Russia imposed a blockade of western Berlin, which lasted eleven months. ... The Western Allies set up political parties in their zones held elections. On September 1949 the three Western zones were officially combined. ... The Western powers refused to recognize them in the same way. ... While millions sat in front of their televisions and watched people in Berlin dance together on top of the wall and embrace each other on the street and destroy the ugly barrier. ...

• Word Count: 1311
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

If we have a look at the actual events of the World War Two, we will see that the failure of the western allies to open the second front in 1942, despite the previous agreements on that issue, has cost great losses to Russia in peoples" lives and destroyed cities and villages on its territory. ... However, the West saw Soviet occupation in the Eastern Europe as an act of aggression and feared that Russia would go on and invade the Western Europe, that argument can be proved by the "long telegram" send by the US diplomat from Moscow: he argued that Russia would always look for the opportunity t...

• Word Count: 1778
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The following is an example of typical (black) Russian humour: Two men joined a queue in front of a bakery after a hard days work. ... Germany, divided at the end of the war, was split into Eastern/Communist Germany and Western/Democratic Germany. ... Western Europe, aided by the United States, was democratic and capitalist. ... While the USA used her economic power to hold Western Europe, the Soviet were prepared to use force. ... The USSR owed $US30billion to Western Countries. ...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Did Western diplomacy take for granted that these would be the principles of European peacemaking? ... Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. ... Poland's western boundary will be moved to the Neisse River, a territory containing approximately nine million Germans. ... Roosevelt perhaps made one of the great mistakes of Western strategy and diplomacy. ... Roosevelt's presence at Yalta had consequences in the Far East, the Mid East, central and western Europe, and basically the world at larg...

• Word Count: 2338
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This plan, supported by the US government got a lot of critisism from the russian states and even from western states. ... At the 4th of september Kennedy declared, that the USA would prevent violent actions of Cuba in the western world with all means. ... JFK put an ultimate to the SU in front of the world public to take away their nuclear missiles from Cuba, if not, the USA would invade. ...

• Word Count: 1992
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Huntington states the "most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating" (Huntington, 1993) what he identified as eight specific civilizations: "Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and African" (Huntington, 1993). ... Fourth, as the West, and America in particular, becomes more and more powerful, popular and elite, smaller nation-states without access to or a desire for Westernization react and try to nurture their local cultures and traditional identities, thus leading to non-Western habi...

• Word Count: 1840
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Following almost a century of alliance, Americans and Russians disagreement came to the front line when in 1917 the Communists seized power, and established the Soviet Union. ... The U.S. showed no remorse in its plan to end communism, especially when it entered the western hemisphere. ...

• Word Count: 1334
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Joseph Stalin held absolute authority in the Soviet Union for twenty nine years. During his time as dictator he moved the Soviet Union to a world power, while starving and arresting his own people. His brutal dictatorship was one of the bloodiest in history. He can be compared to such leaders like A...

• Word Count: 1904
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Western culture imposes upon religious beliefs and the influence that the United States has through soft power creates animosity among these nations. ... The fact of the matter is that the EU does not possess the social cohesion that must be present to set a unified front to challenge the United States. ...

• Word Count: 1715
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School