... create a "buffer zone" of friendly governments as defense against Germany. In 1946, with Eastern Europe under Soviet control and influence, Europe was divided into a West (western democracies and the United States) and East (Soviet Union and Soviet occupied territory). The aftereffects ... Germany. Overall, the purpose of dividing land up was to control Germany until a new government could be instated. West Germany became a surprisingly stable western democracy. However, East Germany was established as a Stalin-style communist state. The East German government was formed into a centraliz...

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... a completely different story. The East took over all of the communist values that we look at the U.S.S.R for. Then we look to the Western half of Germany, which was molded to follow the free and democratic ways of the United States, French, and Great Britain. This split of ... Germany and the ideological differences between the East and the West laid some of the groundwork for the Cold War. In Western Germany, a new style of government was introduced to the people. This was the idea of a democracy although a democracy was tried before, but ... themselves. The U.S. Deputy Secretary of St...

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... poor decision-making. It was just a matter of time that was needed for the Soviets to do themselves in. All this could not stop the economic boom that followed in Western Europe from 1950' s-1970. National Autarky gave way to international trade as countries realized that the only way to compete as an economic power was to form good trade relationships with ... their surrounding neighbors. Per capita growth across western Europe rose from 1% a year from 1913-1950 to an incredible 4% from 1950-1970. As a result, the unemployment rate dropped from 7.5 to 3% to 1.5% from 1930-1960-1970 (Ma...

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... such as the Greek revolt in the Ottoman Empire, division, and division in the Latin American political map, and the British-French Crimean triumph leading to an interest in redrawing Europe along cultural differences, all conspired to make for a time of upheaval and uncertainty about the basis of the nation-state. In the world of 19th century self-made Americans, growing ... was largely ended as well. The measure of the blockade's success was not the few ships that slipped through, but the thousands that never tried it. Merchant ships owned in Europe could not get insurance and were too...

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... allies) was capitalist "two opposing economic systems seeking global dominance. In addition, the Soviets were afraid that their borders were at risk from a Western invasion, and the United States and its allies were afraid that communism would spread throughout Europe. Tension also existed between the two sides because they could not agree on the terms of peace to be established in ... wanting to deal with Germany as harshly as the Soviets did, believed that the Soviet Union should withdraw from Eastern Europe. They believed that if Germany was allowed to keep some military strength it ...

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... Alexander was quite prepared to use the congress to pursue the traditional aims of foreign policy, in particular the aims of westward expansion and European dominance, which greatly angered the Western states. Also in 1815, Russia joined Prussia and Austria in forming the Holy Alliance, in an alliance against the other dominant European nations. Britain's foreign secretary, Lord Castlereagh ... communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. The socialist Bolshevik regime believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their i...

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... well as the annexing of Austria and the take-over of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. Hitler realized early on in his expansionist campaign that Western leaders were too busy dealing with their own domestic problems to pose any real opposition. In the United States, Americans were wrestling with ... rhetoric had been predominant in the U.S. approach to the refugees and would continue well into the war. Even Hitler commented with bitter sarcasm regarding Western hypocrisy, "It is a shameful example to observe today how the entire democratic world dissolves in tears of pity, but then in...

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... collective decisions and actions around the reality of its political domination and military intervention in the internal affairs of its allies. With these two different pacts, Europe was torn in half, Western Europe being with NATO and Eastern Europe with the Warsaw Pact. This just caused more tension between the two superpowers, the United States and The Soviet Union. -3- The United States and ... also polarized America and Russia. Germany, after W.W.II, became a divided country. The four major powers in Europe, Britain, France, America and Russia decided to divide Germany into four d...

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... Alexander was quite prepared to use the congress to pursue the traditional aims of foreign policy, in particular the aims of westward expansion and European dominance, which greatly angered the Western states. Also in 1815, Russia joined Prussia and Austria in forming the Holy Alliance, in an alliance against the other dominant European nations. Britain's foreign secretary, Lord Castlereagh ... communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. The socialist Bolshevik regime believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their i...

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... though the Allied forces had won the war, they now were faced with the enormous feat of rebuilding Europe. The United States played a major role in promoting economic and military security in Western Europe during the 1940's and 1950's. To stimulate economic growth within Western Europe, the United States implemented the Marshall Plan. Also known as the European Recovery Program, the Marshall Plan gave ... over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery ... United States was and still is the all...

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... supported by air power and navy. The attack, if successful, would mark the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler referred to his western defenses as the "Atlantic Wall"(Jennys 1). The British under Prime Minister Winston Churchill, had an invasion plan before the United States got into the ... " was "no single supreme German commander in the west" was named to command the army (Badsey 25). Instead, Hitler had two commanders in Western Europe, Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Rundstedt and Rommel could not agree on how best to defend an invasion fro...

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... supported by air power and navy. The attack, if successful, would mark the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler referred to his western defenses as the "Atlantic Wall"(Jennys 1). The British under Prime Minister Winston Churchill, had an invasion plan before the United States got into the ... " was "no single supreme German commander in the west" was named to command the army (Badsey 25). Instead, Hitler had two commanders in Western Europe, Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Rundstedt and Rommel could not agree on how best to defend an invasion fro...

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... supported by air power and navy. The attack, if successful, would mark the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler referred to his western defenses as the "Atlantic Wall"(Jennys 1). The British under Prime Minister Winston Churchill, had an invasion plan before the United States got into the ... " was "no single supreme German commander in the west" was named to command the army (Badsey 25). Instead, Hitler had two commanders in Western Europe, Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Rundstedt and Rommel could not agree on how best to defend an invasion fro...

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... between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The U.S. and Britain, alarmed by the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, feared the expansion of Soviet power and communism in Western Europe and elsewhere. The Soviets were determined to maintain control of Eastern Europe, in part to safeguard against a possible renewed threat from Germany. The Cold War (the term was first used by B. ... the U.S. and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The U.S. and Britain, alarmed by the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, feared the expansion of Soviet power and communism i...

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... Atlantic Treaty to deter an attack by the Soviet Union on non-communist nations of Western Europe during the Cold War. NATO was also established to keep the peace among former enemies in Western Europe. The purpose of this organization is to enhance the stability, well-being, and freedom ... of its members by means of a system of collective security (Encarta, 1). In its first decade NATO was mainly a military organization dependent on U.S. power for security and for the revival of Europe's economy ... expansion of the organization. The military branch includes three commands, the Allied ...

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... of the United States, he would lose much more than Great Britain's colonies. It was the adoption of the Marshall Plan that allowed Western Europe to make its quick economic recovery from the ashes of World War II. The seeds of the massive expansion of the military-industrial complex of ... recovery. Feeling threatened by the massive amount of aid the United States was giving Western Europe, the Soviet Union responded with its form of economic aid to its satellite counties. This rivalry led to the Western fear of Soviet domination, and was one of the precursors to the arms race of ... of...

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... nuclear war and because it didn't affect their interests. They even put a restriction on tighter immigration laws so not many Bosnian's could immigrate into Western Europe. How could the United States and Nato be scared of anyone with the power they have? The United States and Nato, which only twenty years ... of the ethnic cleansing that was on the verge of being a Serb and Croat dominated country, with Muslims on the outside looking in, Western Europe held meetings on June 1993 to coordinate tighter restrictions on immigration so that not many Bosnians could enter. Leaving them out in ...

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... the huge delightful castels all around. Germany consist of 16 states, "Lãnder" (capitals in parentheses): Baden-Wurttemberg (Stuttgart), Bavaria (Munich), Brandenburg (Potsdam), Hesse (Wiesbaden), Lower Saxony (Hanover), Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Schwerin), North Rhine-Westphalia (Dusseldorf), Rhineland-Palatinate(Mainz), Saarland (Saarbrucken), Saxony (Dresden), Saxony-Anhalt (Magdeburg), Schleswig-Holstein (Kiel) and Thuringia (Erfurt). Berlin, and two city states, Bremen and ... Austria in the south, and the Czech Republic as well as Poland in the east. Germany is known as a stur...

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... allies, including Canada, France, West Germany, the Philippines, Japan, Great Britain, and many other countries of Western Europe and Latin America. This group was usually referred to as the Western bloc. Such intense rivalry is known as the Cold War because it has not actually led to fighting, or ... control areas it considers very important to its national interest, including much of Eastern Europe. In 1941, during WWII, Germany attacked the Soviet Union. For this reason, the Soviet Union joined the Western Allies in fighting Germany. For a time it seemed that some sort of union ... m...

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... of the Communist Party, Joseph Stalin, used the Red Army to take control of most of the countries of Eastern Europe. The United States as well as Western European countries were greatly concerned. In response to Stalin's military movements, President Harry Truman issued the Truman Doctrine in 1947 ... Truman Doctrine, Secretary of State, George Marshall, proposed the Marshall Plan. This was a European Recovery Program which the United States provided aid to Western Europe after World War 2, in June 1947. The Marshall Plan was offered to all European countries, but Stalin would not let t...

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... materials and research after. Neither side would agree so we get deadlock. Tensions rise. In attempts to push back the soviet grip on eastern Europe the U.S. stopped its supply of lend-lease assistance to the soviets. They hoped that without so much reconstruction funding that the soviets would give ... up some for the territory that they had claimed in Europe. The Soviets however used this as an excuse to tighten its grip on eastern Europe. Stalin would say that with western hostility growing, that holding eastern Europe was in fact a defensive move on his part. A very ... plan the Eu...

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... Spanish American War, and the Panama Canal. The response from the United States included the Monroe Doctrine (1823) which simply stated the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization, and the United States would have full control of developments. Also the Roosevelt Corollary ( ... . Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed that the United States, because it was a "civilized nation," had the right to stop "chronic wrongdoing" throughout the Western Hemisphere. The Spanish American War was a 5-month war dealing with Cuba. The United States won the war and with it freedom for Cuba ....

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... allowed court orders to halt strikes that could affect national health or safety. When Stalin began using the Soviet Army to control much of Eastern Europe, after the war, the U.S.-U.S.S.R. alliance began to fade. As mistrust grew, both sides broke wartime agreements. This hostility began the Cold War. ... Marshall Plan, and was designed to rebuild the European market. This would not only benefit U.S. trade, but it would also strengthen democratic governments in Western Europe. After World War II, the United States had emerged as the leading power of the world. Communist Russia had beco...

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... 1 million immigrants per year entered the country. However, the composition of immigrants began shifting after the American Civil War. Before the war, most immigrants were from western Europe and the British Isles. During the 1870s immigrants from southern and eastern Europe became much more common. Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans were also coming to the U.S., particularly the West Coast. The "older immigrants" from Protestant ... western Europe felt threatened by the rising tide of immigrants from the more Catholic southern and eastern European countries and the immigrants from Asia. Or...

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... many people see this perspective because they believe their culture's values are superior. Recently I read this article named "On Columbus Day, Celebrate Western Civilization, Not Multiculturalism" by Michael Berliner. He basically supports Christopher Columbus's achievements. He also states that it was Columbus who brought America ... inhabited, and also civilized. However, one thing that I don't like in this article is that he said that we should honor Western civilization because we might have European ancestors. I thought America back then practiced holocaust in order to expand their...

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