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Virunga National Park Tourism: Have Positive Influence On Local Economy, Conservation and Politic. Virunga National Park is a park where many gorillas live and there are many natural resources. Through the Virunga documentary, (2014) a documentary that depicts rangers take risks to protect gorillas in Virunga National Park, we can know there are many poaching and political conflicts which negatively impact local people and environment. In the documentary, local people claim that Virunga…

Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech reflects Winston Churchill’s thoughts on the time period of World War II (1946) about the “Europe’s Divide”, the “Communist Fifth Columns”, and the war not being “Inevitable”, the issue going around World War II and The Cold War affected many people and countries. Churchill persuades the readers to believe what The United Nations plan was to help Winston Churchill and restore both sides of Europe. Churchill uses an Emotional Appeal to show “a strong…

The post WWII propaganda saw a strong link emerge between many political actions of the two superpowers and the fight to ideological supremacy, as the governments inadvertently campaign for public support of their ideology. Corresponding with the rising ideological pride, the pressure and threat of the enemy saw the governments begin efforts to use political movements to discredit the capability of the rival ideology. This ideological pressure clearly burdened both the American and Soviet…

The Cold War took place from the end of World War II, in 1945, to 1991, when the Soviet Union fell. It was a prolonged period of tension. The Cold War was not fought like any other war; it was fought through competitions such as the Space Race, Proxy Wars, and Sporting Events. The war was over the spread of communism, the idea the people in a country should share all the wealth and property. The Soviet Union wanted to spread communism throughout the world, but the United States wanted to keep…

The National Guard State Partnership Program (SPP) stems from a 1992 Department of Defense (DOD) desire to create and expand military security cooperation efforts in Eastern European countries. Sensitive to Russian concerns that US Active Duty military cooperation activities would appear threating, the DOD established the National Guard State Partnership for Peace program. Starting in the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, this program paired US National Guard soldiers and…

CRITICAL THINKING (MAX 550 WORDS) In the article “Who Lost Russia (this time)?” by Kathryn Stoner and Michael McFaul, the authors want to argue the reasons why Russia turned out to be the country which we know today as powerful and autocratic. The authors go back to what happened to Russia in the 1990s. The decline of the economic growth brought the Russians to point their fingers at the West and more specifically at the United States for their acting. During those years people raised two…

change could rejuvenate the Soviet System, which Gorbachev introduced social and economic reforms in the Soviet Union that granted more political freedom while rebuilding the economy. As changes began to occur in the Soviet Union, Communist leaders in Eastern Europe were forced to consider these reforms in their own countries. Gorbachev and his belief that Communist governments everywhere needed to pursue towards these similar changes. For the East European Communist leaders, Gorbachev’s…

Detail the SALT and START treaties, the major players involved and the impact of these treaties. o SALT • 1960s, the United States learned that the Soviet Union had embarked upon a massive Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) buildup designed to reach parity with the United States. • In January 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that the Soviet Union had begun to construct a limited Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense system around Moscow. • The development of an ABM system could…

The end of WWII should have heralded in a new age of relatively stable peace. The Axis powers had been defeated and Nazi Germany was no more. Instead, the U.S. and the USSR plunged the world into the Cold War. Unlike any previous war, it was one of the longest confrontations in U.S. history. It spanned five decades and across continents, involving millions in the battle between capitalism and communism. There isn’t a simple answer as to how the Cold War came to be. However, there is a trail of…

During an enduring, everlasting war of 1900s, the United States’ primary desire and ambition was to spread its democratic influence and its goal of containment. While the nation sought to prevent the spread of the communist ideology in Europe, the United States also accepted challenges elsewhere. The Soviets and its communist values attempted to spread throughout Asia; led the United States to take apart of this war to combat and counteract communist influence. Although the spread of communism…