both sides‚ to forward theses ideals. Throughout the years of the Cold War‚ many presidents took different stands on how to proceed. After President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed away in 1945‚ his vice president‚ Harry S. Truman became president until 1953.
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of Muslim League becomes the third Governor General. Governor General Khawaja Nazimuddin of Muslim League becomes second Prime Minister. 1952 December 22 -- The second draft of the Basic Principle Committee presents to the Constituent Assembly. 1953 April 17 -- Malik Ghulam Mohammad dismisses the Khawaja Nazimuddin. (Important note: This is this act of Ghulam Mohammad that sets an unhealthy tradition and precedent in Pakistan of Presidents removing ELECTED governments. This tradition is later
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The Impacts of the Arab Revolution: The 2011 Arab revolutions are best described as uprisings for democracy and dignity. They are democratic in the sense that they are driven by a deep-rooted hunger for political empowerment on a mass level‚ specifically the replacement of elite rule with popular sovereignty. They are also about dignity in that the protesters are rejecting the humiliation and degradation that has accompanied decades of authoritarian rule. The indignity brought on by massive corruption
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Similarly in Iran‚ Western involvement in Iranian politics led to the rise of Islamist groups and eventually the Iranian Revolution in 1979‚ later known as the Islamic Revolution. The revolution was in response to Western influence and involvement in Iran during the Pahlavi dynasty. Both Great Britain and Soviet Russia invaded and occupied Iran in August 1941‚ forcing the abdication of Mohammad Reza Shah in favour of his son‚ in retaliation to his declaration of neutrality in the Second World War
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of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world1. Modern Syria was created as a French mandate and attained independence in April 1946‚ as a parliamentary republic. The post-independence period was rocky‚ and a large number of military coups and coup attempts shook the country in the period 1949-1970. Syria has been under Emergency Law since 1962. Rotary clubs started in Syria in the late thirties of the twentieth century. In the year 1936/1937‚ Clare Martin Area manager of Shell Oil Company
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good neighborliness. The Pahlavi dynasty was ruling Iran in the modern era‚ the last kings is Mohammad Reza (Shah)‚ who took the throne after the dismissal of his father by the British and Soviet forces‚ it has been known for Mohammad Reza tendency to the Western Camp on the Eastern Camp and he had taken steps to modernize the country. The Prime Minister Mossadegh controlled the country by a coup‚ but shah retook over the throne by deliberated coup and overthrew Mossadegh’s government and he was arrested
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land there and was going to lose that because Guatemala wanted to grow its economy. The CIA’s “covert ‘Operation PBSUCCESS‚’ were among several hundred records released by the Agency on May 23‚ 1997 on its involvement in the infamous 1954 coup in Guatemala”. The coup in Guatemala was a war caused because the U.S. had to protect their interests‚ in this case money and land. Then again‚ the U.S. interfered in foreign affairs just a couple of years later. Uruguay was going to be led by the Frente Amplio
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Outline 1. What is oil 2. Petroleum industry 3. Domestic and industrial usage of oil 4. Middle eastern oil 5. OPEC 6. Role of Saudi Arabia‚ Venezuela 7. US consumption of oil - 1/4th of total oil 8. War for oil - Iraq War‚ War on terror 9. Oil as a weapon by Arabs‚ Arab Israeli Conflict‚ Central America 10. Political Greed 11. Pipeline diplomacey Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan 12. The politics of oil nationalization 13. New alternatives ethnol
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to release emergency supplies of oil to them. In 1957‚ Congress proclaimed the Eisenhower Doctrine‚ pledging U.S. military and economic aid to Middle Eastern nations threatened by communist aggression. In 1960‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Kuwait‚ Iraq‚ Iran‚ and Venezuela joined together to form the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Round Two for Ike President Eisenhower was reelected in the election of 1956 as he beat his Democratic opponent‚ Adlai
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Cold War Notes (Chapt. 26/27) Pages 803-812 (Truman) Anti-communism and Containment‚ 1946-1952 late ‘46 tensions rose between U.S and USSR ‘shotgun wedding’ dissolved after defeat of Germany and Japan misunderstandings of gov’s→ powers sought greater security→ feeding fears→ Cold War Polarization and Cold War U.S and USSR fought over destiny of Eastern Europe Stalin→ Soviet Sphere of Influence Saw as crucial to Russian Society wanted to end USSR’s vulnerability to invasions from the
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