NATO

incentives for other states to join by promising access to all the major nations already part of this order (in addition to limiting potentially viable partners outside). But, this optimism ultimately proved ill-founded. While Western institutions like NATO have seen some increased membership since the Cold War ended, many key international powers like China and Russia remain opposed to fully joining their nations’ interests with those of the West. The liberal order championed by the West has…

Draft – What America Means to Me Patriot Penn Contest I am an African American living in Germany. I was born on July 8, 2003, I was born in America and lived there for four years. The America I believe in is freedom, in America I can walk with the freedom of not being a slave with little or no pay for work. I am able to go to a school with white children but 60 years ago I couldn’t. What America means to me Is freedom, the freedom of being me: a very helpful and kind person. I have the freedom…

Nuclear weapons have been around for less than 100 years and yet they are the central focus around war and violence as more and more countries are implementing nuclear weapons in their main military strategies. In 1938, 3 chemists in Berlin discovered the power to construct nuclear weapons when they split the uranium atom (cite). In 1939, physicist Albert Einstein, concerned about the rise of Hitler, sent a letter to President Theodore Roosevelt warning him of this discover and the…

In the Post Cold War Era, new aspects of security became apparent and led to the expansion of security; security was not only the security of particular states or people but the security of the international society and security was not only based on issues between states but issues within states. The Post cold War developments of security led to the concept of human security which emphasizes the security of individuals not of states. The chapter implies that security had remained the crucial…

powers which eventually branched out into the Cold War. These actions caused the world to be changed in many different political ways, the spread of communism reached out to countries like China and Cuba. There was also many teams and treaties such as NATO and the UN which we are part of today. All these things branched out to become new ideas and materials, there was benefits and downsides of WW2 and teaches many generations this…

This alliance was created between Canada, Western Europe, and the U.S which became known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO to counter Soviet power. The Soviet Union and its allied Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, known as the Warsaw Pact. The primary purpose of NATO was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.The alignment…

beyond the regions in which the Red Army were already situated. The policies introduced by America accelerated the division of Europe, such as the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. By 1949, the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) fortified Europe’s division. In March 1946, George Kennan sent an 8000 worded telegram to the U.S with his own views of the Soviet Union and the U.S policy towards them. This telegram highlighted that there would be no ‘peaceful coexistence’…

The Fall of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia was a nation that was formed in the aftermath of the First World War and was located in the South-East. Its inception was in the year 1918, and although it was created with an intention to remain intact as a republic, it did break up in the year 1992 to the current nations of Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. There were various. Its downfall was not a one-day affair and took quite sometimes before it was officially…

The Canadian government was justified in its actions taken during the Cold War, through the Korean war, High Arctic Exiles, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, because they had taken the most definitive action, as to mediate tension, discontinuing global damage, whilst avoiding another potential war. Firstly, in the Korean war the Canadians had sent a couple thousand troops, to aid South Korea from the invasion of North Korea. Through this, the Canadians along with a couple of United Nations forces…

Truman’s policy of containment was to work to stop the spread of communism any way they could. They used the Truman Doctrine (political), Marshall plan (Economic), NATO and other alliances (political). The goals of the Truman Doctrine were to contain and convert the communists to Western Democracies. The Marshal plan aided Western Europe to help rebuild after the war. It also worked to reject the appeal of communism After World War II, Berlin was controlled by the Soviets, US, Britain, and…