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Journal 5/4/18
Compare and contrast Lenin
and Stalin
Table of Contents: Unit 7 Communism
1. Title Page (extra
credit for decorating)
2. Table of Contents
3. Prelude to the
Russian Revolution
4. 14.1 Assessment
pg 439 #1 – 8
5. Russian Revolution
– Primary Documents
6. The Russian
Revolution
7. 14.2 Assessment
pg 445 #1 – 8
8. Stalin: Man of Steel
9. Roots of the Cold
War
10. 17.1 Assessment
pg 536 #1 - 8
The Cold War
An era of political tension
in which the U.S. and
U.S.S.R competed for
world influence without
actual armed conflict.
(1945-1989)
The alliance which won WWII
was a shaky one at best
Many of the nations had a long history of
conflict but were brought together by a
common enemy in the Axis powers
After WWII there were two
remaining superpowers:
The U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. found
themselves in conflict for
a variety of reasons
Remember
how you tried
to stop the
Russian
Revolution in
1917?
That wasn’t
nice!
Remember
how you
didn’t
recognize our
government
until 1933?
That wasn’t
nice!
Remember
how it took
you three
years to
actually
attack
Germany!
Remember
how you
didn’t tell me
all your
military
information
during the
war?!
Two Words:
Atomic
Bomb!
U.S.S.R Distrust
• U.S. fought against the communists in the
Russian Revolution (1918 Reds v White)
• U.S. waited until 1933 to recognize the
government of the Soviet Union
• U.S. didn’t support U.S.S.R. in WWII
• U.S. withheld military information from the
U.S.S.R. in WWII (specifically the atomic
bomb)
What
about
all this
stuff?
Anti-
American
Propaganda
you released
during WWII!
That wasn’t
nice!
Remember
how you
didn’t tell us
all your
military
information
during WWII?
Your system
of
government
teaches
constant
revolution!
That is scary!
During WWI
you signed a
separate
(early) peace
with
Germany…
that hurt our
feelings
Before WWII
you signed a
non-
aggression
pact with
Hitler!
You’ve killed
millions of
your own
people in the
Gulags!
What might
you do to us?
U.S.A. Distrust
• U.S.S.R released Anti-American
propaganda
• U.S.S.R. withheld military information
• Communism teaches constant revolution
• Stalin teamed up with Hitler during WWII
• Stalin has murdered millions of his own
citizens in the gulags
Our country
has been
destroyed by
war!
We really
need to
protect our
country from
Germany and
other non-
communist
nations!
Our economy
is in
shambles…
Hitler
destroyed our
country!
We need to
have a
cluster of
Communist
buffer nations
in the West.
U.S.S.R. View of the World
• We have suffered more than any other
country in this war
• We need to protect our country from other
non-communist nations
• Our economy is in shambles
• We need communist buffer nations in the
west
We
dominated in
WWII! We
are way
stronger than
anyone else!
But we are a
little afraid of
you…we
need to
rearm and
rebuild
Europe just in
case…
Looks like the
depression is
over! We now
control 50%
of the world’s
wealth!
Communism
is different
and therefore
scary…we
need to
contain its
spread!
We need to
build a world
full of
democracies
which talk out
their
problems!
Everyone
should be just
like us… We
know what’s
best for
everyone
U.S.A. View of the World
• We are stronger than everyone else
• We have proven that our system of
government is superior
• We are afraid of communism
• We need to rearm and rebuild Europe to
prevent the spread of communism
• More countries should model themselves
after us
The Big Three (Churchill, Stalin, FDR)
had tried to come up with a course of
action to resolve these issues at the
Yalta Conference (Feb 1945)
- The U.S.S.R. would get territory in Asia
- The U.S.S.R. would support the United Nations
In Eastern
Europe the
Soviet Union
began
installing
communist
governments
At Potsdam, with Truman as
president, the decision was made to
divide Germany (July-Aug 1945)
Four
Sectors
The West adopted
a policy of
containment to
control the spread
of Communism
As Stalin continued his expansion, Churchill
famously said “an iron curtain has descended
across the continent” as he encouraged all
English speaking nations to bond together
and fight communism