... war he also established communist regimes through Eastern Europe. However he reigned terror and was responsible for the death and deprivation of millions of people. Stalin still remains the least known of the towering figures in world politics at the time, mostly because of the traditional secrecy surrounding soviet leaders. His ... originally named Iosif Vissarionovic Dzhugashvili was bon on Dec 21 1879. He was born in the Caucasian town of Gori, Georgia. Stalin was the only one of four children to survive infancy. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili was an unsuccessful cobbler. He wor...

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... country of Russia in a blanket of fear, the fear that their life could be taken at any moment for having the slightest connection to anything that Stalin disliked. Maybe it was a greed for power and control, maybe it was racism and bloodlust, but either way, its effects were devastating to the country ... clear that this mass murder had an effect on everyone. Not just those directly involved in the terror. It The Soviet Union reacted very passively to Stalin's terror. The country had a history of being weak in the face of any exerted governmental power, which is basically summed up in d...

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... Not one person or country wanted another World War especially if it was against Russia. America did not meet other demands from the Soviet Union. Stalin had asked for other land, such as South Sakhalin Island, the Kuriles and Outer Mongolia. They asked for 20 billion dollars in reparations from ... 000 to repair the country's economy and to equip themselves in case of an attempted assault by Russia. This made huge hostilities towards Truman and Stalin. 270 million people in foreign countries were starving and suffering. The US government decided to give $11,000,000,000 of the taxpayers m...

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... Soviets, the West now possessed the atomic bomb wanted to pursue a quest for all the raw materials and markets that they could get. Stalin said that the Soviet control of Eastern Europe would balance for America's overwhelming economic and military superiority. Everything started at Poland. The Allies ... wanted freedom restored to the country. The Soviets didn't. Roosevelt and Churchill insisted Stalin permit free elections in Poland, and he retorted, "The Prime Minister has said that for Great Britain the question of Poland is a question ... is not only a question of honor, but of secu...

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... money to countries that were part of the Truman Doctrine and this was directly helping countries not to become communist and therefor directly went against Stalin's idea of Soviet expansion. This created tension between the two countries as the USA was now using money and threats against the USSR to ... soviet 'sphere of influence'. Cominform created tension between the two sides because now that Russia had gone back on their agreements from Potsdam Stalin needed to coordinate how these countries would be ran. He specially chose the leaders of each country she didn't want anyone to...

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... the Eastern Bloc? The beginning of Khrushchev's ambitious reforms may be considered the 20th congress of the CPSU (February 1956), which was followed by the exposure of crimes, committed by Stalin and his entourage, the beginning of mass rehabilitation of repressed people and the criticism of dictatorial governance. Congress made changes in the ideological concept of the party: sounded rejection of ... in June 28, 1956. Khrushchev's speech undermined the political positions of many leaders of the communist parties in the world. They had to explain to ordinary communists why they glorifi...

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... United Nations. He also felt that Russia needed to be appeased in order to gain their support in the war against Japan. To the surprise of Roosevelt and Churchill, Josef Stalin failed to keep his promises. He quickly prevented popular elections in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria by assigning permanent Communist governments to each and suppressing all democratic supporters. ... The response against Stalin was little, for his army extended across Eastern Europe and controlled the region by force. The United States, busy in its war against Japan and not wanting to lo...

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... was brewing, fueled by ambitions on both sides for world domination and the opposing ideals of communism and capitalism. On one side, Stalin sought to spread his influence in Eastern Europe by setting up pro-Russian governments in these states while America, feared for their power ... which nation- Russia or America- was to blame for the outbreak of this war that lasted for nearly five decades. It can be argued that Stalin's political incursions into Eastern Europe caused unnecessary conflict between Russia and the West. By 1948, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Alban...

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... economy. They believed that these systems were more civilized and less violent than the nationalism of the preceding generations. Russia, under autocratic leader Joseph Stalin, felt that it had a right to the Eastern European nations it had occupied in World War II. After being invaded by Germany in two ... 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 Churchill too is like H...

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... economy. They believed that these systems were more civilized and less violent than the nationalism of the preceding generations. Russia, under autocratic leader Joseph Stalin, felt that it had a right to the Eastern European nations it had occupied in World War II. After being invaded by Germany in two ... 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 Churchill too is like H...

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... II ending and Russia becoming a major world power there had to be something done to prevent a future war. Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill met with Stalin for a peace agreement know as the Yalta conference. To understand the Yalta conference better you need to look at World War II, the Yalta ... crushing Polish resistance. Russia and Germany signed a non-aggression pact days before the attack on Poland. Seeing that Germany was dominating with barely any interference, Stalin knew that he needed an ally to survive. He turned to Britain for help but was denied so he then turned to Germany. ...

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... his ideas. Roosevelt used his imagination and character on how he could create a free and self-governing Europe. He worked closely with Winston Churchill, and not so closely with Joseph Stalin to try to lead the allies to victory over Germany and Japan. There were many different decisions that needed to made during World War II, Roosevelt and his cabinet had ... troops were having trouble in Tunisia were Hitler had sent extra troops to combat the Americans. Things were not going well for Roosevelt. He had hoped to meet with Stalin, and Churchill, but Stalin backed out. Roosevelt and Chu...

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... Marshall Plan rose, in large part, out of an American fear of Soviet expansionism. Immediately following World War II, the Soviet Union was determined to advance three important priorities. First, Stalin sought to retain the boundary changes that he had gained in the war, second, he was determined to forbid the states that shared borders with the Soviet Union from maintaining ... hostile policies against it and third, he wanted to spread Soviet Ideology around the world. In 1946, Stalin made an "election speech" in which he articulated his goals, adding that, with imperialism and capita...

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... and materials that it desperately needed. America wanted to be the dominant nation, and took many measures to insure that the USSR would not expand following WWII. For example, without Stalin even knowing that the US had atomic power, an atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. The US and England had and extreme lack of trust of ... Stalin. Neither Churchill nor FDR told Stalin about the atomic bomb. The American people were told that it was done in order to scare the USSR. If they were our allies, this would be unnecessary. We used ... nations. We expected European and then world domination ...

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... in four zones; each one was occupied by a different nation. The four nations occupying these zones were the US, France, the UK, and the Soviet Union. The USSR's leader, Joseph Stalin, was not fond of this idea and wanted to push the Western allies away so that he would be able to take full control over the city of Berlin and ... . The tensions between the US and USSR rose up and even though there was no act of war, this situation they found themselves in became known as the Cold War. Stalin's real intentions with the Berlin Blockade, as the History Channel's web page describes were to "...

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... peace with the United States and current President Richard Nixon. The United States was unsuccessful in stopping the spread of communism throughout China, while the Soviet Union was gaining power. Stalin became concerned about the Soviet Union's security and requested reparations. Americans believed that Germany must get back on course before there could be a full European recovery. The Marshall Plan is ... to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union decided not to take part in the Marshall Plan and tells the satellite countries to do the same. Czechoslovakia is taken over by Stalin and the c...

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... off the entire Axis powers" advance towards Asia. The basis of the Cold War was the broken promise from the Yalta Conference. Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met to discuss war plans against Germany in February of 1945. Stalin agreed to give free elections to his people and then later broke the promise by not allowing it. This is the true cause of ... ...

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... do with the German territories. Some of their goals included promoting world peace, providing emergency relief, and helping set up a temporary government based on the will of the people. Both Stalin (the leader of the Soviet Union at that time) and Roosevelt (leader of the United States) had different views on achieving those goals. While at the Yalta Conference, the three ... meant that the three nations agreed to hold democratic elections in countries freed from the control of Germany. The Soviet Union did not keep its word and broke this agreement. Stalin had driven German troops out...

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... Cold War stood for. The people of Hungary and the rest of Eastern Europe were completely ruled over by communist Russia. Anyone who challenged the rule of Stalin and Russia paid the price. Although Stalin died in 1953, Moscow's control over Hungary and Eastern Europe did not weaken. (The Revolution of 1956) The Soviet's military strength, along with the hunger and cold ... ...

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... and which again meant each eastern European country that was near to the Soviet border had to have a loyal communist government in power with leaders who would do what "Stalin" wished. Elections were never going to be fair. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania all ended up with communist governments and had leaders who looked to Moscow for advice as ... ...

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... , the fall of this wall should be remembered for the reason that Germans and the whole Western Europe would "no longer have to bow down to tyrants like Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and their local clones" (938). The reunification of Berlin represents another victory for the capitalist countries, United States, England and France. It opened the doors to a new ... ...

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... to the Cold War. He was much more outwardly aggressive in showing his dislike and distrust of the Soviets than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Truman believed Roosevelt was too soft with Stalin and that he did not stand up to the Soviets as much as Truman believed the Americans/Western Powers should have. Truman's outburst shocked and angered the Soviets, which contributed ... ...

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... into improving the living standards. Russia did become a developed nation under communist rule, but other problems soon deteriorated any stability it might have gained during the years of Lenin and Stalin. Nationalism and political corruption contributed to the deterioration of this system of government. Efforts made by Gorbachev to improve conditions caused the system to collapse faster. Communism gradually disappeared from ... ...

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... ethnic diversion would be the only reason. Russia was having a policy of Russification and forcing the nations to be like Russian. The use of violence over the minorities (especially by Stalin) had seemed to work for a while after the WWII. But in fact this was only increasing the hate for the mother country "Russia" among the minorities. Sending the army whenever ... ...

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... ended. Under this treaty, Austria agreed to remain neutral. The settlement of Poland In the case of Poland, the decisions of wartime conferences were not fully carried out. At Yalta, Stalin had promised to include non-communists in the new Polish government and to hold free elections. But he did not keep his promises. The provisional government, established in Poland at ... ...

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