Eastern Europe

the marshall plan which paid off western europe. He helped with the Korean War by supporting. As well as the Vietnam War, by trying to fight the outbreak of communism in Vietcong. The Marshall Plan paid off western europe and then later to rebuild war-torn Europe to prevent the spread of communism, facilitate global trade and free markets, and encourage European peace. The U.S. gave $13 billion to European nations through the Marshall Plan. The Eastern European countries rejected Marshall Plan…

Regarded as a nation bridging Europe and Asia, Turkey holds control over the amount of refugees entering Europe from mostly neighbouring Middle Eastern countries as well as African countries and the Indian subcontinent. Due to the large amount of migrants crossing through Turkey, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) made an agreement to “provide some degree of protection and status determination” for asylum seekers and refugees. The UNHCR defines a refugee as a person “who is unable or unwilling to…

northern and western Europe–Germany, Ireland, Britain and the Scandinavian countries–slowed, more foreigners poured in from southern and eastern Europe. Among this new era were Jews getting away from political and financial abuse in czarist Russia and eastern Europe (exactly 484,000 landed in 1910 alone) and Italians getting away destitution in their nation. There were additionally Poles, Hungarians…

the World Wars, the Soviet Union was very nervous and uneasy with letting Germany off the hook too much (Document C). The Soviet Union wanted to have complete control over Germany, mostly eastern Germany. The Soviet Union’s economy had been ravaged by World War II so they took the opportunity to seize much of eastern Germany’s assets and rebuild their economy that way. They wanted Germany reprimanded even more harshly than what the U.S and Britain had already done. This unsatisfactory feeling…

The USSR feared that the United States, and all other capitalist countries, were threatening the spread of communism through actions such as the Marshal Plan. In 1947 President Truman created the Marshal Plan to aspire in the rebuilding of Europe. The plan offered economic aid ($13 billion) to all countries rebuilding after the war . Stalin viewed this as American Imperialism and declined any aid for Western European countries under Soviet control . The Marshal Plan threatened Stalin as many…

crusades? Nice and really buff knights (in a sparkling defensive layer, obviously) or maybe just a group of guys going out to do the Lords work in a devilish world. Whichever it may be the Crusades were just wars not a group a people. Crusades impacted Europe both negative and positively in a number of ways. It also has left a lasting impact on the outside world. The First Crusade was propelled at the Levant with purpose of safeguarding Christians and bringing the Christians holy places…

as the beginning of Modern Europe, represents the beginning of the 19th century. The political change brought by the Revolution was so immense that it caused other European powers to intervene to prevent its ideas from entering the conscious of their subjects. Ideals outlined by the Declarations of the Right of Man such as “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights” and “As all persons are held innocent until they shall have been declared guilty,” ideas that Europe today considers basic…

Introduction: The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) government to stop people form the eastern bloc to escape to the west through West Berlin. Its downfall in November of 1989 was huge news to the world as with its importance it affected the whole world. It was not just uniting a single country again but it also opened the border between the East and West of Europe and the world. It was an end to the Cold War tensions between the two ideologies of the USSR with…

New immigrants and old--what people said The old immigrants. . . The new immigrants. . . came from northern or western Europe came from southern or eastern Europe were Protestant were not Protestant--were Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish were literate and skilled were illiterate and unskilled came over as families came over as birds of passage were quick to assimilate were clannish and reluctant to assimilate were experienced in the ways of democracy were radicals or autocrats had some money in their…

footsteps. The people of Europe saw opportunity in America, almost a blank canvas as they could express the culture originated from their homeland and infuse it into America. Europe’s curiosity came with a price as the Native American population was slowly shunned out of the country. A famous image by Theodore Galle, depicted a beautifully crafted summary of the clash between the Native population and the…