American Railway Union

CNN host, Fareed Zakaria, suggested that, “During the Cold War, we [Americans] were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war.” The Cold War refers to the tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1991. The two sides never confronted each other within battle. Americans, however, still lived in constant fear of communism and a war with Russia. A technique I learned earlier within this class was that our…

An Analysis on the European Migrant/Refugee Crisis Amidst a migrant and refugee crisis the European Union and its Member States have not, in the view of the Medecine Sans Frontieres (MSF), met their respective promises of aiding the people most in need. As highlighted by the MSF rejecting E.U. funding and stating that they do so, “‘...in protest at their shameful deterrence policies and their intensification of efforts to push people back from European shores,’” (“Europe” 1). Many of the E.U…

Three (United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain) had different concerns about the structure of the postwar world. Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR), was in search of security for his nation. Germany had attacked the Soviets twice in thirty years, and both times the Germans had reached them through Poland. Therefore, Stalin thought it was necessary to create a buffer zone between Germany and the Soviet Union. Believing his nation…

At the Second Congress of the Russian Democratic Labor Party, it was agreed upon that Russia was in need of a revolution as the workers and peasants of the country were becoming dissatisfied with the Czar and the government. The end goal of the revolution was to be socialism. However, Congress split into two parties: the Bolsheviks (the majority) and the Mensheviks (the minority). The main disagreements revolved around party membership, with the Mensheviks arguing for a broad-based membership…

United States and the communist Soviet Union. It was a dominate affair and both countries had different beliefs that led to the weapons of devastations. They had major crises like the Cuban missile crises, Hungary, and the Berlin Wall but the most worrying issue was the growth of mass destruction weapons. The history changed in the late 1950s, when the former Soviet Union launches Sputnik in space. Sputnik was the World’s first artificial satellite. The American political and cultural appalled…

Russia was a massive empire and a great power of Europe in the late ninetieth and early twentieth century. However, it lagged behind in economic and political aspects as compared to Germany and Britain. In 1917, two significant revolutions occurred where the first overthrew Nicholas II government and afterward established a provisional government. Eight months after the first revolution, a second revolution took place where Bolsheviks was brought to power. During this period, many groups of…

Ukraine has underestimated the crucial role of nationalism in Crimea. Many Russians moved to Crimea in 1990 to escape the collapse of the Soviet Union but they couldn’t return to Russia after 1992 due to International Policy and Human Rights tariffs set by the European Union. Now the perspective has been an important weapon to understand the motive, desire and ideals behind Putin’s campaign to gain Eastern Ukraine. Marxism has resurged as a valid argument…

Besides the monetary amount the United Kingdom will save from no longer paying out membership fees and immigration benefits, leaving the European Union would allow for the UK to set up favorable independent trade negotiations with other nations. As an independent state, Britain would gain influence over the rest of the world by gaining back their independent “seat” on international affairs discussions that the EU had taken away. According to the Conservative Party’s Chair of The Economic Affairs…

With that in mind, we must do what the Chinese are doing except better. Export American made materials to help build the African infrastructure to have a successful agricultural land to cultivate food. Exporting American materials will also help American businesses, thus increasing American…

The Cuban Missile Crisis began on October 22, 1962 when President John F. Kennedy appeared on the home television screen of millions of Americans to address the nation on the events taking place. Kennedy informed the nation of the Soviet nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba. The fourteen- day phenomenon sent the United States government into a scramble to decide what they were to do, and how to go about doing so. The President took immediate action calling upon the CIA and Secretary of Defense…