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CRITICAL THINKING (MAX 550 WORDS) In the article “Who Lost Russia (this time)?” by Kathryn Stoner and Michael McFaul, the authors want to argue the reasons why Russia turned out to be the country which we know today as powerful and autocratic. The authors go back to what happened to Russia in the 1990s. The decline of the economic growth brought the Russians to point their fingers at the West and more specifically at the United States for their acting. During those years people raised two…

During the year of 1989, there was a press conference discussing the new travel regulations issued by the government to show an easier way to travel from the West Berlin through the Berlin Wall. Schabowski had received a copy of the regulations and hadn’t read them carefully. One reported asked when East German citizens could begin to take advantage of these new travel rules and a response from Schabowski stated ‘from now.’ In the evening, Reuters incorrectly reported that East German citizens…

Detail the SALT and START treaties, the major players involved and the impact of these treaties. o SALT • 1960s, the United States learned that the Soviet Union had embarked upon a massive Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) buildup designed to reach parity with the United States. • In January 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that the Soviet Union had begun to construct a limited Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense system around Moscow. • The development of an ABM system could…

The end of WWII should have heralded in a new age of relatively stable peace. The Axis powers had been defeated and Nazi Germany was no more. Instead, the U.S. and the USSR plunged the world into the Cold War. Unlike any previous war, it was one of the longest confrontations in U.S. history. It spanned five decades and across continents, involving millions in the battle between capitalism and communism. There isn’t a simple answer as to how the Cold War came to be. However, there is a trail of…

During an enduring, everlasting war of 1900s, the United States’ primary desire and ambition was to spread its democratic influence and its goal of containment. While the nation sought to prevent the spread of the communist ideology in Europe, the United States also accepted challenges elsewhere. The Soviets and its communist values attempted to spread throughout Asia; led the United States to take apart of this war to combat and counteract communist influence. Although the spread of communism…

introduction of the new currency, it became apparent that Britain, France, and the United States planned on forming a German democracy based on a capitalist economy. While the Soviet influenced German Democratic Republic joined the eastern communist bloc under a socialist economy. After some time, the difference in economies was easily seen in Berlin. In the west, you had an economically active population, while the eastern side was much more impoverished. It was stated in one account by…

The civilian deaths from WWII was over 13 times more than the civilian deaths from WWI. In the first world war, the civilian deaths made up only 5% of the total deaths, twenty-one years later that 5% increased to 67%. All together, there was an estimated amount of 57 million deaths. World war two was not so much of a highlight but more of a tragic central event of the twentieth century. The war was fought between two groups of powers, the allies and the axis powers. The initial start of the war…

Truman’s foreign policy had a significant impact on international relations during the years 1945-1947 as it started the cold war. The year 1945 marked a turning point in America relations with Russia because Truman’s foreign policy sharply contrasted with that of Roosevelt. By releasing an atomic bomb on Japan in 1945 Truman increased suspicion of US motives and further damaged the relationship with Russia. This differed from former U.S president Roosevelt policy of” comprising” with Russia.…

Hitler and Stalin’s Careers Hitler’s and Stalin’s Careers have many similarities and differences. These two men both successfully rose to power in their countries. Both men were talented at publicity and making people follow them. They both had no morals. They both had the ambition to make their countries powerful in the world. They both manipulated the people making them believe everything they said or did. Both leaders took advantage of the countries that were weakened by World War I.…

“A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism that stood for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the high-risk fault line between East and West on which rested the fate of all humanity.” (Taylor, vii) “I hope that those who live in more fortunate communities elsewhere in the world will summon up the imagination to conceive what it might have been like for Berliners to have such a barbarous fracture inflicted on their cities, their neighborhoods,…