Stalin wanted Russia to rule the world and-like the Terminator-there was no way he was ever going to stop unless someone stopped him. It wasnt just America-the whole free Western world was aware of the threat. And what would life have been like in a world dominated by Stalin? The Communists murdered and imprisoned their own people by the million. They oppressed Muslims and Christians alike. They sent in the tanks to any Iron Curtain country which looked like it wanted to be free. Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire; and he was right. Stalin caused the Cold War; the West was just defending itself.

THE COLD WAR

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Stalin wanted Russia to rule the world and-like the Terminator-there was no way he was ever going to stop unless someone stopped him. It wasn’t just America-the whole free Western world was aware of the threat. And what would life have been like in a world dominated by Stalin? The Communists murdered and imprisoned their own people by the million. They oppressed Muslims and Christians alike. They sent in the tanks to any Iron Curtain country which looked like it wanted to be free. Reagan called the Soviet Union ‘the evil empire’; and he was right. Stalin caused the Cold War; the West was just defending itself.

A	Traditional/Orthodox
B	Revisionist
C	Post-Revisionist
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Ideologically adhering to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, he formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are called Stalinism.

Detailed explanation-2: -His aim was to expand Soviet territory into eastern Europe, to create a buffer to protect Russia from the Western powers. At Yalta and Potsdam, Stalin gave assurances to Allied leaders that he had no intention of keeping, such as promising free elections in Poland and other Soviet-occupied countries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Collectivization and Industrialization. In November 1927, Joseph Stalin launched his “revolution from above” by setting two extraordinary goals for Soviet domestic policy: rapid industrialization and collectivization of agriculture.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 2 sides were enemies long before they were allies in WWII. Relations had been bad since 1917 as Russia had become communist and the West had interfered to try and stop it. Russia had also not been allowed to join the League of Nations in the 1920s and things had got worse in the 1930s.

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USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

THE COLD WAR