Soviet Union

  • why the soviet communism and the cold war are important

    • communism has been a constant preoccupation of the political right

    • the cold war increased uneasy feelings toward affluence and many have in their minds that affluence is a threat to society

      • that is due to propoganda

        • FBI

        • and other methods of population subconscious control

  • how soviet union went from firend to foe

    • big three powers

      • Us

      • Britian

      • and soviet union

    • held conferance at Yalta in 1945 to discuss post world war II planning

      • It came to a consensus that the big three would have provisional governmental control over Germany

      • They did that in an attempt to rebuild Germany in a more morally good way

        • (at least what they considered morally good)

      • however this plan did not come to fruition because Stalin did not keep his promise and went against the other two powers and brought their ideology to the front of europe and the Soviet Union was trying to occupy as much land as possible

    • The soviet Bloc

      • During the war Us and Britain had focused

      • Truman’s view of the soviet union

        • always had a dimmer view of the soviet union than the previous president

  • stalisnism

    • Who was Joseph Stalin, and what did he want?

      • Prior to the russian revolution, he raised funds for vladamir lenins bolshevik faction through any means necessary

        • bank robberies

        • and many other crimes

      • He edited the parti’s newspaper

      • He was repeatedly arrested and underwent several exiles to Siberia

    • after the Bolsheviks gained power …

    • Stalin and mass murder

      • soviet and the US were allies of convenience because Hitler had broken promises reached with russia’s leader joseph stalin on non-aggression, and so Stalin joined with the Allied powers to defeat Hitler

      • stalins record as a mass murderer also rivaled hitler’s record. he did this through:

      • executions

      • disappearances at prison camps

      • induced famines

      • and killed anywhere from 6 to 20 million people

    • How was Marxism a factor?

      • Would a lack of competition, on a physiological level, lead to a lack of dopamine and serotonin, as well as other neurotransmitters, which would lead to a lack of motivation for people to do their jobs and do them efficiently?

  • The meaning and consequences of the Cold War

    • The term cold war was used because it meant a war of economics, politics, and propaganda - everything but fighting

      • soviets unsuccsessfully blockaded the western-held sectors of West Berlin

  • Would you say the current Iran conflict uses a mixture of hot threats and cold war tactics based on the Cold War with the soviet union?

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis and its outcome

    • The strategic importance of Cuba

      • 90 miles from the US

        • communist fidel castro organized a revolution in Cuba in 1959

        • Cuba was closely aligned with the soviet union and the only close …

      • united states and soviet union started developing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)

  • Wait, so a nuclear warhead can be attached to a torpedo as well? I thought it could only be attached to an ICBM because of the devastation caused by the warhead, and if it was shot at close range, they risk damaging allies as well?