Crisis of Authority: Relations with Superpowers
of the Soviet Union to establish trade relationships with the USSR, treating it as a "normal state in the international system." The prevailing idea in
Subject: economic vulnerability of Soviet Union
Transcript: nixon were lionized as geniuses of foreign policy was Because they were able to carry out what seemed To be diplomatic revolutions with the soviet union
Taking the Offensive: Seeds of U. S.-Russian Conflict Visible at War's End, The
to occupy North Korea, setting the stage for growing antagonism between the world's two strongest nations, the United States and the Soviet Union.
Subject: growing antagonism between Soviet Union and U.S.
Transcript: the soviet union, Which had been at war with japan for less than a week, Was given an honored place at the surrender table. On the deck of the huge
Between the Wars: Impact of the Depression on International Relations
Soviet Union.
Subject: Soviet Union
Transcript: s than the democracies Was the soviet union, Where everyone was promised Some kind of a job. Now this job might be, in effect, slavery. But for people
America in a World At War: Holding off the Germans
The United States enters WWII in Europe through North Africa, delaying an earlier plan to enter through France. This discourages the Soviet Union as
Subject: Soviet Union
Transcript: campaign delay the planned cross-channel invasion of france, and provoke angry complaints from the soviet union. [ kathryn olmsted ] both countries had been
Between the Wars: Germany Advances in Europe
become involved with the allied war effort. American ships begin to protect convoys crossing Atlantic. In the summer of 1941, Germany invades the Soviet
Subject: Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union
Transcript: the allied powers, All of this without a declaration of war. [ narrator ] in the summer of 1941, germany invades the soviet union, shattering the nazi
Communism: the fall of the Romanovs and the Berlin Wall
these two historic watersheds: indelible emblems of the birth pains and death throes of the Soviet Union. The story begins at Ipatiev House, where a
Subject: Soviet Union--History
Transcript: COMMUNISM AND THE SOVIET UNION. SEVENTY-TWO YEARS AFTER THEIR BRUTAL MURDER, THE ROMANOVS WILL BE RE-BURIED IN ST. PETERSBURG. THE TSAR HAD COME HOME. IT
Oil Grab in Azerbaijan
After the Soviet Union's collapse hundreds of western oil companies and entrepreneurs flocked to Azerbaijan for a chance to gain control of vast
Economists Question the Soviet System
By the 1980s, some in the Soviet Union were privately critical of the economic system. Young economists held secret seminars to discuss free market
Taking the Offensive: Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The
. Harvard historian Akira Iriye talks about the shock of the bombing, the Soviet Union's entry into the war, and the fact that Japan lost the war the people
Subject: Soviet Union's entry into war against Japan
Right Turn: Reagan on the World Stage
Historian Allan Winkler calls Ronald Reagan a "classic cold-war warrior." As tensions escalate, $1.5 trillion is spent for nuclear and conventional weapons that will protect the U.S. and maintain its military superiority. Reagan wins decisive victor...
Subject: division of Soviet Union into autonomous republics
Transcript: conventional weaponry To protect the united states militarily from the soviet union And any other threats that occurred. Some people in the soviet union had come