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    Was the fiscal crisis unequivocally Greece’s fault? To blame the whole eurozone fiscal crisis on the Greek economy would be a mistake‚ nonetheless it had a major role in the magnitude of the situation by emphasizing the weight and importance of this crisis. The understatement of the gravity of their public debt came up when the global financial crisis started in 2008‚ at that point the greek economy started to crash having a snow ball effect on the rest of the zone. The weight of Greece on the

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    “The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy” Tymia L. Wilson Professor Miriam Altman POL300 April 25‚ 2012 President Nixon became president in 1968 and in his inaugural address on 20th January‚ 1969 he pledged to bring the nation together again. Like Johnson‚ the information from his advisers helped form his decisions; his most important adviser being Henry Kissinger (Meiertöns‚ 2010‚ p. 143). Kissinger was very knowledgeable when it

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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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    strategy of the United States during the Cold War as a method to control Soviet expansion of physical territory and ideological control. It was defined as the application of counter force to pressures or actual physical military action. However‚ containment appears to be a strategy that ended up being at least in part‚ counter productive. In the way that it’s first proponent Kennan described it with the use asymmetrical response to Soviet aggression. This was later replaced in official policy by symmetric

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    Next up‚ who are the Russians and the people that inhabit Moscow? The land we know today as Russia began with native inhabitants known as the Slavic People. The term Slav or Slavic would later create the term in the western hemisphere‚ ‘slave.’ The Slavic people were enslaved by Scandinavian settlers known as the Vikings. The enslavement of the Slavs‚ created the western term of slave. The Vikings arrived in Russia via the Volga River basin. They came mainly from frozen Sweden‚ seeking better lands

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    CHAPTER 1: WHAT WAS THE COLD WAR * Periods of hostility and high tension between two great post-war superpowers‚ the United States and the USSR in the period of 1945 – 1989 * An ideological conflict * A conventional and nuclear arms race * Wars fought on proxy on the battlefields on Asia‚ Africa and Latin America * Economic rivalry * Development of huge espionage networks * Harry S Truman: “the war of nerves” COMMUNISM VS. CAPITALISM THE WEST | THE USSR |

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    of the Cold War‚ the 1950s and 1960s were often a time of great fear‚ a fear of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union upon the USA. JFK notes that families can be saved if the seek refuge in a shelter in the event of a nuclear attack‚ and in fact‚ that is what most families began to do. During the 50s and 60s many middle class families built bomb shelters in order to protect themselves and their family in the event of an attack. The effect these shelters had upon America at the time was that once

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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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    In 1945‚ the two superpowers--the United States and the USSR--became enemies because their beliefs and objectives were completely at odds‚ this was known as the Cold War. An aspect of the Cold War was the race for nuclear superiority. As tension grew between the USSR and America‚ Americans were engulfed in great anxiety and fear towards the atomic bomb. During the atomic era and since then‚ the atomic bomb had predominantly been portrayed as the cause of great fear and anxiety. As fears intensed

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    After the devastation of World War II‚ the entire world anticipated and feared another outbreak of war as tensions increased between two powerful nations‚ one being the United States‚ and the other being the Soviet Union. The two countries entered a state of hostility‚ known as the Cold War‚ where a quiet battle was fought using fear‚ propaganda‚ and threats. For about 45 years‚ nations across the globe waited as the two major countries continued their rivalry through provocation and rising tensions

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