The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World War II. ... Western allies during the First World War sent in arms and troops to support the White army to defeat the Bolsheviks. ... Stalin urged Churchill and Roosevelt to open a second front. The U.S. did not open a second front in Western Europe early enough; millions of Russian soldiers died fighting the Nazi armies alone until mid-1994. Stalin alleged that the Western allies were deliberately holding back a second front to weaken the Soviet Union. ...

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From the start of the Ukraine crisis, the western powers have devoted to upholding the principals of neoliberalism. ... When looking at the Ukraine crisis it can be seen that the Western Powers, aka the United States and the EU, are exercising a liberal foreign policy. ... This was a direct challenge to the liberal ideas that the Western Powers upheld and wished to push onto Ukraine. ... Russia knew that if Ukraine fell to the Western powers by joining the interstate coalition, the West would be in Russia's backyard, which threatens their security. ... If the Western powers adopted a r...

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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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The United States, Great Britain, and France controlled the three divisions that were formed in the Western half; and the Eastern half was controlled by the Soviet Republic. The Western divisions eventually united to make a federal republic, while the Eastern divisions became communist. ... Kennedy was essential to the cause, declaring his moral commitment with the infamous words: " As a free man, I take pride in the words - Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)" Unfortunately for East Berliners, however, Western involvement did not go much beyond protests and speeches. ... The enti...

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The term "Cold War" means a war fought on every front except actual fighting. ... In 1815, at the Congress of Vienna, Tsar Alexander was quite prepared to use the congress to pursue the traditional aims of foreign policy, in particular the aims of westward expansion and European dominance, which greatly angered the Western states. ... The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. ...

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Brezhnev and the Soviet Union preparing attempting to help the transition from capitalism to socialism while at the same time preventing the Western nations from deterring the change, while the Americans under Carter looked to upgrade their policy of containment to better hold the advancing Soviet presence in the world. ... The United States under Reagan had just introduced proposals for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), as well as deployed Pershing 2 ballistic missiles in Western Europe.(4) Andropov removed the Soviet Union from Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks and the St...

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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 which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance a...

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So when the USSR's spread of communism threatened these values, it is easy to see that the ideology that encompassed them would play an important role for the Americans in the ideological front line of the Cold War. ...

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History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. The Soviet economy had made advances under Lenin's semi-capitalist N.E.P with its slight capitalist elements, but Stalin's five-year plans were far more ambitious and so far riskier. Did the Soviet Union need to industrialise so ...

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