With the rise of The Communist Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union developed awkward relations with the United States. ... America began a widespread hate to all Communists. ... In agreement the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, to help Cuba in case America wanted to attack, due to the conflicts between Cuba and America regarding trade issues of denying export of sugar to America. ... Castro's 26th July Movement, was established to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, and to create the Cuban Revolution. ... America de...

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The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... Others supported the revisionist view and would claim that it was not an aggression but a self - defence policy and that the American involvement in the South America and therefore its Imperialism resulted in the Cold War. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the...

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The Americans supported Capitalism, which meant minimum interference of state in economy, competition and individual reward, and the right of voting, variety of political parties and freedom of speech and press among others (liberal democracy). ... Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need ...

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The ministry of foreign affairs was changed to the People's Commissariat of foreign affairs and led by Leon Trotsky; however he approached his job with the expectance of an immediate worldwide communist revolution. ... " He appealed to workers of the central powers to conduct their own revolution and while his pleas did not go unanswered they caused little result. ... " The Commintern implied Twenty one conditions for admission in to the group, something that was intended to centralize and strengthen the parties control and further their chance of revolution. ... In this period ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's...

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In American eyes, only China looms as a likely future rival. ... 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. ... The USSR sheltered China under a "nuclear umbrella" from possible American aggression and was the only conceivable source of development aid as it offered the only model of communist development. ... Once USA became deeply involved in Vietnam, it became a matter of national pride to th...

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For example, Cuba being a sphere of influence of the United States had greatly benefited Americans up until Castro's revolution in 1958. ... This American alliance included most of western Europe. ... This formation of American alliances in Europe also helped the American policy of containment of soviet Expansion in Europe. ...

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Filmmakers in general worked more closely with established painters, musicians, and playwrights than the Americans did because the new medium appealed to the avant-garde movement that was then establishing itself. ... This dark, moody school of filmmaking was brought to America when the Nazis gained power and a number of German filmmakers immigrated to Hollywood. They found a number of American movie studios willing to embrace them, and several of the German directors and cameramen flourished, producing a repertoire of Hollywood films that had a profound effect on the medium of film as a whol...

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American feared another economic depression and required the European market. ... Americans still believed that the Soviet Union was out for world domination, as she attempted to expand outside of Eastern Europe. ... 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. ... Both the Ameri...

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"(2) Brezhnev believed that eventually, the capitalist West would experience revolution and would turn towards their socialist brothers for support. ... This attitude in America served to heighten American concerns over Soviet influence abroad and increased paranoia in the United States. Thus, the failure of American detente in the 1970s was inevitable without cooperation in some way by the Soviet Union. ... The 1980s brought a new face to the American presidency and a new look to the Cold War. ... This 'New Thinking' offered an entirely new attitude to Leninism-Marxism and all the p...

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McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. ... The US Government used the scare of Soviet plans for world domination to put the American people on high alert. ... In the middle of the 1960's, inspired by the writings of many notable researchers and historians on the subject of American Foreign Policy, such as William Appleman Williams and his book The Tragedy of Amer...

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Truman was smart in sticking to his guns in the public eye because he needed Americans to know that his actions were justified. The American people would not of been able to trust a man who regretted or second-guessed his actions in a time of crisis. If Truman could live with the decisions he made, then America would undoubtedly support him in the future. ... Dating back to the end of the American Revolution, interest in China was growing and a large trading vessel was shipped in hope for a large flourishing trade with China. ... The rising tensions of the Cold War could have been yet anoth...

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Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities withi...

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Meanwhile, Chaplin's huge level of popularity and lifestyle began attracting suspicion in an increasingly paranoid United States of America. ... Background House Un-American Activities Committee The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was established in 1938 and focused its efforts on investigating alleged disloyalty perpetrated by ordinary people, public employees and any organization suspected of having links to groups that advocated on behalf of communism and facism.1 The HUAC's attention quickly turned to the arts and the potential it had to effect ordinary citizens&...

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The revolution in command is epitomized in the figure of General Zhukov: given greater freedom for decision making, "the man who beat Hitler" proved to be a formidable tactician. ... Allies Russia's "strange alliance" with Britain and America was pivotal in her ability to resist and overcome Nazi Germany. ...

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The side effects of western influences in the market caused society to seek changes in the political system leading to the cultural- revolution. Even though the desire of the Chinese citizens to end the Communist regime and establish a democracy resulted in the government returning to its conservative roots, the revolution was a wake up call to the west to act against the oppressive acts of the Chinese regime. ... Countries in Africa and Latin America chose to end many of their planned socialism projects and focused on private enterprises. ...

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