World War 2 was a massively destructive conflict that lasted from 1939 until 1945. The main contestants were Germany, Italy, and Japan on one side and the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain on the other side. Answer and Explanation: ...
After Joseph Stalin took power over the Soviet Union in 1924, he made the choice to turn the USSR's main goal away from promoting global communism, and instead focus on stabilizing socialism in the USSR first. To achieve this, he enacted the Five Year Plans to improve the USSR's economy...
As one of the most popular websites on the planet, Wiki is therefore a builder and protector of paradigms. Even amongst those who won’t use it as a primary source, there is a growing habit of turning to it as a collector of further resource material. This holds true for academia too....
pitting Russia against the U.S. World War II ended with the Soviet Union and United States as allies that triumphed over Nazi Germany. But how did two countries that used to fight on the same side end up a couple of years later as mortal enemies in a Cold War of distrust that prevail...
“Unless you want to have book burning ceremonies and have the secret police round up academics.” Charging me with totalitarian leanings while you ignore your boy Chavez openly aligning himself with the Kremlin and also being backed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation/Soviet Union,...
Having been raised in an upper middle class Jewish environment whenever a presidential campaign took place the question asked by the Jewish Community was, “Is he good for the Jews?” Never was the question asked, “Is he good for America?” An example of how the Jewish Community gives pr...
In the post-war economy after World War II, we built enormous enterprises to mass produce products and mass market them to consumers. It was then that strategic planning took hold. Senior management would formulate a plan and those lower down would execute it. If the machine ran well, things...
Lastly, if you want to understand why gun owners won’t give an inch, just look at the utter hypocrisy that came from the gun control Parkland group. Hogg and his ilk repeatedly stated “we’re not looking to take anyone’s guns. We’re only looking for common sense policies”. Now ...
Through all this time when my parents had marriage problems, Berlin was blockaded by the Soviet Union and it was the time of the Airlift. We had even less than after the war. One hour of electric power a day and that during the night when industries worked less. We all worried about ...
Let’s Talk About A Few Russian Tanks: The Soviet Union Knew A Thing Or Two About Building Tanks. The Sherman may have face theT-34in limited numbers during WWII since the German captured a lot of them on the eastern front, so it’s possible ...