Joseph Stalin was a strong, ambitious, brutal, and practical state-man, a man of action and politics. Stalin, born under the name of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, of Georgian and poor origin, was raised as a street boy by a drunken and violent father. He forged a strong character and a corpulent body, without a very persuasive speech, although a very clever mind. He was patient and reflexive, very smart for politics. Stalin wanted very well trained and disciplined revolutionary professionals, a body of bureaucrats for the Soviet Union.
Lev Trotsky was totally the opposite. Born under the name of Lev Davidovich Bronstein, son of wealthy landowner Jewish parents, he developed a distinguished and very well educated character, he was elegant, but also fanatic enough to lead the masses. Unlike Stalin, he was not only a politician but also a Marxist intellectual and was less methodic and patient than Stalin. Trotsky wanted a not very well organized party of masses and the triumph of the permanent revolution. He wanted to export the revolution worldwide and not keep it limited to one country only.
Vladimir Lenin, born under the name of Vladimir Ilich Ulianov, was in the middle between both characters. He was the basis of the Russian Revolution. He had brilliant political intelligence and ambition, and he was a Marxist intellectual as well. After his death in 1924, the movement was divided between Trotsky and Stalin, and finally, the Soviet Union was lead by Stalin who sent Trotsky to exile. Trotsky died in 1949, killed by spies sent by Stalin to Mexico, where Trotsky was exiled.
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Option: Chinese goods became available in Europe.
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Silk Route was an old route for trade that connected China with the Western world (Mediterranean region). This route worked for trading until the 15th century. Some of the goods exported from China were silk, sugar, tea, porcelain, ivory, and silver. Silk considered to be a luxury item with its fine glossy texture worn by the high class of people, including kings, nobles, etc. The increasing demand for goods during the Renaissance period led to the introduction of the magnetic compass and gun powder in Europe.
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“Money and possessions are the second most referenced topic in the Bible – money is mentioned more than 800 times – and the message is clear: Nowhere in Scripture is debt viewed in a positive way.”
The correct answer is C) He said the USSR would not give in because the US was being unfair.
Khrushchev responded to President Kennedy's demands saying that the USSR would not give in because the US was being unfair.
We are talking about the tense moments between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missiles Crisis of October 1962. Indeed, Khrushchev sent a strong letter to Kennedy on October 24, 1962, stating that <em>"What would it mean to agree to these demands? It would mean guiding oneself in one’s relations with other countries not by reason, but by submitting to arbitrariness. You are no longer appealing to reason, but wish to intimidate us."</em>
Those were the difficult years of the Cold War in which the United States and the Soviet Union fought in the arms race and later on the space race. There were many moments were tensions were so high that the world was on the brink of another war.
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In September 1692 The Salem witch trials began after some girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, said that they were possessed by the devil and blamed three women for having afflicted them a slave a beggar and an old impoverished woman. The first woman was hanged and eighteen others followed. The hysteria had extended and the public turned against the trials.
