Eastern State Penitentiary

throughout the world, but the United States wanted to keep communism within the Russian borders. They wanted to contain it. Containment was the United States’ attempt to keep communism from spreading, and it was done by giving aid to West Germany and fighting for South Korea in the Korean War. After World War…

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…

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 opposite arguments about the West: one saying that it did too much and the other that is did too little, more likely referred to as the “too much” camp or school and the “too little” camp. (pg.167). On the one hand, the “Too Much School” (pg.169) states that the West tried too hard to impose its own rules and ideas on the Russian country,…

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 disavowal of the Brezhnev Doctrine which meant that the leaders could no longer count on his support to stop as with countries that had begun to press for change. The East European Communist regimes faced a challenge in the West, from the United States and…

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…

The civilian deaths from WWII was over 13 times more than the civilian deaths from WWI. In the first world war, the civilian deaths made up only 5% of the total deaths, twenty-one years later that 5% increased to 67%. All together, there was an estimated amount of 57 million deaths. World war two was not so much of a highlight but more of a tragic central event of the twentieth century. The war was fought between two groups of powers, the allies and the axis powers. The initial start of the war…

Truman’s foreign policy had a significant impact on international relations during the years 1945-1947 as it started the cold war. The year 1945 marked a turning point in America relations with Russia because Truman’s foreign policy sharply contrasted with that of Roosevelt. By releasing an atomic bomb on Japan in 1945 Truman increased suspicion of US motives and further damaged the relationship with Russia. This differed from former U.S president Roosevelt policy of” comprising” with Russia.…

Communism. This led to a series of wars, most memorably the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the fall of the U.S.S.R. In 1945, Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe was defeated by the joint efforts of then allies the United States and Soviet Union forces. The Soviet Union and the United States then became the major and military and political powers or super powers. However, they had contrasting opinions when it came to history, society, politics and international relations. The Russian communist…