I have to response to 3 classmates posts. 125 words each. 1 source for each.
Post 1. By Kierstin
Being the President of the United States leads me to choose the right path for those I serve. As I took office one of the prime areas that needed to be addressed was the hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union. This hostility started at the end of World War II and has continued to the present day. Many may know this time as the “Cold War”. During this time many lived in fear of a nuclear war. The Cold War extended to space exploration and competition with defenses from space. One of the first areas that I wanted to address was the need to strengthen our military forces (The Reagan Revolution, 2014). Without having a strong defense how can we begin negotiations with the Soviet Union? To do this I have increased the spending to strengthen our troops. The Soviet Union saw this as a race and began building. The economy for the Soviet Union did not math the United States and quickly caused problems (The Reagan Revolution, 2014). As a true world leader, I was willing to negotiate with Michail Gorbachev to begin reform and change policies. As each of the conversations and negotiations continued, progress toward ending the Cold War became possible (The Reagan Revolution, 2014). One of my chief goals was to end the nuclear arms race and reduce the chance of destroying the world as we know it. By ending the Cold War many say I caused the end of the Soviet Union as it has always been known (The Reagan Revolution, 2014). Do you believe my contribution to peace was the reason?
The Reagan Revolution: Crash Course US History #43 (2014) https://youtu.be/2h4DkpFP_aw
Post 2. By Kevin
Premier Joseph Stalin and his party is undeniably flawed! Stalin has adopted a leadership cult of personality despite allegedly maintaining support for the ideals of communism. Together we must declare that, those individuals who in their time had opposed Stalin’s party. As, there were often no sufficiently serious reasons for their physical annihilation. It is suppressing that the submitted formula “enemy of the people” was specifically introduced for the purpose of physically annihilating these such individuals.
We must stand by that it is a fact that a vast number of individuals were later annihilated as adversaries of the Stalin’s party. Furthermore, Stalin abandoned the method of ideological struggle for that of administrative violence, mass repressions and terror. More importantly, Stalin acted on a progressively greater scale and more stubbornly through disciplinary structures. This all happened at the same time frequently violating all existing norms of morality and of Soviet laws.
Stalin insinuates that now he can adopt all things alone. As he treats all others in such a way that they could only listen to him and praise him. This dictate has become the foundation for mass acts of abuse against socialist legality. As it is published that many of the fictitious court cases were secured by force, and when, in a convincing manner, Stalin’s party refuted the accusations against them. In fact, Stalin put his party up to the routine of mass terror when the exploiting individuals that had been punished in our country. This goes in line even when there were no serious reasons for this use of extraordinary mass terror! Stalin even advanced his motive that the calamity of our nation is only experiencing this chaos in the first part of this war, as a result of an “unforeseen” attack by the Germans against the Soviet Union.
References:
Carlson, Peter (2009), K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America’s Most Unlikely Tourist, PublicAffairs, ISBN 978-1-58648-497-2
Schwartz, Harry (12 September 1971), “We know now that he was a giant among men”, The New York Times.
Post 3. By Jessica
During my leadership, from the year of 1929 to the year 1953, I focused heavily on acquiring territory and building a regime. After a not shocking conversation with President Harry S. Truman in 1945 about a new weapon the United States had created, I began the nuclear weapons program in Russia. Although I had been receiving information about the atomic bomb since 1941 from Russian intelligence agents. On 26 July 1945, Turman, Clement Attlee, and I warned Japan that they need to surrender or they would suffer absolute destruction. Unfortunately, Japan rejected this offer, known as, the Potsdam Declaration. After the dropping of Hiroshima and Little Boy I made the Soviet Nuclear program the main concern for Russia. I turned the program into a “crash program”. I believed the United States was trying to monopolize on the creation of nuclear weapons so, on the 20th of August in 1945 I signed a decree to set up a Special Committee on the Atomic Bomb. In the year of 1949, the first Russian nuclear weapon was created by Igor Kurchatov and Kapitsa. The first Soviet Union Hydrogen bomb was effectively detonated in 1953. This test was referred to as Joe-4 and following this test, the nuclear program continued to grow. After the Atomic Bomb was dropped it created a race to create nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Files: Library: Biographies: Joseph Stalin, nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/biographies/bio_stalin-joseph.html.
“Soviet Atomic Program – 1946.” Atomic Heritage Foundation, 5 June 2014, www.atomicheritage.org/history/soviet-atomic-program-1946.
“Soviet Hydrogen Bomb Program.” Atomic Heritage Foundation, 8 Aug. 2014, www.atomicheritage.org/history/soviet-hydrogen-bomb-program.