Eastern Europe

during that era. Because many of the striking workers were recent immigrants, employers were able to portray them as instigators of trouble. As a result, many employers supported immigration restriction, and thus the restriction of migration from Europe can be implemented…

controlled the eastern half. Tension grew between the United States and the Soviet Union due to their political and economic differences. The United States and the Soviet Union viewed each other as a threat due to their competition between democratic and communist ideals. When President Truman gave his iron curtain speech, he argued that the United States should support nations trying to resist the Soviet Union. Truman and his advisors developed a plan to provide financial aid to Europe to…

(1) Introduction The Silk Road was an ancient trade route, which ran from China and India to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Goods, such as Chinese silk and Indian spices, were traded along it using camels on the overland route (Newitt, 2005, pp. 2-3). Portugal, being located on the Atlantic coast, was therefore at the fringe of the Silk Road. However, Portugal managed to create a colonial empire despite being a country of marginal importance in the early Middle Ages (Disney, 2009,…

The Triangle Trade was different trade routes established between europe africa and the american colonies. goods were then traded from Europe to africa in exchange for slaves.Many slave traders traveled all over the americas and caribbean to establish plantations were slaves work for no pay to provide the high demand of these crops ,Because of the rise in global sea trade more supplies were able to be traded among different countries. Such as spices, Silk and pepper and instead of buying from…

As Islam grew from being a small Saudi Arabian religion to one of the largest conquering religions in the world in committed a lot of change through the christian based Europe. Before Islam had taken over the territory was mostly just nomadic tribes for a very long time. Islam reached Western Europe through Spain having crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from North Africa. From Spain, it spread across the Pyrenees until the Franks routed the Muslim armies at the Battle of Tours in 732. Islam…

The theme of Orientalism assumed an imperative part in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century abstract works in Europe. Powering the imaginative creative energies of craftsmen, abstract figures, and truth be told all of Europe, this interest with the Orient likewise impacted a considerable lot of the Romantic authors, who arranged books and verse alike in the puzzling distant grounds of Turkey, India, the Middle-East, and Asia. Relations in the middle of East and West initially increased far…

In 1884, Europe congregated and, in an imperialistic fashion, determined who received which section of Africa. In this meeting, called the Berlin Conference, Britain received the region that is currently known as Uganda. Beginning their colonization in 1890, the British East Africa Company sent Captain F.D. Lugard to sign a treaty with the leader of the largest kingdom in the region, Buganda. Following the treaty, Lugard grew Britain’s influence further by signing two more treaties with the…

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact1, a non-agression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, was signed in Moscow, Aug 23th 1939. This pact included a secret protocol between these two powers to divide Eastern Europe into their spheres of influences. Could it be said that this pact triggered WWII in Europe, if saying that the war began in 1939 when Poland was invaded? This paper will research and analyze ideas considering this pact as an important short-term, immediate cause of WWII, both from…

France is one of the oldest counties, which is located in Western Europe. France is the 20th most populated county in the world with 66.9 million people most of which are living in Paris, its capital. The main language spoken in France is French. Some other countries that border France are Germany, Italy, switzerland, Belgium, and Spain. Around 85% of the citizens in France practice Catholic for their religion. For their government, they have a Prime Minister and a President who both share the…

of the occupation of Germany; the definition of a policy towards Italy, the examination of the application of the Yalta declaration on liberated Europe” (Moradiellos 81). The problem with this list was that the agenda and the proposals were based on the problems that were created by the political and military hegemony of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. The Soviets proposed the following issues: “the discussion on Germany but specified as vital questions the issues of war reparations and the…