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To begin with, the USSR freely used resources of European countries in order to rebuild the war-torn economy. After WWII, the Soviet Union had state-of-the-art power plants installed as well as new canals and factories (Glencoe 856). It was possible for the USSR to focus their production on steel and heavy industry since it imported agricultural products and machinery from European countries that were under the control of Joseph Stalin, the dictator and the leader of the USSR. As a result, European

collapsed under its own weight. It all began in the March of 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev was made leader of the USSR and inherited high tensions with U.S. President

What were the causes of the "Cold War" between America and the USSR? America and the USSR were all "superpower" in the world, in order to struggle for the global hegemony, the two countries and their allied countries took the fight, which lasted for decades.During that period,alough they had serious divergences and conflictions, they all tried their best to avoid the outbreak of the third World War, generally, they confronted with each other by partial war-by-proxy, science and technology, and

president, Mikhail Gorbachev and his incompetent decisions for it. Mikhail Gorbachev, who came from a longtime Communist party assumed office in March 1985. Once Gorbachev was in office, he introduced two new set of policies that he hoped would help the USSR become a more productive and prosperous nation. One of these new set of policies was known as, Glasnost, which also meant political openness. Glasnost eliminated traces of Stalinist repression, like the banning of books and the omnipresent secret police

The USSR could claim a decisive victory in the wider Cold War struggle. This is because they appeared to be the stronger superpower and gained the most from the agreements made between Kennedy and Khrushchev. The USSR came out from the crisis as the stronger superpower in the wider Cold War struggle, which meant they claimed a decisive victory over the USA. The USA’s attempt to prevent the ‘domino theory’ and keep Cuba in their ‘sphere of influence’ by “forbid[ing] [Castro] to make friends with

Initially the need for a world revolution dominated Bolshevik ideals to such an extent that foreign policy in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was regarded as unnecessary. Soviet Policy was dominated by conflicting ideologies; the Marxist ideological view, and the Commissariat’s traditional policy theory. By co-operating with both mindsets, the Communist International, or Comintern, was created in order to work towards global revolution. In 1922, under the control of Vladimir Lenin

a lot. Some say the US won the race because it landed the first human on the Moon but no one can take anything away from the USSR. Soviet accomplished a lot and had more “firsts” then the US until the US caught up. Both the US and the USSR won the space race. As stated before, both sides accomplished a lot. The US say they won because of the first human on moon, but USSR accomplished way too much for the US to easily win. Both sides look at what they accomplished first. When both sides find out

DBQ After the World War 2 between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc, the relationship developed primarily between the USA and USSR; eventually leading up to a war called the Cold War. Although the Cold War was between the United States and the Soviet Union; ultimately, the Cold War was mainly caused by the USSR because of Stalin’s dominating behavior, the USSR’s military and territory expansion, and USSR’s aim of spreading world communism or USSR’s dislike of capitalism.

democracies of Western Europe. This led to more conflict to ignite between the US and the USSR. For example, the USSR built the Berlin Wall as a way to prevent any US influence within Berlin. As a

Who was more to blame for the start of the Cold War, the USA or the USSR? The USA could be more to blame as President Truman was very suspicious of the USSR and much more suspicious than Roosevelt. This means that there would have been greater tensions between the two. The USA dropped atomic bombs on Japan. The USSR could see that the USA wouldn’t delay on using their atomic bomb and this worried them so they sped up production of their own atomic bomb, meaning that each country felt highly threatened