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16. Compare and Contrast the policies of the US and USSR during Cold War. Primary approaches to address are Containment - the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. Different perspectives which are not "strategies" but rather could be mulled over are: Truman's hard-line approach toward the USSR; his exclusion at Potsdam of advising Stalin about the nuclear bomb and the dropping of it at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the German Question; the Berlin Airlift and NATO. Iron Curtain: Soviets refuse to…

and to please patients’ family (Zydziunaite & Suominen, 2014, p. 159). The research says that nurse managers focus on getting the job done rather than managing ethical decisions. The authors suggest that nurse managers should exercise regular self-reflection and evaluations in order to be able to adjust the leadership style to the particular ethical dilemma in each case, and in addition, nurse managers should seek improvement of competencies and expertise when handling ethical dilemma.…

democratic governments. Yet as WWI comes to an end, the Baltic states lack of political experiences and civic culture in addition to the great deal of instability in the number of cabinets, the democratic government began to shift to authoritarian; Lithuania was the first of the three to shift in 1926 with the other two in 1934, all following an authoritarian…

This story follows the journey of Jurgis Rudkus, his new wife Ona, and her family in the Packingtown district of Chicago, Illinois. Arriving from Lithuania, Jurgis imminently finds himself a job in one of Chicago’s meat packing factories where he was happy working on one of the killing floors. With the help of an agent, they were able to get a loan and use the money that they saved in order to buy a house. Seeing how none of them knew much English they were swindled into agreeing to a loan…

The Buyck Family Sixteen years ago Dina Roman and James Buyck had a daughter named Victoria Buyck. They both worked at Market Basket in the bakery department. James was a baker and Dina was a cake decorator. After a few years they started seeing each other and thus Victoria was born. Dina had two other children Chris and Quintin Torres, with another man that currently lives in New York but she loves all her children the same. Dina's great grandfather Gil Acosta was born in Spain. He lived on…

Allied powers, and lacked German involvement. The treaty consisted of fifteen parts and four hundred and forty articles. Within the treaty it was declared that Germany's boundaries would be reassigned. Land was given to Belgium, France, Poland, Lithuania, and Denmark. Another part of the treaty states that Germany…

In the book Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys, fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas from Lithuania is taken to a Siberian work camp with her mother and her brother, Jonas. Stuffed in a crowded truck with dozens of other innocent people, the family is whisked away by the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) far from home with slight chances of getting away. They endure a lot, which includes torture, threatening, abuse, and starvation, but the family does their best to stay strong and make it through the next…

English by other poets who respect his work. Czeslaw Milosz’s poem “Unde Malum” is a deep poem reflecting his views on how destructive man is and how innocent nature is. Milosz was a Polish poet, prose write, translator, and diplomat. He was born in Lithuania and lived there from 1960 until his death in 2004 in the United States. From 1961 to 1998, he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1970 he became a United States citizen. Milosz…

Russia was by far the biggest country extending all the way to Austria Hungary, Germany, and Sweden. Europe After World War I: This map shows all of the changes that happened after World War I. The biggest changes were Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland were created as independent countries from land previously owned by Russia. Also, Austria-Hungary was split up and had to give land to Italy, Romania, the new independent country of Czechoslovakia, and the new independent country…

The Tehran Conference was held from November 28 to December 1st. It was a meeting between 3 countries to strengthen their ability to win World War II. The United States was represented by the current president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The USSR was represented by Joseph Stalin and Great Britain by prime minister Winston Churchill. This conference was held in Tehran, Iran and they strategize against countries like Japan, Germany, and France. Getting all 3 parties together was not easy because…