Eastern Bloc

countries. Since they wanted territory, they gave Cuba missiles so they could fight the United States, and supported them economically. They invaded Afghanistan because they wanted oil, materials, location, and trade ports. Finally, they wanted the Eastern Bloc as a buffer and wanted their materials. To achieve this buffer zone the Soviets established their presence and secured Communist governments there. Since the Soviet Union wanted territory, they provided military, economic and political…

One of the similarities in the economic development of both Eastern and Western Europe in the years following the war was the establishment of government incentives/programs to counteract decline in population. Due to the devastations of the war, population had been reduced to a critical level forcing government officials to enact programs in order to increase the birthrates in their regions. These social programs were set up as incentives to financially assist couples to have more children.…

their freedoms as humans. What we tend to oversee however is that there 's no such thing as an only negative form of government. In fact, for millions of people communism was, not a good thing, but rather an okay thing. It allowed the people, of Eastern Europe in specific, to not prosper but rather to get by. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991 came the onslaught of a massive problem that is still getting worse to this day: human trafficking. Although it is hard to see at first…

The Soviet Union’s takeover of Eastern Europe was interpreted by the United States as an attempt to spread communism around the world. The United States was highly against communism. The U.S., being a capitalistic run nation, felt worried for other nations who possibly could not afford fighting against the Soviet Union. Concerned that Greece and Turkey might be the next countries to fall to Stalin, President Truman announced the Truman Doctrine. This stated that the United States would give…

There are different meanings about the meaning of the Western World. Western civilization was born thousands of years ago with the rise of the Greek city-state, influenced by Middle Eastern culture. EAST East (Latin orens, oriri participle: appear birth) is the name of the direction from which the sun (and other stars) minted in antiquity, namely the East rises. By extension, it refers to those regions that are east of the benchmark. In the "Western" culture he was given this name to Asia.…

Optimum Currency Area Optimum Currency Area (OCA) is a group of countries which is practical to participate in a monetary union with adopting a common currency; the theory of OCA has been developed by Robert Alexander Mundell, Ronald McKinnon and Peter Kenen. A common currency is expected to maximise economic efficiency, due to price transparency and the reduction of exchange rate risks and currency conversion costs (Robson, 1998: 193). Nevertheless, a monetary union basically assimilates…

idea of a NAFTA was important for the United States as U.S firms had substantial investments in Mexico. Should the FTA be passed, this would be a means to secure investments and stimulate additional investments in Mexico. The U.S would now have trade blocs on both sides of them, making them the focal point for investment. From an economic standpoint, investment would be a means of raising wages and employment eventually stopping the flow of illegal immigrants into their borders. However at the…

Communism, a type of government in Eastern Europe at a time, where everyone was poor, became every citizen’s worst nightmare. Drakulić, Slavenka’s, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (1992), describes the struggle of Eastern European citizens, specifically women in the fight to end communism. Slavenka Drakulić was a Croatian journalist who travelled through various countries such as Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia East Germany, and Bulgaria, spending time with women and listening to…

Liberality scores are most noteworthy in Latin America, parts of Africa, the Anglo world and Nordic Europe; limitation is generally found in East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Muslim world. The accompanying guidelines may be helpful, particularly on the off chance that you are new to the association:- 1. Be mindful of your individual predispositions, style, inclination, lens and centering. This is discriminatingly…

The Seed of Western Values Prompt C The Eastern world is a mystical and fascinating world, the West has always viewed it differently throughout history showing the Eastern cultures as barbaric or uncivilized. Although our history classes show them in a different perspective the area is culturally rich and has deep roots of its ancestral past. In the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the reader dives into the mystical world and the modernization, regime changes, and religious revival…