Essays Tagged: "Soviet"

American Sel Perception vs. the Truth

instills a fear and dislike of any other form of government. Look at American policies towards the Soviet Union after the second world war. The American enemy image of the Soviets was that of a popul ... clever people who pushed their form of government upon weak nations all over the world. The base of Soviet fear was based and strengthened not on fact but a fear of the unknown. The American response ...

(4 pages) 72 0 3.6 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

"Afghanistan" This essay is about the history of events that has happened in Afghanistan, and about the past to present leaders.

pport form Iran, ruled by the Shah, and Saudi Arabia in order to make Afghanistan less dependent on Soviet economic aid.On April 28, 1978, the regime of President Mohammad Daoud ended violently. Milit ... stories. In 1940s his stories refluxing the living condition of Afghan peasants, which approved by Soviet critics as Scientific Socialist themes.Amin was born in 1921, in Paghman, a town near Kabul. ...

(5 pages) 118 2 3.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

2001 Current Events & Economic Factors of Russia entitled, "From chain gangs to the FOod Chain"

d chain compared to nations such as South Korea, China, and Mexico. A decade after the split of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the transition from a command economy to a market economy, Russia is still ... ttributed to the centrally controlled economy and to the priority given to national security. While Soviet scientists and engineers have made major technological advances in defense related industries ...

(19 pages) 185 1 4.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

All of the aspects of the U-2 affair during the cold war.

U2 - IncidenceOn May 1, 1960, two weeks prior to the United States-Soviet Summit in Paris, a U-2 high altitude reconnaissance airplane was shot down while flying a spy ... aris, a U-2 high altitude reconnaissance airplane was shot down while flying a spy mission over the Soviet Union. The Eisenhower administration was forced to own up to the mission, and Khrushchev canc ... d Khrushchev canceled the Paris Summit. As a result, The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union continued for over 30 years.Shortly after the end of World War II, United States and th ...

(5 pages) 41 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Account For the Success of the Bolsheviks in October 1917.

vernment, division of alternative opposition, Lenin's leadership skills, the power of the Petrograd Soviet and Trotsky as its leader, failure on deliver of land reform and the oppressed, armed workers ... dance. On his return he launched his April Thesis, calling for 'Peace, Land, Bread and Power to the Soviets.' This was important in gaining the Bolsheviks popular backing, which they lacked during the ...

(9 pages) 132 0 3.8 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

An analysis of Soviet economic development from the years 1928 to 1967

Since the late 1920's Soviet economic planners almost obsessively concentrated on the development of heavy industry. They ... ng more heavy industry--especially the expansion of steel production.Under the First Five-Year Plan Soviet steel production (5.9 million tons) fell far short of the prescribed target of 10 million ton ... ive-Year Plan brought a spectacular rise in steel production more than 17 million tons, placing the Soviet Union not far behind Germany as one of the major steel-producing countries of the world. As w ...

(7 pages) 47 0 1.8 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

An analysis of Soviet foreign policy under Stalin.

Stalin scheduled his third Five-Year Plan from 1938-1941. During this time, the Soviet Union was preparing for war, believing this to be inevitable as the Nazi threat continued. Mo ... y and war related industry. This five-year plan was cut somewhat short by the 1941 Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia. It was then that most of the nation's industry was moved from western Russia to the U ... ons were not even from the district that they would be representing. Local residents were driven by Soviet secret police to the polls out of fear and anyone who dared not vote suffered dire consequenc ...

(9 pages) 275 9 4.1 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Apollo 11

rica to support the American space program, and get three heroes on the moon.On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and caught America and the whole world off guar ... nched the first artificial satellite and caught America and the whole world off guard. This was the Soviet's first push in the historical "Space Race." There was great fear surrounding this launch; a ...

(8 pages) 42 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

America: Clash's with Communism

triumph as President of the United States came in 1962, as the world's two largest superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, edged closer and closer to nuclear war. The Soviet premier of Ru ... s rebellion in the south led to the final stages of US-Cuban relations and the alliance between the Soviet Union and Cuba. Once this alliance began, it opened a gateway for the Soviet Union to take le ...

(6 pages) 87 1 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

American Strategies for Fighting the Cold War

After World War II ended, the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated over their different ideas in carrying out the plans from the Yalta Conferenc ... ed over their different ideas in carrying out the plans from the Yalta Conference. The U.S. and the Soviets were trying to rebuild the countries that Germany had either conquered or destroyed. In sett ... and) the Yalta conference had stated that no Nazi or Fascist powers could be in place. However, the Soviets and the United States defined Fascism very differently. The Soviet Union saw Fascist as thos ...

(6 pages) 139 0 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

How and why did the Cold War End?

There were many factors that brought about the conclusion of the Cold War. The declining Soviet economy, the rise of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the initiatives take by the U.S. and th ... and the Soviet Union were all influential determinates that helped bring the Cold War to an end.The Soviets had enjoyed great achievements on the international stage before Reagan entered office in 19 ... Third World nations in the 1960s and 1970s only masked utter weakness next to the United States.The Soviet economy suffered severe structural problems. Reform stalled between 1964-1982 and supply shor ...

(3 pages) 90 1 4.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Armageddon averted

Stephen Kotkin, in Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, takes upon himself the responsibility to answer the question of how and why did the ... k concern the reasons behind why the reform was carried out. He also clears up some myths about the Soviet Union."Virtually everyone seems to think the Soviet Union was collapsing before 1985. They ar ... ms to think the Soviet Union was collapsing before 1985. They are wrong. Most people also think the Soviet collapse ended in 1991. Wrong again. " (Kotkin 1).After that he begins with the oil crisis ne ...

(5 pages) 29 0 4.7 Sep/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Afghan Soviet War

the world it's far from that. On my birthday, January 1, 1983 Afghanistan was being invaded by the soviet army, lived under the Talaban terrorist regime, for decades, and never had the opportunity to ... herlands, and Denmark combined (Grau 2). Their border is 3,366 miles long and it is shared with the Soviets, Iran, Pakistan, India, and China. The population of this country is 17 million and the aver ...

(4 pages) 55 0 4.5 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

After The Atomic Bomb

mporary resolution that lead to another conflict. The Cold War was a political standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States that again created a new worldwide nuclear threat. The destructiv ... Political Change in Thinking The Cold War between the capitalist, democratic Western powers and the Soviet Union was the center of the change in political thinking caused by nuclear weapons ("Cold War ...

(10 pages) 70 2 4.6 Feb/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

How (and to what extent) did the conferences at Yalta and Potsdam (1945) contribute to the origin of the Cold War?

ding to the origins. The key players were World War II allies United Kingdom, United States and the Soviet Union.The mood and tension surrounding the two conferences were very significant. The timing ... he atomic strike over Japan was being planned at the time of the conferences. At the same time, the Soviets had suffered more than 20 million casualties from World War II. This meant that both the USA ...

(5 pages) 65 1 4.3 May/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Account for the origins and development of the Cold War between USA and USSR up to 1962.

rigins of the Cold War lie in the differences between the systems of both the United States and the Soviet Union. It is an interplay between ideology and pragmatic power politics, and the creation of ... the 1960s, most historians believed that the Cold War was the direct result of Stalin's aggressive Soviet expansionism, that the Soviets were to blame.According to Michael Hart (1986), '...the Cold W ...

(11 pages) 126 0 4.6 Feb/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Affects of the Cold War

us super powers, who had two completely different ideologies: the democratic U.S. and the communist Soviet Union. This inevitably began the era of icy tensions (Cold War) between the two countries whe ... ame the danger of nuclear war as well. Perhaps the closest the U.S. came to starting a war with the Soviets was in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, during the presidency of Kennedy. This paper will s ...

(5 pages) 33 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

The Afghan-Soviet war

© Sajad Bahram Yr 12: Afghan-Soviet War "War puts nations to the test. Just as mummies fall to pieces the moment that they are ex ... f death on those social institutions that have become ossified."Karl MarxOn December 24th 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On that day began a war which wreaked incredible havoc and destruc ... ay began a war which wreaked incredible havoc and destruction on Afghanistan for 10 long years. The Soviets stormed in with thousands of troops at the request of the troubled Afghan Communist regime. ...

(4 pages) 24 0 0.0 Aug/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

The 4 Major Causes of the Cold War

The US and the Soviet Union were the two superpowers during the Cold War, each leading its own sphere of influence. ... ontinuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. Throughout this period, rivalry ... entional and nuclear arms race, and numerous wars in third world countries. Although the US and the Soviets had been allies during World War I, they both sharply disagreed after the conflict on many t ...

(8 pages) 53 1 0.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

How and Why did America 'Win' the Cold War

In 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), one of the two pre-eminent political and military powers in the w ... Intelligence Agency (CIA) and expert on the USSR Robert Gates encapsulates, "did we win or did the Soviets just lose?" The essay commences with a brief overview of the Cold War.The Cold War was the c ... forces. The USSR created the Eastern Bloc of European countries that it occupied, annexing some as Soviet Socialist Republics and maintaining others as satellite states that would later form the Wars ...

(14 pages) 30 0 0.0 Feb/2010

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War