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... of Staff of the US Army General M. Taylor. The atomic bombing of Japanese cities were, in fact, the act of deterrence aimed primarily against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union bore the brunt of the struggle against fascism: its most economically developed part of the territory was in the zone of military operations, subject to restoration. Even more significant were the ... ...
... the White House staff rushed to evaluate the legitimacy of this proposition, Khrushchev sent Kennedy a letter that evening. It elevated the threat of nuclear holocaust, and offered a solution that extraordinarily bore a resemblance to what Scali recounted earlier. On October 27, Khrushchev again communicated with Kennedy specifying that any offer required the inclusion of the elimination of U.S. Jupiter missiles from Turkey. Later ... ...
... that backed up the containment policy in Europe. If any of the allied countries were attacked, then NATO would be called upon to defend these nations. Naturally, the United States bore the greatest burden in this relationship, financially and in terms of manpower. NATO effectively executed its share of the responsibility of containment, for example: the Berlin Airlift in 1948. If ... ...
... turned World War II into a "Great Patriotic War" for "Mother Russia," an idea totally antithetical to Marxist ideology. And even after the war, Stalin's expansionist foreign policy and belligerent tactics bore a striking resemblance to the traditional politics of a nationalistic Russia--as did his domestic persecutions of Russia's Jews. In a sense, then, despite Stalin's Marxism, it was nationalism that made the deeper ... ...
... agricultural system was needed. Despite the fertile land exploitation in the Ukraine, which fed the Soviet Union, there were still regular famines and the peasants who worked on the farms bore a deep resentment to the party, which branded many of them as Kulaks and capitalists. For the five year plans to work, the peasants would be needed as workers and collectivisation ... ...
