Journal 5/4/18

Compare and contrast Lenin

and Stalin

Table of Contents: Unit 7 Communism

1. Title Page (extra

credit for decorating)

2. Table of Contents

3. Prelude to the

Russian Revolution

4. 14.1 Assessment

pg 439 #1 – 8

5. Russian Revolution

– Primary Documents

6. The Russian

Revolution

7. 14.2 Assessment

pg 445 #1 – 8

8. Stalin: Man of Steel

9. Roots of the Cold

War

10. 17.1 Assessment

pg 536 #1 - 8

The Cold War

An era of political tension

in which the U.S. and

U.S.S.R competed for

world influence without

actual armed conflict.

(1945-1989)

The alliance which won WWII

was a shaky one at best

Many of the nations had a long history of

conflict but were brought together by a

common enemy in the Axis powers

After WWII there were two

remaining superpowers:

The U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. found

themselves in conflict for

a variety of reasons

Remember

how you tried

to stop the

Russian

Revolution in

1917?

That wasn’t

nice!

Remember

how you

didn’t

recognize our

government

until 1933?

That wasn’t

nice!

Remember

how it took

you three

years to

actually

attack

Germany!

Remember

how you

didn’t tell me

all your

military

information

during the

war?!

Two Words:

Atomic

Bomb!

U.S.S.R Distrust

• U.S. fought against the communists in the

Russian Revolution (1918 Reds v White)

• U.S. waited until 1933 to recognize the

government of the Soviet Union

• U.S. didn’t support U.S.S.R. in WWII

• U.S. withheld military information from the

U.S.S.R. in WWII (specifically the atomic

bomb)

What

about

all this

stuff?

Anti-

American

Propaganda

you released

during WWII!

That wasn’t

nice!

Remember

how you

didn’t tell us

all your

military

information

during WWII?

Your system

of

government

teaches

constant

revolution!

That is scary!

During WWI

you signed a

separate

(early) peace

with

Germany…

that hurt our

feelings

Before WWII

you signed a

non-

aggression

pact with

Hitler!

You’ve killed

millions of

your own

people in the

Gulags!

What might

you do to us?

U.S.A. Distrust

• U.S.S.R released Anti-American

propaganda

• U.S.S.R. withheld military information

• Communism teaches constant revolution

• Stalin teamed up with Hitler during WWII

• Stalin has murdered millions of his own

citizens in the gulags

Our country

has been

destroyed by

war!

We really

need to

protect our

country from

Germany and

other non-

communist

nations!

Our economy

is in

shambles…

Hitler

destroyed our

country!

We need to

have a

cluster of

Communist

buffer nations

in the West.

U.S.S.R. View of the World

• We have suffered more than any other

country in this war

• We need to protect our country from other

non-communist nations

• Our economy is in shambles

• We need communist buffer nations in the

west

We

dominated in

WWII! We

are way

stronger than

anyone else!

But we are a

little afraid of

you…we

need to

rearm and

rebuild

Europe just in

case…

Looks like the

depression is

over! We now

control 50%

of the world’s

wealth!

Communism

is different

and therefore

scary…we

need to

contain its

spread!

We need to

build a world

full of

democracies

which talk out

their

problems!

Everyone

should be just

like us… We

know what’s

best for

everyone

U.S.A. View of the World

• We are stronger than everyone else

• We have proven that our system of

government is superior

• We are afraid of communism

• We need to rearm and rebuild Europe to

prevent the spread of communism

• More countries should model themselves

after us

The Big Three (Churchill, Stalin, FDR)

had tried to come up with a course of

action to resolve these issues at the

Yalta Conference (Feb 1945)

- The U.S.S.R. would get territory in Asia

- The U.S.S.R. would support the United Nations

In Eastern

Europe the

Soviet Union

began

installing

communist

governments

At Potsdam, with Truman as

president, the decision was made to

divide Germany (July-Aug 1945)

Four

Sectors

The West adopted

a policy of

containment to

control the spread

of Communism

As Stalin continued his expansion, Churchill

famously said “an iron curtain has descended

across the continent” as he encouraged all

English speaking nations to bond together

and fight communism