WORLD HISTORY

Previous
Next

COLD WAR ERA

IMPACT OF COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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: -In the Soviet Union the first Five-Year Plan (1928–32), implemented by Joseph Stalin, concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some accounts of Stalin’s 1953 death claim he angrily murmured about wolves. But Joshua Rubenstein’s new book The Last Days of Stalin mention no audible last words, just gurgling & the malevolent glance.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stalin wanted Eastern Europe under his thumb both as a defense buffer to protect the Soviet motherland and to expand socialism, the communist economic system. He believed that “scientific laws” of history determined that the world would eventually become socialist.

There is 1 question to complete.
Previous
Next