The Great Depression and World War II Twentieth Century Europe One of the major effects of the great depression was the breakdown of the economy. A few years prior to the developments that led to the great depression, the economy was doing a good job providing jobs to the people and giving them the right amount of purchasing power to buy the things that they need and want. The breakdown of the economy led to a lot of secondary effects. For one, the economic breakdown led to the closing of a
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topic. You should start the answer to your first question on page 4. You should start the answer to your second question on page 12. D1 – Crises, Tensions and Political Divisions in China, 1900–49 EITHER 1 How significant was the part played by the Soviet Union in the development of the Nationalist Party (GMD) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the
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Ukrainian-speaking as Western Ukraine is today. The dramatic transformation of the area was a result of ethnic cleansing. In 1932 a famine engineered by Stalin killed up to an estimated 10 million people, mostly in East Ukraine. Beginning in 1933, the Soviets replaced them with millions of deported Russians. Western Ukraine was then part of Poland and spared Stalin engineered the famine to rid himself of a stubborn enemy. Ukrainians had fought for their independence during the Russian Revolution, and
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the April theses were, Peace, Land and Bread and power to the soviets. Many supported the idea of Peace, Land and bread as they were fed up with the affect the war was having on them and wanted to bring it to an end, people were also starving due to the war and therefore welcomed the idea of Peace, Land and bread. Lenin also promised the confiscation of landed estates from landowners and the aristocracy. The slogan all power to the soviets played on the feelings of the proletariat that the provisional
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and tear down the wall. Any German who was listening was in position to do something. There are also parts where Reagan speaks directly to someone. He said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” I’m sure Mr. Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Soviet Union, had the power to end the wall. And even though this speech didn’t make him do so, it showed that the United States was with West Germany and wanted to end this travesty. The
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How far do you agree with the view that the origins of the Cold war in 1945 and 1946 owed much to ideological differences and little to personalities and conflicting national interests? The three allied powers had been together fighting against hitler but once the Second World War ended problems between the big three started to appear. I believe that these problems which led later on in 1945 were a cause for the leaders personalities and each nation's national interests not due to ideological
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the Apollo mission to the nation, the United States was trailing the Soviet Union in space developments during the Cold War. The USSR had launched Sputnik, the first satellite, and successfully sent a man into space. In turn, America quickly created the Apollo program to prevent the Soviets from winning the Space Race. Through great wealth, technical skill, and determination, America soon landed their men on the moon. The Soviets, however, experienced a series of failures in its attempt to send its
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control of the Police and using it for economic and social reforms. The pace of reform and development on the Eastern side was fast and visible. The logical and possible fallback of this advancement was to divert the fruitful outcomes to the benefit of Soviet needs. The other logical end was that the longer the each Europe administered its zone the more likely it became that each would try to mould that zone after its own image. Thus sharpening the contrast and increasing the tensions between East and
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CHARMET ROMAIN ENG130 For an efficient government, should the leader be feared or loved? Thought the entire human history, there have been many situations where in which a group of person or an individual has lead his nation to great achievement or to awful tragedy. Citizen following a great leader who inspired his countrymen to action by his ideology and philosophy of life, or leader that repressed their people and made their life so hard that they will not have the strength to fight against
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no surprise that when attending the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany from July 17, 1945 to August 2, 1945, the “Big Three” consisting of : Sir Winston Churchill, (later replaced by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), President Harry S. Truman and Soviet Leader Josef Stalin, met to drawup borders for the re-organization of Europe after the war (Milestones: 1937-1945, n.d). The surprise came when Truman told Stalin that the United States had nuclear weapons and Stalin didn’t even react because he had
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