Eastern Catholic Churches

Although George Marshall may have created the Marshall Plan with the intention of rebuilding the European economy, the United States adopted and implemented it with the main goal to contain communism to Eastern Europe. Heightened tensions following the Second World War led to the United States and the Soviet Union partaking in strategic measures to advance their ideology and denounce the others. As a result, in March of 1947 President Truman introduced Congress…

Competition for power or authority has shown throughout history to be one of the fiercest forms of competition. Following World War II was the Cold War which was a mild form of war between two former allied countries, the United States and the Soviet Union, over territory. After World War II, Germany split into two separate divisions; East Germany which fell under the authority of the Soviet Union and West Germany which was ruled predominantly by the United States. Many forms of conflicts…

preaching, no promise to be liberated, report problems with communism, analyze the Soviet Union system, and analyze western societies to try to get eastern European countries to rejoin Europe (Mitrovich, 5). Radio Free Europe wanted eastern European to rejoin Europe, but did not want it to seem that they were forcefully doing that. Also, showing the eastern European countries how the Western society lived by persuading them more than likely they would play popular American songs or current…

In 1917, the United States of America joined WWI due to beneficial economic relations with the Allies and German advances towards the American people. In 1919, The Treaty of Versailles resolved WWI, but left Germany in tremendous debt as they had to pay all war reparations. Because Germany was struggling, the Nazis rose to power under the leadership of Hitler. Adolf Hitler became the German dictator. WWII then began as the Allies felt that the spread of fascism and undemocratic practices needed…

and ransacked and shaved the heads of women accused of having relations with Axis soldiers (Dunn, 777). Even after the resolution of the war, there were reports of Poles killings Jews, persuading more than 200,000 Holocaust survivors to flee from Eastern Europe and never return. In some of the more heavily…

In other words, the image of Hitler was seen by the people of Germany as a unifying factor designed to pursue German nationalism and the reestablishment of Germany as a leading German power following the devastation that visited Germany in the aftermaths of World War I. Thus, Gurian in 1945 utilized an approach to history that was parallel to that of Kershaw who was writing in 1987. Although these two historians were separated by over 42 years, they both realized that nationalism was a vehicle…

The 1940’s are an important time in American history, not only because the country participated in WWII, but because of all the changes that came around because of the war. New organizations were formed, laws were passed, the country got a new president, and the United States almost engaged in war with the Soviet Union. The changes that occurred in this decade were the start of a new era. The domestic and foreign policies of the United States in the 1940’s helped to shape the world into what it…

The reason for the building of the Berlin Wall and the impact on Germany, Berlin and other places, the problems created by the Soviet Union for the people and the restrictions of several human rights and freedom will prove that the era of the Berlin Wall was indeed problematic for the people in different areas. The problems created by the Soviet Union will prove that the era of the Berlin Wall was indeed problematic for people from many different areas. Due to the problems created by the Soviet…

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two great powers, creating a bipolar international stage. After the end of the war, the realist interpretation reigned dominant among other international relations theories. In the 1970’s, the middle of the cold war, realist theory expanded, creating structural realism (neorealism). Though realist theory cannot be applied to explain everything that happens in international politics, it can very well be used to explain…

During most of the twentieth century, two World Wars, the Cold War, the rivalry of two Super Powers, the ‘ideologization’ of International Affairs and military confrontation have made diplomacy a subsidiary instrument of power politics and ideology. As a result, diplomacy has very often executed the "dance of death." The end of the Cold War has radically changed the international political scene. Moreover, today we are facing the shift of the civilizational paradigm, which affects not only the…