Canada – United States relations

The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO, or the Communist Bloc. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the First World, while the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and their allies represented the Second World. This terminology provided a way of broadly categorizing the nations of the Earth into three groups based on political and economic divisions. The Third World was…

Every child learns the phrase, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” in third grade. While catchy they do not learn to much more than that. Europe had only speculated what was to the West of their borders before any voyage was attempted. Spain, France, and Britain each offered something to the new world they wanted to give. Among their reasons trade and religion were the focal points. Being a predominantly Christian area, all European countries wanted to get away from Muslims. Their…

The story of JFK and the Vietnam War cannot be told without first telling the story of the political development before the war even was a possibility. At the end of World War 2 The United States no longer had to wage war against the Germans and the Japanese. Instead, The United States began to keep a watchful eye on their World War 2 ally in the Siberian North: Russia. After the fall of Nazi Germany, the Russian and American armies met for the first time on April 25, 1945, at the Elbe River in…

a continuous quest from ‘expatriation to immigration’. As a writer her concern can be seen in the lives of South- Asian immigrants in the USA and Canada and the problem of assimilation. Her works are representation of a movement from expatriation to immigration coinciding with her own immigration from Canada to USA. Her writings during her stay in Canada present her interpretation and reaction of her experiences…

Lee and Volpp Reflection In the article Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the U.S. Borders with Canada and Mexico, Erika Lee asserts that Chinese immigration and exclusion had created transnational disputes about illegal immigration, race, citizenship, immigration laws and international affairs. She also defines and explains the significance of the Chinese Exclusion act. The Chinese Exclusion Act marked the first time the US restricted immigration due to race and class. It also…

However, from the start, the alliance between the world's leading economic power, the world's largest colonial empire and the world's first Communist state was marked by mutual distrust and ideological tension. The Cold War began shortly after the end of World War II over disagreements on how postwar Europe should be rebuilt. While neither side ever “officially” fought the other, as the consequences would be too appalling with the Soviet Union’s Red Army and the Americans possession of the…

August third Germany invaded Belgium (a neutral territory), to reach France. Great Britain had no choice to declare war on Germany officially entering the war. Over the coming years, the war grew to include Italy, Japan, the middle east and the United States of America, amongst others. The great war came with the death of over 20 million soldiers. The war left in ruins Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey. The great powers split into two distinct fighting powers. The allied powers included…

political anomaly is referred to in German as “wirtschaftswunder” which translated is the phrase the “wonder of economics.” This eminent rise has been recognized by the leadership role the German government is currently playing in the European Union, in relation to monetary policy that is intended to alleviate the Euro-zone crisis. The nation has weathered two world wars, a totalitarian regime with anti-semitic values that resulted in the mass genocide and the destruction of literature and art…

The United States was able to designate North Korea the “aggressors” via UN charter and shortly thereafter invoked the full power of the United Nations. Military forces from the UK, Australia, the United States, and Canada were all rushed to the peninsula to reinforce the existing troops and delay further DPRK advances. The North Korean forces were well trained…

exploded because the fear of the other and perhaps never existed. A hilarious animated sequence done by the authors of South Park, which is a native of Littleton, offering a little glorious version of the American history absent of textbooks. The United States was built on the fear of others: fear of Indians, fear of freed slaves, fear of everything that is not white. The American media still refer to the same scapegoats: the violence of Hollywood films, and the so-called destructive anarchism…