NATO

Generally attributed to Mark Twain is the saying that politicians are like nappies in that they need to be changed regularly and for the same reason. And across the Atlantic, in the Land of the Free, it is almost changing time. Predictably, the Clinton and Bush dynasties still feel they haven’t made enough of a mark on US politics, and their representatives, Hillary and Jeb, respectively, are desperate to secure their party’s nomination. But it is one man that stands out from the rest, and to…

Much debate and conflict is occurring between Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea. These countries’ past conflicts have contributed to the current crisis. Crimea, as well as East Ukraine, wants to join Russia. This has led to past promises being broken and worldwide debate about what Russia should do. While countries around the world have responded to this conflict, their actions don’t appear to have a large effect on the actions of Ukraine or Russia. While Crimea has become a part of Russia, there is…

The causes of the Cold War were a result of disputes between German occupation following World War II, differences in political ideology, and the Soviets plan to use surrounding countries as buffer zones. One of the most prominent causes of the Cold War was the Soviet occupation of Germany. During the Yalta Conference, the different powers discussed how Germany would be split up. After Yalta, the Soviets violated the agreement there as discussed in document four. This caused a lot of tension…

In 1983, the Cold War was in a heightened stated. Early in the year, Ronald Reagan gave his famous Evil Empire speech as justification for deploying NATO nuclear-armed missiles. The SDI or “Star Wars” plan was a sign of heightening tensions between the NATO countries and the Warsaw Pact ones. Other events, like the Soviet downing of Korean Airlines 007, Massive Nuclear Protests in Europe and the Able Archer exercises, were further signs of rising Cold War tensions. It was in this atmosphere that…

the years of 1946 to 1991, the U.S., USSR, France, Britain, and much of Eastern Europe became involved in the Cold war. Foreign policies across the globe were predominantly focused on containment and the Domino Theory. The countries not involved in NATO and the Warsaw Pact were highly competed for by those two groups, in the attempts to make either capitalism or communism the dominant ideology. This conflict lasted for 45…

Elie can use other events that relate to his message like the assassinations of Martin Luther King jr or the bloodbaths in Pakistan. Elie’s speech gave us insight about how Indifference has changed the world. NATO was formed and helped refugees in Kosovo. It also explains how people that were great leader were also subject to Indifference. In the speech it talks about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and how he and the governments were indifferent of concentration…

For me, question one and two have many of the same answers. I look at the Vietnam War as a byproduct of the Cold War. American policy makers were so afraid of communism spreading across the Asian continent, (the domino effect) that they were willing to do anything and everything to stop communism from taking root in Southeast Asia. The French had been unsuccessful in their attempt to drive communism from Vietnam and American leaders felt that it was the "duty" of America, as the policemen of the…

The Cold War was a state of political tension between the Eastern bloc (Soviet Union and its allies) and the Western bloc (US and its NATO allies). The war took place after the 2nd world war. The war involved indirect fight between the two blocs. The major wars during the cold war were witnessed in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Korea which the two blocs supported. The Cold War led to the emergence of capitalist U.S. and communist USSR as the two world superpowers with profound political and economic…

President Obama has proposed a $582.7 billion budget for defense spending in his Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget. In this budget, he argued for a quadrupling of our military expenditures in Europe to $3.4 billion to prevent Russian aggression against our NATO allies that have large ethnically Russian populations (Boyer). This extra spending would allow for “continuous U.S. armored brigade rotations”…

Italy, also known as the Italian Republic, is a peninsula located in the south-central part of Europe. Italy’s capital is Rome, which is one of the country’s top tourist destinations, it surrounds the Vatican City. Italy is the forefront of the Roman Catholic Church, home to the Pope, and the Vatican Museums. Italy is a culturally rich, mountainous terrain with a climate that varies considerably from the northern part of the peninsula to the southern. The country’s attractive nature is why…