On one side, Stalin sought to spread his influence in Eastern Europe by setting up pro-Russian governments in these states while America, feared for their power and domination over the world and attempted to "contain" communism. ... It can be argued that Stalin's political incursions into Eastern Europe caused unnecessary conflict between Russia and the West. ... They believed with this blockading and the setting up of anti-western governments in Eastern Europe that Stalin had plans of expansion, which threatened their monopoly over the world and felt that they needed to retaliate. Ho...

• Word Count: 816
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Stalin urged Churchill and Roosevelt to open a second front. ... Stalin alleged that the Western allies were deliberately holding back a second front to weaken the Soviet Union. The Stalin Hitler Pact of 1939 did not help the Soviet Union in gaining trust from the West either. ... Stalin understood that the United States wanted to cripple the Soviet Union by weakening its economy. ... Stalin agreed to the "Declaration on Liberated Europe" - ba...

• Word Count: 3287
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A major factor was the Stalin's foreign policy. ... Joseph Stalin once stated: "One cannot forget the following fact: the Germans carried out an invasion of the U.S.S.R. through Finland, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary....One can ask, therefore, what can be surprising in the fact that the Soviet Union, in a desire to ensure its security for the future, tries to achieve that these countries should have governments whose relations to the Soviet Union are loyal?". ... On July 25, 1945, two month after Germany has surrendered, the Big Three - Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry...

• Word Count: 1778
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

President Truman was told of the success of the project during a conference with the leaders of Great Britain (Winston Churchill) and the Soviet Union (Stalin) in Potsdam, in occupied Germany. After learning of the project's success, President Truman told Stalin that the United States now possessed a super weapon capable of "awesome destructiveness" (Davidson 554). ... During meetings with Stalin, it was noted by Winston Churchill that Truman "told the Russians just where they got on and off and generally bossed the whole meeting" (Davidson 554). ...

• Word Count: 1155
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Eventually, the "land of the free" will turn into a Stalin-like communist state, where people are killed for stating their opinions, the government openly impedes the smarter people, and people can be taken from their homes and jailed, for the sole reason that they could be stronger, bigger and better than other people in society. ...

• Word Count: 380
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On June 25 1950 North Korea crossed the thirty-eighth parallel, officially invading South Korea, and marking what has been recorded historically as the beginning of the Korean War. Traditionally, many have viewed this war as democracy versus communism, the United States against Russia, and as the f...

• Word Count: 3532
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although Stalin claimed he was protecting the state from traitors, the only way innocent Russian citizens could be protected from the hand of the government was to join in the unjust enslavement of their fellow citizens, and even then a Russian was not guaranteed exemption from the threat of labor camps. ...

• Word Count: 1276
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"One death is a tragedy a million deaths is a statistic"- Josef Stalin. Today in the United States it is hard to mourn the loss of one when hundreds are killed annually, but what gives someone the right to take another life? The death penalty is what. The death penalty is the murder of a person ann...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What manifested was an unprecedented conflict of ideological misunderstandings, broken promises, suspicions, and changing players (i.e. deaths of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin). ... They ascribe blame to both the US and Soviets for being responsible, it does put more blame on the Stalin for perpetuating the conflict. ...

• Word Count: 1800
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the announcement from the Soviet Union lead by Joseph Stalin in 1949 they too had the nuclear capability to launch a weapon with the same devastating power. ... Once Stalin died, Nikita Khrushchev took over the Soviet Union. ...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his farewell address, outgoing President George Washington famously stated that, "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordina...

• Word Count: 5653
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At first each country wanted a to have their own different way of punishing Nazi Germany after the war, for example the Soviet Union at the time, Joseph Stalin wanted to have an execution of more than 500,000 Nazi officials and those that had helped the Nazi in such inhumane acts, while Winston Churchill, the Great Britain Prime Minister only wanted the execution of the high ranking Nazi officials without any possibility of a trial whatsoever. ...

• Word Count: 1281
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

August sixth, 1945 a devastating day for some and a victorious day for others. August 6th was the day the United States government chose to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and in one flash the world was introduced to the new atomic age. The United States and the Soviet Union were in an arms...

• Word Count: 1297
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

• Word Count: 4151
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Yalta Conference meeting in February of 1945 is when the "Big Three" (Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, English Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) met to hopefully put an end to the war. ...

• Word Count: 1715
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When this pact was put into action right away something was going to go wrong such as Adolph Hitler gains power in 1933, Joseph Stalin begins his Reign, and Mussolini rises from the ashes of Italy's economic depression. ...

• Word Count: 1826
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"True ... not all Muslims are terrorists, but every single terrorist is a Muslim" was a comment of Native Grossnass on a YouTube video of a Muslim guy explaining that Muslims are not terrorists. Islam, the religion that considers killing single innocent human being more significant than demolishing ...

• Word Count: 1474
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Cyrus Veesers idea in Great Leaps Forward: Modernization in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is to simply explain how less-developed nations across the planet tried to catch up to "the Wests " rise to power. "The West " is referring to the world's major military-industrial powers, including Britain, France from 1800 on and later being joined by Germany and the United States in 1850. The main goal of this book is not to explain how the West rose to power but rather how the less developed parts of the world such as China, Mexico, Ethiopia, and Turkey, understood and responded to this new pow...

• Word Count: 2216
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This has been the case throughout human history, where the masses have always had a desire to follow a leader, or worship a God, allowing individuals to use this susceptibility to their advantage creating dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. ...

• Word Count: 2835
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate