Trade bloc

Introduction: The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) government to stop people form the eastern bloc to escape to the west through West Berlin. Its downfall in November of 1989 was huge news to the world as with its importance it affected the whole world. It was not just uniting a single country again but it also opened the border between the East and West of Europe and the world. It was an end to the Cold War tensions between the two ideologies of the USSR with…

The Cold War began after World War II between the Soviet Union and the United States. Both had different beliefs because the Soviet Union is communist and the United States is capitalist. Each side wanted to dominate the world by forcing other countries to become either communist or capitalist. Because each side had different beliefs, Americans viewed communism as evil and it had an impact on American religion. The Cold War shaped American religious ideals because it elicited a stronger…

It was just more than one year after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact that the directive for Operation Barbarossa was issued. Signed by Hitler on December 18, 1940, the secret document demanded the Wehrmacht to crush Russia in a rapid campaign, undoing the agreement for spheres of influence throughout Eastern Europe. It remains a point of contention whether Berlin wooed Moscow into benign rapprochement in a series of deceptions stemming from the directive or Stalin, throughout it all,…

For 28 years starting from 1961, Germany was divided into two halves by a steady system, the Berlin Wall. The wall is not only the physical division between West Berlin and East Berlin from 1961 to 1989, but also the symbolic boundary between Democracy and Communism during the Cold War. Within a short period of time after World War II, West Germany’s life condition and economy grew rapidly with the help of Capitalism. The positive turnover of West Berlin society created a huge contrast between…

The author of this excerpt expresses traditionalist views in which he believes that Russia is to blame for the origins of the Cold War. He overall states that the desire of Stalin to make himself and the Soviet Union be the most powerful causes the tension between powers and makes the war inevitable. The author is trying to answer the question: What actions did Stalin take or not take in order to make the Soviet Union a more dominant power. He asserts that the contrast between the peaceful…

The Cold War, which lasted from 1945 to 1991, was a time of extreme tensions and conflict between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The Cold War gained its name due to the fact that though both countries built up their armies, seemingly in preparation for war, neither one directly confronted each. The differences in markets, governments, and general culture allowed tense relations between the two competing superpowers as each attempted to increase their sphere of influence. As a…

Twentieth century Europe after World War II was in a stage of fear and anxiety. Countries like Germany, Italy and Austria were devastated by the war. Novelists and artists all throughout Europe had displayed the stage of fear in their works. Artists like Albert Giacometi illustrated it in his sculpture City Square, by displaying how women and men were no longer motivated to improve their city after the war, instead they walking around the country aimlessly in shock and in fear (Brose, 270). They…

The forty-five year Cold War created a lasting impact on the world. The Cold War originated in 1945 and did not come to an end till around 1991. It was not a typical war with lots of violence and thousands of deaths such as World War I or World War II. The Cold War was more of a government political war than a bloody army war. The United States and the Soviet Union have an interesting history considering they used to get along (“What was the Cold War”). Joseph Stalin and his politics lead to…

One device that Reagan uses is the appeal to emotions, such as humor, pride and sympathy. Reagan uses appeal to emotion because he wants to establish an easygoing demeanor with his audience, show that he is sympathetic to their plight, instill pride and push them towards his ideals. He wants it to be known that his intention is not to attack the Soviets but to invite them to join with the West and to work towards a more prosperous future. Some examples of this are when he tries to instill an…

between two superpowers, both powers wanted to be the first to do everything including go to space and lastly both the Cold War and the “race to space” overall cost a great deal of money. The Cold War was a fight between the powers of the Western Bloc and the powers…