Joseph Stalin once said‚ “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns‚ why should we let them have ideas.” Adolf Hitler and Stalin were both dictators who rose to power in the early 1930s in Europe. Stalin and Hitler both had ideas of how to reduce the population of those outside of their beliefs and a desire to run the world. Throughout Adolf Hitler’s life‚ he has had to jump over hoops in order to get to the place where he wanted to be. Growing up‚ Hitler lived in
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the Red scare in the US? What effect did it have? * Fears still existed of red Russia years after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 * Started a Communist party in America * At the end of the war an epidemic of strikes resulted in high prices and frustrated union organizing drives * People jumped to the conclusion that labor troubles were formented by bomb and whisker Bolsheviks * US had a great fear that communism could spread throughout the country * Red scare resulted in a
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Cambridge International History Page 41-48 Mrs. Katie Aufenanger Boca Raton High School Revolutions & New Governments Political effects of WWI were devastating › Tsarist regime (Nicholas II and the Romanovs) in Russia was overthrown by the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) › Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate (1918) Revolution seemed a genuine threat in every European capital. Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) Became President of USA in 1913 Made decision to bring USA into WWI in
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Russia was involved with World War I‚ but the brutality and conflict was worsened by the Russian Revolution‚ and the Civil War between the Red Army and White Russians. The Bolsheviks‚ and leader Lenin‚ overturned the government‚ and imprisoned‚ then soon after murdered‚ Czar and his family. Not only that‚ but the Bolsheviks took
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Georgia two year later. Stalin first met Vladimir Lenin‚ leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Social Democratic Party‚ when he returned to Georgia. Lenin was a political mentor to Stalin and had great respect for him. In 1912‚ Lenin nominated Stalin to the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party. However‚ Stalin was arrested once again and exiled to Siberia in 1917 where he would remain until the Czar was overthrown. After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917‚ Lenin became the new ruler of Russia and named
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increase public support for World War 1. 10. Espionage Act- Federal law that outlawed acts of treason during World War 1. 11. Sedition Act- Federal law enacted during World War 1 that made written criticism of the government a crime. 12. Bolsheviks- Group of radical Russian socialists who seized power in 1917 following the overthrow of the czar. 13. Battle of the Argonne Forest- A successful allied effort to push back German troops from a rail center in Sedan‚ France. 14. Fourteen Points-
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disbands DUMA. Vladimir Lenin: Marxist revolutionary With brother‚ led assassination against Czar Nicholas II Was only one not executed (as a ‘kindness’ to his family‚ after his brother was killed) Exiled instead Eventually returns to Germany for Bolshevik Revolution; makes deal with Germany to be returned if he surrenders Russia once he is in power) 1914: WWI Czar Nicholas II sends ‘best’ Russian soldiers (those that protected Romanov family) to front lines Doesn’t go as well as expected; Czar
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and his followers successfully changed the economic and political structure of their countries as well as influencing the rest of the world for decades to come. Vladimir Lenin – Russian Revolutionary Prologue Vladimir Lenin was a Bolshevik Leader for the 1917 October Revolution‚ and the first Head of State for the Soviet Union. His contribution to political science‚ Leninism‚ was developed from his interpretations on the Marxist theory. After the revolution‚ Lenin headed the new Soviet
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Stalemate Deadlock from which neither side can progress Total war Government’s mobilisation of all its resources to support the efforts of its own troops and undermine those of its opponents Western Front The area of fighting in western Europe during World War I. It stretched from the English Channel to the Swiss border and encompassed territory in Belgium and northern France. War of attrition War in which competing sides attempt to achieve victory through the tactic of wearing down their
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The Russian Revolution was a communist movement that eventually lead to the rise of the Soviet Union. It lasted less than half of a year and was lead by the Bolsheviks. George Orwell decided to look back at the times of the Russian revolution and turn the main events that happened during that period into a farm with the same situation at hand. Around the time that the Revolution started Russia was a provisional government lead by Tsar Nicholas II. The country was poverty stricken and devastated
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