Warsaw Pact

The Cold War is a war unlike any other that if a person would ask different historians or people who lived during the time what it was, that person would get so many different and varied answers. Fear and hysteria dominated the public and political atmosphere during the time after World War II because of the start of a conflict that what was to be called the Cold War. This war dragged on for decades lasting from 1945 to 1991 when the Soviet regime finally fell. It was an unusual war that saw…

In his 1945 biennial report to the U.S. Secretary of War, Chief of Staff George C. Marshall inscribed, “In good conscience this Nation can take little credit for its part in staving off disaster in those critical days. It is certain that the refusal of the […] Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization” (107). The resolve of the Russian people was tenacious and unequivocal; undeterred by the callousness, destructiveness…

Ever since the evolution of mankind, the art of warfare has witnessed numerous changes. From early hand to hand fight, the art of warfare transitioned to become the battle of wits, nerves, technology and tactics. Wars were fought with the swords and spears till the invention of guns in 14th century. From the first use of guns in a battle till the Napoleonic era, warfare relied on manpower and line-and-column tactics to achieve firepower concentration. Focus of warfare shifted from manpower to…

According to Ollman, Marx believed that “capitalism was a volatile economic system that would suffer a series of ever-worsening crises—recessions and depressions—that will produce greater unemployment, lower wages, and increasing misery among the industrial proletariat. These crises Ollman state will convince the proletariat that its interests as a class are implacably opposed to those of the ruling bourgeoisie. Consequently armed with revolutionary class consciousness, the proletariat will…

Robert Browning, an English poet, once proclaimed, “Ignorance is not innocence but sin.” Evidently, not all sins are intentional, but the consequence of excessively sinning leads to a step away from religion. For mankind to achieve eternal salvation, one must seek knowledge in the form of goodness, thereby preventing sin. Once informed, mankind possesses the ability to choose a moral trajectory. As a symbol of Christianity, this choice stands as free will, the gift of grace one receives through…

No one is perfect. People are flawed therefore government is flawed. Sometimes the choices we make as a society, with what may be the best of intentions can lead to disastrous consequences. In the Book “Overthrow: A History of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq” by Stephen Kinzer presents chilling insight into clandestine practice of overthrowing a government by the United States. It serves to show people what policy makers were thinking when these monumental decisions were made. His message is…

examples-25pts) Chapter 34 Study Guide FDR and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941 Isolationism Rise of Totalitarian Regimes General Tojo Hitler Mussolini Spain-Franco League Of Nations Good Neighbor Policy China 1937 Poland Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Russia (1941) Pearl Harbor (1941) The Atlantic Charter Winston Churchill Cash-Carry Lend-Lease American First Wendell Willkie Manchuria Fascism 1936…