Three great accomplishments done by the Soviets that should be remembered and out into Soviet textbooks are their space races, military strength, and the Great Terror. The Soviet Union was the first country to ever send space satellites. At the time not even the United States had made any discoveries involved with space. Next to the space race discoveries, the Soviets also had extremely well military strength. They did spend more than the U.S but the advancement in their military strength was greatly larger. Both accomplishments were amazing but another life changing event that should be placed into Soviet textbooks is the Great Terror. The great terror was a tragic time for the Soviets and for it to be remembered by their future generation …show more content…
Not only did the Soviets send the first space satellite up, but they also sent the first dog, woman, and man, also according to document F. During that time, there is great doubt that the U.S would even allow a woman to be involved in new space discoveries. The first woman ever in the world to go into space and that was given the privilege by the Soviets is Valetina Tereshkova on June 17th, 1963. Before Valetina was made into an astronaut, Yuri Gagarin was sent up on April 12th,1961. Even before sending a man, Russian astronomers decided to send a dog up! The dog’s name was Laia, and he went up into space on November 3rd, 1957. This is a time when not even America was up in space and the Soviets were discovering new things. The Soviet space race should be put into their textbooks to inspire the future generations or even the present generations to represent their country and make new discoveries every …show more content…
The Great Terror was a horrific time for the Soviet’s people. They suffered so much and everyone, not just the Soviet students, should remember this. During the late 1930’s, Joseph Stalin basically went mad and was out of control. His actions took forms of mass arrests, forced labor, show trials, and executions. According to document C, during 1937 to 1938, the NKVD detained 1,548,366 victims and 681,692 of those were killed by a shot. Also from document C, on an average at least one thousand executions took place. The people of the Soviet Union suffered greatly and all generations should take note of this so that it could never occur
The French Revolution spanned ten years and was a period of great change within France. The official beginning of the French Revolution was in May-August of 1789 when common citizens, upset with how the upper class was treated them, forced King Louis XVI (the king of France at the time) to sign the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen (the DoRoMaC). The DoRoMaC was a document that described exactly what rights the citizens wanted, such as freedom of speech and religion and innocence until proven guilty. Over the next four years, commoners lobbied for a democracy and, when King Louis XVI was executed in early 1793, a new governing body was formed called Committee of Public Safety., which was designed to subdue counterrevolutionaries. A man named Maximilien Robespierre was part of the Committee, and on September 5, 1793, he decided that the best way to keep France under control was fear. That day marks the start of the Reign of Terror.
Stalin’s initial political purge occurred on December 1st 1934, when Sergey Kirov, secretary of the Leningrad Soviet, was assassinated by Leonid Nikolayev. Some soviets believed that Stalin ordered the assassination of Kirov; however Stalin used this event as an opportunity to arrest thousands of his opponents, whom he alleged may have been responsible for the murder. The NKVD were ordered to initiate the investigations of suspects in order to arrest them, send them to concentration camps and carry out death sentences and by the end of December 1934, numerous of Kirov’s followers in Leningrad, as well as the assassin Nikolaev, were all shot on the same night, December 29th. As a consequence, this impacted the public as society became terrified of saying the wrong thing and feared being prosecuted and executed.
The three words of the french Revolution were liberty, equality, and fraternity. was the Reign of Terror Justified? The Reign of Terror was not justified because of human rights, internal threats, and external threats.
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The Reign of Terror was a time in France when King Louis had share his power and French people started to lead a revolution against him. The french people had enough so they decided that it was finally time to lead a revolution. Although thousands of people died in the Reign of Terror, it was justified because they got rid of their leaders, and France became a stronger country.
In France of 1793 revolutionaries were determined to craft a new government off of the freedom of their people. This then became a revolution to build a new government. Disastrously, difficulties arose along with violence due to the process of making a new government. Meanwhile the difficulties and violence, people's individual rights then began to be ignored by the revolutionaries. On September 5th of 1793 the "Reign of Terror" was declared in France by Maximilien Robespierre. The Reign of Terror was an unjustified period of time during the crafting of the new government when radical and extreme measures to achieve goals were used by the Committee of Public Safety. The Reign of Terror was not justified for a great amount of reasons: it went against the Revolution and it's main idea to craft its new government, its procedures were radical and extreme, and the external threat was not required .
The French Revolution began in 1789 as an attempt to form a new government in France.For quite a long time outright ruler had ruled the French country with little thought for most of the people.The execution of Louis XVI offered path to a year-long stretch of the French Revolution known as "The Reign of Terror". Should people be oppressed for his or her convictions? The Reign of Terror kept going under two years, from the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793 to past due July 1794. Amid those eighteen months, in excess of 20,000 French individuals have been executed with the aid of guillotine. Guillotines have been tremendous falling slicing edges that were utilized by political enthusiasts known as radicals to execute traditionalists, who had been people that needed to hold the old methods. It isn't always proper for people to be abused for his or her convictions. The Reign of Terror in France became not supported. This claim can be reinforced by way of taking a gander at 3 zones: outer chance, the inner chance, and the techniques.
After the European discovery of the New World, there arose a series of conflicts as foreign powers tried to solidify ownership of the new land. France, once holding a profitable portion of North America, was displaced after the Seven Years’ War, draining its money even further by aiding the colonies during the American Revolution. What was left was a country characterized by unrest, economic duress, and enlivened revolutionary spirit. King Louis XVI watched his Estates General reject his authority and create a new Constitution, storming the Bastille and setting the precedent for violent uptake. However, the ensuing Reign of Terror is largely accredited to Maximilien Robespierre, where prominence of public killing by guillotine created
The Reign of Terror was the culmination of foreign enemies, a superfluous amount amount executions, and distrust amongst the citizens of France. The Austrian-Prussian war that plagued France in 1792 was a natural response to the rising threat of the French Revolution, which was followed by the growing support of the death penalty via guillotine; behind these conflicts, the revolutionary government of France followed their agenda of purging the revolution of any individuals who disagreed with or criticized their ideals. Others may view the French Revolution as more successful than the American Revolution, but fail to realize that France’s monarchy only evolved from a “divine right” to a “constitutional right”, as seen from Napoleon’s reign and
The reign of terror was the second phase of the French revolution that was responsible for approximately 40,000 deaths. It was a very controversial part of the French revolution; Many people had died even if some of them supported the revolution. Fear was a main factor in the formation of the revolution because people thought fear was the only way for France to change. The reign of terror was justified because it was necessary, group needs are more important than individual needs, and because it was successful.
On September 11th, 2001, 2,977 Americans lost their lives on what they thought was just another workday. These actions against the United States catapulted our Armed Forces into a full on War on Terror spread out over different countries. Since that fateful morning in September, over 6,000 Americans have lost their lives fighting in multiple theaters in support of the War on Terror. Many people have been personally hit by tragedy resulting from the War on Terror. People have lost their sons, their daughters, friends, and parents as the war creeps on. The United States needs to rescind its involvement in the War on Terror, which has claimed the lives of thousands of Americans, all while draining the American economy.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the Terror as an instrument of the French Revolution.
During the rule of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1989, many great and many terrible events occurred that are important and vital to our knowledge of history. The purpose of learning history is so that we as people are well-educated on different governments and ideologies and so that we, in this day and age, can do our very best to not repeat past mistakes. The USSR, while they developed culturally as a country, destroyed millions of lives all across Western Europe with their communist approach to rule and their blinded goal of total power. The history books today give a good insight into how terrible the Soviet Union really was, but these textbooks are written as objectively as possible. The future history textbooks should shed a negative light on all of the wrongdoings of the Soviet Union so that students understand that what happened this century was horrific and should never occur again.
The goal of the War on Terror defined by President Bush is “Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated”. The problem with this goal is that it is unrealistic and that the definition of a terrorist varies with in countries. For example those who are labeled freedom fighters in one nation can be considered terrorists in another. People argue that there is no real enemy and that those who do a terrorist act should be handled through the Judicial System and not by the military. An example of this is the Boston bombings. Another problem with the War on Terror is that it has added about $1.7 trillion to $18 trillion onto the United States debt. It has also taken jobs away from the American people due to the fact that for every $1 billion given as a tax cut supplies a demand to create 10,779 jobs when $1 billion spent on defense creates 8,555 jobs. Meaning that for every billion we spend of defense takes away 2,224 jobs. Another thing is that due to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan people argue that President’s Bush’s true goal was to “strengthen the U.S. grip on the Middle East, turn Iraq into a military and political platform for further aggression, gain tighter control of international energy supplies, control and reshape the entire arc from North Africa to Central Asia, and strengthen the U.S. hand against rivals—current and
After years of progress, Sergei Korolev officially became known as “Father of the Soviet Union’s Success in Space.”