Suez Canal

1. Harry Truman was the US President from 1945 to 1953. After World War II, he signed the United Nations charter, ratifying the international organization for peace. He also signed the act initiating the European Recovery Program, which supplied sixteen European countries with economic support to rebuild the damaged sites. In Europe, the partitioning of Germany, especially Berlin, added to the increased hostility between the Soviet Union and the western powers. In 1948, Truman created a massive…

From the years of 1946 to 1991, the United States, the Soviet Union, France, Britain and much of Eastern Europe were involved in what is known as the Cold war. Foreign policies across the globe were concerned with a few major concepts, of which two were the most prevalent: containment and the Domino Theory. The countries not involved in NATO and the Warsaw Pact were highly competed for, in terms of annexation and expansion, by those two groups, in the attempts to make either capitalism or…

The League of Nations was borne out of collective desire of the nations around the world to prevent war, promote world peace and stability. Not to mention, the unprecedented destruction and death caused by World War I spurred the victorious nations into establishing a system of collective security in the form of League of Nations. The primary motive of the League of Nations was to prevent/deter or address any aggression by a state through collective response from other states, thereby ensuring…

Throughout the Second World War, Spain was a non-aggressive state that was not engaged in any type of warfare. When WWII was about to begin and countries were starting to pick alliances, Spain was just recovering from a three yearlong civil war. By that time Spain was inflicted with poverty, the people were starving, and the Spaniards had their share of war. Keeping in mind all the pressure that was put on Spain to join the war, Franco was smart enough to play the system and benefit from…

Drilling successfully into a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake had miraculously unearthed the now indispensable substance known as petroleum, opening the gates to a world never seen before. Ever since that date, oil has been in the vanguard of innovation, powering homes, cars and asserting itself as the chief resource that helps countries function. At a torrid pace, oil mining was becoming not only lucrative, but a necessity, and thus began a global…

My people, the Filipino race, are citizens of the world. Our lives are God-given and the fact that we were made into this world shows that we have the right to live as part of this world. We all stand on equal footing, and so, we must be treated the same as you do your people. We demanded the simple respect that at least you treat our people as human, but you did not deliver. Such pride of being a lighter complexion and being of a different race from us had made you look at us with such disgust…

When World War II came to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union were left as two superpowers with such contrasting ideologies that they became a threat to each other. Gaddis claimed that the American politicians, having to face such a malevolent force, had to adopt Machiavellian tactics when necessary in order to maintain their safety. Although this claim remains valid to an extent due to the fact that some of the United States’ unscrupulous actions were employed to maintain their…

Overview Throughout human history, people have sought areas where fresh water is found. Water meant drinking, bathing, cooking, and farming- it meant life. This explains why Egypt was referred to as ‘The Gift of the Nile’ where all its richness and prosperity is owed to the Nile that turned a portion of the desert country into arable land. Also, this is why most of the Egyptian population cluster up in 4% of the vast Egyptian land (UN, 2005). Add to that the availability of services and hence…

The initial U.S. military campaign strategy for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) failed to properly plan for the US political end state of a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. Fortunately, the knowledge and experiences gained from combat operations in OIF, coupled with the concepts of operational design, led to an improved “surge” strategy in 2007. In fact, reassessment of kinetic operations in 2006 led tactics to transition from “clear and leave” to “clear and hold” in 2007. This clear and hold tactic,…

mandate of South West Africa (which also fell under Class C mandates). Class C mandates need to be ruled totally by another nation into the distant future. New Guinea was an Australian mandate, Nauru was a British mandate and Western Samoa was a New Zealand. All Class C mandates were exploited for raw material and farm products. The Great Depression and threats to international peace and collective security What were the economic and political effects of the Great Depression? The economic…