Soviet war in Afghanistan

Middle East. In this presentation, I will share the key developments over history in this ongoing crisis crisis. The concept of wars fought over differences in religion, or holy wars, is not a particularly new idea. Since the dawn of time, various groups with opposing viewpoints have commonly struggled to spread their own influence over each other. Such examples of holy war include the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and of course, the highly controversial “modern-day” jihad.…

Al-Qa’ida (‘the Base’) is an international terrorist organization that was founded by Osama bin Laden in August of 1988. Bin Laden, a son of a wealthy and prominent Saudi family, trained and fought with the mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the 1989 Soviet Invasion of the country. The organization continues to pose a threat to regions of North Africa and the Middle East, as well as various Western countries. This organization seeks to unite Muslims as a means of overthrowing any regimes that the…

Why did Communism collapse in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union? Identify and explain any three reasons. Devote a separate paragraph to each example. i. One reason why Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union collapsed was because the Soviet Union’s economy couldn’t compete with the western countries. The United States was an economic powerhouse and, also, a capitalist country. Because this the United…

don’t think Bush handled this well at all. He broke the promise that got him the presidency to millions of hopeful Americans. During his presidency, Bush launched a full-scale air assault and ground invasion against Iraq as part of the Persian Gulf War in retaliation to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The United States quickly intervened for a number of reasons. By invading Kuwait, Saddam Hussein gained control over a vast amount of the world's oil supply, which gave him the potential to wreak havoc…

The cost to maintain installations and troops overseas including those in Iraq and Afghanistan is approximately $156 billion. According to the RAND Corporation, “even when host countries like Japan and Germany cover some of the costs, US taxpayers still pay an annual average of $10,000 to $40,000 per year to station a member of the military…

and Latin America.” Later on, the U.S. important role in the Great War and the Second World War let most Americans “accept their nation’s leading role in world affairs.” In my opinion, the U.S. involvement in World War II recovered and boosted its economy, whereas its intervention in the Vietnam War exerted a burden on its economy. This comparison shows that costs of maintaining global power weakened the U.S. economy. World War II, to a great extent, cured the Great Depression and led the…

navigate postwar peace, held between the leaders of the big three in 1945. The first, held in Yalta in February 1945 , was the final meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Stalin and Winston Churchill . The Yalta conference aimed to coordinate post war elections in occupied Europe as well as establish an agreement on the division of Germany after the Nazi’s impending surrender . At first glance the conference appears to successfully accomplish these goals . The allies signed the Declaration…

new Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, did not reinstate the terror of the Stalin years; however, he sought to strengthen the role of the party bureaucracy and the KGB and encouraged the further clampdown on reform in the satellite states. In 1968, disaffection with this step backward led to the emergence of a reform movement in Czechoslovakia. The main goal of this “Prague Spring” was to bring about a more humanistic socialism within certain limits, such as keeping the nation within the Soviet…

strengthening the nation's economy. He did this by reducing inflation, increasing employment and cutting taxes to nearly 25 percent. He was also instrumental in appointing the first female Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor. Besides this, be started a war against the drugs, The economic policies that Reagan started in 1981 are known as Reaganomics. He endeavored to encourage entrepreneurship and limit the growth of social spending. In addition…

“I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z,” Muhammad allegedly confesses to the distraught U.S. nation. In 2001, the motives for the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was solely due to religion. Religion is an important part of life for many people. Even people who are not very religious consider it important. Religion is a particular system of faith and worship and is primary cause of conflict in the world. It is powerfully motivating and many humans tend to fight…