In the next decade there will be many important events that will be part of the Cold War that will have significant impact on communism and democracy, the Vietnam War where 58,000 Americans died in an effort to contain communism. Other important events were the Gulf War and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the collapse of the Soviet Union. This would end the Cold War era. This was seen by the United States and its allies as a victory for freedom and democracy and the fall of a communist empire. In conclusion the Cold War was caused by U.S. fear of the spread of communism and other events.
Stalin began a series of 'purges' between 1936-1938. He started accusing different groups like Kulaks, who where rich peasants. These operations were to get rid of his rivals forever, and were carried out by the NKVD who went out at night vans nicknamed 'Black Ravens'. They gathered victims and had them confess more than often for crimes they had not
The Second Red Scare In1945 when world war two had ended due to Japan surrendering, the United States and soviets had become the two new superpowers. They were fighting so much that it created the cold war at the end of the war. During this war the soviets wanted to spread communism and the United States wanted to contain it. This time period was known as The Second Red Scare (ohiocentralhistory.org). Truman hastily enacted plans to contain communism in America after seeing that Communist in China had almost full control of country (slideshare.net).
The aim of Cominform was to help the S.U to co-ordinate the communist parties around Europe. This ensured that all states in Eastern Europe followed Soviet aims in foreign policy. Also they introduces Soviet style economic policies such as collectivisation of agriculture and state control of industry. They also purged members of the states who disagreed with Moscow. Comecon, however, was supposed to me a means of giving financial support to Eastern Europe.
Interpretation a written by Chris Harman in 1988 argues that Joseph Stalin was eager to control the Eastern European states, which had just been liberated by the red army. Harman believes that Stalin was looking for mass local support within, which he could gain total control over social life by implementing communist ideology which would give him extending and internal power and influence in managing each individual state. Intimidation and terror raged across Europe between 1944-1945, the Russians murderd, raped and pillaged their way through to Berlin approved by Stalin “if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometres through blood, death and fire has fun with a women who takes some trifle” after the initial liberation of these small states such as was not enough to control the people Stalin needed the people to buy into the philosophy of. Chris Harman doesn't illustrate in the interpretation why the Russian’s are doing this, one might propose that Stalin is doing this to promote worldwide communist or maybe to extend his power and empire further beyond the Balkans but there is no evidence of what stains motive is .Chris Harman does however illustrate on how Stalin did it “ The communist leaders set out to build up mass bureaucratically organised parties on the lines of the Stalinist party in Russia’’ as well as the figures for the growth of the communist parties in Poland “30,000 to 300,000 grew from January to April in 1945” and in Czecslovakia “27,000 to 1,569,164” to back up his point about Stalin setting up similar parties as his own back in Russia this is not clear evidence that Stalin wanted to promote communism or just extend power. Chris Harman is a Marxist made clear by the name of his book “Class struggles in Europe” so his opinion is very one sided.
This growing unrest meant that the country needed to find cheaper more effective ways to fight the communists; one option that was available to the US was the new idea of peaceful coexistence. This was one of the reasons why America thought this policy was a good idea. America could then spend less money funding the nuclear arms race and more money on the important events during this time. One of the first examples of coexistence was when the west allowed the Red Army to invade Hungary. This shows how the West we willing to let the soviets do something that was clearly wrong.
Eastern Europe, including both the small Eastern nations and Russia, were absolutely devastated by war. The Soviet had 20 million dead. Because of this, the vengeful Soviet Union wanted to lash back at beaten Germany, aiming at both fierce punishments of Nazi leaders and dismantling German factories and basically making German economic recovery impossible. The Soviets' damages were so immense that they were determined to rebuild their shattered land by extracting enormous reparations from the Germans. This is why the Soviet Union sought to take over many of the eastern lands that were once under German control Poland and Hungary became nearly dependent to the Soviets, and the Soviets also began to eye obtaining Greece and later Turkey.
How did Hitler invade the soviet Union, why did he invade the Soviet Union, and how does the novel “Soldier X” by Don Wulffson, describe war to what war was really like. Hitler broke his pact with the Soviet Union for several reasons. One of the main reasons he broke his pact is the fact that Adolf Hitler was a greedy human being and wanted all of Europe and eventually the entire world. Once his attack on Britain failed due to a thick, annoying fog, he decided that he would break his secret pact with the Soviet Union and invade. He becomes too confident and to greedy, “Clearly, no longer was it Lebensraum
In the 1960’s communism was trying to take over the world. Russia already took over many European countries and it was spreading too many parts of Asia. The definition of communism is “a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. (dictionary.com)” In the 1950’s senator Joe McCarthy helped elevate the red scare with the trials he conducted. “Marxists indeed advocated that the world should become Communist, but not by hostile takeover.
A small group of revolutionaries over threw Czars causing Russia to go into a stage of anarchy and turmoil, after the Bolshevik Party of Lenin emerged as dominant political force ("The Russian Revolution", 2003). The influence of terrorism started when the Bolsheviks overthrew remaining power of the dictatorship in the October revolution, which helped to reform the soviets. The soviets were known by legislative assemblies of publicly elected officials that administered as well as performed duties, as workers, peasants, and soldiers ("The Russian Revolution",