Assess the short term significance of the Suez War of 1956 The Suez War had profound short term significance in many aspects. It can be argued to be one of the first wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict which involved substantial foreign involvement. Although Britain and France were humiliated and lost their influence in the Middle East‚ it highlighted the rising importance of Cold War politics in the Middle East. Egypt and Israel can be considered as winners of the Suez War; Egypt gained complete
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I agree to a little extent that Stalin’s foreign policy was a major contributing factor to the emergence of the Cold War in the period 1945-50. Source S tells me that Stalin’s policies with regards to the military were ‘reactive and restrained’ and that he was constantly seeking peaceful coexistence with capitalism. This is in similarity with Source U where we are told that he was not pursuing expansionism –rather to ‘avoid confrontation with the West’ and wanted to cooperate with them. Source T
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The short-term significance of Adolf Hitler on international relations 1933-1953. Adolf Hitler‚ Nazi leader of the Third Reich had a profound effect on international relations from the very moment he became chancellor in 1933 to even after his death and the legacy he had left behind. It can be said that in the span of 20 years between 1933 and 1953 Hitler had huge short term significance on international relations‚ ranging from his views on the treaty of Versailles‚ war in Europe all the way
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HSC Course 2010 National Study Russia 1917 – 1941 Stalinism‚ the term used to embody the form of government experienced by the Soviet Union under Stalin’s rule‚ had a significant and lasting impact on the USSR. Stalinism impacted on several aspects of life. Collectivisation was introduced which assisted in the funding of industrialisation‚ terror was used to create a communist state. Stalin centralised every aspect of life‚ from the single leadership of Stalin himself to party control of the
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How Successful Was Stalin’s Economic Policy? Stalin’s economic policy primarily consisted of two factors‚ collectivisation and the five year plans. The aim of collectivisation was to destroy private ownership that had been allowed whilst the NEP was in effect. The reason for this is that private ownership was a capitalist idea and therefore it went against Marx’s theory of communism. Another aim of collectivisation was to make the state a proletariate; this was needed because in order to reach
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Hitler gained control over Germany in the 1930’s‚ another European dictator had already come to power in Russia. Commonly known as Josef Stalin‚ a name that translates to mean the man of steel. Stalin‚ along with Hitler‚ was one of the most brutal men in recorded history. In relation to the criteria on ethical leadership constructed by Lino and myself‚ we believe that Stalin was a very unethical leader. According to his actions‚ it is clear‚ that Stalin failed in all aspects of our criteria. Born Iosef
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In the 1930’s‚ a plethora of lynchings were happening throughout the United States. Many black men and women were being falsely accused of crimes that they did not commit and were put in jail. Some whites believed that they deserved worse than what they were already being put through‚ so they invaded the jails and kidnapped many blacks and lynched them in front of large crowds of people. Abel Meeropol wrote the poem‚ Strange Fruit‚ as a protest to these lynchings. The poem describes the injustice of blacks and whites faced during
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Stalin’s technique to take Germany forward was using five year plans. Stalin believed there was need for these five- year plans as : First of all many of the regions were behind other countries in growth and that the USSR were backward Stalin believed that to be be backward you are defeated and enslaved but if you are powerful people must beware of you. Stalin also believed (with Lenin) the USSR should overtake and out strip the capitalist countries He believed Socialism in one country and the USSR
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The persecution of John T. Scopes was a very peculiar case‚ but it was also one of the most famous and important cases to ever appear in the Western world. The Scopes trial is often referred to‚ as Mencken says‚ “completely switching the direction the country seemed to obviously be going in at the time” (Mencken’s Trial Account). The Scopes trial is often misperceived in it’s message for the country‚ it is seen as a random trial against a science teacher that eventually led to an argument over evolution
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of race color‚ or previous conditions of servitude.” This amendment was granting African American men the right to vote. This was adopted into the United States Constitution on the 30th of March in 1870. It was passed by the congress a year before. By the late 1870’s‚ many people of Caucasian race did not want this amendment to pass. They did not want the African American people to vote especially in the South states. After years and many months of discrimination towards one color the voting right
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