Eastern Europe

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…

The Soviet Union had control of most of these governments and enforced Communism within each state. Thus, the United States wanted Europe to become economically strong, rearmed, and integrated in order to prevent communist expansion into the Western European states. The relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was quickly fading in 1948 as there were disagreements…

against the Japanese troops in the raging war in the Pacific Ocean. Stalin had promised the United States that he would join the war efforts against Japan. The President of America, Franklin D. Roosevelt, made Stalin promise that he would allow the Eastern Europeans under his control to have free elections; at the time, Stalin promised he would allow free…

discusses a variety of feminist topics, some more universal and applicable globally, while others are uniquely Croatian or Eastern European. Using Drakulić’s text, as well as a secondary source by Rosalind Delmar, this paper will attempt to argue that How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed is an intersectional text – it highlights not only the differences in Western and Eastern European feminism, but also the similarities. It is vital to understand the ubiquitous, similar experiences of…

Radio Free Europe first started out as an experiment. The Truman administration did not plan for the National Committee for Free Europe in 1948 to have its main objective as radio broadcasting, but it then came to their attention that they needed to combat Soviet Union’s radio broadcast with one of their own. Radio Free Europe’s…

following World War I, where Americans were left distrustful of communist, socialist, or anarchist ideologies shared by many foreigners. This led to the creation of an anti-immigrant sentiment where individuals particularly from Russia, Southern and Eastern Europe were neglected from society and, in many cases, discriminated even by the authorities to the extent of utilizing deportation as an easy way to eliminate…

The jove atmosphere of the “Roaring Twenties” first cracked in 1918 when a bout of paranoia, originally provoked by the success of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917, turned into mass hysteria, as the American people came to believe that a communist takeover was imminent. A grim reminder of years past, the “Red Scare” justified the employment of such repressive laws, and did so at the expense of the American people, who had become accustomed to losing their civil liberties during times…

be all of the other members would go to war with Italy. I would be seen as the Soviet Union attacking the entire NATO. Another one of NATO’s purposes was unifying and strengthening military powers, for Europe in a case of invasion. The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations (Eastern Europe) created a rival alliance called the Warsaw Pact, in…

Marks presents problems within the League and the lack of strong, realistic, and solid European diplomacy which caused weak international agreements that fueled the illusion of peace and clouded the vision of Europeans. The first argument is that the illusion of peace was heightened by the actions of the League of Nations. Greece’s unwarranted invasion of Bulgaria and Bulgaria’s call for help initiated Briand to call an emergency session. The unanimity of the major powers on the course of action…

During the course of this semester we have examined the use of various motifs in Eastern European Cinema. We have looked at the imagery of phalluses and food, as well as the role of song and editing in each of the films. Along with the many motifs examined, there is one I have noticed was present in almost all of the films. Since the end of World War II, countries in Eastern Europe have continuously struggled with their allegiance to the communist state. Whether it be to denounce the communist…