The Korean Armistice of 1953 and its Consequences Part II
... to war. But it was also an international war for the eastern bloc. Again, this was obviously true for Stalin, trying to carve out spheres of influence as the still malleable reordering of the world in the early Cold War began to harden and set. But it was also true for the other emergent power in th ...
... to war. But it was also an international war for the eastern bloc. Again, this was obviously true for Stalin, trying to carve out spheres of influence as the still malleable reordering of the world in the early Cold War began to harden and set. But it was also true for the other emergent power in th ...
APEC: The sordid saga of East Asian nations
... The rise and growth of APEC Twenty years ago, on the sidelines of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, leaders from 12 countries silently huddled up in Canberra, Australia, and resolved to bond into a common economic entity. Bob Hawke, the then Australian prime minister convened the meeting and stood u ...
... The rise and growth of APEC Twenty years ago, on the sidelines of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, leaders from 12 countries silently huddled up in Canberra, Australia, and resolved to bond into a common economic entity. Bob Hawke, the then Australian prime minister convened the meeting and stood u ...
To what extent was the US responsible for the outbreak of the Cold
... Promises broken by Stalin; Poland issues divides the USSR/US *Free elections and inclusion of the London Poles in the Lublin Committee were interpreted differently. Stalin signed a Declaration of Liberated Europe pledging free elections and democratic institutions (statement of intent, it was not le ...
... Promises broken by Stalin; Poland issues divides the USSR/US *Free elections and inclusion of the London Poles in the Lublin Committee were interpreted differently. Stalin signed a Declaration of Liberated Europe pledging free elections and democratic institutions (statement of intent, it was not le ...
World History Unit 9
... Importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which established the pattern for America’s postwar policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as Southeast Asia (i.e., the Korean War, V ...
... Importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which established the pattern for America’s postwar policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as Southeast Asia (i.e., the Korean War, V ...
Jimmy Carter - ISN IB History II SL/HL
... conserve energy. Promoted the development of alternative energy sources ...
... conserve energy. Promoted the development of alternative energy sources ...
Core part 2 - The cold war 1945-1975
... OCR recognises that the teaching of this qualification will vary greatly from school to school and from teacher to teacher. With that in mind, this lesson plan is offered as a possible approach but will be subject to modification by the individual teacher. Lesson length is assumed to be one hour. ...
... OCR recognises that the teaching of this qualification will vary greatly from school to school and from teacher to teacher. With that in mind, this lesson plan is offered as a possible approach but will be subject to modification by the individual teacher. Lesson length is assumed to be one hour. ...
John Gearson and Kori Schake, eds. The Berlin Wall Crisis
... halt what they believed was the country’s growing isolation from other western states. Until the Berlin Wall was built, East Germany could not stop the mass emigration that advertised its authoritarian political structure. France saw an end to its effort to restructure NATO in a manner that would es ...
... halt what they believed was the country’s growing isolation from other western states. Until the Berlin Wall was built, East Germany could not stop the mass emigration that advertised its authoritarian political structure. France saw an end to its effort to restructure NATO in a manner that would es ...
United States
... World War II? Why? 2. Explain ‘de-Stalinization’ and the effect it had on the Cold War. 3. Why didn’t communism develop deep roots among the peoples of ...
... World War II? Why? 2. Explain ‘de-Stalinization’ and the effect it had on the Cold War. 3. Why didn’t communism develop deep roots among the peoples of ...
chapter15ap
... that it consider Iraq and Saddam Hussein to be part of an “axis of evil” that threatened world peace. In 2002 and early 2003, President George W. Bush called for a “regime change” in Iraq, but Bush was unable to convince the United Nations that military force was necessary in Iraq. Nonetheless, in M ...
... that it consider Iraq and Saddam Hussein to be part of an “axis of evil” that threatened world peace. In 2002 and early 2003, President George W. Bush called for a “regime change” in Iraq, but Bush was unable to convince the United Nations that military force was necessary in Iraq. Nonetheless, in M ...
Analysis by the Department of State of the Soviet Note on
... charges that the Western powers had violated treaties, the U.S. State Department issued a detailed memorandum in January 1959. The memo offered up a harsh critique of Soviet policy on Germany since the 1920s. The Americans began by noting that the Soviet Union had once enjoyed close economic and pol ...
... charges that the Western powers had violated treaties, the U.S. State Department issued a detailed memorandum in January 1959. The memo offered up a harsh critique of Soviet policy on Germany since the 1920s. The Americans began by noting that the Soviet Union had once enjoyed close economic and pol ...
Word
... I would like to share my thought on these questions with you. We all know that regional economic cooperation is a recent phenomenon in East Asia. In fact, up to the present ASEAN is the only real form of economic cooperation in East Asia. After the second world war in 1945, China soon adopted social ...
... I would like to share my thought on these questions with you. We all know that regional economic cooperation is a recent phenomenon in East Asia. In fact, up to the present ASEAN is the only real form of economic cooperation in East Asia. After the second world war in 1945, China soon adopted social ...
Foreign and Defense Policymaking
... for the United States to isolate the Soviet Union, contain its advances, and resist its encroachments by peace or force • McCarthyism: the fear, prevalent in the 1950s, that international communism was conspiratorial, insidious, bent on world domination, and infiltrating American government and cult ...
... for the United States to isolate the Soviet Union, contain its advances, and resist its encroachments by peace or force • McCarthyism: the fear, prevalent in the 1950s, that international communism was conspiratorial, insidious, bent on world domination, and infiltrating American government and cult ...
blitzkrieg
... by Britain and the United States as they sought empires that they regarded as essential for their national greatness and economic well-being. ...
... by Britain and the United States as they sought empires that they regarded as essential for their national greatness and economic well-being. ...
History IEB 2013
... Revolution against the aggressive capitalist powers in the West. In the Official History of the USSR (1959), B Ponomaryov described the Truman Doctrine as a smokescreen* for US expansion and Marshall Aid as a tool of US power and influence. It was not until Gorbachev's refusal to support unpopular c ...
... Revolution against the aggressive capitalist powers in the West. In the Official History of the USSR (1959), B Ponomaryov described the Truman Doctrine as a smokescreen* for US expansion and Marshall Aid as a tool of US power and influence. It was not until Gorbachev's refusal to support unpopular c ...
Alliances in Theory and Practice
... alliances, were “compelled to seek permanent alliances with each other and with other nations” because of the “new balance of power emerging from World War II” (p. 185). If so, how do alliances function? Alliances are a “function of the balance of power operating within a multiple state system” (p. ...
... alliances, were “compelled to seek permanent alliances with each other and with other nations” because of the “new balance of power emerging from World War II” (p. 185). If so, how do alliances function? Alliances are a “function of the balance of power operating within a multiple state system” (p. ...
Afghanistan: How We Got There
... ·The emergence of Islamic guerrilla fighters who evolved into Al Qaeda and the Taliban. ·Al Qaeda's terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, which drew the United States into its own wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that continue today. In response to the Soviet invasion three decades ago, President Jimmy C ...
... ·The emergence of Islamic guerrilla fighters who evolved into Al Qaeda and the Taliban. ·Al Qaeda's terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, which drew the United States into its own wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that continue today. In response to the Soviet invasion three decades ago, President Jimmy C ...
Chapter 18 Section 3 - Guthrie Public Schools
... Communists or communist sympathizers and became the subject of aggressive investigations and questioning before government or private-industry panels, committees and agencies. The primary targets of such suspicions were government employees, those in the entertainment industry, educators and union a ...
... Communists or communist sympathizers and became the subject of aggressive investigations and questioning before government or private-industry panels, committees and agencies. The primary targets of such suspicions were government employees, those in the entertainment industry, educators and union a ...
The new US Embassy in Moscow was half done. Then officials
... House Select Committee on Intelligence, in remarks about the embassy in 1990. US officials should have been on alert from the beginning of the embassy’s construction. After all, Soviet agents had been eavesdropping on US diplomats, stealing secret US papers, blackmailing US guards, and generally har ...
... House Select Committee on Intelligence, in remarks about the embassy in 1990. US officials should have been on alert from the beginning of the embassy’s construction. After all, Soviet agents had been eavesdropping on US diplomats, stealing secret US papers, blackmailing US guards, and generally har ...
World history since 1945 - University of London International
... The Soviet imposition of governments in eastern and central Europe, 1947 and 1948.... 73 The death of Stalin and the new regime........................................................................ 74 Problems in East Germany......................................................................... ...
... The Soviet imposition of governments in eastern and central Europe, 1947 and 1948.... 73 The death of Stalin and the new regime........................................................................ 74 Problems in East Germany......................................................................... ...
Ivan Maiskii Soviet Ambassador to London 1932
... • The International Brigades (foreigners who signed up to fight against the fascists) were withdrawn. ...
... • The International Brigades (foreigners who signed up to fight against the fascists) were withdrawn. ...
Spanos Kritik - Open Evidence Archive
... reference to the end of history and the new world order have all but disappeared from both mediatic and theoretical representations of the contemporary occasion. But this modification should be interpreted not as a tacit admission of the illegitimacy of the end-of-history discourse but rather as an ...
... reference to the end of history and the new world order have all but disappeared from both mediatic and theoretical representations of the contemporary occasion. But this modification should be interpreted not as a tacit admission of the illegitimacy of the end-of-history discourse but rather as an ...
Election of 1960 Kennedy Takes Office
... • Kennedy wanted to have a “flexible response” to resist communism. He wanted to rely on conventional weapons, troops and special forces to deal with communism. • Focused on providing aid to poor countries around the world specifically Latin America to prevent them from becoming communist. • Created ...
... • Kennedy wanted to have a “flexible response” to resist communism. He wanted to rely on conventional weapons, troops and special forces to deal with communism. • Focused on providing aid to poor countries around the world specifically Latin America to prevent them from becoming communist. • Created ...
Globalization - White Plains Public Schools
... Czechoslovakia, led by Alexander Dubcek, initiated a sweeping series of reforms aimed at creating “socialism with a human face” ...
... Czechoslovakia, led by Alexander Dubcek, initiated a sweeping series of reforms aimed at creating “socialism with a human face” ...