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Fall Of The Soviet Soviet Union
1,822 words... elected into power. But the elections in April put many radicals into power and the tsar disbanded that Duma. He then disbanded the one after that too, in turn he formed a much more conservative Duma that was mostly under his control. He had regained all of the power that he had lost due to the revolution of 1905. 6) The March Revolution: Food riots broke out in Petrograd, and when the Czar ordered the Duma to dissolve and they did not obey. Soldiers were not able to stop rioting in the citi...
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German Army Soviet Union
968 wordsAfter losses and failure of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler now had new objectives in the war. He planned to drive Soviet forces out of the Southern Steppes and the Caucasus region and taking over the abundant supply of natural mineral wealth, especially oil, which was a key ingredient for Germany's war machine. Another reason was that Axis forces could have direct access to the Middle East and be able to have the military capability for a final annihilating sweep Northward through Soviet forces in...
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Second World War Concentration Camps
1,031 words... post for the Polish divisions stretched out along the extensive front. Polish artillery firepower's were unable to defend themselves against the advanced Germans. Within few days it was perfectly clear that despite the heroic Polish resistance, no defense line had been held. An attack without any declaration of war increased an already superior German position. A certain amount of aircraft was destroyed on the ground, because of the sudden surprise. Additional problems were caused by great a...
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Adolf Hitler Physical Evidence
1,646 wordsDuring the spring of 1945, the German army was retreating from the European battlefield. The Allies, aided by British general Montgomery and American general George S. Patton, were pushing the German army back from the western occupied zones. The Russian Red Army was pushing the Germans back from the eastern occupied zone. It was now clear that Germany lost the war and many of its soldiers were surrendering to the Allies. Although the Allied force's chief general Dwight D. Eisenhower was America...
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Czar Nicholas Soviet Socialist
1,689 wordsThe roots of the Russian Revolution of 1917 were deep. Russia had suffered under an extremely oppressive form of government for centuries under the rule of the czars. During the 19 th century the nation was filled with movements for political liberalization. In the long run there were several revolutions, not one. The first rebellion, known as the Decembrist uprising, took place in December 1825. Members of the upper classes, including many former soldiers, staged a revolt after the death of Ale...
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World War One Leon Trotsky
873 wordsGeorge Orwell was a great writer; he created a book with many different qualities. Animal Farm is an allegory, fable, and a satire. He made the characters in the novel relate to real people and events in history. Examples such allegory would be Animalism compared with Communism, Snowball compared with Leon Trotsky, and Napoleon compared to Joseph Stalin. Animalism in many ways does symbolize Communism. Animalism for the animals would be a perfect land, no rich, no poor, and everyone is equal. Th...
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Machine Gun Red Army
1,278 words... one to the whole time. We may have been on duty but we still got ahold of some beer. Some beer wouldnt hurt. stashed in PFC Okawita's jeep he brought before it got demolished. He really loved that jeep. While arguing over the better chewing tobacco, PFC Taggart's Copenhagen and my Skoal, PFC Brown and Swerski were dancing around inebriated and wanted to visit the nearby village to find some escort service. Absolutely out of the question! Why? I insisted. Dont worry about us, well be fine wel...
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Beer Hall Putsch German Worker Party
1,215 wordsNational Socialism between 1920 and 1945 can best be described as an era of constant change. Hitler's enrollment in the German Worker's Party provided him the foundation needed to propel his idealistic views of anti-Semitism and Aryan superiority. Soon after Hitler's enrollment the party's name was changed to the National Socialist German Worker's Party and in the summer of 1921 his talents as an orator and propagandist enabled him to take over the leadership of the Nazi Party. Hitler's initial ...
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Russian Civil War First World War
1,812 wordsInternational support for the Whites during the Russian civil war was woefully inadequate. How valid is this judgement? I will attempt to show that allied support for the Whites in the Russian civil war was inadequate by looking at the reasons for support and how they might impact on the level of support that was given, I will also look at the extent of support to see if it was inadequate, and finally, the relative importance of international support compared to other reasons for the White defea...
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Bomb Was Dropped Eastern Europe
1,077 wordsDuring the war, once the Allied powers from the west joined forces with Stalin's Red Army, trouble was inevitable. Luckily for the world, America had a great leader and foreign diplomat in Franklin D. Roosevelt while England countered with Winston Churchill. This duo created a steady working relationship with Stalin, thus creating the Big Three and the Grand Alliance. Even though it was far from a perfect relationship, all three diplomats realized the task at hand, the mandate of stopping Adolph...
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British And French Versailles Treaty
2,730 wordsMore than any previous war, World War II involved the commitment of nations' entire human and economic resources, the blurring of the distinction between combatant and noncombatant, and the expansion of the battlefield to include all of the enemy's territory. The most important determinants of its outcome were industrial capacity and personnel. In the last stages of the war, two radically new weapons were introduced: the long-range rocket and the atomic bomb. In the main, however, the war was fo...
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Committed Suicide East Prussia
1,346 wordsHe said it was German men who had suppressed the subject. For them the worst humiliation was that their wives had been raped and they simply could not talk about it, they forbade their wives from talking about it and it became a taboo. Beevor says the story of the rapes, while important, has attracted more attention than he would have hoped. Nearly 80, 000 Russian soldiers died and more than a quarter of a million were wounded in the fight for Berlin. He said it was vital to understand the suffe...
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Comparison Of Russian Films On The Stalin Period
1,032 wordsComparison of Russian films on the Stalin period. (1) The movie Burnt by the Sun was released in 1994. Films director Nikita Mikhalkov is known throughout the Russia for his active political stance, as well as for his artistic work. Burnt by the Sun takes place in a rural Russia in 1936, where revolutionary hero Sergei Kotov (played by Mikhalkov himself) spends some leisurely time with his family. Their idyllic existence is interrupted by a stranger, who is later revealed as Dimitri an old frien...
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Social Democratic Party Women And Men
3,040 wordsWomens Roles in Communist Russia When the Womens Suffrage Movement was deemed a success in the early 1920 s, women lowered their voices, apparently satisfied with their accomplishment. They did not dare to acknowledge the remaining gender-related inequalities, much less vie for their decline. For over a century, women had fought for the most basic of rights. Mary Wollstonecraft laid the path for future women to follow, but women did not follow this path until they started to become used to the m...
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Second World War Balance Of Power
1,708 wordsAt the coming end of the Second World War, there was much distrust between the United States and the Soviet Union. Throughout most of WWII, the U. S. and the Soviet Union had made an alliance. The foundation of this alliance relied on a common goal of each country: to defeat the Germans. (This was decided in 1943 at the Tehran Conference that consisted of Great Britain, France, the U. S. , and the Soviet Union). However, once the war was over and the German nation was contained, many new conflic...
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