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        During an approximate period of forty-two years, the hideous face of communism lay hidden in the shadows behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe. It all started in the early 1930's, when Adolph Hitler seized control of the economically and sociologically bankrupt Republic of Germany, that tried to pull itself out of the whirlwind in which the devastating defeat of World War I left it, not twenty years before. Hitler promising glory and revenge to …

…ambitions of the Soviet Union. Sulzberger, C. L. Such a Peace. New York: Continuum, 1982. This source provides good insight on the agreements made by the allies as to the outcome of the war. Theohanis, Athan G. The Yalta Myths. Grandview: Columbia University of Missouri Press, 1970. This source offers excellent insight into the politics in the United States, surrounding the time of the Yalta conference and what president Roosevelt was trying to achieve at the conference.