He killed many thousands innocent people and exiled hundreds more. ... Killing or exiling thousands of millions of people for simple mistakes. ... As Russian wasn't Joseph's first language, he learnt it by the time he was nine. ... To kick start the industrial and agricultural revolution he made the Five Year Plan. ... Even though USSR and Germany were on peace terms, he knew that an attack was inevitable. ...
The poor performance in the war was soon realised by the Russian as not being in the same level as the Eastern Europe in terms of modernisation. ... Furthermore the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918 and the Bolshevik Revolution made Russia's situation worse, as 1/3 of the population was lost in the unasked war and only to be left more vulnerable by the Russian civil war 1918-1923. Even though the revolution weakened Russia's industrial powers, the civil war was the final knock to the already weak Tsarist Russia and a clear path for some serious modernization. ... In a democratic countri...
World War ended between Russia and Germany with Russia surrendering because it could not take the cost of war any more .Germany and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk,which ended the war between them, which required Russia to surrender lands to Germany. ... The guiding idea behind these points was self -determination (allowing people to decide for themselves under what government they wished to live. ... The treaty with Germany , in particular the "war guilt" clause left bitterness and hatred in the hearts if German people . ... All sides in World War One (western socie...
An ultimatum was issued to Serbia stating that it must agree to all terms described in the ultimatum in order to avoid war. Austria-Hungary gave Serbia 48 hours to reply and clearly stated that all terms must be met and complied with. Serbia agreed to all terms of the ultimatum bar one. ... In the early part of the twentieth century, militarism was as prominent as ever, with the recent industrial revolution being the main factor. ... The Russians refused Germany's demand and the Kaiser declared war on Russia and France. ...
Lenin's N.E.P had bought some advances to Russia but the Soviet Union was still very backwards in comparison to the rest of Europe. ... The principle of socialism was that of a party of the proletariat or the working classes and in 1928 Russia did not have a very large proletariat because most people worked in agriculture. ... The proletariat was seen as the backbone of the revolution and so to continue the revolution the proletariat had to be increased. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a r...
Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. ... (Berlin would be in the Russian zone). ... It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolshevik Russia in 1921). ... These terms recognized the government that Soviet occupants...
Rogers, "Some people believe that women soldiers will not be deployed in the event of hostilities that they are only to be part-time soldier. ... Technically, women are barred by law/ policy from what is defined in narrow terms as direct combat. ... Russia was reported as using military women on the front lines. ... Polls and statistics have shown that there is a clear tendency toward liberalization in terms of women's roles. ... "Women in the Military" An Unfinished Revolution Schneider, Dorothy & Carol J. ...
Russia is in temporary decline. ... In just over two decades from its inception, the foreign policy of the Peoples Republic of China swung from formal alliance with the Soviet Union against the US, to de facto alliance with the US against the Soviet Union . ... The foreign policy objectives of a communist China however are not purely national in spirit, because Mao firmly believed in the ideological superiority of communism and claimed for China the role of leadership in the drive to world revolution. ... Mao and his followers set out to build a society that was to be organised for the benefit...
The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. ... However, the nationalism of Fascists did more than stress the authority of the state and insist that people exist for its benefit, it tended towards an ultra or chauvinistic nationalism. ... Terrorists acts carried out by Communists and the emergence of a Communist state in Russia, ensured that Fascist parties grew up throughout Europe in opposition to Communism. These parties gained they su...
One of Hitler's main aim's was to overturn the Treaty of Versailles, he saw this as an embarrassment to his country, underlining the concept of the November criminals and appealing to the nationalistic sentiments of his people in his desire to make Germany great. ... Such nationalism is illustrated throiugh the ideas that Hitler promoted to his people, that of the evils of Semitism and communism as well as the idea of the superiority of the Aryan race. ... In his attempt to overturn the Treaty of Versailles Hitler blatantly disobeyed its terms by the re-militarising of Germany, on...
Hitler believed that the history of mankind was really only a struggle for space among peoples, and that the strong survived by gaining the necessary living space from which they could continue to grow numerically, and in terms of racial quality. ... On July 27, 1920, in line with his racial dogma Hitler stated: "An alliance between Russia and Germany can only come into existence if the Jews are removed from power." ... Despite the enmity of the war Hitler said on December 10, 1919: "As a people the Englishman has reason to be proud." Though he had only a year earlier been fighting...
Though often regarded as the people's emperor, Hirohito has proven to be less of a leader in times of war and more of a bystander at the mercy of his underlings. ... The army was then to seize control of Tokyo with a display of unification for the revolution. ...
In 1910 Japan annexed Korea, installing a harsh rule over its people. ... The USSR then claimed that helping South Korea was illegal because the USSR and the People's Republic of China were not present during the voting. ... There was much skepticism that Rhee would actually abide by the terms of the armistice even after it was signed. ...
"From almost every point of view, economically and militarily, in absolute and in relative terms, the USSR under Brezhnev was much more powerful than it had been under Stalin... "(2) Brezhnev believed that eventually, the capitalist West would experience revolution and would turn towards their socialist brothers for support. ... Allen Lynch writes: The strong ideological tone adopted by the Reagan administration in 1981, together with its downgrading of arms control, eventually shattered a strong consensus in Moscow that there were strict limits to hostility intrinsic to the Soviet-American ...
Woodrow Wilson President Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. ... In 1935, Adolf Hitler unilaterally abrogated most of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. ... The Treaty of 1814 was concluded between France on the one hand and Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia on the other after the first abdication of NApoleon I. ... Below his country, the Mexican Revolution was in full swing. ... Presidents don't win elections by telling the people what they don't want to hear. ...
"4 Some scholars such as Seymour Lipset state that exceptionalism refers only to America as a unique nation but not necessarily a better one.5 Whereas others such as Ceaser feel that packed into exceptionalism is the belief that the American people have a mission to better the world and spread their greater way of life.6 For my essay I went with the definition provided by Ian Tyrell ; "American exceptionalism refers to the special character of the United States as a uniquely free nation based on democratic ideals and personal liberty.... ", not only shows Uncle Sam as a heroic...
