In addition, Most of the residents were peasants, and there were a very low amount of people who had high education.2. ... The First World War exploded in 1914. If we treated the other facts which caused the revolution like bombs, the First World War must be the blasting fuse. ... After the First World War, the revolution exploded, the depressive people couldn't bear Tsar anymore. ... In addition, The First World War played a crucial role in the factor to cause the 1917 revolution. ...

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Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev was an important figure in history because of his willingness to end the Cold War and Communism as it was known in the 1980s. ... After the tearing down of Russia, Europe as not broken out into war, thus making Gorbachev a key factor in European History. 2. ... He understood the power of propaganda, and filled German cities with massive posters appealing to the German sense of disempowerment after the end of World War 1. ... Stalin's Soviet Union was a major factor in the defeat of Hitler in World War Two, and Stalin emerged from the war as leader of one o...

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The new policy meant that the USSR was prepared to live together with USA in peace, instead of the constant threat of another world war. 2. ... The treaties were signed to show that they are friendly, but the number of war heads they had could still destroy the whole world. 4. ... Also the war had made issues in Eastern Europe less important. ... The rise of Solidarity was one important factor that triggered the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was the first group of people that gave demands to the communist government and was agreed by the government in Poland and their popularit...

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Primary-source-based papers 2. ... Historiographical papers 2. ... How important was Marshal Georgii Zhukov to the Soviet war effort? ... The Siege of Leningrad 2. ... Soviet women in the Red Army or the Nazi regime's attitude toward women in the war effort the relationship between the Holocaust and World War II 10. ...

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This treaty ended Russia's involvement in the First World War ("Brest-Litovsk, Treaty Of." ... At the time when Bolsheviks took the power in Russia during the Revolution of 1917, the nation was still occupied with the First World War. ... History Today par. 2). ... History Today par. 2). ... Consequently, toward the end of the First World War the usage of the concept of self-determination became more used within the sates. ...

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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Soviet Union was very much behind the United States in the arms race or the Cold War. ... Upon learning of this threat facing the nation President Kennedy immediately organized the ExComm, a group of his twelve most important advisors to handle the crisis. ... He also pulled the quarantine line back and raised military readiness to DEFCON 2. ... President Kennedy was able to maintain peace and keep the world from entering into what could possibly have been the very first nuclear war. This also proved to the people all over the world that negotiation and compromise c...

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1) The Cuban Missile Crisis was the Cold War's closest brush with nuclear war. ... I honestly believe that these students help spark a fire in people to do something about it. ... The U.S. is the world power and it is our responsibility to protect others that are getting bullied into something. ... If Communism began to spread the world would have been dictated to instead of being a democratic society. ... I think this is the, along with their common goal, most important similarity and also why they both ended up shot. ...

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Stalin: The Preventable War World War II was a tragedy for a number of countries. ... World War II was an addition to World War I that was ignited by the Axis powers. ... That was one of the largest and most important differences considering it led to the beginning of World War II. ... When Hitler broke the pact, it began World War II (21). ... This created the second world war. ...

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In 1902 Joseph was arrested for his revolutionary actions and exiled to Siberia but escaped 2 years later and returned to Georgia. ... In January 1924 Lenin died, the country was led by 5 people: Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lev kamenev ,Grigori Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin. ... He even went as far as to kill important officers in the soviet army. ... After World War 2 , the other world leaders thought Stalin would change the way he ruled his country but he went back to his harsh ruling ways. ... Truman the President of the U.S.A after reciving surveilence of the Russian missle batterys in cub...

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During the course of World War II there were a number of turning points that impacted the outcome of the World War II. One of the most important and influential turning points that effected the outcome of the war was the Battle of Stalingrad 23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943. ... For these reasons the Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in World War II and had dramatically changed the outcome of World War II in Europe. ... During this event the soviet union was under the reign of Joseph Stalin, The German army wasn't gonna be spared any mercy (Stalin wasn't known as to loo...

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The Cuban missile crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. ... The crisis almost became World War 3 and the 1st nuclear War. This would have produced a catastrophe that would of affected the people who lived in Cuba. ... Kennedy immediately organized the EX-COMM a group of his twelve most important advisors to handle the crisis. ... A U-2 was shot down over Cuba and EX-COMM received a second letter from Khrushchev demanding the removal of U.S. missile in Turkey in exchange for Soviet missile in Cuba. ...

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A nuclear war could start at any moment. ... Détente died/failed because the US Senate refused to ratify SALT 2 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. ... People want to have a complete disarmament because they don't want repeats of Nagasaki and more importantly Hiroshima. ... In the 1920's a Viennese newspaper ran a competition for the worlds most astonishing headline. ... CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) have made many protests all over the world and as I have mentioned above the biggest was held in New York City in 1982 where half a million people gathe...

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Thesis: While the existing problems with the Tsarist regime and the incompetent leadership of Tsar Nicholas II were key factors of the February Revolution of 1917, the disastrous consequences of Russia's involvement in the First World War in 1914 were what made the uprising inevitable. ... The greatest land mass in the world, and home to tens of millions of people, Russia has been called a "world of its own." " Due to its extremely cold climate and rough, barren landscape, very little Russian land is actually arable and the soil that can be used for agriculture does not yield nearly enou...

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