Eastern Bloc

While reading the assigned reading for this week, I noticed a section in Chapter 5 called, “West Berlin: Today Vietnam, Tomorrow Us.” This section was quite intriguing to me because it mentions the facts of the Berlin Wall. The chapter doesn’t however go into great detail about the wall or why it was even constructed. It does mention that West Berlin was the center of the Cold War where the United States and the Soviet Union had constructed their battleground. It goes on to talk about the Free…

Strategies of the U.S. and the Eastern German people protesting resulted in a Germany with more freedom and peace. The U.S. used careful methods of peace and negotiation which established capitalism to unite Germany. The Eastern people who protested gained traction as people began to believe “we could be free!”. After World War II Germany was vulnerable and up for grabs. The Soviet Union jumped at the chance to claim the land with a communist flag. They approached and settled in the east,…

Felix Houphouet-Boigny was the leader of the Ivory Coast after they gained their independence. As the author describes him, he had been a loyal supporter of the French for many years, even having become a member of the French national assembly. However, he began to shift his alliance to the United States after the Ivory Coast gained independence. Muehlenbeck explains the growth of this relationship through the “courting” of Biogny by US President John F. Kennedy. Because US Secretary of State…

Aid into Europe, where America funded the rebuilding of various countries that had suffered economically from WWII. The Truman Doctrine was a response to the rising threat of Russia and Communism, as it expanded its influence into the impoverished Eastern Europe, and was the official attitude that the USA took towards quashing the spread. The doctrine stated that, in order to prevent the spread of communist control, countries in poverty, being the most liable to such an attractive financial…

The Cold War was one of the biggest war impact between the United States and The Soviet Union, it made a huge mark in history between the so called allies when the S.U and the U.S fought against the Axis Powers.The Cold War was to sought out international affairs, for decades detailed crisis occurred like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary etc… The Cold War was not a war to be exact. The Cold War was the relationship between two different countries which was American and the Soviet Union…

Compare and contrast US and Soviet policies in Germany between 1945 and 1947 After Germany was defeated, the Allied powers agreed on turning Germany into a four state country and they removed the old government. In those states they implemented policies in each zone; however some policies were abandoned such as reparations. The US and Soviet Union policies that were created between 1945-47 opposed each other and contrasted, these lead to relations between them getting worse or tensions…

souvenirs. The first section of the Berlin Wall was removed on the 12th of June. The wall was officially dismantled on the 13th. The Soviet system was in crisis. “The fall of the Berlin Wall foreshadowed the demise of the communist governments of Eastern Europe…

He uses the idea and purpose of reflection in his organization of the speech first he talks about the battle of moral ideas the people are facing then he moves onto his larger idea and the fight against the Soviet Union. That is what leads Reagan to use the narrative of the young fa-ther, and a quote from C.S. Lewis to help illustrate what the root of evil is and where it comes from. This is also to establish the fear of what life would be without faith; the lack of faith and not knowing God is…

The Cold War was a state of economic, military, political and social instability throughout the world between the approximated years of 1947 and 1991. This widespread insecurity was the undeviating result of clashing ideologies and enormous power rivalry between the two superpowers of the world; the US and the Soviet Union. Both powers naturally strived for ideological and strategic influence throughout the world, yet their conflicting beliefs surrounding communism, politics and economic triumph…

The Cold War was not a war of arms and deployed men, but rather a war of information and intelligence. The term “Cold War” was first introduced by Bernard Baruch in 1947 during an angry speech he made about the industrial labor problems in the country. He was appalled at how the United States couldn't pull together their economic system in regards to the workforce, and stressed the idea that the United States needed to become more stable in order to reach its goal of worldwide peace. He…