Peace Treaties Peace Treaties Versailles Aim: punish Germany‚ prevent war and allow self-determination Territorial Aim: to weaken Germany by taking away territories‚ to get compensation for cost of war by gaining land‚ and to allow for self-determination -Germany lost 13.5% of land‚ 12.5% of population‚ 15% of farm production‚ 48% iron production and 16% coal production Alsace-Lorraine | France | Eupen‚ Moresnet‚ Malmedy | Belgium | North Schleswig | Denmark (through plebiscite) self-determination
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Johnson (LBJ) had no choice but to send US troops to Vietnam in 1965. Word Count: 304 Word Count: 304 Hess argues that the threat of the USSR and Communism “left the US no choice but to stand up to the challenge posed by Vietnam”. Direct confrontation was impossible as the USSR was a nuclear power‚ therefore the only choice available was “a policy of containment”; previous success in Korea gives validity to this view. Hess states Vietnam was the centre of the “Domino Theory”‚ that a communist Vietnam
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their offensive. For centuries‚ the Afghan people had battled numerous invaders of their territory‚ but were conquered by none. Statistically speaking‚ Soviet leaders entered into a war with some terrible odds for winning and it seems as though the USSR lost the war before it even began. Henry Kissinger once stated‚ “The guerilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.” (Ewans‚ 2005). The strength of the Mujahideen’ emanated from their Islamic ideals. “They had
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is centered with Kim II Sung and North Korea was working hard towards resolving the internal conflicts that have disruping before war starts. Why does the korean war matters to us? After the war‚ North Korea have some economic struggles after the USSR collapse.There was famine and it probably killed 10% of North Korea’s population. The South Korea have a bad start and have the poorest economies in the world but they built their way back. Within the last 50 years‚ the tensions between North Korea
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the reason for Kennedy’s increased commitment‚ George Herrings questioned Kennedy and Eisenhower’s fundamental brief in Vietnam to defend democracy‚ arguing that evidence would suggest their support for Diem’s regime having more to do with the containment trap on the basis of own strategic interests‚ keeping the USA’s superpower status. Others such as Schlesinger took the Quagmire theory suggesting that each president took one step further in committing America‚ thinking that they were solving Vietnam’s
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Cold War Part 2 Objectives • Evaluate the role and ideologies of Kennedy‚ Nixon‚ Khrushchev‚ Mao‚ Castro‚ and Ho. • Analyze the Vietnam War and its place in the broader Cold War. • Compare two proxy conflicts in two different regions. • Analyze the role of détente. • Analyze political developments in China (Great Leap Forward‚ Cultural Revolution) • Discuss the Sino-Soviet split. • Evaluate the process and effectiveness of various arms control regimes. •
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Development of the Cold War‚ in the five years between 1945 and 1950‚ could be argued as taking place for a number of reasons and due to various individuals. It could be easy to simply site Stalin as the main reason responsible for it’s outbreak and growth‚ clear through his approach on communist expansion‚ use of Red Army and inability to uphold agreements. However for a war of any kind to develop there is always more than one party involved and the USA and it’s president Truman could also be said
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the effect it had on Western assumptions/reactions about Soviet intentions‚ e.g. Truman’s ending of Lend-Lease. Block 4 Explain how the takeover of Eastern Europe was partly a reaction to American and Allied perceptions of the USSR‚ e.g. Riga Axiom‚ policy of Containment etc. Conclusion Evaluate Stalin’s aims and motivations after the war and weigh up the Soviet threat to the West‚ e.g. Stalin’s support for communist parties in Western Europe and his attitude towards the Percentages Agreement
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The end of World War 2 left Southeast Asia in an interesting albeit complex period. The once mighty European colonial empires started to crumble‚ having exhausted their fiscal resources and capacities in fighting the war. With decolonization‚ some countries like Indonesia declared independence‚ while other countries were left in a state of anomie‚ with the already existent internal turmoil such as segregated and suppressed ethnic groups and unstable democracy . The region undeniably saw the rise
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On December 25‚ 1991‚ the Soviet Union flag lowered for the last time. With the lowering of the flag‚ Mikhail Gorbachev resigns from the post of President. As changes are occurring from Gorbachev’s steady hand‚ people all around the world watched in disbelief as the Soviet Union was split into separate nations peacefully. These changes could not have transpired without the revolution that Gorbachev brought forward. His reform efforts would be the eventual catalyst towards demanded freedom from
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