Eastern Bloc

The United States tried to do everything they possibly can in order to help Latin America stay away from communism. Costa Rica and The United States have maintained formal diplomatic relations since 1851. The United States is Costa Rica's most important trading partner. The two countries share a very deep history of friendly relationship especially for their similar ideas in democratic government, human freedoms, free trade, and other shared values. America always tried its best to influence…

Name: Institution: Question: Explain why Canada joined NATO in 1949 and evaluate its role in NATO up to 1967? Introduction The vital motivation behind the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was to defend the freedom and security of every member who had signed the treaty in Europe and North America (Kaplan, 2003). To accomplish this, the Alliance utilized both its political impact and its military ability to secure its signatories (Beloff & Spencer, 1960). Brief History of Canada and NATO…

part of the capitalist agenda of the USA to expand its sphere of influence intro Eastern Europe, “Soviet Territory”. -They accused the US of attempting to impose its ideology and beliefs onto otherwise free and independent states -Following the announcing of the Marshall Plan, Moscow announced the Molotov Plan. This led to the linking of Eastern Europe’s economy to that of the USSR. -This aid would prevent Eastern European countries to rely on American aid and instead reorganize their trade…

The Crucible was written in 1952 by Arthur Miller. Five years before the book was written the Cold War has begun. The state of the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was dreadful. This is because both of these nations had different ideas on how to run their countries. The United States did not like the idea of government having total control over their own citizens and did not like the idea of having the Soviet Union spreading communism around the world. In communist…

This photo was taken by Peter Leibing, and it shows nineteen-year-old, military soldier, Conrad Schumann jumping over the barbed wire, of the to be Berlin Wall, from East Germany to West Germany, during the Cold War. During this time the Soviet Union had control over East Berlin, and West Berlin was under the control of America, Britain and France. The people of the East were very unhappy about the lack of political and economical freedom. The USSR had industrialised and militarised East Germany…

The American government and the people of the world have always been fascinated and dreamed about going into space. The United States of America was first to land on the moon. But the US went to the moon to beat the Soviet Union due to the US and the Soviets being enemies in the Cold War. Since the US went to space in 1969, why haven't we gone farther, it is 2016. But, if the United States never of went to space in the first place, the world as we know it would not be the same. During World…

During World War 2 (1939-1945), the rationality was that the Soviet Union and the USA were allies because they were fighting towards the same enemy – Nazi Germany. From this it was thought that after the war, the two forces would have a firm relationship. Yet the appearance of this was a powerful illusion. Once Germany surrendered in 1945, by 1947 the U.S openly formulated a policy of ‘Containment’ and at the beginning of 1948 the Cold War had soar. Containment was the plan to diminish the rise…

The Marshall Plan was part of the policy of containment, this is true because it helped struggling countries defend themselves against the Soviet union as well create closer relations with many countries so they could convince countries not to switch to communism through political means. The U.S. policy of containment aimed to put an end to the expansion of communism, while also preventing nuclear annihilation. Most Capitalist western countries viewed Communism as an infectious disease, and the…

It can be said that the biggest force that divided the West and the East was the different political views between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The United States were capitalist, and had a democratic government. They believed that an individuals right’s included economic freedom which can be seen as a free-market. On the other had, the Soviet Union were communist, and they had a totalitarian government. The state had control and owned all the properties and…

“Tear Down This Wall” Started in the 1960s, the Cold War between the Democratic United States of America and the Communistic Soviet Union had become an ongoing issue around the world, and has implemented fear among the German Berliners. The Berlin Wall was built by Communists in August 1961 to retain Germans from departing East Berlin into West Berlin. The wall stood as a symbol of separation and the Cold War between the two countries. On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan, who was known as…