Eastern Gray Squirrel

“A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism that stood for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the high-risk fault line between East and West on which rested the fate of all humanity.” (Taylor, vii) “I hope that those who live in more fortunate communities elsewhere in the world will summon up the imagination to conceive what it might have been like for Berliners to have such a barbarous fracture inflicted on their cities, their neighborhoods,…

Holy Rosary Catholic School The Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall Imagine being a teenage girl separated by a wall, without your family, friends, and sometimes food. How would you feel? Many people were greatly affected by The Berlin Wall. Waking up being separated by a wall was many people's everyday life. Once the wall was built, people could not leave the side they were on. Germans could not visit friends or family on the other side of the wall. The Berlin Wall…

FFreedom for the people of Berlin is what Reagan was trying to achieve. He says that they shouldn’t be separate from the rest of Europe or even the rest of the world. The people of Berlin should have the freedom, to travel across Europe without being in fear. There freedom should not be held back by this wall. They cannot live in fear the rest of their lives. The United States is all about freedom, furthermore that is why many presidents in the past have traveled to Berlin, to help get their…

Despite fighting on the same side during World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union did not have a good relationship and after the war was over, the two powers began to feud. The Soviet Union was angered because the United States did not recognize the Soviet Union as a legitimate international nation. The United States was wary of the Soviet Union’s territorial expansion, and were concerned Russia would attempt to become a unilateral power. The United States decided containment would…

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also known as NATO, was created in the year of 1949. As stated in the article, “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization”, “NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. From its inception, its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation.” In other words, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an alliance between North America and Europe. This…

The capitalist United States and communist Soviet Union had such juxtaposing ideologies and beliefs that caused extreme tension between the superpowers. The Soviet Union used divide and conquer techniques, imposing communist rule Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union wanted a communist system where the government was in control. The United States feared the spread of Communism, seeing it as a threat to their freedom, something felt to be of such a high priority. They felt that they must…

Cottontail rabbits, the most abundant small-game animals in the county, prefer bushy areas interspersed with cropland and pasture. cottontail rabbits occur in greatest numbers in the southwestern part of of the westmoreland county, 2. Gray squirrels, they are the second in abundance among the small game animals. They generally prefer the edges of woodland. They are most plentiful where black oak, red oak, and chestnut oak are dominant They are also numerous where cornfields are…

the Big Three agreed to split German investments and Germany itself between each other. This created a country that would be perpetually at war with itself. The Soviet Union benefited from this arrangement since it would create a buffer zone along Eastern Europe and would secure their borders. In addition, the conflict would enable Stalin to consolidate his…

Eastern Europe From the birth of Eastern Catholicism and its towering churches dedicated to God and his saints; to the bloody hammer and sickle designed to strike fear into the enemies of the USSR; Russia and its close neighbors are a land decadent in history and culture. Eastern Europe has had a mighty place in the history of the world. It has seen the origins of the Turkish Empire, the Russian royalty of the Dark Ages, the Byzantine Empire, the United Socialist States of Russia. Its…

The Berlin Wall one of the main aspects of the cold war, for 28 years this wall has stood, symbolising the separation of families and friends. Only being taken down quite recently. After WW2, Germany was split up into 4 sectors; -The French -The United States -The Soviet Union and -Great Britain These 4 countries all felt threatened by one another so France, The United States and Great Britain all teamed up creating West Berlin, a democracy built state while the Soviet Union was left…