Korean War proved a moderate success for United States‚ the tense foreign relations with the Soviet Union and the disaster of the Vietnam war proved the policy of containment in the United States between 1945 and 1975 ultimately unsuccessful. Since even before the end of World War II‚ tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union began to plague their alliance. As soon as the Soviet Union threatened to force smaller nations under their communist sphere of influence‚ the United States
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To what extent has the East Asian economic miracle relaxed tensions between the regional powers? During 1960 to 1990‚ East Asia experienced a huge transformation in its economic development which is now widely referred to as the East Asian economic miracle. This was largely a result of the growth of eight economies known as the high-performing Asian economies‚ hereinafter HPAEs. These comprised Japan‚ Hong Kong‚ the Republic of Korea‚ Singapore and Taiwan‚ and the three newly industrialised economies
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East Asian religions‚ also known as Taoist religions‚ refer to the religions and philosophies that are dominant in the Chinese‚ Korean‚ Japanese‚ and Vietnamese regions and any other places near them. Taoism is the root of all these religions‚ teaching that nature is the greatest teacher and that everything has a flow and a way. Confucianism teaches that without education and social order there can be no religion‚ and the act of learning is the religious experience. Buddhism taught that craving‚
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Essay on WHY HAS EAST ASIA GROWN MUCH FASTER THAN AFRICA? INTRODUCTION Many nations in Africa observed an impressive growth rate in the early 1990. These were relatively greater than those obtained in the Asian Countries. However‚ between the 1960s and 1990s‚ Africa has witnessed a continuous decline in growth and this has raised concerns about what Africa could learn from the miracle of the East-Asian countries. This decline is general for most if not all African countries but emphasis
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The Cold War was led from 1945 to about 1991‚ it was a war fought between the Communists led by the Soviet Union and the Democratic nations led by the United States. Before the Second World War had begun there were economic‚ political and social differences between the two ideologies‚ which were only intensified after the war‚ as a result of suspicions both sides had. To a certain extent it is clear that the Cold War was a more or less natural development of the Second World War. When the war ended
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I remember Victor and Charlee from my teens. I spent those years in Batu Pahat‚ a fairly large town in Johor‚ that had the advantage over many other towns in that state for being close enough to Singapore to receive the country’s TV and radio signals. As a result‚ I knew all the lyrics of televised Singaporean patriotic songs‚ like Stand Up for Singapore; and I got to know Singaporean entertainers like Brian Richmond‚ Roger Kool‚ and the ventriloquist Victor Khoo and his puppet Charlee. Khoo
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isolation as she had after First World War‚ she was committed to a policy of containing communism‚ not just in Europe‚ but throughout the world‚ including Korea and Vietnam. After the Truman Doctrine was announced‚ Secretary of State General George C.
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Cold War is indirect conflict between the two super powers that is the United States and the Soviet Union. When World War II ended in 1945‚ Soviet troops occupied countries like Czechoslovakia‚ Poland‚ Romania‚ and others. America‚ British‚ and French occupied the western half‚ while the Soviet occupied the eastern half of Germany. The Soviet Union wanted Europe to be rebuilt along Marxist lines and being a communist country‚ while the U.S. wanted Europe to be rebuilt along Democratic Capitalist
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Q4. How effective were colonial responses to nationalist movements in Southeast Asia before the Second World War? Colonial powers in Southeast Asia (SEA) were generally unwilling to grant their colonies full self-rule as many did not planned to leave their colonies. As such‚ the colonial powers wanted to control nationalist movements to maintain colonial rule. They wanted to prevent the growth and radicalisation of nationalist movements to supervise the tempo of decolonization. Coercion‚ concessions
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"The Renaissance was a period of big change in European history. It was a time of intellectual excitement‚ when art and literature blossomed and groundbreaking scientific advances were made."(Background Essay).Before the Renaissance Age was the Middle Ages‚ which lasted from 500CE to about 1350CE. During this time the Roman Catholic Church played a huge role on everyone’s daily life. Priests who often lived inside of monasteries were the ones who owned most of the books and made handwritten copies
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