Shamil Aly IB History HL Period E 26th January 2011 Re-do Test Essay (Question 2) During the Second World War‚ Truman and Stalin were allies because the US and the USSR were the two most powerful countries that took part in the war. Their will do defeat Germany is what kept their alliance stable and they became much more powerful after combining their powers. After the Second World War the east and the west were having bad relations which caused a separation of the two areas‚ Stalin controlled
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started right away to secretly meet with his advisors to discuss this big problem. He didn’t want the soviet union or cuba to know that he discovered the missiles. After thinking long and hard‚ Kennedy finally made a tough decision to place a naval blockade around cuba. He did this to make sure the soviet union couldn’t bring in any more military supplies. Also‚ he ordered for the removal of the missiles and to destroy the sites. President Kennedy had to handle this crisis with caution because we were
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WWI Summary ➢ War on the Western Front: ✓ The Reasons for the stalemate on the Western Front: Stalemate: Situation where neither side could make a successful breakthrough on the Western Front. The Schlieffen Plan; was the German strategic plan that was to be put into action if there was war against both France and Russia simultaneously. The Franco-Russian Alliance: alliance of 1893 stated that if either France or Russia were attacked by Germany‚ the other would assist
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History has many significant wars and events‚ one of the most recent and memorable to people today is the Cold War. The Cold War took place from 1945-1991 and was a long conflict between the USSR and the United States in which both countries undermined the other but no actual violence took place‚ it led to the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ it caused China to ally with the Soviets‚ and it ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain in 1991. After World War II‚ the Cold War began which was
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It would help them also by increasing their trade with other nations. After everything that happen the COLD WAR starts to HEAT UP. Stalin gets frustrated and wanted the East Berliners to stay in the East and not go over to the prosperous West. He blockades the roads‚ stops barges and blocks railways‚ but the Americans found a way to overcome that challenge‚ and used airplanes. The Americans made NATO‚ and the Soviets created the Warsaw Pact. Many things contributed to how the Cold War begins like‚
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How did the Schlieffen Plan and the French Plan XVII help to contribute to the stalemate that developed on the Western Front? (10 marks) The French Plan XVII‚ created by General Joffre‚ was largely a mistake as it was accurately predicted by the German Schlieffen Plan. It grossly underestimated the strength of the Germany army‚ assumed that if they conquered enough of Germany they would sue for peace‚ and misjudged the direction of Germany’s initial offensive. Germany’s original Schlieffen Plan
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displays a common thought during this time that while America claimed neutrality they actually favored the Allied powers. Munsterburg who wrote this letter was an extremely well educated man but he did not acknowledge in his letter the effect the blockade had America’s claimed neutrality.
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey written by Salman Rushdie‚ is a non-fiction book that gives the reader insight to the internal turmoil taking place in the nation of Nicaragua. Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist who gained his fame for his fantastical novels about the post-colonial relationship between cultures of the East and West. Rushdie became interested in Nicaraguan affairs when the Regan administration started its “war” against Nicaragua. “I was myself the child of a successful
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Prime Minister‚ Sir William Churchill assembled the British people during WWII and led his country from the verge of defeat to victory. He uses rhetorical devices and persuasive appeals to make one point‚ Victory. Winston Churchill’s speech ‘Blood‚ toil‚ tears‚ and sweat’ was given on the 13th of May and the beginning of the second world war. The occasion was very formal because Churchill was addressing his speech the population of Britain‚ the House of Commons‚ and the Government. Churchill is
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By Sadie Shine The biggest component in the debate between Hans-Magnus Enzensberger and Jean Baudrillard is the conflict between different views on the same subject: The media. Enzensberger believes that the media is a capitalist machine used to make money in a capitalist‚ elitist society. He doesn’t believe in the communication side of the mass media as he believes that the media the way it is at the moment excludes and isolates the majority. This is because he believes that the forms of the
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