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Shane Hamilton and Sarah Phillips highlights the debates of Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev. Nikita Khrushchev and USSR are the clear victors of the kitchen debate. Khrushchev’s concern about the Soviet population as a whole is a key reason as to why he is the winner of the debate. Instead of being concerned about individualism, his focus was on the people and how he could better the country. To begin, unlike Nixon, Khrushchev sought out to treat Soviet women as equal human beings instead of slave to the kitchens. Nixon thought that the Soviet women would admire the shiny new kitchens that were in the American exhibition and that it would grab their attention. However, the women were…

This new court was all centered around the experiment that had taken place between November 20th, 1945 and October 1st, 1949, the Nuremberg trials. These trials were a arrangement of 13 trials held for the sole purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, and in order to give these criminals a fair trial they were given prosecution and defense attorneys. The criminals were tried under British and American law, and instead of a single judge, the judges were world powers such as, Britain,…

basketball for another semi-pro team and eventually just quit because he lost his love for it. He was more interested in my mom, and soon she would be pregnant with her first kid, my sister Ema. He loved going to the beach, and he told me about how beautiful the oceans are there and how I am missing out. He first saw my mom at a concert, however; they both were seeing someone at the time and he did not talk to her. He later was told that she asked about him, and he made sure to make sure I knew…

When Croatia separated from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, while the Croats and Muslims supported the idea of independence, the Croatian Serbs were opposed to the decision. The Serbs, instead, wanted to combine with Serbia to create a greater Serbia. In order to complete this, they began an ethnic cleansing of Croatia. An ethnic cleansing is where an ethnicity is killed off. The Serbs attacked people who were of another ethnicity, such as the Croats and Muslims. However, many became refugees and…

In 1987, shortly after the death of Yugoslavia’s Communist leader Tito, Slobodan Milosevic made a single promise to the Serbs of Yugoslavia; “You will never be beat again” (Doc.). This statement greatly altered the social and political reality in Yugoslavia, ultimately culminating in the disintegration of the nation. Joe Sacco’s graphic novel Safe Area Gorazde, captures this shift, focusing on the Bosnia, the most multiethnic republic within Yugoslavia at the time. Sacco’s portrayal of the…

countries did nothing at the sight of the Bosnian genocide due to their belief that it was not a pressing matter. The Bosnian genocide should be studied so that mass murders of this scale are prevented and do not happen again. After World War II, Yugoslavia was a federation made up of six republics. There was much conflict between the different republics because of how ethnically diverse they were, but the dictator Josip Broz Tito managed to kept the country together. His death in 1980 was the…

there are many factors to determining what is a democratic state, such as opposition to mass media, civil liberties, rule of law, etc. (Diamond 2015). According to scholars, there are so many factors that determine democracy that it is almost impossible to truly determine a definitive answer on whether or not a country is increasing or decreasing in democracy. Croatia is one specific country that has adopted the idea of democracy and recently declared its’ independence on June 25, 1991.…

send false messages to their people to persuade the people to follow them. This is called propaganda which is spreading the ideas based on biased or misleading nature to help promote or publicizes a particular institution or particular cause. We have seen different leaders use different forms of propaganda such as Nazi 's, the Soviets, North Korea, 1990s Yugoslavia, and many more regimes. Propaganda isn 't just used by tyrants, communist…

talk about it. Right after the Cold War ended and the 6 countries and 2 little-known provences were combined by the Paris Peace Confederacy (PPC) to create the country. In 1918, the kingdom of Yugoslavia was was created after WWI. The 3 main territories were combined, to make the country. These 3 territories were part of the fallen Astro-Hungarian Empire and the Serbia/Montenegro Empire. The 3 groups were known as the Series, who lived in Serbia, the Croats who lived in Croatia, and the Bosniak…

The ethnic cases of the genocide in Rwanda and the war in Bosnia will dwell “on the background and buildup to conflict, particularly how the groups employed their cultures to establish identities and to define claims and grievances” (Eller, Violence and Culture, 237). The war in Bosnia was based on culture and history in Bosnia. It was a war against multicultural ideal against the Muslims. Mosques were destroyed as an ethnic cleansing was occurring. Cemeteries, schools, and much more were…