Known for its cultural diversity‚ tropical climate and agricultural lands‚ Guatemala is also home to economic unbalance‚ political corruption and severe gang wars. Guatemala is a developing country with a population of sixteen million inhabitants‚ which makes it the most populated country in Central America. Approximately seventy six percent (twelve million) of the population of Guatemala lives under the poverty line and expresses no trust in the police. (Taft-Morales) Guatemala is considered one
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What factors contributed to the growth of homelessness in the 1980¡¦s and 90¡¦s? This essay explores the different reasons as to why someone may become homeless. Poverty plays an important part in being homeless. According to The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia ¡§homelessness is the condition of not having a permanent place to live‚ widely perceive as a societal problem only beginning in the 1980s.¡¨ A person can become homeless for a number of reasons‚ there are also a lot of different types
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Running Head: HOW DID THЕ COLD WAR BEGIN? How Did thе Cold War Begin? [Name of thе writer] [Name of thе institution] How did thе Cold War Begin? Thе Cold War began after World War II. Thе main enemies were thе United States аnd thе Soviet Union. Thе United States аnd thе Soviet Union were thе only two superpowers following thе Second World War. Thе fact that‚ by thе 1950s‚ each possessed nuclear weapons аnd thе means of delivering such weapons on their enemies added а dangerous
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“Unfortunately the warmth of the handshakes did not last” (berlin‚ kores and cuba: how did the us contain communism 389). The Cold War was a period of political and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ which lasted from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The major goal of the United States during this time was to contain the spread of communism. The US contained communism during the Cold War‚ in many different ways including the Truman
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Time Period 8 Study Guide 1. The economic growth following World War II was caused primarily by the efforts of the president and the federal government in response to fears about another Great Depression as 1946-1947 put America into a postwar recession. The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944‚ otherwise known as the GI Bill of Rights‚ allowed the 15 million veterans returning from the war to continue their education through government grants. The federal government also allowed veterans over $16
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direct war with each other (source 11). This meant that the USSR was only able to support North Vietnam through supplying China with arms who in turn would arm the North Vietnamese (source 11). Nevertheless‚ the Vietnam war was still composed of the “classic Cold War” scenario (source 11)‚ as there was support from the Capitalist west as well as support from the communist East in conflict against each other. In addition‚ the opposing ideologies of the Cold War further influenced the Vietnam war. The
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| The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe | | The world’s most powerful Communist country was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics‚ or otherwise known as the Soviet Union. It contained 15 republics that were controlled by a central government. Over time‚ it developed into a large industrial power that dictated all aspects of the national economy. It set levels of wages and prices‚ controlled the allocation of resources‚ and decided what would be produced and how and where goods would be
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Cold War and Communism HIS/135 June 23‚ 2012 The Library of Congress lists Duck and Cover as one of the most significant films of all time. Produced by Archer Films‚ the 9-minute movie was designed to teach children what to do in case of a nuclear attack. View the film at www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951. Write a 300- to 350-word paper in which you consider what it would have been like to live under the threat of nuclear war. Compare and contrast it to living under the threat of terrorism
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Effects of the Cold War on Canada The distrust between the Western World and Communists‚ as well as the conditions after WWII caused the Cold War to begin. From 1946 to 1991 a mass arms race rose and Canada was stuck in between the grudge of capitalism and communism. The Cold War affected Canada through Canadian citizens fear of being nuked‚ sexism against women and the unfair treatment towards communists & socialists. With Canada’s ally the United States partaking in the Cold War with the Soviet
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Model Essay Why did Stalin take control of Eastern Europe? Plan Introduction Explain Stalin’s need for internal security in its historical context Block 1 Discuss Stalin’s tactic for gaining Eastern Europe and the wartime agreements that carved Europe up into ‘spheres of influence’‚ e.g. Tehran‚ 1943‚ Percentages Agreement‚ 1944. Discuss how tensions over Poland intensified Stalin’s need to create friendly states in Eastern Europe‚ i.e. Soviet massacre of Polish officer
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