Eastern Hemisphere

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Cold War Spies During the late 1940’s and the early 1950’s, America began to find themselves in the middle of fear as the Cold War began to approach. Tensions began to grow between the two nations of the United States and Soviet Union. These tensions lasted for roughly seven years, which lead to international episodes. Leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin and leader of the United States Joseph Stalin had led their dictatorship into disaster. Both the United…

The Red Scare and The Iron Curtain, what do these two things have in common? Communism, the red scare was the fear that communism was going to penetrate the United States and the Iron curtain was a boundary during the Cold War to separate communists and non-communists. The reason for these scares and divides were because of the problems and fears associated with communism. China began to realize that and introduced capitalism. China has been making gains that got them to where they are today but…

their freedoms as humans. What we tend to oversee however is that there 's no such thing as an only negative form of government. In fact, for millions of people communism was, not a good thing, but rather an okay thing. It allowed the people, of Eastern Europe in specific, to not prosper but rather to get by. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991 came the onslaught of a massive problem that is still getting worse to this day: human trafficking. Although it is hard to see at first…

"By the end, the liberalization of other eastern bloc regimes caused mass demonstrations for free travel and demands or democracy," was stated in the video of TED-Ed. On the evening of November 9, 1989 East Germany tried to defuse tension by making travel permits easier to obtain. The announcement…

Section A: Plan of Investigation 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,…

the three countries represented by their then leaders Tito, Nasser and Nehru) of the Non-Aligned Movement and most of the individual states in Yugoslavia had ties to larger European countries. As mentioned before, Stalin saw Soviet domination over Eastern Europe key to expanding their country's wealth and power. The US, their political rival, was commanded by President Harry Truman to support the communist nation with military and economic aid. Truman states through the Truman Doctrine, in March…

conversely living in west Berlin was much easier, they had well paid for jobs, and much better standards of living. Why was the Berlin Wall put up? The wall was put up to symbolize the extreme tension and the true separation of the Western and Eastern governments of Berlin. A way of showing just how far both governments will go for a nation to become of one kind, even if it means dividing parts of countries…

totalitarian regime and the US was democratic. Both countries wanted the world to take on their ideology and a struggle began between them to expand their ideology globally. Although the Stalin and the Soviet Union had promised that they would allow Eastern Europe to be democratic and hold elections it became clear…

Reform is an important part of history, it has changed the world in several different ways. It is the essence of change in civilizations since the dawn of time. It also is a factor in religious beliefs and places of worship. History is shaped by reforms, some might come smaller than others. But they all alter history and still do today. Without reform the progress in civilization would be stable for the most part. That’s why it’s important to consider reform in historical events. In this essay I…

Western Germany was occupied by the United States, France and Britain. Eastern Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union. Eventually, the French, British, and American zones merged and formed what would later be known as the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). The Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The aftermath of World War Two is what led to the Cold War in Germany. The Germans in Eastern Germany began to view life in Western Germany as much more desirable. West Germany…