Ch. 21

Today's communism was a product of the teachings of Karl Marx. Back in the earlier twentieth century, European socialist believe that goals could be accomplished with peace and democracy. On the other hand, people who thought that revolution was the only way to a "socialist future" were known as communist. The first country to try this rationalized idea was the Soviet Union. In their time, the Soviet Union was the world's largest country in size. The Soviet's were apart of a lot of controversy during the twentieth century. When the Japanese were defeated in World War 2, all of their Korean colonies fell under the Soviet's communist control. Fidel Castro became a communist and allied Cuba with the Soviets which in turn gave the Soviet's an enormous amount of military support. In an organization called Comintern, the Soviet Union theoretically controlled its policies and actions. The Treaty of Friendship combined Chinese and Soviet Union forces that frighten the West, but the treaty would be tarnished, and China and the Soviet's almost went to war in the 1960s.