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The Great Terror Dbq Essay

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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

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