Greek and Roman civilizations served as models for the western world. ... Europe has a long coastline, many peninsulas, and is surrounded by many seas. ... The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland lake, covers 143,630 square miles. ... Russia is the world' s largest country. ... The Dead Sea is the earth's saltiest body of water "about 9 times saltier than the oceans. ...
The journey lasted less than 100 minutes, but it was a landmark occasion nonetheless and the Soviet Union had sent a message to the capitalist world. ... This signal could be heard on radios around the world, and millions tuned in to hear the "beep" which was a gesture of Soviet power. ... Laika captured the hearts of people the world over, and in the public eye the USSR had taken a seemingly unassailable lead in the "Space Race". ... "Vanguard" exploded on the launch pad and was dubbed "Flopnik" and "Stay-putnik" by the world's media. ... By the time that Kennedy had become President...
Another 4 million are scattered around the world, with the largest communities in the US, Canada, France, Iran, Argentina, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria and Australia. ... In the early first century BC Armenian king Tigran the Great formed an empire-the most extensive Armenian realm in history-that stretched from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean sea and included parts of Georgia and Syria. ...
Turkmenistan is said to have the most public holidays in the world. ... The Caspian Sea has many oil deposits throughout the area and Turkmenistan, Iran, and Azerbaijan. ... Turkmenistan has mild, dry winters and runs along the Caspian Sea for 1768 kilometers....
A great number of changes, both positive and negative, arose as a result of World War II. Based on the facts from documents 1-17, however, it appears that that negative changes far outweigh the positive results within the post World War II time-frame. ... One of the positive outcomes of the Second World War was the increase in life expectancy in most countries. ... There have been more negative consequences then positive as a result of World War II. ... According to Rachel Carson, the contamination of air, Earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and lethal materials are the most pressing enviro...
In the latter portion of the 20th century a group of English colonies in the New World felt that they were being taxed unfairly. ... The First World War actually began friendly British/American relations similar to that of today. ... In the fall of 1939, Adolf Hitler with his 3rd Reich and Blitzkrieg tactics once again brought the world into war. ... Yalta is located in the Crimea, a peninsula in the Black Sea. ... This was a collective security measure tying the majority of the western world together. ...
While Stalin focused almost purely on building Russia as an important world power, he was sacrificing both the liberties and lives of millions of Russian people. ... As collectivization was forced upon farmers throughout rural areas a problem became obvious; with a high percentage of grain going to the workers (in towns) along with a large sum going over seas in exchange for industrial equipment, peasants in collectives simply weren't receiving enough food. ...
D-Day and The Battle of Stalingrad were two battles in the Second World War II that changed the tides of the war towards the Allies both on the Eastern and Western Front. ... This newly developed fighting force rivaled any in the world and the Germans were about to find out how much more powerful the Soviets had just become. ... The operation worked like a charm and German forces concentrated behind Calais prepared to throw Patton's ghost army back into the sea. ...
During the last years of the Second World War, the Red Army was moving forward and leaving behind pro- communist governments. ... Marshall suggested that America should provided $400 million dollars worth of aid to sixteen "free world" nations. ... West Berlin remained a capitalist island in a sea of communism (Winston Churchill 1948). ... Never before had the two superpowers of the world stood so close to destroying each other but they almost did and then more than ever the Cold War was getting hotter all the time! ... This time it was said in public, where all the people of the world could ...
The origins of the Cold War can be traced to conclusion of World War II and the disagreements between the USSR and the Western Powers. ... The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World War II. Americans still believed that the Soviet Union was out for world domination, as she attempted to expand outside of Eastern Europe. ... Western allies during the First World War sent in arms and troops to support the White army to defeat the Bolsheviks. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states...
It was an urgently needed child of a world that very nearly did reach the brink of annihilation during the Second World War. ... The nations of the world needed something larger than themselves - not a unilaterally powerful world government, but a council of sovereign nations that would intervene in world affairs as needed. ... "After World War I, the League of Nations was formed, and after World War II, the United Nations. ... However, it branches all across the world. ... This shows that Canada, being only a "middle-power- in the world, spends more than the United Nations, which represents a...
Environmental problems are to be considered as a world problem, as opposed to national problems, for pollution affects the whole world indiscriminately, regardless of political boundaries. ... The characteristic of Cuba, which is important in any environmental assessment, must first be considered: The Republic of Cuba is an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea at the gateway to the Gulf of Mexico, and is very close to the Tropic of Cancer, which borders it on the north. ... - This newly found unity among communist countries led to an interdependence believed to take over the world, a new world m...
When developing my research I came across this cartoon from the New York Times in 1949.8 The message is clearly that coming from an American point of view it has to hold up the world through a globalisation of its ideas and way of life, in order to keep the world out of the hands of the USSR and Stalin. ... " I intend to start by looking at the root of the idea and how its history manages to evoke passionate responses of American Nationalism in the transition period between the end of World War One and the Cold War. ... In this survey 80% of Americans agreed with the statement "the U...
Stalin: GENIUS OR MONSTER? As with any human being I don't think you can label Stalin as just one thing against another. He may have been a genius or a monster or at times both, but he was never one thing. To truly understand Stalin as a man, a dictator, a leader we need to assess the country he ...
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIA "This is the only region in the world where so many combinations and permutations of two- three and four- and even two plus four or three plus three- power games can be played on the regional chessboard with all their complexities and variations." ... From 1948 onwards, a more or less clear-cut line divided Europe into two main political and military blocs: the communist bloc and the free world of Western Europe, resulting in an almost perfect bipolarity. ...
