NAME: AKSHAYE WADHWA MAY 2013 CANDIDATE NUMBER: 002062-047 WORD COUNT: 3789 HISTORY EXTENDED ESSAY EFFECT OF THE COLD WAR ON INDIA AND PAKISTAN "To what extent did events and policies during the Cold War involving India and Pakistan determine their growth till 1991?" ABSTRACT (WORD COUNT: 327) This essay attempts to shed some light on the question: "To what extent can the Cold War be looked upon as the main event in shaping the political‚ economic and military schemes in India and Pakistan
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Eisenhower left the military in 1948 and became the president of Columbia University. After leaving Columbia University‚ he became the first commander of NATO in 1950. He later went to politics even though he said he wasn’t really interested in them earlier. He was the Republican candidate in 1952 and won by a huge amount. Throughout his presidency‚ he relied on both republicans and democrats to accomplish
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"The foreign policy of a country is in a sense a projection of its internal policies ‚social‚ political and economic." (F. M. Muhammad Ayub Khan) Pakistan was born under inauspicious circumstances. As with all other countries‚ Pakistan’s Foreign Policy is determined by the inescapable facts of history and of geography and by special influences which may be of transitory nature. In the words of P.A Reynolds‚ the Foreign Policy is defined as under:- "The range of actions taken by varying sections
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America while the eastern European countries came under the sway of communist Russia. This was a state of extreme unfriendliness‚ although no actual war was fought. During this period‚ both the superpowers formed various military alliances such as NATO‚ SEATO‚ CENTO‚ Warsaw Pact and the Baghdad Pact. This also led to a mad race of armaments by both the blocs. It led to the existence of two universal ideologies in conflict‚ and two different self-images‚ the United Stated championing a world made safe for
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Chapter 8: From a World War to a Cold War (Contains Cuban Missile Crisis) Why did Cold War break out? This portion of the content deals with the reasons for the outbreak of the Cold War between the USA and the USSR Competing Ideologies: The Cold War confrontation between the USA and the USSR was a clash between the opposing ideologies of Communism (USSR) and Democracy (USA) Supporters of Democracy felt that Communism was akin to slavery and that only Democracy could offer freedom. On the
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“ASEAN on its way to becoming EU as a regional bloc” Countries‚ usually the neighboring ones and those of which are in the same region‚ belong to a bloc. They organize or join these blocs because they have the same aims‚ purposes‚ and interests‚ may it be for economic or political reasons. Participating states are united by a treaty or agreement for mutual support or joint action. Our world has a handful of blocs‚ but two of the most talked about is the European Union‚ better known as EU‚ and
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The apparent accusation between Soviet Union’s spread of communism and US’s ‘imperial’ control over European countries (NATO non-aggression pact)‚ further reiterated by disarmament and ideological differences‚ paved the road to the Cold War crisis (historydiscussion.net). In a bi-polar world dominated by the United States and Soviet Union‚ Australia was unequivocally aligned
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Cold War In history‚ there is a disagreement among historians regarding to when the Cold War began. While most historians dated its origins to the period immediately following World War II‚ others dispute that it began towards the end of World War I‚ when tensions between the Russian Empire‚ the United States and other European countries had already demonstrated the mutual distrust and suspicion between the Western powers and the Soviet Union as a result of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. With these
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PAKISTAN-RUSSIA RELATIONS: POST-COLD WAR ERA Adnan Ali Shah * The demise of the Soviet Union in December 1991 witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs. The transition from a bi-polar world to uni-polar one‚ the emergence of the United States as the triumphant‚ sole super power‚ at the end of fifty years of the Cold War‚ has necessitated a shift in the priorities and goals of the nation states. The renunciation of the Soviet communist ideology‚ coupled with the unraveling of the Soviet Union
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Vietnam was divided into a northern communist half known as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a non-Communist southern half based in Saigon known as the Republic of Vietnam 3. Escalating of the Cold War a. Central Treaty Organization (CENTO): Great Britain‚ Iran‚ Iraq‚ Pakistan‚ Turkey‚ and the U.S was intended to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding at the expense of its southern
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