Flag of the Soviet Union

Sort By:
Page 1 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    The February Revolution

    • 687 Words
    • 3 Pages

    “Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed at” (Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin). There are two names, the U.S.S.R and the Soviet Union, it was known to be a communist alliance. The major events the U.S.S.R. was involved in consist of the revolution, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and the fall of the Soviet Union. The February Revolution was an event when the citizens overthrew the tsar (leader) and replaced them with own government (Marxist 2017).

    • 687 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    For the last forty years people have been arguing whether if the Moon landings were real. The Moon landings occurred during the late 1960’s and into the early 1970’s. During this time the United States and the Soviet Union were in a competition known as the Space Race. The main objective during the Space Race was for one country to put a man on the Moon. The competition was getting intense, and both countries began expanding their space programs. During the Space Race and the Apollo missions NASA

    • 1500 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    No government lasts forever. The Soviet Union was a communist country and one of the two world superpowers during the Cold War. Joseph Stalin was one famous leader during this time period. The Soviet Union’s government officially ended on December 25, 1991, when the Soviet flag was lowered for the last time in Kremlin and replaced by the Russian flag. The collapse of the Soviet Union was due to the political change caused by conflicts with the government’s political power and its authority on the

    • 635 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    a critical turn of events of the Soviet Union. Its economy and agricultural industry were crumbling. Advanced technology was lacking and factories were inefficient. Citizens had no choice but to purchase low quality products, as a result, and social freedoms were inadequate. Additionally, foreign affairs such as American rearmament and tensions throughout the Soviet Bloc negatively impacted Soviet stability. In an effort of reform, Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union General Secretary, stepped in to

    • 466 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Animal Farm Essay

    • 836 Words
    • 4 Pages

    also a very interesting detail from chapter three, when the flag of animal farm was founded: “The flag was green Snowball explained, to represent the green fields of England, while the hoof and the horn signified the future Republic of the Animals which would arise when the human race had been finally overthrown ”. So as one may observe, this flag was almost identical to the flag of the Soviet Union, which consisted of a plain red flag, with a hammer and sickle crossed; a red star in the upper hoist

    • 836 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    Moon Landing Conspiracy

    • 1228 Words
    • 5 Pages

    On the Moon there is no wind, so therefore the flag should not ripple and wave in space. Conspiracy theorists believe that this correlates with the T.V. studio conspiracy; they believe that there was a breeze in the studio making the flag wave (Platoff). NASA planned out the entire situation of planting the flag into the Moon’s surface. NASA wanted to design a simple and easily assembled flagpole because the astronauts were wearing

    • 1228 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Essay On Apollo 11

    • 985 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Cold War. The Cold War pitted the United States and the Soviet Union against each other, thus leading to the two countries fighting and competing for superiority, which eventually becomes a race for space. In 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 2, which was the first space probe to hit the moon. Then, later in 1961, the Soviet Yuri Gagarin was the first person to orbit the Earth in the Votstok 1. Due to these accomplishments by the Soviet Union, President John F. Kennedy boldly promised the public

    • 985 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Cold War Dbq Essay

    • 499 Words
    • 2 Pages

    the Soviet Union were immediately against each other. This was the beginning of the Cold War. The three main causes of the Cold War were spheres of influence, ideology, and military factors. With my information, I believe that the Soviet Union was the most responsible for the Cold War. Like I said the three main causes of the Cold War were the spheres of influence, ideology, and military factors. The spheres of influence is like a challenge, if the United States gains power the Soviet Union would

    • 499 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Decent Essays

    We Have Arrived, at the End of the War On Christmas Day 1991, at 7:35 p.m., the Soviet flag flying over the Kremlin was lowered and replaced by the new Russian Federation flag. The USSR officially ceased to exist on December 31, 1991. The fall of the Soviet Union signified the end of the Cold War (Nye 2). Obviously, this was a huge moment in our world’s history; a 44-year-old tension between two of the most powerful countries in the world, which almost brought us to a combative war, was destroyed

    • 1389 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Soviet Union Animal Farm

    • 641 Words
    • 3 Pages

    corrupt ways of the Soviet Union which makes it an allegory which means that everything in the novel has some type of meaning relating to the corrupt tendencies of the Soviet Union. Also a lot can be learned from George Orwell’s brilliant and complex writing with his uses of motifs, imagery, foreshadowing, symbolism and irony in all of his novels. He specifically makes sure that all of these literary devices are used in a certain way that incorporates the book, the Soviet Union, and he also words

    • 641 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
Previous
Page12345678950