Eastern State Penitentiary

After World War Two, the United States and Soviet Union emerged as the two Superpowers because they were the most powerful countries in the world at that time. The Cold War was a conflict between these Superpowers in political, conceptual, and economic values. Competition between the two Superpowers had a large impact on many European countries. The Superpowers greatly affected many European countries including Germany, Czechoslovakia, and France through their conflict with one another.…

uses images and spotlights to freeze female beauty within an idealized childhood, and forces women to perceive aging—that normal unfolding of years—as a shameful devaluation” (255). Moreover, the author supports her thesis by enlightening how an Eastern woman can elude her quandary since it is evident to society, whereas in Western culture, the violence is on a psychosomatic echelon, as men reduce women, unbeknownst to them or humanity. By appealing to one’s reasoning, Mernissi is able to defend…

After World War II, the United States becomes the 1st world power, most of Europe had been in a very bad state and US aid to the destroyed Europe made it became the first state of the capitalist world. The dominance of the United States on the other capitalist countries was based on three points. His great economic and technological superiority, had the largest reserves of gold in…

President Harry Truman became the 33rd President of the United States on April 12, 1945 after Franklin D. Roosevelt died from a cerebral hemorrhage. Truman, being thrust into a position that carries a lot of weight, was given the power to decide how the U.S. would operate with other countries. Some of Truman’s decisions like fighting against communism by manking the Truman Dcotrine and laying an anti-communism bedrock for foreign policy, trying to stop the expansion of the USSR and Manipulating…

An alliance is when two or independent states’ official representatives sign a formal written contract in agreement to their roles during a military conflict. The agreement can be either to help their partner during military conflict, remain neutral during military conflict, abstain from military conflict, or to consult and cooperate during international crises that create the potential for military conflict. There are five different types of alliances, defensive, offensive, neutrality,…

as we know it. Stalingrad held the original name of Tsaritsyn until the year of 1925. It was renamed for Joseph Stalin, the leader of the country. After the Russian civil war (1917-1922), the Bolsheviks took over the country, turning it into a red state. The city is famously known for its resistance in the second world war. It suffered severe losses and catastrophic…

this was felt through Europe. When the power left in Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union began reordering the European relations. In Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union began reconstructing based on the goals of the Moscow communist parties. In Western Europe, their economic shortages and fears of the Soviet Union made them dependent on the United States. In order for there not to be an economic collapse, the United States developed and international trade and financial…

1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or also known as NATO, was established under the North Atlantic Treaty by Belgium, Canada, Great Britain, France, Iceland, Italy, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. Then as time has moved on, NATO still continues to be in intact today with twenty-eight countries and with the headquarters being in Brussels, Belgium. The North Atlantic Treaty was ultimately negotiated as a Western countermeasure against the…

A fortified border which spans 155 kilometers separates east and west, communism and democracy, and repression from freedom (Walled In: Germany’s Inner Border). This barrier is known to many as The Berlin Wall. It became a significant symbol that represented all of those things depending on which side of the wall you were on. The events leading up to the building and destruction of the wall were very important to not only the Germans, but also to the whole world. The wall itself was a very…

what would be a secure political arrangement of peoples and nations in the aftermath of WW II The first area of disagreement of theeee Cold War was Eastern Europe One factor that helped start the Cold War in Eastern Europe was Stalin’s want to employ for-Soviet governments in the countries of Eastern Europe to serve as a neutral area The United States of America threw out the Truman Doctrine to Congress in March 1947. The doctrine wanted to give Greece and Turkey $400 mill. so they could protect…