Yale Political Union

To first explain the history of refugees you need to know what they are, they are displaced citizens in one country moving to another country, mainly causing problems if a very large number are moving out of a country. An example of a large number of people moving was during and after World War 2, when millions of Jewish people were moving out of Germany into Europe. Now to explain why it happens, Refugees usually move countries because of economic problems, war, corrupt governments, and natural…

Browder, an American political activist, once said “What remains constant for me, during the last fifteen years, has been the conviction that the Cold War was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.” This quote perfectly states how the Cold War was not only a tragedy for the United States and the Soviet Union, but also for the entire world. It also tells how the United States and the Soviet Union were not…

Joseph Stalin’s Industrialization of the Country, 1928, represents his all-encompassing sweeping push to reform The Soviet Union into a country that would have the technological and industrial capabilities to play a large role in the international affairs of the world. As it occurred through some periods of Russia’s history, starting with Peter the Great’s push for urbanization, Stalin desired to transform the USSR from a “backwater” nation into a force that could be on-par with some of the most…

Stubborn, headstrong, adamant and rigid, all synonyms for one term: Wooden- headedness. This phenomenon shows up multiple times throughout human history and has single handedly changed the world in many ways. Wooden-headedness is something that affects all factors of life, and in historian Barbara Tuchman’s piece March of Folly she correctly identifies its prevalence in human actions and decisions. America during the 50s was an era of wooden-headedness. This was a time when communists were…

went through similar experiences during World War 2. Some of the groups of people that went through these similar experiences include the Jewish population in Germany and surrounding areas, British citizens, German citizens, French and the Soviet Union soldiers. The French suffered severe losses throughout the course of the war. Thought to be the largest power in Europe at the time of the war the Germans defeated them in just 3 weeks. This caused a significant loss of lives. The Majority…

despite his divorce from Aleksandra Sokolovskaya for his lover Natalia Ivanova Sedova which would place him in circle two, the circle for the carnal. However Trotsky specifically belongs in the Antenora region of circle nine where the traitors of political parties and, or their countries go to in death. Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davodovich Bronshtein on November 7, 1879 to Jewish farmers David…

and the Soviet Union with a global nuclear holocaust at stake. The U.S. and Cuba had been far from allies leading up to the crisis. Even before Kennedy took office, Eisenhower had attempted to assassinate Cuba’s leader, Fidel Castro, by training Cuban exiles for an invasion…

The dispute over agricultural trade liberalization between Brazil and the United States occurred because the United States started to give subsidies to their cotton farmers. This lead to their farmers to be able “to produce cotton very cheaply with little risk,” and leading towards less “free trade and put farmers in other countries at a distinct disadvantage” (Agricultural Subsidies). Brazil saw this subsidies as making it harder on their cotton farmers to sell their cotton to the buyers…

human race. The audience that Kennedy is addressing consist of scientist, professors, students and the general public. The audience in attendance cared about maintaining their freedom and security from the Soviet Union and the avoidance of a “Red Moon”, or the spreading of the Soviet Union. For the United States being the first nation to…

Eastern Europe. Moreover, this particular event was crucial to the sudden changes that unfolded in the Soviet Union, both in terms in domestic issues and international relations with the West. The fall of the Berlin Wall and its repercussions prompted three major changes for the Soviet Union: a separation in interests between the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, institutional and political consequences resulting from these separate interests, and how the West handled these consequences. …