Answer the following 2 questions
1.What were the major challenges facing the newly emerging nations in the postwar period? How did different nations respond to those challenges?
2.Why did the communist regimes collapse in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, but not in China?
Respond to the following 2 posts from your classmates
1.The Soviet Union regimes focused on the political democracy which caused them to fail and decolonized. China created a new socialist economic order. They identify problems within their system such as drugs and prostitution. Mao had ordinary people to voice and judge the party officials. China did not focus on the political but let the party to continue to tell ordinary people what to do. The Soviet Union failed to adapt and adjust to the times unlike China. China adapted with the changes.
2.The Soviet Union and the United States were allied in their struggle against Hitler’s Germany, Americans distrusted Josef Stalin’s Communist government and abhorred his takeover of Eastern European countries immediately after the war. More Soviet citizens were killed in World War II than any other nation, and Josef Stalin was determined to receive compensation for damages and guarantees that such a slaughter could never again plague the Soviet people. For its part, the United States was unwilling to sit idle while another form of totalitarianism spread westward from Moscow. Although the Soviet Union and the United States were allied in their struggle against Hitler’s Germany, Americans distrusted Josef Stalin’s Communist government and abhorred his takeover of Eastern European countries immediately after the war. More Soviet citizens were killed in World War II than any other nation, and Josef Stalin was determined to receive compensation for damages and guarantees that such a slaughter could never again plague the Soviet people. For its part, the United States was unwilling to sit idle while another form of totalitarianism spread westward from Moscow. One war immediately begat another — the COLD WAR.No theater of the globe was free from Cold War struggle. From Eastern Europe to China and Korea, the Truman Administration was beset with the challenge of halting the advance of communism.
