Cold War:
Mikel Gorbechov
- Destalination - getting rid of Stalin's practices.
- Created the KGB.
- First and only president in the USSR
Universal symbol for communism is red.
Socialism - equality in the economy and businesses.
Achievements/Goals:
- Space Race
- USSR is the first to send a satellite up - Sputnik.
- America is the first to make it to the moon, made it in 1969.
- Cold War
- Biggest goal was to spread communism.
Foreign Policy:
- Keep tight control over satellite nations.
Korean War:
- Known as a stalemate.
- Division line is 38 parallel.
- Won some lost some.
Cuban Missile Crisis:
- Soviets put missiles in Cuba.
- Watch the movie "13 Days"
After World War 2:
- Cold War and World War 2 led USSR to be very poor.
World War 2 USSR
Joseph Stalin:
- Dictator/Leader of Communist Russia
- Never given the term president.
- Very cruel to own people
- Killed 10 million of his own people!
- Put labor camps in Serbia.
- Didn't believe in prisons
- Work to better the mother land, USSR
- Didn't believe in prisons
Gregory Zhukov
- 5 star general
- Battle of Stalingrad.
- 2nd best general in WWII
Goals of Russia in WWII
- Signed a nonaggression pact with Germany
- In 1941 - Hitler and Germany invade USSR
- USSR fight with the Allies after 1941.
Allies:
- America
- France
- Great Britain
- Post 1941 - USSR
Axis:
- Japan
- Germany
- Before 1941 - USSR
- Italy
Type of Government:
- Totalitarian dictatorship- complete control of the citizens.
Relationship with the U.S.
- Allies during WWII
- Rivals before.
- Now we are between allies and enemies.
Foreign Policy
- Pre-WWII - Hostile
- End - Not nearly as hostile.
Stalingrad:
- June 1941 - 4 million Germany troops poured over the Russian border.
- Germans were in their summer uniforms when winter hit.
- Thought it was going to be a quick battle...it wasn't.
- Stalin would burn down the entire city if Hitler got close.
- Therefore, no resources.
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