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…the power of the Soviet Union and its ability to retain control. But as the years wore by the wall became a hated symbol of communist persecution. The drastic reforms of perestroika instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev set the fuse for the collapse of the Berlin…

…autocrat, Batista. The growing desire of the people for a free Cuba saw yet another revolution, one that saw Cuba become a communist state under its present leader, Premier Fidel Castro. United States wanted to spread their imperialist view and increase…

…. Gerald A. Larque, a man who signed the Humanist Manifesto II, writes, "Our religion is based upon the best that we know about our cosmos, our world, and ourselves…We recognize our oneness with the cosmos and our spatial and temporal minuteness…We see ourselves…

…government secrecy pushed newspapers to ferret out nonmilitary information, to which they had previously had open access; newspapers faced a separate challenge that also strained government-press relations. This challenge was posed by the anti-Communist…

…for a world revolution led to the establishment of the Communist International. The Communist International realized the importance to form the Japan Communist Party, which was founded in July 1922. The announced goals of the Japan Communist Party in 1923 were…

…of Vietnamese Communists who really hated France and were looking to unite Vietnam under Communist rule. South Vietnam was controlled by Vietnamese leaders who favored the French. The reason that the U.S. entered the Vietnam War was fear of the “Domino Effect…

…were Russia and China. Of the two, Russia was the first to adopt the communist beliefs. Russia already had a long history of peasant insurrections. Most of these uprisings though, were leaderless and highly unorganized. The motives of the rebels were…

…, the Syndicalists, the Socialists and the Communists. The Anarchists were powerful enough within the trade union movement to exercise decisive influence for a time upon the whole situation. With their Bakuninist idealism they did not appreciate the necessity of preparing…

…in Russia before passing away shortly after (1924). Stalin, the general secretary for the communist party gradually gained power and by 1928 was in control of the government. Under Joseph Stalin’s leadership the USSR was transformed into a world power…

…The Korean War The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea. However it was fought between people who wanted Communist rule in Korea versus people who wanted freedom and democracy. It had no winners. All it had was people who lost…