... and ordinary appearance than that of the Mensheviks and the Marxist intelligentsia in St Petersburg and Moscow who were drawn to them. "Lenin looked like a peasant from Volga"(2) "Lenin was one of them. He was a Russian from the Volga region, the heart of Russia his speeches were powerful but without a hint of polish or elegance. He was confident but never haughty, refined or pretentious." (3) These quotes further the notion that Lenin's personality ... , nor confined to Russia." On his arrival at St Petersburg station soviet historians describe the night "He achieved to save the revolut...

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... blame for their loss and damages in World War I. The rich and the ones in power seemed like the perfect target. The majority of this population was Jewish. Hitler proposed that by getting rid of thisinferior? race and taking them out of power, the true Germans can rule with more strength. With this, horrid blood shed began. Being of the Jewish faith automatically marked you for death. No reasoning, no ... . Whenever we are scared and are looking for someone to blame, we automatically place the responsibility on the ones closest to us rather then face the real problem. Its easier to point...

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... had taken Alexander the Great's path through the Middle East, he could cut off Britain from its most precious jewel, (an interesting pun,) India by capturing the Suez Canal. By deciding to destroy Soviet Russia in 1941, Hitler lost the war. As he defeated France and closed in on Paris in 1940, Hitler believed he could go after the rest of the continent after signing the Tripartite Pact with ... Italy and Japan. "His instrument was the Tripartite Pact, signed ... between Germany, Italy, and Japan on September 27, 1940, binding any two to come to the aid of a third if it was attacked." (...

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... wherever the preponderance of blame may lie, both the United States and the Soviet Union contributed to the atmosphere of hostility and suspicion that quickly clouded the peace" (Brinkley 963). The US and USSR had very different belief systems. This may have contributed to the cold war tensions. Communism versus Capitalism, Dictatorship versus Democracy. Each economic system calls for the destruction of the other. The US was desperate to end the spread of communism and ... dictatorship. We provided much legislation in an attempt at containment. We used tools such as the Marshall Plan an...

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... gained power and background to Bolshevik Revolution and also the outcomes of the revolution. The Bolsheviks continued to prostest against the current government in Russia and over time the political, social and economic discontent and the famous event know as 'Bloody Sunday', where the imperial guards shot and killed the protesting people of St Petersburg eventually pulled more followers over to the Bolsheviks. Lenin returned to Russia in 1917. As soon ... life gained him more and more support. Later on Trotsky, a Menshevik, who helped him organise the movement and revolution. Lenin tho...

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... the revolution, and the united workers and soldiers took control of the capitol. The uprising killed about 1500 people. THe outcome of the revolution was this. The imperial government was quickly scattered. Two new bodies quickly exercised effective political power, the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and a Provisional Government formed by the committe of the Duma. The Soviet, immediately appointed a commission to cope with the proglem of ensuring a food supply for the capital and ordered the release of the ... thousands of political prisoners. On February 28 the Sov...

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... financially secure and being able to better themselves materialistically. This is the driving force behind the theory of capitalism. The society that we as Americans live in today perpetuates the need for greed through the voice of the media. Expensive clothes, overly-excessive accessories, and nice cars dominate television commercials and the pages of magazines. From the time we are born, these luxuries are presented to us as normalities, leading us to ... believe that these items are, in essence, necessities. This, in turn, leads to more greed and the jealousy of others. Without this ...

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... as an autocrat with no restraints of any kind." He simply wanted complete control, at any costs. There was nothing that he wasn't willing to do to reach the goal. The terror and murder seems to have been very widespread. The constant threat of being exterminated for any reason kind of crippled the entire country. This is best proof of this comes from document 7 when it states, "What is ... sometimes neglected by those of us who never faced such things, is the extreme intensity with which the terror bore down not only upon ... its victims but upon the population as a whole." This makes ...

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... futile mistakes which the people up there, the authorities, are commiting. David Suzuki in one of his essays called "A planet for taken", he explains that inteligents beings, humans, create bad environmental products or decisions to an extent that they have no idea about what are the aftermath of their doings, such as when thousands of sockeye fish were dumped directly from the river to the ocean, where they ... soon died, ignoring the fact that these fishes spend one ... year at least in the river then move on to the ocean. Now these russians have created a doomsday machine which they...

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... a dictator reign with an immoral iron fist? Or should we involve ourselves as "policemen of the world," and be criticized by other nations due to the use of our military and technological advantages. What would have become of us if for example we hadn't been involved in World War II? The possibility existed that we would all be speaking German right now? Would I have to salute ... by saying "HEIL HITLER" to a fuehrer that believed he was right? Though the world knew he was simply a genius, psychopathic, megalomaniac. Because of our involvement in that war we were able to save an entire ...

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... and Russia. The Korean War was a major cause of the Cold War. North Korea was backed by the communist countries, The Soviet Union and China. The United States, wanting to stop the spread of communism, took the side of the South Koreans. Japan had ruled Korea from 1910 until August of 1945 at the end of W.W.II. Japanese troops north of the 38th Parallel surrendered to the Soviets , while the Japanese troops south of the parallel surrendered to the U.S. The parallel was not ... M. Arkin quotes Woolsey "We have slain a large dragon...but we live now in a jungle filled with a bewildering va...

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The great escape from the DDR In 1961 there was the construction of the Berlin Wall. It separated East Germany (DDR) from West Germany (BDR). The reason for its construction was that many people from East Germany, who suffered under the totalitarian communist system, escaped and resettled in the democratic state of West Germany. East Germany threatened to bleed out' and to prevent further escapes the Wall was built. But even after its construction ... attempts to escape took place. One of the most spectacular ones was the one from two DDR citizens in November 1986. They were called Dirk Decke...

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... and opposed Russian involvement in the war against Japan (Document E). The countries were at loathe requesting help from the "Red Army," and the bomb was a perfect way to demonstrate American power (Document C). Also, as dictated by the agreement made at the Yalta Conference, Soviet aide would result in new territory for the communists, something the Americans were particularly afraid of (Document D). According to General H.H Arnold, the dropping of the bomb was not actually ... necessary; as the Japanese were at this ... ...

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... which develop shortly before an event and immediate causes or triggers that act as a spark to start things happening. 84% of the Russian population lived as peasants. They were by far the largest group in the country but they were also the poorest. These peasants were also very dissatisfied with their living conditions and how land was divided up. Their basic diet was ... the running of the country. They said there should be a parliament, which is freely elected by all men. The government's policies to develop industries had had disastrous effects on the people. This was made worse by p...

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The 300 watchtowers, the twenty-two bunkers, the guns, the border guards, the dogs, the death strip, Checkpoint Charlie-they are all gone. Only 420 feet of the Berlin Wall remain mainly in the Bernauer Strasse in the city's Wedding district as a tourist attraction. It was once known as the "death strip," the Bernauer Strasse is where East Germans made dramatic leaps to freedom from upper story windows and where the largest number ... died attempting to escape. Erected in 1961, the wall stood for twenty eight years before crumbling in the face of mass protests in November 1989. That is how th...

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... pland for what is now called the United Nations to solve international problems. In 1945 the war was finally over and the world was finally at peace. The world had learned from is experiences and tried to prevent any more such wars. The UN was created in 1945 and was designed to avoid the weakness that was evident in the League of Nations. Today the UN plays a vital role in ... most world affairs. Following WWII however problems still arose. Both the United States and the Soviet Union came out of WWII as the ... "Superpowers" of the world. The Soviet Union ... ...

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... come to some agreement. They agreed to separate Germany. Sections of Germany under the control of the United States, France, and Britain formed the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). The land controlled by the Soviet Union became the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). This setting created a border between the two sides, which caused the two sides to move further away from each other and turn more hostile against each other. Many ... of the people living in East Germany were unhappy with the conditions there. Rules restricted their freedoms, but there were no such rules ...

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... referred to as a "bipolar world" because of the two superpowers. Being a middle power didn't mean we were a country with no power at all. In fact we had a powerful military, we just didn't use it to attack other countries. Benefits came from being a middle power; we were able to get seats at the council, one of the ten rotating ones, more than any other country ... . The fact that we were a middle power, our military would be used in various places. This is why peacekeeping became important ... affecting people's foreign policy; it was focused on peacekeeping, up until 9/11. Canada was ...

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... to a major rise in political tension between the two superpowers and contributed to the longevity of the Cold War. 1) "Despite all Woodrow Wilson's efforts in establishing the League of Nations, the USA did not join the League because of objections raised in the Senate, and Wilson's refusal to compromise ensured that the US would not ratify the Covenant of The League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles. Joining the League of Nations would be like signing a blank cheque ... in the world did affect the U.S, and that if the U.S. ignored serious trouble in the world it would probably ev...

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... as a democratic nation to stop the Soviet Union. President Harry Truman released the Truman Doctrine, an international relations policy which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere of influence. Therefore the U.S involvement in the Korean War was justified as a way to prevent the spread of Communism throughout the world. While the end of World War II brought peace ... and prosperity to most Americans, it also created a heightened state of tension between the Soviet Union and the United State...

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... actual face to face conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union (New World Encyclopedia). Do you think the policies of the United States were justified during the Cold War? The foreign policy of the United States during the Cold War had support due to the direct conflict of goals of the U.S. and how the spread of communism could prove dangerous for Americans. The primary goal of communist nations was to ensure peace ... have history repeated. Even though the Soviet's felt that these were unnecessary and hostile reactions, the controls were necessary to help protect other coun...

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... pass but it was near due to the tensions flaring between the two. Churchill also expressed that the Russians simply "desire the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines." All in all Churchill feels that there is no need for war. Joseph Stalin was the ruler of the U.S.SR from 1929-1953 and in charge of Soviet policies during the early phase of the Cold War. Born losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ... on December 21, 1879, he adopted the name Stalin, which means Man of Steel." While still a young revolutionary. In his reply to Churchill he reminds us that Chu...

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... pass but it was near due to the tensions flaring between the two. Churchill also expressed that the Russians simply "desire the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines." All in all Churchill feels that there is no need for war. Joseph Stalin was the ruler of the U.S.SR from 1929-1953 and in charge of Soviet policies during the early phase of the Cold War. Born losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ... on December 21, 1879, he adopted the name Stalin, which means Man of Steel." While still a young revolutionary. In his reply to Churchill he reminds us that Chu...

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... wanted to protect Russia by turning the countries he took over during the War into buffer states. These states protected Russia and at the same time liking it to the rest of the Europe. Without these states Russia would have been more vulnerable along its borders and would have been isolated from Europe by distance. Across the iron curtain, Stalin was disassembling the factories of Poland and East Germany and ... literally rebuilding them on Russian soil. It was an amazing but devastating accomplishment. Part of his collectivization plan moved peasants and factories to the cities. The f...

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... saw that they could not win. When elections were finally held in Poland in 1947, the communists" provisional government claimed victory. In fact, more than 80% of the votes had voted against the communists. In spite of protests from the United States and Britain, communist rule in Poland continued. The Settlement of Japan After the war, as agreed at Potsdam, Japan was occupied by Allied forces. These forces were mostly ... American. General MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Power (SCAP), had almost absolute power in the administration of the country. As Soviet-Western rela...

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