Communism in the Eastern Europe was a tragedy. ... However, it was Gorbachev's reformation that truly brought Communism in Eastern Europe to its end. It proved that Communism in Eastern Europe was just a theory that did not work in reality. ... This modification contributed to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. ... (Poland, 1956: Khrushchev, Gomulka, and the "Polish October" ) Unlike Stalin, Khrushchev was a little bit gentler in dealing with the revolts. ...

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But the most important ones are the ones which were located in Eastern Europe (Poland,Estonia etc.). ... Unlike the way that Stalinism or militarism caused the Soviet Union to collapse. ... The ethnic conflicts had caused great troubles in Bosnia, Kosovo and many places in Eastern Europe so many wars in Caucasia and middle Asia are expected. ... The collapse of communism had also caused many nationalist competitions in Eastern Europe. The West should encourage the former Eastern Europe Communist States (satellites) to build up capitalist systems and have more relations (trade etc.) with th...

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• Grade Level: High School

First, they convinced Eastern European countries to switch to communism. Eventually, European countries were divided into East and West by the "Iron Curtain" (Doc A), the boundary that separates the Warsaw Pact countries from NATO countries; America was in charge of Western Europe and the Soviet Union was in charge of Eastern Europe. ... However, Greece and Western Europe couldn't avoid the chaos of communism spreading. Many Western European countries were a mess of poverty and homeless, which led to the fear all around the world. ... The threat of nuclear attack was unlike any ...

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Unlike the western democratic nations with free markets, the Soviet Union operated an economy that was completely centralized. ... Europe was effectively split into two spheres of influence. Western Europe, aided by the United States, was democratic and capitalist. Eastern Europe, comprising of the USSR and the satellites, was Communist. ... The plan, also known, as the European Economic Recovery Plan, aimed to use money to stabilise post-WW2 Europe to minimize the chance of communist uprisings. ...

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After it's quite successful Blitzkrieg, Germany found itself in quite a succeeded position - it controlled already big part of Europe: Denmark, Holland, N&W France, and Poland were under Germany's control. ... Unlike the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain took form of a concentrated aerial attack, firstly upon Britain's airfields, and then upon London and other cities. ... The most far-reaching escalation of the European conflict came with Hitler's decision to launch his attack upon the Soviet Union. As Hitler hoped, this attack upon Soviet Union would leave Brita...

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The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of the Eastern European Soviet Block countries intended to organize against the perceived threat from the NATO alliance. ... All the Communist countries of Eastern Europe except Yugoslavia were included. ... When it was clear that the Soviet Union would no longer use force to control the Warsaw Pact countries a series of rapid changes started in Eastern Europe in 1989. The new government in Eastern Europe were much less supportive to the Warsaw Pact, and in January 1991 Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland announced that they would withdraw all support by...

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I personally understand these liberties more than other teenagers in this country since I am originally from Eastern Europe. ... Unlike the people of the United States, Ukrainians were not allowed to publicly express their religious beliefs. ...

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Temporary Agreements There was no general peace conference immediately after the war. Instead the victorious powers made temporary agreements concerning the militarily occupation of former Axis and Axis controlled countries. Germany and Austria were each divided into four zones under American, ...

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Before we can assess the effectiveness of blitzkrieg we must understand how it works. Once that is explained, we can begin to see how it was effective in Poland and other countries such as France. Then, we can examine why it was not successful in the USSR. Blitzkrieg is a strategy that utilizes s...

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Let us begin with a simpler model of strategic geometry which existed in Europe during the Cold War. From 1948 onwards, a more or less clear-cut line divided Europe into two main political and military blocs: the communist bloc and the free world of Western Europe, resulting in an almost perfect bipolarity. However, the politics in Asia during the same period were more dynamic and nuanced than just the simple East-West divide of Europe. Here, there was none of "the sharp structural clarity of Europe," no drawing of a line, no Iron Curtain; rather, there existed a more complex web of internatio...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Eisenhower described Zhukov's role as "crucial to victory in Europe." ... However as the war progressed this disparity diminished, in his own words Stalin possessed a " first-class army" by 1943, "very unlike the Red Army of 1941." ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate