ENQUIRY The USA 1945-70 : A Divided Union? Key Topic 1: The impact of the cold war The ideological clash behind the cold war: The soviet union was a communist state in which the government owned and controlled the economy- it had a non democratic government. The USA was a capitalist country where it had a democratic government. The economy was not state owned. The opposition between these two super powers became known as the cold war After the second world war the usa watched the spread
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economic philosophy. In a communist economy‚ the government owns most of the firms‚ subsequently controlling production and allocation of resources. One of the most well-known and well-documented cases of a communist government took place in the Soviet Union‚ beginning in 1917 and eventually falling in 1992. Idealistically‚ communism eliminates social classism and provides equal work for all in a particular society. The government appoints a central planning board to “determine production goals
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To what extent was the GDR controlled by the Soviet Union in the years to 1961? The German Democratic Republic was formed from what once was the Soviet Zone of Germany. After the tensions of the cold war became too hostile for all participants Germany was divided into East Germany and West Germany and were renamed the GDR for the East and the FRG for the West. The GDR was formed in October 1949 and was governed by the SED‚ a political party made up of the Communist Party and the Socialist Party.
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What was the political‚ social‚ and legal environment of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s? - The Soviet Union’s push to industrialize no matter the cost ultimately led to frequent shortages of food and other consumer good. Bread lines were a common site throughout the 1970s and 1980s. As can be seen‚ the divide between wealth of the Politburo and poverty of Soviet citizens created backlash and younger people refused to adopt the Communist Party ideology as the generations before them previously
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861.00/2 - 2246: Telegram The Charge in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State SECRET Moscow‚ February 22‚ 1946--9 p.m. [Received February 22--3: 52 p.m.] 511. Answer to Dept’s 284‚ Feb 3 [13] involves questions so intricate‚ so delicate‚ so strange to our form of thought‚ and so important to analysis of our international environment that I cannot compress answers into single brief message without yielding to what I feel would be dangerous degree of over-simplification. I hope‚ therefore
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Katie Sisco HST 112 Sravani Biswas Thursday 3:30 - 4:30 4/18/11 Examining Totalitarianism Through the Soviet Union Woodrow Wilson’s hopes that World War I would serve as the “war to end all wars‚” certainly were not fulfilled with the rise of dictatorships throughout Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. At the end of World War I‚ the age of absolute monarchy began to crumble. Just a month after the 1917 February Revolution in Russia‚ Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne
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The fall of the Soviet Union resulted in a major collapse of many countries. Bulgaria and Romania were two countries that had ties and many distinctions. They both consisted of a strong‚ violent communist leader that resulted the demolishment of communism at the end. Each of these leaders was cruel and harsh on the people of their country. Injustice played a big role between the two countries that led to war and inhumane actions. Ethnical and race feuds became an eye opening event for the citizens
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In order to understand the reasons behind the intransigent attitudes and provocation each side directed toward one another it is prudent to understand the reasons why there was so much mistrust between the two opposing superpowers. Each side had adopted separate ideologies that greatly contrasted with each other. The USA with the backing of the western world was capitalist‚ who essentially belied that the freedom of control for the individual was far more important than being equal and alike. Contrary
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discussions/analyses. BOTH types are needed. ------------------------------------------------- (Part Six and Part Seven—from Chapter 29 to Chapter 34) Chapter 29 and Chapter 30 The period around World War I‚ 1890s-1920s Essay Question 1: How and why did events in overseas empires from the 1890s on challenge Western faith in imperialism? How were colonial dominations increasingly challenged? The Russian Bolshevik Revolution leader Lenin argued that World War I was the result of insolvable competitions
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Hitler’s Invasion of the Soviet Union “We only need to kick in the front door and the whole rotten edifice will come tumbling down” – Adolf Hitler. Little truth these words held‚ if only Der Fuhrer knew. The Invasion of the Soviet Union had brought about many outcomes that would change World War II in the allies favor. A few of these outcomes included: the waste of vast amounts of German resources‚ the break of the none-aggression pact resulting in Russia declaring war on Germany and joining the
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