Joseph Stalin And Truman

1. Harry Truman was a realistic, pragmatic president who skillfully led the American people against the menace posed by the Soviet Union. Assess the validity of this statement by examining the Foreign Policy implemented during Truman’s presidency.

Joseph Stalin grew up in a very strict household. His mother was very religious. His father was an alcoholic that was very abusive. Once Stalin even attempted to run away from his home and his father beat him so hard he went into a coma and almost died. This may explain why Stalin as an adult

President Harry Truman and President Dwight D. Eisenhower were each president during the Cold War. Harry Truman became president during the end of World War II in 1945. His final term ended in 1953. Dwight Eisenhower became president in the midst of the Cold war in 1953 and his last term ended on 1961. Truman was Democratic and Eisenhower was Republican. They each had many occasions when their policies had similar intentions, but they went about them differently. Each wanted to end the fighting and to limit the spread of communism. They each also wanted to help strengthen other parts of the world. They tried to achieve these issues by enacting foreign policies in military, political and economic situations.

Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin were both Bolsheviks looking to make a communist state in Russia. They both had ideals and methods that brought them to where they got to and what they had achieved. While Lenin was more of a democratic follower, and allowed inter-party discussions, he was also a great theorist of socialism. He was also a communist who focused on the temporary capitalist development of Russia. As for Stalin, he was an opportunist politician, and was also a communist mostly just for his personal benefits and gains. He had and followed socialist policies and didn’t have the best personality and attitude, he was quite rude and disgraceful. These two leaders were mainly shaped into who they were due to their past, by comparing them, it will show if their pasts affected their ideology and methods as how different it was, also seeing how with the similar aims, how with their different attitudes and personality, they were able to

Throughout history there have been indelible leaders that have helped shape our country such as Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Two men that changed the world, One a man of mass destruction and hate and the other a man of great ideas to get America through its hardest times.Those men are Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Fdr was born in new york to a wealthy family in 1882. He also went to harvard to study law. He married then was the senator and governor for new york, then a navy secretary before becoming the president. Hitler was born in Austria. He wanted to become a painter, when he applied for a school of art he was denied. His parents were both deceased now so he moved in search for more art. Having spent most of his parents inheritance money he had to live in homeless shelters. Hitler and FDR were both memorable leaders, they were similar being able to accomplish so much, they were comparably extraordinary public speakers, and very different in what they believed in such as what they thought was right or wrong. The first leader that will be discussed and explicated about their accomplishments, and public speaking abilities is Adolf Hitler.

The Cold War was a state of political hostility between countries characterised by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare (Oxford Dictionary of English). President Harry S. Truman had major influence on the continuation of the Cold War in relation to policy, communication and ideology. Truman became President in 1945 after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Truman was known for his tough stance against the Soviet Union and refusal to compromise with Stalin and for his policy of containment in relation to communism. Truman contributed to the beginning of the Cold War and the Truman Doctrine had lasting effect on American foreign policy in the twentieth century. In particular, Truman’s actions in the Potsdam

In our nation, the power of Democracy is our greatest power. The job as a citizen is to elect representatives to keep in contact with our personal liberties and create equal power in governing for all. During the 1960 election, John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon created what is known as the First modern campaign. In the book, “The First Modern Campaign”, by Gary A. Donaldson, he discusses some of the struggles Kennedy had to go through in order to come out on top. The fact that Kennedy was not a liberal made it very hard at first to win over any votes. In the Textbook, “American Government, Roots and Reform”, it stated that a liberal is, one who favors greater government intervention, particularly in economic affairs and in the provision of social services. In previous history, Kennedy, has completely gone against the liberals and has supported communist activities. Kennedy knew, however, that he would not win the election without the support of the liberals. (39) Kennedy tried many ways to appeal to the people of the united states, however, his competitors seemed to always have an upper hand. Until Humphrey came along during the primaries and Kennedy could portray himself as the underdog. Humphrey never had a lot of votes, but as time went by the money for his campaign lessened and he later described it as, “money for a campaign is as basic as gasoline for a motor, if you run out, the vehicle stops.” (49)

The Cold War, which started sometime in the 1940’s, was a large quarrel between the United States and the Soviet Union. This dispute involved a lot of propaganda and threats of nuclear warfare. Despite all of the trouble though, after over forty years of fighting, the two leaders of these countries (Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev) would finally work out a solution. However, although they did reach an agreement, there were many differences between these two men.

The developments of the Cold War is very well known to have originated from the two leaders, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin. After the end of the Second World War, tension brought these leaders to hostile levels which later turned into another “global” war. Decisions made by those leaders such as the Truman Doctrine created by Harry Truman, the hidden nuclear secrets from Stalin, and lastly the aggressive behavior of Stalin during the Potsdam Conference after the British tried to limit their influence over eastern Europe. The slowly growing tensions led by the rapid developments of the Cold War by later actions taken in Germany during the Berlin Crisis.

Ruthless and ambitious, Joseph Stalin grabbed control of the Soviet Union after the death of V.I. Lenin in 1924. As a member of the Bolshevik party, Joseph Stalin (his adopted name, meaning "Man of Steel") had an active role in Russia's October Revolution in 1917. He maneuvered his way up the communist party hierarchy, and in 1922 was named General Secretary of the Central Committee. By the end of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin had expelled his rival Leon Trotsky, consolidated power, and was the de facto dictator of the Soviet

How did the worsening of ideological relations between Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev lead to the Sini-Soviet split in the 1960s?

Joseph Stalin was born on December 21, 1879, originally named Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He was born in a village known as Gori in the Russian province of Georgia. His father was a shoemaker, and a drunk. He left Gori when Stalin was young to find work in the city of Tiflis. With his father gone, Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the biggest impact on his life--it was she who led him in his education. Joseph started out at the local Gori Church School. After attending there, he went to the Tiflis Theological Seminary on a scholarship. Joseph’s mother hoped that at this school, he would learn to become a priest. Instead, Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution.

Upon his rise to power in the mid 1920s, Josef Stalin aimed to erase all traces of capitalism presented under Lenin’s New Economic Policy and change the U.S.S.R into a totalitarian and completely socialist state. To achieve this, he set off a Five Year Plan that called for a rapid industrialization of heavy industries with the use of a command economy. Stalin also established a policy of collectivization where private farms were forced to combine into large, state-owned units. Both plans were considered successful though at the cost of countless lives. Unrealistic industrial goals and a catastrophic famine that resulted from harsh working conditions and starvation took the lives of millions of people. Thousands were also sent to prison camps called gulags and were tortured and abused lawlessly. This is to say that in the ideal state that Stalin as an autocrat wanted, human lives were nothing but merely tools used to work for the state’s prosperity.

Leaders are the largest mechanism in moving towards and achieving a goal. Two examples of high-profile leaders are Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill. Adolf Hitler was an autocratic/authoritarian leader. An autocratic leader is directive and doesn’t involve members in the decision-making process. In practice, Adolf Hitler maintained his leadership powers at all times. He consolidated the powers of the government into his position as Chancellor and Fuhrer of Germany, or the Reich Chancellor of Germany. Winston Churchill was a transformational leader. The speeches he made as prime minister of Britain and the words he spoke even as a war correspondent ring throughout the ages and have kept him a staple of WWII and Britain. A transformational leader communicates their vision and inspires other to join their cause and encourage independent thinking. The results of Churchill’s leadership style were increased volunteers rather than conscripted soldiers and increased productivity and effectiveness. Churchill inspired thousands with his speeches and his military plans had won many battles that would have otherwise meant the destruction of the free Western world.

The Cold War, one of the most important international conflicts in global history, was not a series of battles fought around the world, but rather a conflict over ideological differences which was primarily built around the United States and the Soviet Union, and their capitalist vs. communist systems. The Cold War hit a period of paramount importance throughout the late 1950s, where a series of different political and social events led to a shift of the global spectrum in the great capitalist-communist rivalry, which arguably, began the decline of Soviet power, and the approach to capitalist victory of the war. During this period, new rulers entered into the global rule, and the most influential, Nikita Khrushchev, made series of important