Introduction In early 2000‚ Pawan Bhatia (Bhatia)‚ the CEO of Domino’s Pizza India (Domino’s) was a man in a hurry. Ever since Bhatia took over as the CEO of Domino’s in November 1999‚ he had been frantically reworking the pizza chain’s India strategy. Bhatia was planning to open 150 new outlets by the end of 2002 covering 23 cities‚1 including Bhubaneshwar (Orissa) and Jamshedpur (Bihar). In late 1999‚ Indocean Chase‚ the private equity fund bought a 25% stake in Domino’s operations in India from
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Erin Faulkner The Cold War Arms Race Questions: 1. The impact of technology on the arms race Nuclear weapons were a massive impact of technology that started the Arms Race‚ and that all began on August 29‚ 1949. The arms race was the development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that could have a major impact on wherever it was deployed upon. The arms race was between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ it was the period of massive build up of nuclear weapon stockpiles
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How far did ‘peaceful coexistence’ ease Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and the USA in the years 1953 – 1961? The term ‘peaceful coexistence’ refers to a theory developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War that said capitalist states could ‘accept’ each other. This policy began just after Stalin’s death on 5th March 1953. 1961 is significant here because it marks when the Berlin wall was put up overnight on the 13th August‚ demonstrating the end‚ from a Soviet perspective‚ of the
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grandma was just a little girl during the Cold War and her and her family made home shelters and they lived there for a while and when it was over her and her family moved back into their own house where they lived for a while and when she was old enough she moved to the United States where she started a new family and where my mother was born and my aunts and then she got married. Both President Eisenhower and Truman believed strongly in the Policy of Containment while President Kennedy believed
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In world war two‚ the Soviets lost more than 27‚000‚000 people and they wanted to protect Russia. The Soviets wanted to spread communism and the U.S wanted to keep communism contained. The Policy of Containment was a policy to stop the spread of communism. Why was the Policy of Containment needed? The Policy of Containment was needed for the U.S because of the Korean War‚ the Berlin Blockade‚ and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Policy of containment was needed for the Korean War because North Korea
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Expansionism ideology‚ arguably catalysed the development of the Cold War between 1945 and 1948 - without both of these contributing factors there would have been no war. However‚ tension and backhanded rivalry on the economic front severely threatened US/ Soviet relations‚ fronting a prominence of attack by the USA and provoking the Soviets into retaliation. One major factor that could easily be blamed for starting the Cold War is the USA’s own economic interests. Truman desperately needed large
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The False Promise of Survival: Civil Defense in America during the Cold War David Crosbie U.S. HIST March‚ 2013 The advent of nuclear weapons dawned a new and terrifying era in human history. The destructive power of the atomic bomb‚ demonstrated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ ushered in a global climate of fear. Emerging from the rubble of the Second World War‚ the U.S. and Soviet Union became the two most dominant economic‚ political‚ and military superpowers in the global arena. Upholding
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The Cold War happened between the years of 1945 and 1991‚ it was a time of military‚ political‚ and economic tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. Just after the second World War had ended‚ complications came up around the area of international power‚ who would gain more power and who would lose power. The main thing the Soviet Union attempted to do during this shifting of power was they tried to gain more territory in order to solidify their spot as a world wide power‚ while the
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point in history contained evidence of the roller-coaster of a relationship between two great nations‚ the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The Cold War differed immensely from other wars. The Cold War was not a conventional war between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ but more a war of threats. A well-known term during this time was “Arms Race.” This term was the race between the two nations in the development of nuclear weapons. The fear of one of these nations destroying the
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The Effects of the Cold War on the Americas For nearly fifty years‚ the world lived in fear as two super-power nations quietly battled for power‚ respect and popularity of their respective political views. The Cold War arose out of the ashes of the failed alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union in World War II. Many different factors could be linked to the actual cause of the Cold War‚ however many agree that the political future of Eastern Europe was the major spark that ignited
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