terrible event happened on the 1st of September 1939 the world entered its second world war. It’s hard to believe that such a thing as world war two happened in this century. World War 2 was the most widespread war that has ever been‚ in the 6 years the World War 2 waged up to 78 million people died‚ which is around 2.5 percent of the world’s population. Nearly every country in the world took part in world war 2 save for a few neutral countries‚ but the biggest contenders were comprised of the axis
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of previous events. In our history between Russia we have had our struggles for peaceful relations. The cold war was a big factor that lead to the ultimate fall of the Soviet Union and the United States played a role in that part of history and because of that you cannot blame Americans for having a negative view because at one point we were at war with the Soviet Union now Russia. The cold war can be seen as a big reason as to why
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The Cold War and The War on Terror are also similar in some ways as well. The US had a common goal in both wars‚ stop the spread of communism and stop the spread of terrorism. In the cold war there was a line dividing Europe that separated the communist countries was referred to as the Iron Curtain. In the War on Terror most Americans can identify the nations and countries that sponsor terrorism. Speaking of the cold war brought silence and tension to the room and speaking of the War on Terror
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Q6: The Vietnam War was a war between the Southern Vietnam and Northern Vietnam. The reason why they has this war was because it was originally between Northern and Southern Vietnam because they had disagree on different beliefs. Northern Vietnam was more of a communist-based nation. While Southern Vietnam was a nationalist-based nation. Since Southern Vietnam had United States for support. They became more involved in the Vietnam War. More than 500‚000 soldiers from the United States fought against
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Vietnam War Australia had multiple reasons which led to her involvement in the Vietnam War. Australia’s involvement consisted of four critical reasons that made young Australians to go to war in Vietnam. The fact that communism was in Australia gave many Australian citizens an internal fear. This brought Australians to resist communism in Vietnam and support the War. Australia became enthusiastic to support their alliances‚ where they requested for Australia to be involved in the War. All these
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Axis powers. After the war‚ the victory belonged to the Allies. The USA and USSR become the two new superpowers as they had the most robust economies‚ militaries‚ international political power. However‚ the alliance between the two begins to crumbling down in 1945 as they had a big difference between their ideologies‚ decision‚ and attitude towards the ideas of how Europe should be reconstructed. The relationship between USA and USSR was hugely intense since before the World war II had occurred. USSR
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The end of World War Two brought a tremendous amount of economic‚ political and social change to the entire world. Millions of people were left homeless‚ the European economy had collapsed‚ and much of the European industrial infrastructure had been destroyed. America emerged from the war strong‚ united‚ prosperous and the unrivaled and admired leader of the world. France was humbled‚ Britian exhausted‚ Germany demolished and divided The United States established a new international order
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During the years of the Cold War‚ the main focus to all tension throughout the world along with any combat revolved around differing ideologies in between world powers and supporting countries. The world was in a battle in between the Democratic/Capitalist states led by the United States of America and the Communists states led by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Samuel Phillips Huntington believed that the source of conflict in the world was going to transition from the battling of ideologies
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involved in the Vietnam war because communism was spreading rapidly. The USA‚ Russia‚ and Britain were all allies in the WWI ‚ and there were not many things that they could agree on. Another reason why the US Was involved in the war was because they didn’t want another country to go communist Ho Chi Minh was fighting the french so they could take over and remove French control for independence. France was defeated at Dien Bien Phu‚ and forced to leave the Vietnam war. The war began in 1954‚ more than
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When an illness is threatening or starting to spread‚ it is the natural response to quarantine it until it either dies out or a cure is found. The United States policy of containment brought about during the cold war was an effort to stop the expansion of communism to other regions. Though communism was thought of as both something that could be lived with and without‚ America was right to think of it as a threat to the American way of life. The Soviet Union was looking to expand their way of life
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