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(Banerjee and Talukdar 2014). Then, the US Congress also sent 1 billion US $ in order to arrange reforms and organize elections in Ukraine. Moreover, the US began to maintain NATO expansion in the Eastern Europe. According to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the joining Crimea to Russia was a “wake-up call” for the NATO and other European establishments (Rywkin 2014). However, some republicans and democrats criticize Barack Obama actions towards Ukraine, recalling the Afghanistan…

If the m4 and m16 rifles were not used today by our military imagine how different the U.S armed forces would seem.The M4 and M16 both contributed to the U.S armed forces amazingly and are still in use today ,still , most people cannot see a difference in between the two such as customization, accuracy, shooting and reliability. At first glance the M16 assault rifle and M4 carbine look similar they are almost exactly the same. If people look closer people learn this is not even close to true.…

while the Marshall Plan offered aid and money to any country, so long as they refused to turn communist. Another such action is the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO (Doc. 4). NATO ensured that if the Soviet Union attack the US, many other countries would also go to war against the Soviet Union. NATO also helped to prevent the possibility of an attack (Doc. 4). The Soviet Union took part in a different alliance called the Warsaw Pact. These alliances looked quite a bit…

Srebrenica Ethnic groups and religions Bosnia and Herzegovina are situated in the western Balkan Peninsula of Europe. The larger region of Bosnia occupies the northern and central parts of the country, and Herzegovina occupies the south and southwest. The capital of the country is Sarajevo. The region is divided into three ethnic groups that generally correspond to three major religions; Bosniaks and Islam; Serbs and Orthodox Christianity; Croats and Roman Catholicism. They all share the same…

Despite the chaos caused by World War II, an American Foreign Policy was developed. On March,1948, former President Harry Truman announced a new foreign policy during his speech on March 12 with its purpose to encounter soviet geopolitical expansion, also known as Cold War. Almost 15,000 people attended Marshall’s meeting without thinking of the powerful statement he was about to make. Approximately, two years after WWII, Truman performed a speech including a decision that eventually changed the…

While the 20th century was a period that saw relatively little interstate conflict in comparison to the past, the void was filled with several kinds of domestic conflicts, especially within colonial territories. It was an era of rapid social and political change that saw the forces of development, modernization, and independence all acting in concert to create insurrectionary movements against government across the globe in Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, among others. The…

would not break out again, NATO was founded in 1949. Founding members of NATO were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States (nato.int). After the formation of NATO the USSR decided to form its own group of nations called the Warsaw Pact in 1955. Both of these are examples of Collective Security, the basic definition of Collective Security is, if one country that is in NATO or the Warsaw Pact gets…

1910’s Nellie McClung Before Nellie McClung, born October 20th 1873 was a activist she was a suffragist, reformer, legislator, author. She received her teaching certificate at 16 years old. She had her teaching career until she was married to her husband in 1896 Robert Wesley McClung. She was an effective speaker who won the audiences with humor. She was also a part of the “famous five” in 1927 that contained Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise Crummy McKinney and Irene Parlby. The…

The nation of Yugoslavia was created in the aftermath of World War I. However, this nation only lasted from 1918 to 1941, when it was invaded by Axis powers during World War II. In 1943, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) was established under the rule of authoritarian leader Josip Broz Tito. Tito allowed each of the different regions in the Republic of Yugoslavia to have their own constitutions, laws, and elected leaders and these regions experienced great autonomy during…

of China in order to establish the People’s Republic of China. 3. How do the authors characterize the Cold War (What was it like?) As 45 years of high level tension and competition between the superpowers but with no direct military conflict. 4. NATO & the Warsaw…