However, they never did it and broke their promise. They ended up not sending as many troops as they had initially agreed and this caused Stalin having to put more troops out from Russia than he needed to. This caused relationships between the USA and the Soviet Union to change because Stalin lost trust in them and believed that if they had broken promises once, they were more than likely to break them again. The second conference was in Yalta, Russia. It was held in February 1945.
* Lost terriorty in Poland & Western Russia – PG were blamed for losses just like the Tsar was when took charge. * War made finical problems – Inflation still a problem and food shortages were high. * Russia expected these things to be stored out – PG short-lived because they were full of empty promises. Promised land reform to the peasants ( made up a large amount of the population , Bolshevik priority was to keep them on their side) no action was taken * Couldn’t guarantee food supplies as because soviet controlled the railways. * Political reform also promised political reform in an attempt to stop the revolutionaries but no action was taken.
Tsar Nicholas II wasn’t much of a good ruler for Russia; he ignored the fact that Russia wasn’t doing so good and overlooked the industrialization and nationalism that was occurring throughout Russia. Nicholas II disregarded the troubles the Russians were facing and seemed to only care about himself and him staying in power. This caused people to revolt as they needed a good strong leader to help Russia survive. The main leader who started China’s revolution was Sun Yat-sen who believed China should adopt a democratic government if it were to survive. The revolutions led by him eventually led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty in China.
As Russia was having economical pressure extended unto it by France and Briton to continue its war effort the P.G was put in a paradoxical situation where to survive it had to continue fighting, but it could not survive if it stayed in the war. This is a circumstance that the Bolsheviks were keen to exploit, but it was Lenin who used the slogan "peace, land and bread" to try and rally the support of the common man. Another key event in the run up to the October revolution was the falling support of the S.R's and the Menshevik parties. As they had joined a failing government they were seen by many
The leadership of the Bolshevik party, after Lenin had been forced into exile in Switzerland, didn’t press for an armed uprising. They even considered joining the Provisional Government, after they attended a democratic congress. However, with Lenin’s return he succeeded in convincing the Central Committee to put an armed uprising in their plans. Despite this some leading Bolsheviks, Zinoviev and Kamenev were unsure that this uprising was a good idea and spoke out against Lenin in a newspaper article which alerted Kerensky of the danger. Although, Kerensky did not act decisively with this knowledge, this shows that without Lenin at the front of the Bolshevik party the rest of the Bolshevik’s weren’t as eager to rise and seize power.
This angered Stalin as he did not want West Germany to recover and be given Marshall Aid. Marshall Aid made tension worse because it divided Europe further, the west could get richer and the east would go poorer because Stalin would not accept Marshall Aid. The back round of the Berlin Blockade and airlift cause tension because the west wanted Germany to be more prosperous but Stalin wanted Germany and Berlin to be weak. Tension increased because Britain and America joined their zones together creating Bizona. Stalin got angrier when he heard that France joined to create Trizona.
One person Gompers did not want to associate with was the socialist leader Eugene Debs. In 1907, the AFL created strong links with the Democratic Party. However, many believed that the AFL was too moderate and did not support the unskilled workers. This led to the formation of the IWW. Most Americans feared socialism; they linked it to trade unions, mass immigration and anarchy.
The failure of foreign policy in the years 1514-1525 can be attributed to many things. The combination of Henry's isolation from European affairs and the fact that his attempts to raise tax were ultimately unpopular failures, meant that he had no way to impose himself upon Europe. Even when he did manage to scrape together the finances needed for a strong foreign policy his reliance on his allies led to disaster. As soon as Henry took the throne in 1509, it was obvious that he was a king that wanted to fight a war. However, wars generally led to very expensive costs to the country.
This was to prove a costly error as it was obvious that the other men could not trust what Trotsky had promised. The Czech Legion was made up of seasoned soldiers with plenty of fighting experience. They captured the strategic city of Simbirsk and between May 1918 and August 1918, captured so much territory that they controlled the Trans-Siberian railway from Simbirsk to Vladivostok. The Czechs were to prove a serious problem to Trotsky as the Communist military commander in the civil war. His task of defeating the Whites was made a great deal more difficult by the Czechs if he had kept his word and let them move freely out of Russia, this problem would not have occurred.
Hoover’s most destructive and wrong move was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff that, although good intentioned, decimated foreign trade. But Hoover’s attempt were half-hearted because “his own philosophy, now hardened into dogma, set strict limits on action by the federal government, and he refused to set his philosophy aside even to meet the unprecedented emergency” (T&S 818). When Roosevelt came into office he had to fix a legacy of broken promises and failed legislature by the federal government. Although the New Deal was unprecedented in the amount of legislature it passed, it had many sources that had been building for the last years. Progressivism had been growing the last decades, as it had roots deep in American society, and the New Deal shared many aspects with Progressive ideals.