Essays Tagged: "soviet troops"
Public Finance Perspective - Latvia
d Estonia gained and maintained independence on November 18, 1918, by signing a treaty with the new Soviet Russian government. Latvia quickly began to develop a successful economy and joined the Leagu ... and joined the League of Nations in 1922.In 1940, Stalin presented Latvia with an ultimatum, admit Soviet troops or face annihilation. During the next fifty years, the Soviet Union ruled over Latvia. ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
The Korean War in the deepest darkest corner of American history
m, the U.S. and the USSR divided Korea at the 38th parallel. Soon after, Kim Il Sung came down with Soviet troops and the Korean Communist Party and took over the North. The United Nations arranged el ... ards Korea was no longer considered a part of the U.S. defense perimeter. Suspicions arose that the Soviets and North Korea were planning to invade the South. On June 25, 1950 the suspicions were corr ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Hungarian crisis of 1956
withdrawal from the Warsaw pact, proclaimed neutrality in the Cold War, command for the removal of Soviet troops and the demand for the creation of a non-communist political party resulted in the kil ... Stalin and Russia paid the price. Khruschev's desalinization process has served to destabilize the soviet bloc satellites and as a result he struggled to maintain control. Hungary in 1956 seemed to s ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
Russia's Pride, a biography of the inventor of the AK-47; Mikhail Kalashnikov.
fle. The war started when Germany invaded the USSR in June 1941, during WWII. To defend themselves, Soviet troops retreated then returned to attack. By April 1945, Russia had forced Germans back and t ... Central Artillery Administration of the USSR adopted the AK-47 as the standard issue weapon for the Soviet army" (par. 2). Kalashnikov changed the Soviet army's standard issue weapon into the AK-47. T ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
"The Soviet Union should be responsible for the Cold War, instead of the USA." How far do you agree to this statement?
and the communist USSR, otherwise known as the cold war. Traditionalists have also thought that the soviets were to be blamed, while the revisionists have always blamed the USA and post revisionists f ... d. So who should be blamed for starting the cold war in the end? To a small extent, I feel that the Soviet Union should be responsible for the Cold War.Firstly, traditionalists think that Stalin's agg ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History