The Cold War caused a split between East and West and the United States and Russia competed with each other in every single aspect of life from Space Exploration to Sports. The Cold War almost became a nuclear war at one point when in 1962 the Soviets had begun building nuclear missile in Cuba, which is 90 miles away from the coast of Florida and President Kennedy send ships down to block the Soviets. ... During World War II the Soviets and the US were fight together to stop another country from becoming a dominant power, but in life money, greed and power caused the two to start this war wi...

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Each nation refers to the islands by different names: The Diaoyu-tai Islands (People's Republic of China), Tiaoytai (Taiwan), and The Senkaku Gunto Islands (Japan), to which they are most commonly referred ("How Uninhabited Islands," 2014). The Senkakus are 205 miles from China, 105 miles from Taiwan, and 105 miles from the closest island of Japan (McDevitt, 2014). ... Chinese procurement of the islands would not only bring great pride, but would also be beneficial for their maritime goals, in regards to EEZs due to the stipulation that an EEZ stretches out 200 nautical miles...

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British Imperialism And the Boer War European politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries endured controversy and problem over the ideas of imperialism and nationalism. Changes in Europe politically, intellectually, economically, and socially, radically conditioned new response to the issues of imperialism, nationalism, and war. Britain, at its imperial zenith, faced a war that sprung from both ideologies of imperialism and nationalism. The Boer War (1899-1902) would change imperialistic relations between England her colonies, and open their eyes to the country's m...

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