Discuss and Analyze the similarities and differences between the genocide committed in Rwanda and Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The Rwandan and Bosnian Genocides were more similar than different due to the fact that both were supported by the governing force at the time‚ and both were ignited due to past tensions between two separate ethnicities. The Rwandan and Bosnian Genocides were similar in the fact that both were supported by the ruling force at the time. The Rwandan Genocide‚ was organized
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Why was the Truman Doctrine formed? When Harry S. Truman took over from Roosevelt in 1945 he made it clear that he intended to contain the spread of communism and his get ‘though plan’ with Stalin was an example of the lengths he was willing to go to. In 1947‚ in an immediate response to the British government announcing that it could no longer afford to keep its soldiers fighting Communist rebels in Greece‚ 2 months later Harry Truman and his cabinet came up with the Truman Doctrine. It barley
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The Cold War is used to describe the conflictive relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after World War II‚ which the two powers fought through proxy wars‚ yet they themselves never fought against each other directly and physically. During World War II‚ the US and USSR were allies because they had the same enemy‚ which was Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler and the Japanese; however‚ the mutual enemy was the only reason why the two super powers cooperated. In fact‚ the leaders of the two
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fields. By some of them I was inspired to broaden out my theoretical knowledge implementing it into practice and offered to get involved in some projects related to my major. So I started my first activity at Information center of NATO. I was explaining to people what the NATO is‚ its history‚ why is our country’s goal to become a member of alliance and etc. It was my first experience to work with team and manage it. In 2008 I began working in the company universalcom. I was director there. I worked
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The history and current state of the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy development The European Union is indeed a unique entity‚ both from the internal and external perspectives. And if from the internal side it’s mostly about the people of the Union‚ their interests and rights‚ then from the external it’s mainly the compromise between the member states about any action‚ decision‚ or even declaration. Having so little competence within the external dimension the EU institutions
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Puritanism: a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Puritans became noted in the 17th century for a spirit of moral and religious earnestness that informed their whole way of life‚ and they sought through church reform to make their lifestyle the pattern for the whole
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countries from the threat of communism. The Marshall Plan was created to help Europe recover economically from World War II and reach the “achievement of [the] economic independence” the Western Powers used to have (Packet). Finally‚ the purpose of NATO was also created as a response to the intimidation of the USSR. This institution was a military arrangement against the Soviet Union‚ where the American troops were stationed at the
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The M16 is a lightweight‚ 5.56 mm‚ air-cooled‚ gas-operated‚ magazine-fed assault rifle‚ with a rotating bolt‚ actuated by direct impingement gas operation. The rifle is made of steel‚ 7075 aluminum alloy‚ composite plastics and polymer materials. ArmaLite sold its rights to the AR-15 to Colt in 1959[The AR-15 was first adopted in 1962 by the United States Air Force‚ ultimately receiving the designation M16. The U.S. Army began to field the XM16E1 en masse in 1965 with most of them going to the
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The Cold War‚ often dated from 1947 to 1991‚ was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc‚ dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies‚ and powers in the Eastern Bloc‚ dominated by the Soviet Union along with the Warsaw Pact. This began after the success of their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany‚ leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. A neutral faction arose with the
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