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…", and that Germany was in desperate need of help." Therefore, the Allies' aim was to rebuild Germany's economy. The Soviet Union disagreed with this plan immensely, and instead they became busy with setting up Communist dictatorships in their conquered areas…

…-communist countries. The Russians were more worried about NATO attacking them, than them attacking the U.S. Russia then created the Warsaw Pact in response of the strengthening of NATO. This was a 20-year agreement with all of the European communist countries…

…25, 1950 because the United States felt that if Russia's troops would fight for North Korea, we should fight for South Korea. Also, since South Korea had a dictatorship, we wanted to prevent it from becoming communist and remaining a dictatorial…

…, of the militia group he joined. Orwell believed he was seeing the success of socialism in action. The second thing that marked Orwell was what happened to his fellow fighters. They were jailed and shot--not by Franco, but by their own "comrades," Communist…

…Revolution in 1917 when the Communists gained control of Russia, established the Soviet Union. The newly developed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, known as the USSR, declared ideological war against all western capitalist nations. Disapproving of this new…

…from the communists. It is not clear why Roosevelt declared that he had made a very good deal at Yalta, because in the agreement, he gave Stalin all of Eastern Europe and some Japanese islands. In return, Stalin did nothing. The agreement called for Stalin…

…The book Animal Farm was written by George Orwell. It is a political satire written to parallel communist Russia. Every event and character in the book has a parallel in history to the events and characters that make up the communist revolution…

…dealing with the revolution. Eventually, he needs to return to Russia to try and get endorsement for an American Communist Party. When he is done there he tries to return home and he can not make any bus arrangements, so he has to try and escape on his own…

…. It was a conflict between the communist regime in the North and the nationalist leadership in the South that would ultimately lead to the Korean War. In Paul Lashmar’s article published in New Statesman and Society, he wrote, “Japanese occupation of Korea ended with its…

…. In 1947-48, the U.S. was building its own bulwark, sending aid to Western Europe under the Marshall Plan. With the Soviets having installed openly communist regimes in the East, the Cold War had begun. The next five years would mark the height of the Cold War…