Civil union

overthrow his dictatorship. As the new Castro government self-proclaimed they were Marxist-Leninists, US relations with Cuba dissolved (History.com). Castro nationalized all American businesses in Cuba and developed very close ties with the Soviet Union. Because of Cuba’s expropriation of American assets, radical left-wing ideals, and close geographic proximity, American policymakers viewed the island as a “grave concern” (history.state.gov). The CIA construed an operation called the Bay of…

into four administrative sectors, one for each of the three victorious combatants, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and by special dispensation the French. Berlin, as a capital city, was divided similarly into four subdivisions. As a result of being situated entirely within the Soviet Sector, Berlin provided an ongoing inferno in the developing enmity between the Soviet Union and the West. However, by 1948, tensions began to develop as the Western Allies united their occupation…

the destruction of London, Berlin, and Leningrad, and the perversion of humanity to fit a political agenda coalesced into the complete destruction of the European balance of power, and in this power vacuum arose a climate polarised by the Soviet Union and the United States. Yet the Cold War was just one of the many effects of the war that profoundly changed America. Social movements spreading during and after the war, America’s exiting the war as the dominant economic power, and the risk of…

States and the Soviet Union tried to have global hegemony after the WWII. It was a period full of threats, fear and persecution, which imposed its indelible mark on the conscience of the society of that time. In the reality, this conflict was bipolar, manipulative, propagandist and absurd clashed between 2 ideologist as capitalism and Communist. Throughout the different stages of the confrontation, the frontal and direct clash between the United States and the Soviet Union never materialized;…

1.Explain the connection between World War I (1914-1918) and the Russian Revolution (1917). In the beginning Russia was sticking up for themselves against the other countries. But then Russia would begin to lose a lot of their men, there was little to no food, which made the Russians demand to drop out of the war. But Czar Nicholas II disagreed and stayed in the war which made more complications with Russia which started the Revolution, 2.Identify or define: (a) Vladimir I. Lenin, (b) Joseph…

Fascist governments, even fascist-leaning ones, are subject to European Union sanction as seen with the Freedom Party in Austria (Bell 245). These governments existence is key to defining modern Europe as the surviving institutions spent so much on combatting them. The Nazis razed Europe to the ground and it had to be rebuilt…

Latin America also showed this trend, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia all are a part of this leftist wave that has overtaken the nation. The reason for these trends aren’t difficult to recognize. The first reason was recognized as the fall of the soviet union, which helped promote the Latin American…

attacks to take power himself. His attacks were made up of only a few people and were put down by Batista,. The only reason Castro wasn’t executed on the spot was because he knew the soldier that had arrested him from school. He was released due to civil opposition…

invade the Soviet Union in 1941? Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 for several reasons, the most extenuating factor in the decision making process to invade the Soviet Union was the desire for Lebensraum. I will also be taking into consideration there standing in the Second World War at that time, the economic factors, Hitler’s racial ideology and his hatred of communism. I will then come to a conclusion upo my finding summarising the reasons behind the invasion of the Soviet Union. In…

led to the fall of the USSR. Afghanistan in the 50s and 60s, was a country that was beginning to modernize and industrialize with the help of both the Soviet Union and the United States. As animosity grew between the two world superpowers, the U.S. quickly created military ties with the neighboring country of Pakistan, so the Soviet Union created a military and political presence in Afghanistan to counter the American alliance. Until 1973, Afghanistan was led by a monarchy, but the Shah had…