Eastern State Penitentiary

During World War 2 (1939-1945), the rationality was that the Soviet Union and the USA were allies because they were fighting towards the same enemy – Nazi Germany. From this it was thought that after the war, the two forces would have a firm relationship. Yet the appearance of this was a powerful illusion. Once Germany surrendered in 1945, by 1947 the U.S openly formulated a policy of ‘Containment’ and at the beginning of 1948 the Cold War had soar. Containment was the plan to diminish the rise…

The Marshall Plan was part of the policy of containment, this is true because it helped struggling countries defend themselves against the Soviet union as well create closer relations with many countries so they could convince countries not to switch to communism through political means. The U.S. policy of containment aimed to put an end to the expansion of communism, while also preventing nuclear annihilation. Most Capitalist western countries viewed Communism as an infectious disease, and the…

that divided the West and the East was the different political views between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The United States were capitalist, and had a democratic government. They believed that an individuals right’s included economic freedom which can be seen as a free-market. On the other had, the Soviet Union were communist, and they had a totalitarian government. The state had control and owned all the properties and wealth was equally distributed among the…

Today, there are a large number of foreign people fleeing their country of origins to arrive into first world nations such as the United States and Western Europe. The news has been publishing a “migration crisis”, which is many people from the middle east and other unstable countries -e.g. Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Eritrea etc.- and arriving in western Europe in almost millions each month and thousands each day. The reason for that is because their country of origins are not safe places to live…

are so many European countries, this essay will delineate a lesser debated difference. That difference being the working habits and norms of Europeans VS Americans. Now, for economy of wording I will group European countries thusly: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, southern Europe, and Northern Europe. While these countries all identify as European, their differences in societal…

Soviet occupation in Poland), and bolstered attacks, asserting on the USSR's behalf, their bent on world domination. The United States misconstrued Soviet intentions and assigned ‘world domination' as Stalin's main goal. With such a seemingly aggressive Soviet threat at hand, the U.S. utilized documents and speeches like Kennan's Long Telegram, Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech and the Truman doctrine to acknowledge the maturing Soviet menace. These three documents and declarations deepened the…

The blame for the development of the Cold War rests most heavily on the United States’ shoulders; however, the origins of the war overall stemmed from a back and forth struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union for spheres of influence. The United States was overly aggressive and preemptive in its policy to expand it’s sphere of influence and contain the Soviets’. In all fairness, these preemptive actions were not without justification; however, these justifications lay less…

Roosevelt envisioned for the postwar world. The united states influence is also seen when the Soviet Union decided to allow pro-western “London” poles in the Warsaw regime in Poland. This sphere of influence may have caused tension to rise with the Soviet Union because they realized the American vision may be chosen over there’s. However, the soviet union’s vision of communism also reached the United States. Joseph McCarthy accused the American State Department of being filled with communist.…

For the most part, mentalities turned out to be more liberal and this can be found in the changing part of ladies, xenophobia and in disallowance. Country America be that as it may, stayed much more customary than the propelling urban communities. States of mind towards ladies and migrants remained to a great extent negative. Disallowance was energized in Rural America and was to a great extent tolerated to, not at all like in urban areas where speakeasies weren 't difficult to find. Amid the…

“Harrison Bergeron” is a fictitious story written by Kurt Vonnegut in October of 1961. During the time period in which it was published, the Soviet Union (USSR) was still in power. The Soviet Union was a communist society that used force from “secret police”, whose main objective was to censor the people. The story “Harrison Bergeron” has a similar approach set in a dystopian society in the year 2081. In this society “Everybody was finally equal....Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody…