Socialist state

concurrently with the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States was the Cold War. As relations were deteriorating with each new conflict, both governments started creating and distributing propaganda in order to maintain public support and a unified home front. Propaganda materials, such as posters and art, were abundant in both the US and the USSR. In the Soviet Union, there are various posters that utilized many socialist symbols as well as the color red, which traditionally…

native empires, to the rise of the independent states has taught me that Latin America has been a country willing to stand up for themselves. Although they are brave and willing to protect their sovereignty, they have earned a reputation for being known as a third world country. Growing up in a Hispanic family, I learned that many of my family members left Latin America because of its underdevelopment and corruption. They came to the United States seeking a better life with opportunities. Now…

General Fulgencio Batista. Originally, Castro promised the people of Cuba democracy, instead he instituted a socialist dictatorship. Over 100,000 Cubans fled their home with many coming to America in order to seek shelter from Castro’s regime. In April 1961, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) had a plan to invade Cuba using exiles as a trained Army personnel. This was to keep the United States involvement as covert as possible in hopes that the invasion would overthrow Castro and insert a US…

This led to an array of scholars, like Clarence Streit, to hypothesize a world-federalist system that could eliminate inter-state war through a racialized hierarchy of Anglo-Saxon supremacy (649). Bell argues that “the racial peace thesis was an important element of the Anglo-Saxonist ideology” which guided self-identification and geopolitical alliances that manifested in the…

What was the Iron Curtain The term Iron Curtain became widely known during the cold war and was used to define the geopolitical, military, physical and ideological boundary that separated states that were members of the Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe (Eastern Bloc) and those that were not, otherwise called The West. This boundary separated the two areas from World War II to the end of cold war and it represented the Soviet Union’s attempt to shield itself and allies from direct contact with…

argues that while the advent of modern technologies was disruptive to some degree - Weimar society was not in a state of sociocultural panic. Instead, the arrival of cinema, radio, and upgrades to printing technologies engendered an “open space” for expression that most of society welcomed. More fervent critics of Peukert and Weitz (the socioculturalists) have not denied that Weimar was in a state of sociocultural “crisis,” but argued that the term is too frequently used to draw callous causal…

as well as China, Laos, and Cambodia. It is a one-party Communist state. Vietnam has a rich and interesting story as any other country. The name Vietnam originated in 1803 and was two separate words at first. According to everyculture.com, “When envoys from the newly founded Nguyen dynasty traveled to Beijing, the new emperor had chosen that name for his kingdom.” The Chinese chose this name because it represented an ancient state that had fought against Chinese rule. The word Viet resulted from…

and advocates for the use of existing governmental institutions to negotiate solutions to contentious political points, a message that has only become more significant after the extremely divisive election of Donald Trump. The Socialist Alternative is a Democratic socialist political party that organized an anti-Trump protest in Oakland the day after Election Day. News reports estimate that seven thousand people attended the protest (Hollyfield, 2016). The composition of the crowd, if the area…

Secondly, socialist and communist practices mainly govern Chelsia’s economy. Chelsian’s have the economic power in choosing where they want their money being invested in. As a result, healthcare and post-secondary education are free. Parallely to Denmark, Danes and Chelsian’s pay large amounts of taxes to afford these free luxuries. Despite these costly taxes, taxpayers happily pay their fees as taxes are seen as an investment in their future lifestyle. Through allowing citizens to control where…

by the United States team. The Soviets answered with another goal and as the period was about to end, the American team snuck in another goal to tie the score up 2-2 at the end of the first period. The Russians changed goalies going into the second period and although they outshot the Americans 12-2 in the second period, the Soviets managed to only score one goal,…