By 1986 the Soviet economy suffered from both hidden inflation and pervasive supply shortages which were aggravated by an increasingly open black market that undermined the official economy. In addition, the USSR spent a lot on the military, they lost over 15,000 soldiers in the war against Afghanistan which had cost them $8 billion per annum. They also overspent in the Reagan years, the defence spending increased by $32.6 billion as they tried to compete with the USA STAR WARS programme but could not compete. Also, the USSR spent $40 billion propping up Communist Governments throughout the world. The USSR was left behind by the new wave of industrialisation as it was based on information technology, they were left desperate for Western technology.
Summary Preface and Numbering: “How Man? How Many?” Chapter 8 Death is not just a word that defines the extinction of life. Drew Gilpin Faust not only describes death in "This Republic of Suffering" but the magnitude in which death occurred during the Civil War era. She gives the meaning of death a whole new meaning in that it is something that we all do, just differently from one generation to the next. From 1861 to 1865, approximately 620,000 soldiers' lives were cut short, not to mention the 50,000 civilian lives that were also claimed.
33,651 American soldiers died during combat and 103,284 were injured. Their overall military expenses went from being 4% of GNP to a greater 14% from 1948 to 1953. The USA also suffered military setback in December 1950 where they had to draw back 300 miles in the face of Chinese soldiers which would have been incredibly humiliating for them considering their confidence at the start of the war. Because of all of these financial and military struggles, the Korean War would have been a disaster instead of a success for the USA. The war encouraged anti communist paranoia throughout the late 1940’s.
His army also consisted of millions of poor, starving peasants with bad equipment, poor supplies of rifles and ammunition. In 1916, two million soldiers were killed or seriously wounded, and one third of a million taken prisoners. The Russian population was horrified. They considered the Tsar irresponsible for taking over the army and held him responsible for everything; as a result instability was growing at an alarming rate for the Tsar who had once held himself so assuredly in power. Nicholas II took this course of action to assure himself he still had complete control of Russia.
Blockades Both countries used their navies to blockade the enemy ports to stop supplies getting through. Britain relied on other countries to bring in food and supplies and Germany knew if their u-boats stopped this trade then Britain would starve. February 1915 Germany said that all merchant ships entering/leaving Britain would be sunk. This was optimistic as there were 15000 sailings a week to and from British ports and the Germans had only 21 u-boats. However by 1917 the Germans had 200 u-boats and were sinking 1 in 4 of the ships heading to Britain.
Chris Purchase Within the context of the period 1815-1917, how far was the First World War the main cause of the fall of the Romanovs in February 1917? February 1917, the First World War is going badly for Russia; supplies not getting through to the soldiers; huge numbers of Russian soldiers dying, wounded by the German army on the eastern front; Nicholas II lacking in military experience resulting in costly defeats for his army. Back home in Petrograd, the country is in chaos. Rasputin has been murdered and the revolutionaries are gaining in strength. So the question is... how did the rule of the Romanovs fail after 300 years in power?
Out of 9000 were injured, and flying glass were blinding 200 people. 6000 were homeless in the depth of the Nova Scotia in the winter. 20,000 had less than adequate shelter. Before the exploration, Halifax had a population of 50,000 after the explosions there were half of the city without homes. Resolution- In conclusion, the Halifax Harbour was destroy.
In the late summer of 1914, the ancient monarchies of Austria, Russia and Germany plunged their countries into a world war which engulfed Europe in one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. The Eastern Front of that great war had a profound impact on the remainder of the 20th century, even though the Western Front with its British, French and American combatants achieved somewhat greater fame. The statistics for the Eastern war are grim. More than three-million men died in the fighting, more than nine-million men were wounded, and every major country which participated lost its form of government. One of them, Russia, collapsed so completely and catastrophically that the ensuing consequences still resonate in today's world.
(How many people died in WWII altogether, n.d.) Of these deaths, 39,366 Australian military and 735 civilian deaths were accumulated, whilst in Germany there were estimates of just under 7.4 million deaths. (How Many People Died In World War 2, n.d.) The number of deaths caused by World War II alone is enough to portray the devastating effects that war has on human life. In this poem by an unnamed author it says “There are no winners in war – Everyone cries. There are no winners in war – Everyone dies.” (No winners, a war poetry, n.d.) This poem states that war is pretty much pointless because the country only loses their own men which are more important than what they are seeking. How could anyone feel like a winner knowing that 50 million soldiers died on the battlefield?
Zachary Young Contemp. U.S History HIS 229 1) The main topic in the film we watched in Mondays’ class was The Great Famine in Russia in the early 1900’s. The Great Famine was detrimental to Russia. It killed millions of people, and could be said to have started with an economic crisis. 2) There were a few “major players” involved with this situation, but I think the main figure was President Herbert Hoover.