Over the course of time‚ many leaders attempted to control their nation and increase their own power in order to dictate their citizens. Some examples of such leaders are‚ Louis XIV of France and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union. During the age of absolutism‚ Louis XIV also known as‚ the “Sun King” became the ruler of France through the theory of divine right‚ which allowed him to rule his people as an absolute ruler. He controlled his people by implementing a centralized government and forcing
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June 22‚ 1941 Germany Betrays The Soviet Union! Ignoring the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression pact‚ Germany attacked the Soviet Union. The battle was a very difficult and tragic one. • "Operation Barbarossa‚" the largest and most powerful invasion force‚ struck the U.S.S.R. completely by surprise. • Employing the same tactics that defeated the French‚ the Germans attacked east Prussia in the north‚ Ukraine in the south‚ and Moscow in the center.
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elongated tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. It was a clash of these supergiants in political‚ ideological‚ military‚ and economic values and ideas. The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. The conflict in ideologies between capitalism and communism resulted in one of the greatest conflicts of the twentieth century. Both the United States and the Soviet Union share equal responsibility
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What methods did Stalin use to control the Soviet Union? There are several methods Stalin had introduced to obtain control over the Soviet Union by directing individual policies and techniques into a particular group. Early on the time Stalin had seized power over Russia‚ he had immediately brought out his version of the cult of personality. It was also referred as the ’cult of Stalin’. As a technique it was brought out to push the glorification of Stalin into every corner of the work place
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Explain what is meant by the term ‘globalization’. Identify and analyse the key drivers of the process of globalization over the last 20 years. In generally‚ globalization refers to integration and interconnection between people‚ transnational corporations and different governments. According to Rothenberg (2002)‚ “Globalization is the acceleration and intensification of interaction and integration among the people‚ companies‚ and governments of different nations.” On the other hand‚ in terms
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The ‘Space Race’ was an unofficial competition between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ the focus of which was space exploration. It began after World War II‚ in the mid-1950s‚ when Russia launched a satellite into space. After this‚ the race was on between America and Russia to gain as much ground in space as possible. The Space Race began in 1955‚ when both the United States and the Soviet Union announced they would be launching artificial satellites into space. Russia took the announcement
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The moment Mikhail Gorbachev became the Soviet Union’s leader was the beginning of the end for the Cold War. Appointed in 1985‚ Gorbachev was left with a broken nation‚ whose people had little freedom to voice their beliefs without facing repercussions from the communist society that was so ingrained in the Soviet at that time. Faced with economical problems along with the current government’s poor treatment of the people‚ Gorbachev knew he need to ameliorate his degrading and suppressed nation.
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee. After Lenin’s death‚ he became the second leader of the Soviet Union. He was always Supporting Lenin and the Bolshevik system‚ even before the Bolshevik revolution. The political Communist of the Soviet Union was Marxism–Leninism which depends on the theories of Marxism and Leninism. The term Marxism–Leninism was called by Stalin. When Stalin became the leader of Soviet Union‚ he wanted to follow the Marxism and Leninism
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Foreign policy of both the United States and the Soviet Union took a different turn at the end of World War II‚ as both nations emerged as Superpowers. The Soviets were at ease due to the crippling of the Germany Empire‚ and the elimination of the threat of Fascism along their western boarders‚ and the United States believed they had ended any threats against them with the development and use of atomic weapons. The desire to lead the world in trade and industry‚ developments in space and science
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During the 1930’s the birth of media and technology‚ such as movies and the radio‚ gave way to a surge of propaganda in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This new technology made it easier for dictators or governments to get their messages to the public. Propaganda was mainly used to brain wash a country into believing in the leaders ideologies and was also used to disguise the shortcomings of the government. Propaganda was a very important thing to Hitler because he believed the only reason
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