...America and the World University of Phoenix There were a many causes of the Cold War and the United States feared the rise and spread of communism throughout the world. The Soviet Union’s Government, along with many communist governments, did not want the people of their country to have a voice and think for themselves. They were not allowed the the luxury of being able to vote and electing who they wanted as their leader. The United States had a completely opposite approach and did not want governments that were in opposition to democracy and freedom of choice. People in the Soviet Union did not have freedom of speech and the press was not allowed to print anything freely without severe repercussions whereas the United States does have a free press. The immediate causes leading to the cold war was conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States at the peace-time conferences. The conflict was intensified after President Truman declared the Truman Doctrine and launched the Marshall Plan.” President Franklin Roosevelt believed the Soviet Union was going to start setting up a freely-elected parliamentary government, but he died before that ever happened. President Harry Truman became President and did not believe that the Soviet Union would honor the agreement and set up elections up in Eastern Europe. The United States exploded the Atomic bomb successfully and Truman also figured the United States could have a stiff attitude towards Russian expansion into...
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...10:00-11:15 Montclair State University 2/21/14 Why do people go to war? Because they disagree over a certain issue? Because one party feels that they are superior and that anyone else is weak and inferior? The United States in recent years have been involved in wars that were not necessarily theirs to fight. Vietnam was considered one of the biggest wastes of time, money, and soldiers, as well as the Korean Conflict right before that. In order to go to war, one must think to themselves, “how will this be beneficial to me and the country I represent?” There must be a good reason for men to die on the battlefield in order to obtain an end goal. For Woodrow Wilson, he saw World War I as an opportunity to help the peoples of the world. A victory for the United States “would lead to a new world based on ‘peace and justice’ among the ‘free and self-governing peoples of the world.’” To Wilson, this seemed like a good idea to move on from neutrality to warfare so the world would be better off at the end, but it only proved to be a waste of time for the United States. World War I was not a necessary war for the United States to enter. World War I began over in Europe in 1914. At the time, Woodrow Wilson was already in office for two years, and declared that the United States was in neutrality and therefore would not be entering the war. It was not until 1917 when the Germans targeted and attacked American ships carrying goods being sent to Europe that Wilson entered the war. Although he kept...
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...accomplishments were more detrimental than instrumental. The United States achieved four main objectives which lead directly to the entering of World War I. One of those four is Nationalism. Nationalism played an important role in the outbreak of World War I. The only way to prove and show your loyalty towards ones country they would support them in every decision made by that certain country. During this time the only to demonstrate true nationalism, war was the only option. The thought of a whole nation fighting...
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...century were incredibly powerful, and they undoubtedly changed the world forever. However, I believe that the effects that developing and differing ideologies have on the world are permanent and are more significant in the way they affect the world. Ideologies are sets of political beliefs that people hold. Before the enlightenment, ideologies formed naturally, but since then, people have studied them and developed them as well. People hold their ideologies dearly, and when they encounter others with different ideologies, conflict will often occur. There’s no doubt that technology is incredibly important and impactful, especially in the twentieth century. The changes that technology brought to the world caused two of the biggest wars to be multitudes more dangerous than they would have been one hundred years prior. The impact of technology on the death toll in war can be seen in the development of military tactics like trench warfare in World War I. Technology lead to the introduction of tanks, chemical warfare, flamethrowers, and other weapons that were much stronger than anything previous. After World War I, the invention of submarines, better airplanes, more dangerous guns, and the atomic...
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...The Lusitania Goes Under What happened to the Lusitania on it's last journey across the Atlantic Ocean? Why did the ship get torpedoed? Was it against laws set forth by many of the countries of the early 1900s? These are many of the questions often asked when World War I is being discussed in many history classes. With the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the countries of Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Britain, and Serbia initially felt the tensions increasing either through the arms race or the forming of various alliances and treaties. On, 28 July 1914, the war was official and new types of warfare had been implemented in ways never before used. The early machine guns were now employed to keep enemies in their trenches, airplanes were soaring in the skies, tanks were rolling over trenches, and the most devastating of all, the submarine was now an effective and efficient killing machine. The submarine could stalk enemy ships and attack them without any warning or retribution. The earliest submarine, the Turtle, was used in the American Revolutionary War, but it had little success. (American 1) Now, the submarines used in World War I were redesigned and fitted with better weaponry for fighting a war of stealth and destruction. Submarines had many famous or infamous attacks on naval vessels depending on which side of the history books the country was on. (Germans 1) The one attack that changed World War I was submarine attack on the Lusitania...
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...World War II Events Do you know about WWII? What events do you know of? I will tell you the most important and war changing. There are many events that happened that you should know about. I Will talk and tell all about them. The most horrific events are the War, Holocaust,and the cruel Final Solution. The war was horrible. These are the World War II Events. The people of the War are important and a big part of what happened in WWII. Adolf Hitler was the leader of Germany when World War Two was just beginning. He was an excellent war tactic officer at the beginning of the WWII. He later lost most battles and ended up committing suicide. Adolf Hitler let him army kill 2 million Jews by the end of WWII. During WWII, Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president of the United states of America when Pearl Harbor was bombed, in 1941. He died in April, of 1945. After his death Harry Truman took over office. Next, a very important event ,the Holocaust. It started in 1933. This was a time where Jews were targeted...
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...Rashad AbdulAzeem Research Paper ENG 101 6383 The Costs of War The history of war in America is rich and often causes more harm than seen at first glance. The effect is greater, in its reason, costs in death, and costs economically. In this paper I will examine the causes of and effects of war. I will try and expand on the question of whether it is needed in such a time man is grossly more able to avoid it. I will try and examine who profits from it and who does not, and then find a reasonable alternative to a seemingly repetitive process. A basic look at the history of war from the beginning of man brings much to light. Wars have always had a history of rewarding the soldier directly. There was war and there was the booty of war. The soldier had always directly benefited, today however is different the soldiers do not obtain wealth from war, the majority of the profits lie in the hands of a few who will more than likely never experience the journey that follows. In many ways the spending that went into the Civil War helped to spawn the modern corporation. This was something troubled President Abraham Lincoln near the end of the Civil War. In 1864 he wrote a letter to Col. William F. Elkins, “We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood. . . . It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves...
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...information that the Soviet Union was depositing nuclear weapons in Cuba to which John F. Kennedy tries to set up a plan to prevent this. John F. Kennedy was reluctant to invade Cuba in fears that the Soviet Union would invade Berlin to counter U.S. acts of aggression. This could potentially lead to another world war which the John F. Kennedy does not want. The U.S. instead announces that they...
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...Van Gogh, however the city’s history was not as beautiful as its exterior beauty. The Anne Frank house is one of the most famous landmarks in Amsterdam. And rightfully so. Anne is most famous for keeping a diary throughout the Holocaust, and hence became a symbol for the mass murder of Jews during the Second World War. Originally from Germany, Anne and her family fled to the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and his National-Socialist party came to power in 1933. This house is where they hid when the Nazi’s came to the Netherlands and anti-jewish measures were introduced. The Anne Frank House tells the story of Anne and her families lives and the ultimate destruction caused by Hitler and his extreme right-wing ideas. Upon exiting the museum, I passed the visitors book, where I wrote five words: “Donald Trump should come here.” The Oxford Dictionary defines the word 'trump' as an admirable or helpful person. Does that sound like a suitable word to be associated with such a right-wing extremist? Someone who uses racism to rise to power? Someone who proposes mass-deportation in order to make America great again? Someone who blames a specific group of people for all of his countries problems? Someone who has had no leadership or civics experience at all and is now running for President of the United States - one of the most influential positions of leadership in the world? No. I think a more suitable title for a man such as Donald Trump, should be Mein Trumpf. It is...
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...Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan The Invasion of Afghanistan marked the beginning one of the darkest decades in Soviet political action. One of the most decisive event in the latter half of the Cold War, it raised tensions once again and put the two superpowers butting heads once again. A 10 year war that pitted the Soviets against the Mujahedeen backed by many western and fellow Arab nations. Countries had different reasons to support the fight against the Soviets such as the Americans who saw it as another Cold War struggle, to Egypt and other fellow Muslim nations it was to assist a fellow Muslim population fight back against the atheist invaders. This invasion of Afghanistan was met with a worldwide outcry for the USSR to immediately pull out and stop the fighting. The Soviet equivalent of Vietnam, this was a conflict that they realized was unwinnable far too late into the endeavor. This event brought the world to the end of Détente and created high tensions through much of the 1980’s. When the Soviet paratroopers landed over Kabul on Christmas of 1979 the time for current Prime Minister Hazifullah Amin was quickly running out. He was a very unpopular leader with many ideals that did line up with Moscow, however they decided that his time leading the nation was up. On December 27th Soviet troops stormed his palace and murdered him with most of his family. He was almost immediately replaced by Babrak Kamal, a politician who depended very heavily on the Soviet forces to stay...
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...the course of World War I and World War II, The Vietnam War, The Korean War, and policies brought fourth during The Wars’ on Terrorism (Iraq and Afghanistan) we will illustrate the setbacks and failures of each while drawing significant relations between all. Before discussion the different American Foreign Policies we must understand what a Foreign Policy is and how it may affect us. By definition “foreign policy- a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.” (foreign policy, n.d.). The intentions of the American Foreign Policies are put in place to protect not only American business world but the globalization of the free market, although at time the American Policies are called into question with tremendous criticism, they are intended to protect the American people from the capable harm of other nations. “Global public opinion is not a new concern for U.S. foreign policy. Woodrow Wilson often referred to it, even stating that it "ultimately governs the world" (cited in Ninkovich 1999, 67).” (Goldsmith, B.E, Horiuchi, Y., Inoguchi, T., Jun., 2005) By assuming this role of the protector of all, the American Government felt they must adopt the “intervention role” thus policing the world. America had engrossed itself in the world’s problems while trying to force its political ideology throughout the different nations all the while trying to maintain a neutral stance. However while the United States maintained an...
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...has been able to establish a name for them in the global market. The way the world see Israel in the media is not the culture in which they live. This image that the media has placed on Israel put them at a disadvantage in gaining the attention of multinational corporations to do business in Israel. Though out the course of this paper we will explore the history, culture, geography, social, political, and economics aspects of the country. The growth and strides that Israel has made within the last 62 years of the formal existence proves that they are a contender to be a power player in the world. History The government recognition of Israel date back to the year 1948, but Israel through the Jewish faith existed long before this date. Many would say that Israel was their land through the biblical teaching according to the Torah. The Torah states that “ The Lord appeared to Abraham and said, To your offspring I will give this land. So he built an alter there to the Lord, who had appeared to him”. (Torah Genesis 12:7) The land in which Israel reside currently was occupied by the Palestine’s. This was the origin of many of the wars that take place in Israel past as well as their current battles. The land of Israel and Jerusalem was always populating with members of the Jewish faith, but was never under their rule. Fast-forwarding in history in 1901 Theodor Herzl envisioned the state of the Jewish followers to all populate in the land in which the Torah stated...
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...distinguished state and National citizenship. The “U.S vs. Cruikshank” ruling gave states more power to impose discrimination in the state and legislate Discriminatory Laws within the states. 2.) African Americans demonstrated their citizenships by participating in elections, educate themselves and become a teacher or open a school like disabled ex slave Elias did and own lands and work independently on their own, worship in their own churches, 3) Since the beginning of colonization of the first colonies in North America, Native Americans have been subjected to colonial rule and forced from their lands. Towards the end of the nineteenth century Native American tribes began to resist such rule and push back. One example of this is in 1877 when the Nez Percé people fought back against the United States when the government dictated a treaty severely reducing the Nez Percé people forcing them to move onto reservations. These people fled to Canada for safety, and around 800 of the Nez Percé people were slaughtered, leaving than 300...
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...The Cold War and the United States Diplomacy Name: Institution: The Cold War and the United States Diplomacy The Cold War was the state of military and political tension between Western countries, especially the United States, its NATO allies, and the communist nations, particularly the Soviet Union and other satellite states. The war began after World War II had got to an end. The Cold War was named so since it did not feature any form of military action. The countries in this war possessed nuclear weapons and any form of war would have led to serious destructions on both divides. The relative calm between these countries was sometimes followed by high tensions, which would have emanated into a war but did not (Gottfried & Reim, 2003). The following essay will look at what the U.S. did during that time, as well as summarize the situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during the president’s time in office. In addition, the essay will describe the effect of these diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries as well as assess, in conclusion, the advantages and disadvantages of the particular doctrine that was followed. What the President Did During That Time During the cold war, the president was Ronald Reagan. He, together with members of his administration, came up with a strategy designed to oppose the influence that the Soviet Union had in the world. It came to be referred to as the Reagan Doctrine. This also came to...
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...Three Significant Cold War Events that Shaped the Europe of Today In 1947 at the beginning of the Cold War the European continent was devastated by the events that had just transpired on the continent over the past decade. World War II had just ended and the former allies were struggling to keep an alliance together. Because Germany had started the war, there was mistrust amongst the allies that Germany would again rise and create the turmoil that the continent had just witnessed. And there was also a larger mistrust, bordering on an animosity, between the two superpowers the Soviet Union and the United States as these one time allies vied for supremacy of the world. Caught in between this superpower struggle was the European continent. As the European continent was divided between the superpowers there were many events that occurred that had an impact on the Europe of today. I believe the three most significant events affecting the development of Europe during the Cold War and helping to shape the European continent, was the United States implementation of the Marshall Plan, the signing of the Washington Treaty of 1949 and the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1950. Each one of these events would lead to further expansion on the initial premise of each program or policy further enhancing the security or prosperity of the European continent. After the War, "with Western Europe on the verge of not only economic ruin but also...
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