was a physical symbol of the political and emotional divisions of Germany.
The Wall was built because of a long lasting suspicion among the Soviet Union on one side and Western Europe and the United States on the other. Once World War II was over, these Allies no [...]
Posted: July 20th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, US Military | Tags: Soviet Union, Superpower, United States | Comments Off
The development and use of nuclear power has led to the United States assuming a position as the true World Military Superpower. The Unites States was the leader in planning, building, testing and actually using the most powerful nuclear weapon known to man. This country also led the world in relatively safe production of nuclear [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History | Tags: Communism, Gorbachev, Poland, Soviet Union | Comments Off
Communist-Socialist strength in the government grew steadily during 1946 and 1947. In the 1947 parliamentary elections the two-party coalition won more than 85 percent of the vote. Beginning in September 1948 the Polish Communist Party purged itself of many thousands of so-called national Communists who were accused of approving Yugoslavia’s defiance of the USSR. Among [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, The Cold War | Tags: Communism, NATO, Soviet Union | Comments Off
After World War II ended, the threat of communism captured the attention of both North America and Western Europe. A military operations group –called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)– was formed to shield Western Europe from the communistic Eastern Europe. NATO benefited for its members in four ways: it provided the defenses of all [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History | Tags: Communism, Putin, Russia, Soviet Union | Comments Off
The reigns of Peter I and Catherine the Great in the late 1600s and the 1700s marked the beginning of Russia’s establishment as a major European power. These rulers attempted to westernize the traditional society of Moscow, and they ambitiously expanded Russian territories. In the early 1800s, Alexander I began to carry out further plans [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, People, World War 1 (WW1), World War 2 (WW2) | Tags: Battle of Stalingrad, Communism, Great War, Hitler, Joseph Stalin, League of Nations, Russia, Socialism, Soviet Union, Stalin, USSR, World War I, World War II | Comments Off
In a country full of chaos, a great leader is needed to restore order. In Russia’s case, that leader was Joseph Stalin. After Lenin’s death, Stalin controlled the communist party in 1927. He believed in socialism in one country. After Stalin came into power, his goal was to make Russia a powerful communist country. To [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, The Cold War | Tags: Mccarthyism, Soviet Union | Comments Off
American and Soviet relations deteriorated in the decade following World War II. The three factors that had the most effect on that relationship were the agreements made at the Yalta Conference, the Korean War, and McCarthyism.
The agreements of the Yalta Conference began the deterioration of the American-Soviet relationship. Some of the decisions taken at Yalta [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cuba, History, The Cold War | Tags: Cuban Missle Crisis, Soviet Union | Comments Off
During the administration of United States President John F. Kennedy, the Cold War reached its most dangerous state, and the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) came to the edge of nuclear war in what was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. What was the Cold War? What started the tensions [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History | Tags: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Soviet Union | Comments Off
The causes for such a massive and all-captivating rebellion, which occurred both in Hungary (1956) and in Czechoslovakia (1968), originated most from deep-rooted antagonism towards Soviet domination in the Eastern Europe in the post-war era. A continuous political and cultural suppression by Soviet dictatorial policies, obviously linked with economic constraints, coalesced to provoke robust insurrections. [...]
Posted: June 28th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Law & Politics, The Cold War | Tags: Europe, Military, Military History, NATO, Russia, Soviet, Soviet Union | Comments Off
The latter half of the twentieth century has been dominated by the Cold War and the actions and events surrounding it. During this period different alliances and treaties were formed and many of these were institutionalized. One such alliance was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This organization was set up by the Northern Atlantic [...]
Posted: June 28th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Law & Politics | Tags: Communism, Fall of Communism, Lenin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia, Soviet Union, USSR | Comments Off
The Soviet Union was a communist country with a totalitarian regime that existed from 1917 until 1991. The official name was The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). The country stretched from the Baltic and Black Seas to the Pacific Ocean. In its final years it consisted of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics.
