... propaganda, censoring literature, art, and media, and launching anti-religious campaigns . In addition to his confiscation of religious property and denunciation of belief, Stalin was a contemptuous anti-Semite, using Jewish people as a symbol of corrupt capitalist ethic. However, in 1941, Stalin discontinued his Jewish intolerance and supported the formation of the Jewish Antifascist Committee (JAC) in 1942, contradicting practiced Stalinism and amending his previously unquestionable policy. Even ... inevitably destructive to his legitimacy and authority. What compelled a fanatically u...

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... must be a trail or a military strike against Cuba and with this against the SU, because the quarantine zone didn't show the exspected effect. A letter from N. Chruschtschow to Kennedy valuated the will of Chruschtschow to take away his m issiles from Cuba. 27.10. This day was the most critical in this time of the crisis. An US air reconnaissance plane, the U2, was discharged (abschießen) over Cuba. The senselessness of this soviet action ... , 1902 it formally became independent (till 1934, USA had the right to intervention). The since 1933 ruling dictator F. Batista was upset in 1959 b...

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... risked war to protect its ideology. Berlin was divided into four separate occupation zones, though its was a resenting symbol for Stalin as it lied in the middle of East Germany, like an Island of Democracy with in Communism. The USA wanted a prosperous and wealthy Germany as a barrier against Russia, Stalin wanted the to control Berlin as he still feared German invasion. Thus, America negotiated to introduce ... were expected to maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack. The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) aimed at strengthening the ...

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... make recurring mistakes that, in one way or another, became interlinked and as a result have created serious consequences. The incessant need of both the Soviet Union and The United States to be the bigger better superpower of the Cold War has created serious repercussions such as defiance states, social movements, and backlashes; in the case of the United States, the Cold War foreign policy seemed to be ... and guerrilla warfare. Though the U.S was at war abroad, the media seemed to import that war to the U.S. Che became a symbol of revolution for students and protesters, guerrilla war...

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... that their blockade did not cut off West Berlin completely. The period of the Blockade was one of the most dangerous for Europe in the 20th century. A third world war would have been possible if the Soviets had reacted more aggressively or America had ignored the borders of the GDR on land. Berlin seemed to be again reflecting the political world of the late 40's. The struggle for supremacy without actual fighting, power games between ... the Cold War by the events that happened there, with the Berlin Wall it also had the most significant symbol for the separation. For nearly 40 years t...

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... truths were not dug up until after the fall of the Soviet Union. A big initiative of containment happened in 1947. The National Security Act established many new defense departments and branches. It created the CIA ( central intelligence agency ) to support national security through the gathering of information and covert operations. It established the Air Force as a branch of the military equal to that of the Army and the Navy. It brought forth a new executive ... branch called the National Security Council which was given authority over the creation of new foreign policy. Shortly afte...

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... . If US tanks did try to ram the road-blocks or railway blocks, Stalin would see it as an act of war. However, the Americans were not prepared to give up or fall into the domino effect and escalade into war. Truman wanted to show that he was serious about his policy of containment. He wanted Berlin to be a symbol of freedom behind the Iron curtain. In response to this ... , the Allies instituted the Berlin Airlift on June 21, 1948, in order ... to provide West Berlin with food and fuel. West Berlin was supplied by a constant stream of airplanes ... ...

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... several years leading up to the Russian Revolution in 1917. After the takeover of the government, Stalin became a member of the new government's Soviet of People's Commissars, heading the Commissariat for Nationality Affairs. Stalin's position was crucial as to the result of the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921 because the Bolsheviks were desperately trying to stop the terrorists from winning. The Bolsheviks triumphed so he was elected a member of the Communist Party's highest decision-making body ... , the Politburo, and the Central Committees Organisational Bureau in 1919. At the height ...

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... command economy only works over long-term of monitoring in which the dictators, also know as the leaders of the union, determine the input (the quantity of product that is produced) and output (the quantity of product that can is released) of the market. However, monitoring was costly. "The dictators could not collect all the units of real output without police measures: security ... a profound exchange in internal affairs. It allowed Soviets to learn and exchange ideas with China and Western countries. Opening to the West accelerated the decline of USSR. The act caused a reduction of c...

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... Russian greed created a conflict of interested between the two that spiraled into an all-out war after no diplomatic agreement could be reached. Another event that could explain the reason behind the war is the end of the Cold War. The end of the Cold War led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Following the collapse of the Union, a democratic government was set in place in the freshly formed Russian Federation. The formation of such a government gave all ... provinces of Russia to elect their regional governing body. This inadvertently led to ... ...

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... to be a wild-card ally at best. Despite many efforts including a grandiose rebellion known as the Warsaw Uprising, the Nazis maintained relatively secure control of Poland until the Soviet army drove them back in the final months of the war in Europe (Keegan). The lack of success on the part of the Polish resistance forces is a direct result of the myriad of problems with their allied supporters. On 26 September 1939, twenty five days after ... the Germans invaded the Polish border, a Romanian plane hijacked by Polish forces landed near Warsaw carrying  an emissary of the Polish comman...

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... that they were concerned that by invading Japan, the Soviet Union would join them in battles. By destroying Japan, before the Soviets interfere, America would have more control. At the time, only few knew of the development of the atomic bombs. Surprisingly, despite the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union at the time, when Truman discussed with Josef Stalin about the use of the atomic bombs on Japan, Stalin reacted rather supportively ... . "Truman: On July 24, I casually mentioned to Stalin that we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force. The Russian Premier showed no ...

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... 1980s? On the night of November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall-the most potent symbol of the cold war division of Europe-came down. Earlier that day, the Communist authorities of the German Democratic Republic had announced the removal of travel restrictions to democratic West Berlin. Thousands of East Germans streamed into the West, and in the course of the night, celebrants on both sides of the wall began to tear it down. The collapse of the Berlin Wall was the culminating point of the revolutionary changes ... initial aim. This provided the first signs that the people closest to the system...

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... placing the blame of the war on the evils of capitalism and imperialism. Without WW I the chance that the Bolsheviks would have gained power was highly unlikely. Another reason that the Bolsheviks were able to gain power was through the support of the Petrograd Soviet, which represented the majority of the population. Although the Provisional government had taken control when the Tsarist regime collapsed, it was still at the mercy of the workers and the peasants, who gave the Provisional Government the ... opportunity to establish itself in the first place by the overthrow of the Tsar. ...

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... in June with Japanese having incurred the heaviest loss in comparison to their counterpart; the US. Despite the heavy loss, Japan did not surrender. After the conquest of the Okinawa, the troops move ahead to Japan. President Truman was cautioned of the losses the US would incur by stepping on the Japanese homeland. At this point, she had two choices; whether to face the Japanese off or to use a powerful weapon (atomic bomb ... ). Truman warns Japanese against resisting otherwise he would bring, "rain of ruin from the air." The warning fell on deaf ... ...

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... selfish to their allies but they had their reasons. They suffered the most casualties out of all the countries with a total of 6 million soldiers, killed or injured. If the West had realized this, the outcome could have been completely different. Therefore The West were also responsible to create the tension between Russia. The emergence of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s signaled the arrival of a new threat to peace in Europe. Adolf Hitler was a German ... dictator who formed a far right German political system that was known as Nazism. Many of the ... ...

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... and priorities for farm production were, it seems, policies that all the main rivals for the succession to Stalin would have adopted The policies identified more specifically with Khrushchev himself - maize in Chukotka and the like, plus perhaps the Virgin Lands scheme - were ambiguous or downright damaging in the effects" (Hanson 57). During the years of Stalin the Soviet Union had endured great stagnation and was rather economically inefficient. Khrushchev ... "Knew the dominance of Moscow and the fact that every important decision had to be taken there stultified local initiative" (M...

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... 's dictatorship in Cuba. Russian aid to the country of Cuba caused the US to be faced with the problem of nuclear missiles being within striking distance of every one of its major cities. President Kennedy was faced with three possible options for the dilemma: a nuclear strike on the missile sites in Cuba, and air attack with conventional bombs, or a naval blockade to prevent the Russians from transporting more missiles to Cuba ... . President Kennedy decided on a "quarantine- of Cuba through a naval blockade. After stiff negotiations, the Soviet Union agreed to remove its missiles from C...

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... and priorities for farm production were, it seems, policies that all the main rivals for the succession to Stalin would have adopted The policies identified more specifically with Khrushchev himself - maize in Chukotka and the like, plus perhaps the Virgin Lands scheme - were ambiguous or downright damaging in the effects" (Hanson 57). During the years of Stalin the Soviet Union had endured great stagnation and was rather economically inefficient. Khrushchev ... "Knew the dominance of Moscow and the fact that every important decision had to be taken there stultified local initiative" (M...

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... In January 1988, he announced his plans of withdrawing all forces from Afghanistan and his plans were realized at the start of 1989. During a visit to Finland in October 1989, Gorbachev declared that "the Soviet Union has no moral or political right to interfere in the affairs of its East European neighbors. They have the right to decide their own fate." ( ... Available at: http://www.russianet.ru/~oldrn/history/gorbachev.html). By the end of 1989, all the citizens throughout Eastern Europe were protesting for mass reforms. The "Iron Curtain" crumbled and the most symbolic fact of this wa...

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... he had to find new solutions and new steps forward to get on further within the country. Many problems that had to be discovered where just overseen by the last leaders. The first problem I want to mention is the rapid turnover of leaders before Gorbachev came to power. No leader had the chance to change something or to realise their proposals. They were too old to see ... the need for change and died shortly after their election. But not only the former leaders of the USSR were too old, many of the Party members where over ... 65! Some of them where old, loafer and ... ...

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... , which was adopted after the 1898 aggression involving Cuba, Spain, and the United States, the intervention of the United States was allowed whenever order was threatened in Cuba . More importantly, many saw a Cuban and USSR alliance to be threatening to the shores of the southern U.S. Nikita Khrushchev was born to a poor family in Kalinovka, near the village of Kursk in southwestern Russia. His grandfather had been a serf, or indentured farm laborer ... , and his father was a peasant who sometimes worked in the mines. Khrushchev received very little formal education. After leaving schoo...

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... , and demanded that it was obligatory that the Soviets disassemble all missile bases, whether complete or under assembly, and relinquish all offensive ammunitions to the U.S.S.R. The message was the first of many in a chain of direct and indirect correspondence amid the White House and the Kremlin during the course of the conclusion of the contingency. Kennedy furthermore used national television that night in order to update the citizens of the unraveling intensification in Cuba, his judgment to ... institute and administer a quarantine, and the impending international penalties if the ...

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... -communist states," and therefore "Khrushchev made it clear that the Soviet Union would provide arms and support to any left-wing government as a way of undercutting western influence," (The Library of Congress n.d); a perceived offer to Egypt. America on the other hand eager to extend its influence in the Middle East, but not be manipulated or tested by Nasser, Eisenhower wanted to continue to policy ... by arms sales of equal quantity and quality of the other," (Jewish Virtual Library n.d). The dissatisfaction at the restrictions of the West, Nasser purchased an excessive quantity of a...

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... about rapid industrialisation to modernise the economy. The decision to launch the Plans in 1928 was based on a combination of economic and political factors and a fear of foreign invasion. In 1928 Stalin said; "We are 50 to 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in 10 years. Either we do it, or we shall be crushed ". The achievements of the plans were impressive. Production increases ... between 1927-37 saw a rise in electricity by 700%, coal by 250% and oil by 400%. The Plans brought prosperity and strength to the country, acting as a cohesive force. ...

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