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…, a symbol not only of the division of Germany but of the larger conflict between the Communist and non-Communist worlds. The Wall ceased to be a barrier when East Germany ended restrictions on emigration in November 1989. The Wall was largely dismantled…

…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…

…(Garraty, 1994: 985). Due to these conditions, communist parties became stronger in several Eastern European countries. Truman felt it necessary to check the spread of communism in Europe, for he believed that if Greece,(Great Britain could no longer aid…

…Valldares U.S., ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission from 1986-1990, spent 22 years in a Cuban prison for refusing to pledge allegiance to the Communist Regime. Armando has told a story about a 12-year-old boy named Robertico The boy was caught playing…

…America’s Relations with Cuba The island nation of Cuba, located just ninety miles off the coast of Florida, is home to 11 million people and has one of the few remaining communist regimes in the world. Fidel Castro came to power in 1959…

…The former USSR, now called Russia, has abandoned its dreams of a communist utopia in the hopes of becoming a strong capitalist country. But the road is not an easy one. To do this, Russia must abandon the last vestiges of its former regime, and even…

…Russia Under Stalin When Lenin's reign over the Soviet Empire ended in 1924, the future course of Communist policies and dominance of the party were cast into uncertainty. This insecurity in the Soviet nation was even further intensified by the rocky…

…coined by Russian Karl Marx. Marx claimed that a Capitalist society would eventually choke itself with its own wealth. Modern day Communism is not what Marx had envisioned, as Communist societies are not as successful as he would have desired…

…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…

…Throughout the early 1950’s, the nation was deeply engrossed in fears of a Communist takeover. At a time when America’s fears were at their very height, Joseph McCarthy, a Republican Senator from Wisconsin pushed America’s fears to an extreme. As a ploy…