- Cold War
- Mikel Gorbechov
- Destalination - getting rid of Stalin's practices.
- Created the KGB.
- First and only president in the USSR
- Communism
- Red is the universal symbol.
- Equality in the government.
- Socialism
- Equality in the economy/businesses.
- Government restrictions on businesses.
- Achievements
- Space Race - Satellite (Sputnik)
- America was the first to land on the moon. 1969.
- Spread of Communism
- Their biggest goal during the Cold War is to spread communism.
- Hydrogen Bombs
- Both the US and Russia had bombs for threats.
- Foreign Policy
- Keep tight control over their satellite nations.
- Korean War
- Northern Korea attacked South Korea in an attempt to spread communism.
- Known as a stalemate.
- US assisted South Korea.
- Division at the 38th parallel.
- Cuban Missile Crisis.
- US had spy planes that went over Cuba.
- Soviet missiles were being built in Cuba.
- Kennedy put Cuba in a quarantine-- keeping all ships from going in and out of Cuba.
- Threat of nuclear war.
- Brinkmanship - going to the brink of war without actually going to war.
- USSR after the war(s)
- Actions during the Cold war and WWII put USSR into economic stagnation.
- There was little to no growth economy wise for USSR.
- Mikel Gorbechov
- WWII - USSR
- Joseph Stalin
- Dictator/Leader of Communist Russia during this time.
- Goal: Spread communism.
- Never officially given the term of President.
- Cruel, especially to his own people.
- Responsible for killing ten million of his own people.
- Big on putting labour camps in Serbia.
- He wasn't fond of prisons, and figured that they could better the mother land by working.
- Gregory Zhucov
- Five star general.
- Main military leaders through most of the battles of WWII.
- Involved in a lot of the battles. (Battle of Stalingrad)
- (Second best general in the whole of WWII)
- Goals
- Signed a non-aggression pact with Germany, 1940.
- Germany invades USSR 1941.
- USSR switches to the Ally side and fights against the Axis powers.
- Allied side: USA, France, G.B., Post-1941 USSR.
- Axis side: Japan, Germany, Pre-1941 USSR, Italy.
- Type of Government.
- Totalitarian dictatorship: Complete control of the citizens lives.
- Relationship with the US
- When the war first started: US vs USSR.
- After the war, US was allied with USSR.
- Now it's in between the two.
- Foreign Policy.
- Pre-WWII : Hostile.
- Post-WWII: Not nearly as hostile.
- Holocaust.
- Nazi persecution of about 6 million Jews.
- Led by Hitler of Germany.
- Battle of Stalingrad.
- 4 million troops poured over the Russian border in June of 1941.
- Germans were caught in their summer uniforms when winter hit.
- When Germany went in in early June, they figured it would be a quick win.
- When Stalin's troops would win, he would burn down a town and all the resources so that Hitler's troops had no supplies.
- He then kept pushing the troops back and much of them died because of the cold.
- Joseph Stalin
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