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Gorbachev. By December 31, the USSR was formally disassembled into 13 independent republics: Armenia , Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Estonia and Latvia previously gained their independence in August 1991. Some historians argued that this radical change and end to the Cold War marked the ‘end of history’ as democracy became the predominant political system. Yet the question remains: why did…

delegation visit to Baltic nations of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, the National Guard proposed a “sustaining partnership” model which laid the groundwork for the SPP structure. Having established a foundation for success through strategic planning and face-to-face contact with potential partner nations, the National Guard, with coordination with USEUCOM, established the first three state partnerships in April 1993. These state partnerships were between Latvia and Michigan, Lithuanian and…

16. Compare and Contrast the policies of the US and USSR during Cold War. Primary approaches to address are Containment - the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. Different perspectives which are not "strategies" but rather could be mulled over are: Truman's hard-line approach toward the USSR; his exclusion at Potsdam of advising Stalin about the nuclear bomb and the dropping of it at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the German Question; the Berlin Airlift and NATO. Iron Curtain: Soviets refuse to…

Liberalism is a convention or doctrine that rose up out of the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. It turned out to be especially strong in England, additionally in the U.S, France, and later, other Anglophone social orders like Australia. In each of these countries it expected marginally distinctive forms. The significant scholars of liberalism fit in with various groups of theorists. The first incorporates a few scholars or theorists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…

insecurity. For almost the majority of the interviewees, the socialist system provided better education, economic development and a more reliable health system. Economies in Eastern European countries such as Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, and Slovenia are in fact considered in some cases to be growing slowly and ‘not converging with the pre-2004 EU members’. Soviet nostalgia in Eastern Europe can also be used as a tool to explain another example of…

years and still developing. The Christmas tree has a lot myths about how it was invented. In the 1500's, people assumed Christmas trees were used first. Yet, in the mid 1500's, in Germany, some claim the tree originated there. In the early 1500's, in Latvia others claim the tree started there. In the 7th Century, there is a legend people thought that St. Boniface created the Christmas tree. St. Boniface used a triangular method to create the tree. So who created it? Where did it come from?…

that not many of us know about nor know the awful history of. It is where the book’s characters are from. Lina is the main character and her family and her taken on a journey. Lina’s mother and brother are the ones with that went with her. Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia were attacked by Joseph Stalin. Stalin is not know as much as Hitler. However, he killed over 20 million people during his region. When they both signed a pact of nonaggression, Stalin deported all the people from those baltics.…

Holocaust? Not the one that took place in Germany. The Lithuanian Holocaust. The book, Between the Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys talks about the Lithuanian Holocaust. Joseph Stalin,the leader of the Soviet Union, took over the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. These states lost a third of their populations. Citizens of those states were deported. Deportation could go all the way to Finland. The book tells the story of a mother, father, Lina and Jonas who were a nuclear family…

situation in which a small or weak person or organization tries to defeat another much larger or stronger opponent’ (Dictionary, 2016). The natural question to this arises, why discussions about such tactics should be important to the Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, popularly known as the three Baltic states? And indeed to analyse this topic in depth, the overarching subject is the threat for the security of the three Baltic states. What is the question which truly unites the three Baltic states…

Good morning James, Recommend that Mr. Luis Viegas name is added to the Safety Dangers Zone approval list for Training Support Team Poland in support of the Operation Atlantic Support. 1. Mr. Viegas continuously looked for ways to improve live firing ranges by performing in-house projects resulting in a cost savings of $15.000. He renovated/repaired the Range# 3A target frame retaining wall and constructed/installed Safety Danger Zone (SDZ’s) markings for seven Live Fire Ranges at…