Eastern Suburbs

After World War II, the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union began a decades-long fight for superiority. This fight is known as the Cold War. Although the Soviet Union and the United States did not engage in physical combat or directly battle during the Cold War, they continually antagonized each other through political and economic clashes. One of the biggest and most memorable confrontations of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest…

In the reading of The Marshall Plan Speech, George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, developed an economic program called The Marshal Plan, which aimed to reduce hunger, homelessness, and unemployment to nations in the Western Europe. After World War II, the United States needed to formulate a plan to help rebuild war torn Europe and help create a stronger environment for Europe as a whole. He challenged the countries of Europe to get together and produce a plan for regeneration, which the US…

The relationship between America and the Soviet Union was filled with tension even during the World War; the tension intensified over the following decade. Major influences of the tension included The Yalta Conference and The Korean War. These events not only strained their relationship even more with each other, but turning them into enemies in what was known as the Cold War. A main reason for the two powers tension was their different visions. Before the Yalta Conference, the Tehran…

However, the communist Eastern Europe had laws and regulations that far exceeded those in the West. Abortion was briefly recriminalized, and contraceptives were hard to come by as Soviet access to them was denied. As Dagmar Herzog points out in Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth…

After the end of World War Two, the newly formed countries of East and West Germany were struggling to create new national identities in the aftermath of the destruction caused by the National Socialist German Workers party and the war. A parallel of the country as a whole, the capital city of Berlin was also split into an East and a West portion controlled by the Soviet Union and the Allies respectively. The close proximity of the East and the West in the same city—a political, economic, and…

As a martian scholar sent to study the Earth and the humans that inhabit it, my findings were very concerning. It seems, from what I’ve read, as if nothing but negative events occur. Using common sense I know that cannot be true, but the way the humans flaunt their shortcomings in the newspaper speaks to what they choose to represent themselves as. In the article “A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories” by Neil Macfarquhar, it explains the debate between whether Sweden should…

1. Churchill believes the Soviet Union "desires the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines." How might those expansionist desires challenge the Western principle of national political self determination, a cause it championed during World War 2? Churchill sees one of the great threats to common people as war. After two World Wars most of Europe agreed. He also says that tyranny or lack of rights is a threat to the people. The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were…

1961 wend president john f Kenney communist oppression was place in put on the Berlin Wall . the reason that the wall was place democratic West Germany shortly after the Soviet-supported Communist state of East Germany . the division was a big problem for the for Easter side the separation of the freedom of choice. also the separation of the rich and the poor . their were separation of families divide between families. the thing about the wall is to change people to came and over to the…

RUSSIAN DICTATOR SETS UP BLOCKADE Tensions over border issues have only increased after WW2. And just a few days ago, on June 24, 1948, Russian dictator Joseph Stalin set up a blockade right on the center of Berlin, cutting off the escape route for the people fleeing towards the area controlled by the U.S. As a leader, Stalin is a very selfish man. He wanted to expand his empire, and he will stop at nothing to accomplish it. He knew his former allies wouldn’t want to start a another war, and…

On January, 1942 the Anglo-Soviet-Iranian Treaty of 1942 was signed in Tehran. It is a treaty of alliance between Great Britain, The United States and Russia, which prevented Germany from utilizing Iran’s resources and territory. Included in the treaty, Russia, the United States and Great Britain had to defend Iran from Germany or any other country in order to prevent invasion again. The treaty was formed due to the Anglo-Soviet invasion that took place in World War II from August 25 to…