Eastern Gray Squirrel

Nationalism was hardly a new phenomenon in the 20th century, stemming all the way back to the days of the Enlightenment. By the 1900s, though, it’s reach had captured the attention of the globe. By 1914, these feelings of superiority — while hardly new in Europe — were at a boiling point, with ethnic minorities demanding freedom from multinational empires, especially the Austro-Hungarian Empire; such demands culminated in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the immediate cause of the…

Canada and its Allies finally celebrated triumph over the loss of Germany in 1945, during the second world war. What Canada did not know the danger from the Nazis will soon be taken over by a threat to the U.S. and the USSR’s cold war. The Cold War happened between the western allies and the Soviet Union after the second world war due to having a very different political system and beliefs. Unfortunately, Canada geographically happened to be just in between the U.S. and the USSR. Thus, Canada…

At the end of the second world war, the relations between the Soviet Union (also known as U.S.S.R.) and the United States of America, was at loss. The two powers were rivals and the tension only built between them as time went on. This era was then quickly known to and referred to as, The Cold War. An event that took place in 1954, only caused the tension to grow. It especially grew when the Allies of the United States during the second world war, (Britain & France) acted without acknowledging…

In 1945 Germany was defeated, after World War II ended the conferences of Potsdam and Yalta were held to decide the future of Europe and principally Germany. This conferences divided the territory of Germany into four zones one for each ally. The eastern part went to the Soviet Union and the western part to the United States, Great Britain and France. Berlin, the capital of Germany was located within the soviet part of the country, but still it was divided in four. This seemed like a problem to…

It all began in 1945, at the end of World War II, when the Allies had divided Germany and its capital, Berlin, into four occupation zones. The eastern part of the country went to the Soviet Union, while the western part went to the United States, Great Britain and eventually, France. To prevent the migration phenomenon and to control the eastern part, Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's successor at the helm of the USSR, proposed and applied a fateful solution for this so-called "problem" –building the…

The Cold War was the geopolitical, ideological, and financial battle between two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR that began in 1947 toward the end of the Second World War and endured until the collapse of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991. The Soviets reacted to the Marshall Plan with the Zhdanov Doctrine, uncovered in October of 1947. The Zhdanov Doctrine guaranteed that the United States was looking for worldwide mastery through American dominion, and in addition the breakdown of…

The lives of people in the West of Berlin were completely different to the lives of people in the East of Berlin. After WWII, Germany split up into states each one governed by one of the allies (the USA, France, England and the Soviet Union) all split equally over the country and capital city, Berlin. The Soviet Union decided to make their state into a communist run state, whereas the other three states decided to lead their states as a democracy much like their own. Due to this disagreement in…

There are always two sides to every story and in order to fully understand a situation one must be informed about all aspects. When someone does not have all the information or possesses a limited viewpoint then the chances of bias and misunderstanding occurring increases exponentially. An individual’s outlook on current events heavily depends on where that person lives and how they interpret what the media reports; every issue has more than one perspective but the Western media is excellent at…

The Local and Worldwide Effects of The Berlin Wall Ever since the beginning of humanity, people have tried to govern themselves in manners. Humans have already tried various economic systems, such as communism and capitalism, along with many different types of government, such as democracies and oligarchies. (history.com) Around the world, each country has their own preference in government and some strive to make it popular. The political rivalry between capitalist and communist nations during…

In the movie clips Divided We Fall and The Tunnel we see a variety of scenery, movie techniques, and overall delivery of the story plot. In Divided We Fall we see the attack of the Nazi Regimen on the Czech Republic. The movie clip is in black and white with an overall plot of how fast the Nazi regime dominated the Czech Republic and its people. In the movie clip The Tunnel we see active war scenery throughout the Czech Republic with the clip beginning at the 56th day of the Warsaw Uprising or…