Soviet Union (USSR)

On the 20th of August 1968, troops and tanks from the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw pact invaded Czechoslovakia. This brought an immediate change in relations between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia and was due to increasing opposition to communism within Czechoslovakia, leading to reforms under Dubcek, and the reactions of Moscow to these reforms.

The first reason for a change in relations was the growth of opposition in Czechoslovakia to Soviet control. This was due to what the Soviet Union had done in 1948, they murdered Jan Masaryk. Once Jan was killed the elections were rigged and they put Antonin Novotny in power from 1957. Antonin was very unpopular amongst the Czechs as he was a hard-line communist who followed closely in the Soviet Union's footsteps and wouldn't introduce reform no matter what the Czechs wanted. He was very slow to flow Khrushchev's destalinization policy but he took much longer to release political prisoners who were jailed because of Stalin. This all caused more people to oppose the Soviet Union.

Furthermore the Soviets were concerned because: they didn't want the new ideas from Czechoslovakia to spread, Czechoslovakia was becoming closer to West Germany and industrial relations between West Germany and Czechoslovakia were improving. In 1968 on the 20-21 of August hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops along with troops from Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland and Hungary and were greeted with petrol bombs being thrown at them, as well as, buildings being set on fire, protestors assembling in Wenceslas Square, barricades being set up in streets, students tearing down street names to confuse invaders, students climbing into the tanks to try and argue with the Soviet soldiers as they were so desperate and the anti-Soviet broadcasters kept on broadcasting by moving from hiding place to hiding place but there wasn't any resistance by the Czechoslovakian army as they were ordered not to fight back and so around 100 people died, another thing that happened in 1968 was Dubcek and the other leaders being arrested and escorted to Moscow. These had consequences like the demonstrations, which continued going until April 1969, the Czech communist party being purged and the Brezhnev document - this doctrine redefined communism as a one-party system and declared that all member countries had to remain part of the Warsaw Pact

Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union were part of the Warsaw Pact in the 1960s- an organization of the then-Communist states in Europe. In 1968 a leader of Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek, decided to reform his country's military and media. He introduced forms of democracy. These were soon considered by the Soviet Union to be dangerous to the Communist Party and they thought the reforms would decrease the Party's power. Therefore, they attacked Czechoslovakia to prevent the reforms from going through, retaining their powerr.

Soviet Premier Khrushchev wanted to keep skilled East German workers from moving to West Berlin. -nova net

That Communism would spread all over the world.

Land men on the moon and return them safely to earth by the end of the decade.

This was the "public" goal declared by president Kennedy.

However the underlying secret goal was to demonstrate which country could throw the largest hydrogen bomb possible the farthest distance and hit a target accurately - without having to actually throw a real hydrogen bomb (and risk starting a war). By getting men to the moon we proved we could deliver any possible hydrogen bomb anywhere we wanted to put it on earth.

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The Soviet Union only had one Political party, which was the Communist Party.

At the end of World War 2, The Western Nations of the allied forces wanted all of the European nations to be freed and allowed to be self ruling AND democratic. Democracy hating Dictator Stalin was not going to do that with the nations he took from the Nazi Germans. The continual conflict over this matter between Stalin and FDR and Churchill ended up in a stale mate. Stalin got his nations to keep under communist Soviet rule and the other half of Europe the western allies liberated were allowed to be free and democratic. This sparked The 50 year Cold War.

After WW2 The US was using the bomb as sort of a tool to get whatever they wanted, in 1945 Truman actually threatened to bomb the USSR with nuclear weapons 5 different times when the USSR wanted to take a piece of japan during their invasion, so in response to even out the playing field they developed the bomb in 1949

Two things happened. One the Germans weren't ready for the harsh weather. Russia is far north and it gets cold very fast and everything freezes. The Germans didn't have winter uniforms. The second thing was the Russian people themselves. They rose up and everyone fought the Germans. Leningrad was room by room hand to hand battle ground.

Some say it was August 23, 1939, but it was really singed in the early hours of August 24, 1939 in Moscow.

Formed the Warsaw Pact

The Eastern European countries included these countries in the Warsaw Pact:

Romania, Albania, Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria.

The non-aggression pact between Germany and the USSR was to make sure that the USSR did not attack Hitler and Germany while they were conquering Western Europe, Hitler had no intention of honoring this pact, as he decided to invade Russia while still having forces in Western Europe.

For Russia it gave them time to prepare their military forces to resist the invasion that they knew was coming based on the ideological devide between communism and fascism. In 1939 Russian high command knew that it would take about 2 years to gather a force strong enough to resist a German invasion. The pact gave them the time needed to gather the material nessisary to stop the germany advance.

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It forced citizens to treat Stalin as a perfect leader.

In 1961 Uri A. gagarin was the first man in space In 1961 Uri A. gagarin was the first man in space

People from East Germany moved to West Germany for better opportunities. To counter this the Soviet Union built a 103-mile long wall called the Berlin Wall. The tension caused from this "Iron Curtain" as Winston Churchill referred it reflected the tension of the United States and Soviet Union.

The Chinese focused on organizing peasants. The Soviets focused on organizing factory workers.

A cold winter and a two front war resulted.

50 million dead Russians would tell you the Soviet Union. They killed the most Germans, took the most shells, shot down the most planes, and in the end absolutely Hitler's hope for victory. It all hangs on that word 'contribute'. In terms of blood and lives lost - it was the USSR. It's estimated that 20 million people from the various Soviet republics lost their lives in WWII. The USSR tied up huge amounts of German men and material on the Eastern front, helping make the D-Day landings both feasible and successful. It was the Soviets who did most of the actual slog fighting on the ground. In monitary terms, the US. No doubt. The US effectively bankrolled the allies in WWII. They also supplied vast amounts of aid to the USSR, so the Soviets could tie down the Germans, and eventually roll them back to within the borders of Germany itself. The mobilisation of US industry was a huge achievement. Britain played a huge part technologically - radar and sonar for example, or the development of the code-cracking computer at Bletchley Park. Or development of the armour piercing discarding sabot round for tackling German heavy tanks. Or the refinement of the centimetric cavity magnetron (actually a US invention originally), enabling radar sets to become small enough to fit in a plane. The jet engine - a pity we didn't make more of it earlier. Still, it's a big list. So, asking 'who contributed most' is completely pointless unless the question is further defined. At the end of the day we all somehow pulled together, and Hitler was defeated.

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That policy is called the 'containment policy'. It led to the US involvement in the Korean and Vietnam wars, among others.

NATO was created to oppose Soviet expansion after World War 2. Economic organizations like the European Common Market also contributed to this effort.

Communism as a vicious martial dictator.