Elizabeth of Russia

Putin claimed that Russia needed to intervene in order to "to ensure proper conditions for the people of Crimea to be able to freely express their will" (Putin, 2014). However Thomas Grant argues that “No credible evidence existed to suggest that the inhabitants of Crimea, or any group of inhabitants of Crimea, had grievances which even the most speculative theories of self-determination would justify secession” (Grant, 2015). The Budapest Memorandum of Security Assurances, which Russia was a…

Iran was one of the most ancient civilizations in the world. It had six thousand years of history. In the modern world, Mohammad Reza was a legendary person in Iranian history. Mohammad was born on October 27, 1919, in Tehran, Iran, and died on July 21, 1980, in Cairo, Egypt. He was elected King of Iran on September 16, 1941, until his overthrow on February 11, 1979, which was caused by the Islamic Revolution. He was the second and last monarch of the Pahlavi. He married Princess Fawzia of Egypt…

1. WHAT IS A RESEARCH QUESTION? The research question in Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations is: Will civilization/culture be the new basis of conflict between countries after the end of the Cold War? 2. A) WHAT IS/ARE THE MAIN HYPOTHESES AND NULL HYPOTHESES? Huntington had several hypotheses in his article. They include: i) The end of the Cold War between the West and East will create a new form of conflict among different religious and cultural identities; ii) This new form of…

Life is difficult at times of war, people are often desperate and will do anything to survive. The book “City of Thieves” by David Benioff demonstrates the everyday suffering the poor citizens have to face when social injustice is present in the given society. During the siege of Leningrad in 1942, the government shut off all supplies for their city and provided them with practically no resources to live. This interaction gave all the citizens no hope in living a normal life, everybody was…

Over my spring break I was able to have the opportunity to go back to the Dominican Republic, to an all exclusive resort. There were so many different cultures that I was able to interact with the week I was there. I never notice how different people greeter from other cultures. There was a lot of people from Russians, Brazilians, and Dominicans. The Russian culture is very different from American. The men are very dominate while the woman mostly take care of the kids. Us being from America…

I disagree that Vietnam was a noble, unselfish American effort to assist an ally from falling to Communism for the following reasons: First: The Soviet Union and America did not have diplomatic relations until 1933 and fought together to defeat Nazi’s in WWII. Even though these two countries fought on the same side during this time the differences in ideology, political views as well as the economics of each country began to create a wedge between them. The two countries turned scientific…

the Great exemplified cultural competence. She demonstrated cultural competence through her non tyrannical approach including: supporting the serfs, celebrating the religious freedom of Russia, and displaying gender equality. As part of Catherine's initiative to change Russia for the better she believed Russia would benefit from the abolition of serfdom. Catherine began campaigning for a law freeing serfs and on August 8, 1762 Catherine declared that: "In future, owners of factories and mines…

In 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union were allies, jointly triumphant in World War II, which ended with total victory for Soviet and American forces over Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe. However, within just a few years, these wartime allies became mortal enemies, locked in a global struggle to prevail in a new "Cold War." The Cold War was a time of extreme tension between the USSR, or the Soviet Union and the United States, and their respective ideologies. It was not declared in…

Russian way of life became to take over the Baltic region; therefore, Baron learned Russian because the nation-state of Russia want the residents to know Russian. He was the “first generation of Russification” to live in the “new East Asia” (Sunderland, p. 53). His military career took him to the eastern borders; where he encountered different cultures like, the Mongolians. Russia shared “2,000 miles with Mongolia”, therefore, Baron taught himself the Mongolian language so he could communicate…

Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicholas II at the time. He believed in a system of government whereby one person has absolute power, or autocracy. Russia was becoming industrialized very rapidly, which brought about low paying positions and a massive rate of unemployment. Nicholas II was very poor at managing important aspects of society such as politics and the military. World War I was not playing out the way the Russians had intended and the general population blamed Nicholas II because of it. The…