made up the Ally control were the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. The United States, British, and French sectors combined to form a democratic state known as The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), and also known as West Germany. The Soviet Sector became a communist state known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR) on October 7, 1949, and also known as East Germany (2). Kelly went on to mention that the people of East Germany became dissatisfied with the economic and political conditions
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Between 1861 and 1917, Russian society had undergone many changes. It is safe to say that every aspect of that society had been some how modified. These changes led up to the Bolshevik revolution in November of 1917. Given the nature of Russian society, was the Bolshevik revolution unavoidable? Among the changes Russian society had undergone, one starts off the whole chain of events. This was the emancipation of the serfs, in 1861, by Czar Alexander. The emancipation freed 44 million peasants
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Six Characteristics of Totalitarianism Totalitarianism is absolute power used cruelly or unjustly. This type of government was used a lot in the 20th century. One out of the six ways that totalitarianism was shown was by propaganda. Hitler used it on such ways as: waving flags, marching, speeches, pictures with little girls, the Olympics, and saying to his people, “You are special.” Stalin on the other hand used: Posters/pictures, marching, being charismic, being generally
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involvement in World War I (1914-1918) added to popular discontent with the government's corruption and inefficiency. In 1917 these events resulted in the fall of the tsarist government and the establishment of the provisional government and the Petrograd soviets who ran the country together until, the Bolsheviks in October staged a coup thus overthrowing the unpopular provisional government. The immediate cause of the February Revolution of 1917 was the collapse of the tsarist regime under the gigantic strain
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Preface The Cold War was a struggle for global influence between the United States and the Soviet Union. To that end, the two countries employed a variety of methods, all short of a direct, all-out attack on each other's homelands. The methods they used included the creation of rival alliances, the extension of military and economic aid to client states and would-be client states, a massive and expensive arms race, propaganda campaigns, espionage, guerrilla warfare, counterinsurgency
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supplying the Chinese to help defeat the Japanese and under the leadership of General Tunner success came after the first couple years. 3. Later that decade, a problem would arise in the city of Berlin, Germany. At the beginning of the Cold War, the Soviet Union would cut off West Berlin from all supply lines in order to send the city into starvation. The United States saw this potential takeover and feared the spread of communism into Berlin. Many people felt that supplying the city would be quite
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The Clash of Civilizations? by Samuel P. Huntington (SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON is the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. This article is the product of the Olin Institute's project on "The Changing Security Environment and American National Interests”. THE NEXT PATTERN OF CONFLICT WORLD POLITICS IS entering a new phase, and intellectuals have not hesitated to proliferate visions of what it will be
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influence in neighboring countries. Security was an important issue due to its past experiences of being attacked by the west through Eastern Europe such as the west's intervention in the Russian civil war of 1917-18. This experience therefore led the Soviet Union to have a mutual suspicion of the motives of the USA and the west during the war. Therefore the USA and USSR were already divided by 1945. However they were not completely divided as they managed to become allies in their fight against Nazi
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February 4 to February 11of 1945, just before the end of World War II. The United States was represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Britain was represented by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Marshal Joseph Stalin was there on the Soviet Union’s behalf. The “Big Three” conferred in the Crimea, near Yalta on the Black Sea coast. Churchill and Roosevelt had met previously at Malta in the Mediterranean. On September 11, 1939, just a few days after Hitler triggered the World War II
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got their themes from the Russian revolution. Sculptures and painting were created all showing the impact of the Russian revolution. For example, Lanser, an artist decorated the Moscow Railway station with paintings that demonstrated the work of the soviet construction. The Russian revolution can be said to have had a great impact on the arts as t gave the artist inspirations on their works. Breton defined surrealist as spiritual automatism in its most pure state that one wishes to express in a verbal
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