Eastern Hemisphere

Berlin had became a symbol of the allie’s willingness to oppose further soviet expansion in Europe.( Berlin Airlift History.com) The reason why the Berlin blockade and airlift started was because the cold war was starting and Stalin was taking over Eastern Europe.(The Berlin Airlift History.com) When the Berlin Airlift was over as a result from the blockade was people not having clothing or food. It amped up Cold War tensions and made the USSR look to the rest of the world like a cruel and…

The end of the Cold War marked an important phase in the advent of Human rights into international politics. The cold war was a conflict of the ideologies (capitalism and communism), however when the war ended, the world saw the need to shift focus on other factors that are essential to the survival of the global community. This shift of priorities thus led to the focus on human rights and other fundamental rights that had since been neglected and hence violated in the bid to spread capitalist…

The 1960s was absolutely rife with incidents and events which could easily have erupted into WW3. The decade-spanning Vietnam War which in 1968 was intensified with the launch of the North 's Tet Offensive and an increasing amount of anti-war sentiment from the US Public; various African post-colonial independence movements throughout the decade; the 1961 Berlin Crisis that saw Soviet and American tanks face off across the East-West Berlin border; the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion against newly…

Regarding Hitler, his main ambition for this non aggression pact is to be able to invade poland as he wished without having to be concerned with The soviet union reacting on the eastern borders. In bold, the Non Aggression pact was based on the idea that both countries would not attack each other whether independently or in any alliance with any other country. It also prevents any of the two countries to support any country…

governmental policies. Notably, the years leading up to World War Two and the several years following the Second World War, saw a great amount of violence in Eastern Europe. While a globally dominant Western perspective usually sets Western Europe as the stage for the atrocities which occurred during this period of violence, it was in fact in Eastern Europe where considerably more of the violence war endured. The novel Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010) by Timothy Snyder, Snyder…

The beginning of the Cold War created a new era of division, power, and communist ideals. During this fight for control, one of the biggest construction endeavors in history took place, known as the Berlin Wall. This blockade was built by the Soviet Union and East Berlin soldiers in order to cease the flow of emigrants into the West. The formulation of the Berlin Wall led to a separation of the people, a fight for freedom in government, a struggle for survival, and a political battle between…

The behavior of nest sanitation includes the removal of eggshells, fecal sacs, non-viable hatchlings, and undigested food (Ibáñez-Álamo, Ruiz-Raya, Roncalli, & Soler, 2014). This costly expense is not found in every species, and perhaps has adapted in part to its reproductive advantage (Tinbergen, 1963). Many studies have tested to see if removal of excrements decreases parasites and predators. These hypotheses have received mixed support between studies on the same species as well as between…

to tell a complex, realistic narrative about the people they are trying to represent? Too often, the Western world has a disproportionate amount of influence over the narratives of other cultures, causing stories about cultures in Africa and the Eastern world to be overflowing with stereotypes, and offensive portrayals of the people who live there. Western story tellers have the tendency to inaccurately depict foreign cultures to make them fit their own simplified perception of them, and in…

Introduction Failed illusions by Charles Gati examines the events leading up to and surrounding the Hungarian uprising of October 1956. Gati argues that all the major players in the drama failed to provide adequate if any reasonable leadership. Throughout the drama the USSR gave vague and often conflicting orders to their Hungarian satellite. The Hungarians responded by attempting to fulfill their soviet overseers orders to no avail. The Hungarian leadership then was thrown into turmoil, and…

History IA question: To what extent was Gorbachev’s leadership during the year 1985-1991 the main reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union on 1991? A-Investigation plan On Dec 26, 1991, Russia was brought to a standstill as the Soviet flag was lowered down from its pole. The day before, Mikhail Gorbachev officially resigned and transferred his power to Boris Yeltsin; these events marked the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War; yet the beginning of a new age of democracy in Russia. I…