The Cold War could be referred to as the "battle of ideas" because they never had an actual declared winner. The Soviet union and the United states had very different views about Communism, Capitalism, and Socialism. The Soviet union's plan was to spread communism worldwide. On the other hand, the U...
In twentieth century Europe a lot of peace treaties were signed, such as treaty of Sten Stefanov, treaty of Versailes, and Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. However, the treaty of Brest-Litovsk had huge consequences upon Russia and very important results since Vienna Connvention treaty. Duri...
On March 1985, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Communist Party in Russia. Gorbachev inherited by his predecessors a stagnant economy and a "well fed" bureaucracy. Moreover, he was called to face a population that had learned to live in fear of the government and t...
In 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union had signed a non-aggression pact, which secretly promised Russia half of Poland, Bessarabia and the Baltic States. Germany had promised this because they were afraid of an alliance between Britain, France and the USSR. During 1940 the Soviets invaded the Baltic S...
Conflict Assessment Task 2 Campaign or Battle Analysis: World War Two The Battle of Stalingrad 1. Identify significant events During the Second World War, Stalingrad was one of the largest industrial centres, producing tanks, mortars, heavy guns and automatic weapons for Russia. Stalingrad...
When German Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg was asked why war broke out he replied with a sigh "Oh - if I only knew!" (Ross, 53) This statement implies that there was not just one thing that caused the war there were many. Tensions were building all over Europe prior to the outbreak of World War One. Ev...
