institutional building. Also, economic and military donations in the Cold War periods from countries of the two camps contribute to the survivability of predatory rulers in Africa. More so, external military threats may also include the challenges confronting most of the countries surrounding the Iron Curtain such as some of the East Asian countries, which confronted severe challenges from neighboring communist regimes during the Cold War in their earlier stage of development. But the story here
of propaganda. Ruthless and blood full of paranoia, Joseph Stalin would obliterate anything blocking his goals and ascendancy. Marshall Plan, initially launched on April 3rd, 1948. It was invented to aid European countries after the calamity of War World II. Granting over five billion dollars to European countries was seen in the eyes of Stalin as “...a ploy by Truman. It [was] nothing like Lend-Lease- a different situation. They [didn’t] want to help us. What they [wanted was] to infiltrate European
One of the major challenges to democratic consolidation in Latin American is the weak condition of the state and to understand why this is the case it is necessary to look back at nineteenth and twentieth century Latin America(1). During this period Latin American colonies began to shake off the yoke of European conquerors and by 1825 Spanish and Portuguese power was broken in the New World. New political entities began to emerge as Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina
that changed humans relationship to war, and state power. At 8:15 am the local time the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and even in the after five years of wars, the significance was not lost. Two months later, George Orwell wrote a piece entitled "You and the Atomic Bomb," this was his way of reckoning with what happened, and in the essay, he looked towards the future. Importantly, he outlines what happened for the next fifty years of history, a Cold War. To understand how Orwell was correct
J.) The Vietnam War would serve as an even stronger example. To put it plainly, the U.S. proceeding with the Vietnam War is a direct violation of realism. Vietnam was a startlingly weak and minor power in contrast to the United States. At that time, Southeast Asia was not a rising power, and it was not regarded as a strategically important region. (Rosato, S., Schuessler, J.) Under realism, the U.S. would have avoided war in that region altogether. This applies to the Iraq War as well. If the United
think their houses would be reduced to ruins, and that they would not have a house to come home to in the end. Was it all really worth it in the end? Some suggest that the dropping of the bomb may have ended World War II, but it started the Cold War (History.com Staff, 2009). Ending one war just led to another. The United States was the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry when they dropped the bomb on Hiroshima (History.com Staff, 2009). The decision of whether to drop the bomb was challenging
With this in mind it let us look at the first half of the question. Cold War, to be explained in the words of Samuel Huntington was “one group of relatively wealthy and mostly Democratic societies, led by the United States engaged in a pervasive ideological, political, economic and at times military conflict with another group of somewhat poorer Communist societies led by Soviet Union” . Much of the conflicts during Cold War occurred in the ‘Third World’ outside the two camps of the ‘Free World’
moon in this decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard” The country, along with the rest of the world was enthralled by the possibilities of space exploration. Dinner conversations with World War II veterans in attendance, amplified that a new conflict had begun, known as the Cold War. The battle pitted the world’s two great powers-the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union-against each other. I recall hearing from my elders that each country was seeking to
Communism was spreading fast and each of the Cold War Presidents knew they needed to try to stop it. The Cold War was a time after WWII where many countries had different views on politics causing a great deal of tension. The American Anthem textbook says that George F. Kennan created the Policy of Containment to stop the Soviets from spreading communism to other countries (Ayers, et al 819). The first Cold war president, Truman, was also the first president to use atomic weaponry. He chose to drop
Similarily to the Iraq invasion. Upon learning about the possibility of Iraq’s nuclear weapon stockpile, the United States warned Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to destroy the stockpile of biological and chemical weapons or they would be attacked. This ultimatum that was provided to the Iraqi government created tension in the international system. The United States as a strong nation provided Iraq with this ultimatum to intimidate them as the Athenians did to the Melians. Furthermore, the allegations