Essays Tagged: "communist rule"
This ESsay is about Mario Andretti
many in World War II Mario had a rather rough childhood. When the war ended Mario's town came under communist rule. From 1948 to 1955 his family lived in a refugee camp. Mario's family was very poor a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
"Conquest"
n region of the union.The independent nations of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithua would not follow under communist rule again; they were willing to die for their freedom. The U.S.S.R was unable to persuade ... unterparts.With war waging in Eastern Europe the United Nations took action. The leader of Russia's communist party and president rejected the UN's cease-fire treaty. Russia was expelled from the Unit ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
This is an essay, but it is mostly focussed on the biography of Leonid Brezhnev. It tells of his tiem in power, what he accomplished/didn't accomplish, and so on.
Leonid BrezhnevHe joined (1931) the Communist party and . In 1952 he became a secretary of the party's central committee. After sufferin ... 4, which Brezhnev helped to engineer, he was named first secretary (later general secretary) of the Communist party. Although sharing power with Alexei Kosygin, Brezhnev emerged as the chief figure in ... ine, making sure that the USSR could intervene in the domestic affairs of any Soviet bloc nation if Communist rule were threatened. While maintaining a tight rein in Eastern Europe, he favoured closer ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Solidarity and it's impact on Communism in Poland. This is a research essay addressing how the Polish people struggled to overthrow communism in Poland. Bibliography included
Solidarity and its impact on Communism in PolandCommunist ideology comes from Marxist-Leninist philosophy that was started in Russia because of a wo ... planned to introduce communism to Poland because worldwide revolution was also fundamental to their communist ideology. From January of 1947, when communists in Poland won a rigged election until Janu ... 989, when Solidarity candidates win all but one seat open for contestation, Poland was under strict communist rule. For approximately 47 years Poland, like many countries in Eastern Europe was under t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Gorbachev.
during WWII feeling how WWII was. This means that Gorbachev sufferedand knows how it feels to be in communist rule. After the war in 1946 he joineda Communist Youth League called Komsomol and two year ... ty, where he graduated and got married withRaisa Gorbachev. (Biography.com)Gorbachev was now in the Communist Party and joined to have good officialposition. In 1970 he was elected to the USSR Supreme ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
How far did the agreements made at Geneva mark a success for American foreign policy?
d. The agreements ensured Vietnam was temporarily divided at the 17th parallel where there would be communist rule in the North and a government led by Diem in the South, (an area which Ho Chi Minh ga ... it was passed. Instead of collaborating with the re-unification the US decided to support the anti-communist regime of South Vietnam. This didn't impress upon their allies, or other wary countries, e ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
"The Korean War." Briefly describes the cause and effect of the Korean War. Also describes the US involvement in the Korean War.
Korean War was a war between North and South Korea. However it was fought between people who wanted Communist rule in Korea versus people who wanted freedom and democracy. It had no winners. All it ha ... d zone in the world. Called the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), it lies upon the 38th parallel separating Communist North Korea and Democratic South Korea. (Oberdorfer, 1)Korea was first taken over by the J ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Topic:Peasantry under Tsarist and Communist Russia
nd Stalin?'My answer:From 1856 to 1953 Russia was a country of great change, moving from Tsarist to Communist rule under Stalin. A central part of the reasons for Russia's change was agriculture and t ... h prestige the monarchy had lost in 1905.The Russian revolution swept away Tsarist rule in 1917 and Communist rule meant that the government decided to take direct control of the economic life. All pr ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Topic: Russia
s the Soviet Union remained a backward state in comparison with other major powers. Twelve years of Communist rule had restored the country to roughly the same position in economy that had been occupi ... n crisis.Dekulakization is an example of how the Agricultural policies were unsuccessful as for the Communist party the 'Kulaks' had always been the main obstacle to collectivisation, and it seemed th ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
The Fall of Communism: This is basicly an essay of the history, and events that happened in the Fall of Communism.
in 1989. Throughout the Soviet bloc, reformers assumed power and ended over 40 years of dictatorial Communist rule. The reform movement that ended communism in East Central Europe began in Poland. Sol ... he reform movement that ended communism in East Central Europe began in Poland. Solidarity, an anti-Communist trade union and social movement, had forced Poland's Communist government to recognize it ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Why did North Vietnam win and what were the consequences?
marked the end of the Republic of Vietnam with the fall of Saigon on the 30th and the beginning of Communist rule. The United States could not believe that the war they had pumped billions of dollars ... ally the Vietnamese (even those in the South) to join the Viet Minh by propagating nationalist, not communist, principles. The fact that Vietnam had been subjected to French imperial rule from 1884 to ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
"Peace with honour" - the Vietnam War under President Nixon.
emporarily divided into North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam came under the control of Vietnamese Communists who had opposed France and who aimed for a unified Vietnam under Communist rule. The Sout ... ed France and who aimed for a unified Vietnam under Communist rule. The South was controlled by non-Communist Vietnamese.The United States became involved in Vietnam because American policymakers beli ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Poland and the EU.
Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska) was the first country in Central and Eastern Europe to break out of communist rule, which lead to the creation of the president as head of state and a second chamber of ... zl.With the private sector accounting for about 70 percent of all economic activity, Poland's post communist transition has won plaudits from the EU. A recent EU report on the country's progress towa ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
The Berlin WAll
lies, including President Harry Truman of the United States. Truman objected to their imposition of Communist rule in part of liberated East Europe. To this extent, despite Truman's concerns, t ... and West Berlin. Berlin was in the Soviet sector of the post war division. East Germany, under the Communist influence and with East Berlin as its capital, did not prosper as intended as West Germany ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History
Soviet History
s Yeltsin would disclose all the records of the Soviet regime and face up to the horrific legacy of Communist rule. Initially, Yeltsin seemed to embrace this goal, but by the time he left office at th ... a. Part of the problem is the continued presence of officials who served in high-level posts in the Communist Party, the government, and the security forces during the Soviet period. These officials h ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Vietnam War
y divided at the end of the First Indochina War. North Vietnam came under control of the Vietnamese Communists and their objective was to unify Vietnam under communist rule. Vietnamese who had collabo ... lled the South. The United States got involved because they believed that if this nation fell under communist rule, then communism will spread throughout all of Southeast Asia and countries beyond it. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
How america lost the war in vi
eve its stated war aims, for the first time in history. The goal was to preserve an independent, noncommunist government in South Vietnam, but by the war's end in 1975, all of Vietnam was under the co ... ed, was a civil war between the North and South Vietnamese, and not an effort by Soviet and Chinese communists to expand. Antiwar protests erupted across the nation, concentrated in college campuses. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Australia and Anti-Communism Description: discussion about how anti-communism in Australia influenced Australian politics and foreign policy.
politics known as communism. The Soviet Union and China, two major countries in Asia had fallen to communist rule. The western world was aware that communism in any country would remove freedom and i ... ieved that the spread of communism would endanger the land and its security. Menzies was aware that communists often lead supporters in a revolution which would consume the country, resulting in a cha ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History
"The Soviet Union should be responsible for the Cold War, instead of the USA." How far do you agree to this statement?
omenon that has shaped the world to what we see today, an ice cold relationship between USA and the communist USSR, otherwise known as the cold war. Traditionalists have also thought that the soviets ... t Troops entered Bulgaria and Hungary, where they used force to overthrow the government and impose communist rule. Elections held in these countries were rigged so that the communist parties will win ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
How important was the emergence of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe in the early 1980s for the collapse of communist regimes in 1989? Compare and contrast the Polish and Romanian cases.
In 1989 a series of peaceful revolutions brought an end of the Soviet Union domination in communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. Dissidences, demonstration, protests, and the collap ... ollapse of the communist regime led to the institution of democratic governments after four decades communist rule. These revolutions reveled both ubiquitous decay of the Soviet based communist system ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History