Eastern philosophy

After World War II had ended there was a struggle in international relations between the West and the Soviet Union. With the defeat of the Nazis, the United States and Britain were concerned about the stagnation and turmoil of the European countries affected by the war and introduced the Marshall plan, a rapid economic reconstruction of Western Europe. But Stalin did not want the Soviet Union to participate in the Marshall Plan and therefore negotiations between the United States, the West, and…

“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up?” (Faulkner, 1950) The Cold War, and in turn things fictionally orienting and created from its era, not only possess its factual identity, but the intense, next level possession of humankind’s self-evaluation and self-ability. The Hunt for Red October is one example of this possession,…

Poland was a very big conflict after WWII, not just Poland but also all of Eastern Europe. Poland was the nation that could protect the Soviet Union from any attacks against other nations but could also make it very powerful. The U.S. was weary of this they believed the best choice was to have Poland be free from any nation and…

Davis & Co. The Cold War. Have you ever wondered how the two strongest nations battled and how it ended? have you wondered how it affected them? Before we start you need to know a little about the Cold war and how the tension affected the world by having the main superpowers threaten each other which affected their economics. “The cold war started when two nations fought for influence, and power”. (Green) The cold war started in 1946, lasted forty five years, and ended in 1996. The two…

Gwen McFerran Mrs. Cullen AP World History May 8, 2017 Living in West Berlin vs East Berlin: Thesis Paper The Berlin Wall was built in the August of 1961, when the East German soldiers constructed more than thirty miles of a barbed wire barrier through the center of Berlin, Germany. The citizens of East Berlin were forbidden to pass into the Western side. Soon this barbed wire would be replaced by concrete. (Taylor, 458) East German authorities revealed that this wall would protect their…

countries. Since they wanted territory, they gave Cuba missiles so they could fight the United States, and supported them economically. They invaded Afghanistan because they wanted oil, materials, location, and trade ports. Finally, they wanted the Eastern Bloc as a buffer and wanted their materials. To achieve this buffer zone the Soviets established their presence and secured Communist governments there. Since the Soviet Union wanted territory, they provided military, economic and political…

with the communist party imperial elites and the military. These struggles led to failures which added to the fall of the Soviet Union and Gorbachev practically finished himself. The Soviet Union was already weakening since it refused to assist the Eastern Bloc countries and join in their affairs. The Soviet Union was already experiencing food shortages and dealing with a failing…

deciding Germany’s fate when Germany would suffer and the fate of eastern European states. American President Roosevelt had no real power to tell Stalin to leave countries, but because the United States traditionally pushed the self-determination, Roosevelt and Churchill would hope that Stalin would move out on his own. With all of these threats that are appearing form the war it seems the Big Three gathered together and agreed that the eastern countries would have free elective governments. As…

Imagine a city split apart by two superpowers fighting for control of the world. This city becomes a symbol of the split between two very different worlds. That is what the city of Berlin, Germany was during the Cold War, a competition between the Capitalist United States of America and the Communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the Soviet Union. Berlin became a symbol of what the Cold War was doing to the world. Husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, entire families were severed…

The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin took every advantage he could during the war to seize control of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. There was not a doubt in anyone’s mind that Stalin wanted to further spread the Soviet system to Eastern European countries. The Yalta Agreement helped…