Take Home Test Chapter 30 1. Describe the dispute between the United States and Russia at the end of World War II. How and why did it escalade into a cold war? Roosevelt had always tried for the most peaceful agreements with Stalin and the Soviet Union. When he died and Truman succeeded him‚ Truman immediately demanded free elections throughout Eastern Europe. Stalin refused. “A freely elected government in any of these Eastern European countries would be anti-Soviet‚” he said‚ “and that we
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Layla Werner Per 4. Middle East 5-28-13 The Palestinian Peoples Party The Palestinian People’s Party (PPP)‚ which is the communist part of Palestine‚ has worked with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to establish a Palestinian state for their people. Palestine’s government is mainly self-run. There are many other organizations‚ such as the PLO‚ and the Palestinian Authority (PA)‚ which later renamed their group to the Palestinian National Authority
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great events of the Twentieth Century” which states that “after the war of 1948 about half a million Palestinians fled from Israel” (Source K). Most of the refugee camps that the Palestinians were forced to live in is known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank (Source K). An example of the terrible and overcrowded living conditions exists in the photograph of a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan taken in 1969. The caption states these Palestinians “ who fled from the territories seized by Israel”. Were
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Hungary‚ and Czechoslovakia in 1988 and 1989‚ new exodus points were opened to East Germans who wanted to flee to the West. Then suddenly‚ on the evening of November 9‚ 1989‚ an announcement made by East German government official Günter Schabowski stated‚ "Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR (East Germany) into the FRG (West Germany) or West Berlin." People were in shock. Were the borders really open? East Germans tentatively approached the border and indeed
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On June 15th 1961‚ Walter Ulbricht‚ Leader of the GDR‚ famously said “Niemand hat die Absicht‚ eine Mauer zu errichten!" ("Nobody intends to put up a wall”) however two months later the Berlin wall was up and at the climax of U.S‚ U.S.S.R political international relations. What began as one could describe as a “shotgun marriage” of the world’s two super powers‚ America and the Soviet Union‚ soon escalated out of error and miscalculation through both sides to a situation in which the world was
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Bibliography: Burns‚ Shirley Stewart. Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities‚ 1970-2004. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press‚ 2007. Print. Daugneaux‚ Christine B. Appalachia: A Separate Place‚ A Unique People. Parsons: McLain Printing Company‚ 1981. Print. "Groups Petition U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Water Quality
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______________________________________________________ (CAPITAL LETTERS) 4. Religion: _____________________ GEN OBC Category A Category B SC ST 5. (a) Indicate your community /category : (put a ‘ √ ’ mark in appropriate box) SC/ST/OBC candidates not belonging to the state of West Bengal should
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very distinguished in various fields‚ such as the noted sculptor Sankha Chaudhury and the founder-editor of the Economic and Political Weekly of India‚ Sachin Chaudhury. Her first schooling was in Dhaka‚ but after the partition of India she moved to West Bengal in India. She joined the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Vishvabharati University in Santiniketan and completed a B.A. (Hons) in English‚ and then finished an M.A. in English at Calcutta University as well. She later married renowned playwright
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empire in Africa‚ Togo is one of the three places which he selects on the west coast. His representative‚ Gustav Nachtigal‚ duly arrives in 1884 to persuade several of the tribal chieftains to accept the protection of the German emperor and to fly the German flag above their villages. In 1885 Togoland is recognized by the European powers as a German colony. Its coastal border is agreed with Britain’s Gold Coast to the west and France’s Dahomey to the east. During the next decade German military
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Major events of Palestine Israel conflict Fights between Arab and Jewish Militias: Late 1920s-1940s‚ Arabs and Jews in the British Mandate of Palestine begin to fight each other. These are usually small attacks or minor pogroms. Throughout this period‚ Arabs and Jews lived in segregated villages‚ so the attacking group would enter the village and wantonly kill the civilians there. UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (II): On November 29‚ 1947 the United Nations passed a General Assembly Resolution
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