Eastern Wu

Despite fighting on the same side during World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union did not have a good relationship and after the war was over, the two powers began to feud. The Soviet Union was angered because the United States did not recognize the Soviet Union as a legitimate international nation. The United States was wary of the Soviet Union’s territorial expansion, and were concerned Russia would attempt to become a unilateral power. The United States decided containment would…

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also known as NATO, was created in the year of 1949. As stated in the article, “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization”, “NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. From its inception, its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation.” In other words, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an alliance between North America and Europe. This…

The capitalist United States and communist Soviet Union had such juxtaposing ideologies and beliefs that caused extreme tension between the superpowers. The Soviet Union used divide and conquer techniques, imposing communist rule Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union wanted a communist system where the government was in control. The United States feared the spread of Communism, seeing it as a threat to their freedom, something felt to be of such a high priority. They felt that they must…

Cottontail rabbits, the most abundant small-game animals in the county, prefer bushy areas interspersed with cropland and pasture. cottontail rabbits occur in greatest numbers in the southwestern part of of the westmoreland county, 2. Gray squirrels, they are the second in abundance among the small game animals. They generally prefer the edges of woodland. They are most plentiful where black oak, red oak, and chestnut oak are dominant They are also numerous where cornfields are…

the Big Three agreed to split German investments and Germany itself between each other. This created a country that would be perpetually at war with itself. The Soviet Union benefited from this arrangement since it would create a buffer zone along Eastern Europe and would secure their borders. In addition, the conflict would enable Stalin to consolidate his…

Eastern Europe From the birth of Eastern Catholicism and its towering churches dedicated to God and his saints; to the bloody hammer and sickle designed to strike fear into the enemies of the USSR; Russia and its close neighbors are a land decadent in history and culture. Eastern Europe has had a mighty place in the history of the world. It has seen the origins of the Turkish Empire, the Russian royalty of the Dark Ages, the Byzantine Empire, the United Socialist States of Russia. Its…

The Berlin Wall one of the main aspects of the cold war, for 28 years this wall has stood, symbolising the separation of families and friends. Only being taken down quite recently. After WW2, Germany was split up into 4 sectors; -The French -The United States -The Soviet Union and -Great Britain These 4 countries all felt threatened by one another so France, The United States and Great Britain all teamed up creating West Berlin, a democracy built state while the Soviet Union was left…

the fear and lack of communication. Germany was the focal point of the Cold War. Officials in West and East Berlin did very little to cooperate with each other and any attempts for a peace treaty failed. The Soviet influence began expanding into Eastern Europe and communist parties were gaining popularity in France and Italy (Conflict Builds). In the early 1970s the Soviet Union was at the peak of its power. The communist party was the main political force in the Soviet Union. The Soviet’s…

One of the similarities in the economic development of both Eastern and Western Europe in the years following the war was the establishment of government incentives/programs to counteract decline in population. Due to the devastations of the war, population had been reduced to a critical level forcing government officials to enact programs in order to increase the birthrates in their regions. These social programs were set up as incentives to financially assist couples to have more children.…

In the summer of 1961, more than 200,000 East Germans had defected to West Germany, increasing the tension between the East and the West to a level that an outbreak of violence was close to occurring. The supporters of the wall said that the wall helped prevent German neo-Nazis from move onto the East. Also, the supporters saw the wall as a sign of the division of Germany and hoped for peaceful negotiations to occur. Those who opposed the wall said that it was a sign that East Germany was going…