Abstract The Soviet-Afghan war, in my opinion, is a very important and forgotten part of history. ... The Soviet-Afghan war was a very complex war, lasting from 1979 to 1989. ... By 1989, with their supplies cut and limited air power, the Soviet Union retreated from Afghanistan. ...
History and role of the Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact was dominated by the Soviet Union. ... When it was clear that the Soviet Union would no longer use force to control the Warsaw Pact countries a series of rapid changes started in Eastern Europe in 1989. ... Poland since 1989 In the 1970's and 1980's the whole system in Poland was deeper and deeper in the crisis and was beginning to crumble as was the whole Eastern bloc with the USSR as the fading superpower. ... These talks broke off in October, but a new series, the "roundtable" talks, began in February 1989. ... In December ...
Therein lies the secret of absolute power- (Rapoport 1989) Has this method been used by most of the well known bloodiest dictators in history? ... - Every man is a maker of history; in fact, some man not only left a mark on those they knew through life, but they left a lasting impression on the entire world. ... Another version of Napoleon can be applied to Adolph Hitler, whom is considered to be the bloodiest of all dictators in history. ... Benito Mussolini backed up by Hitler, became the worst dictator in Italy's history by trying to take over the world. ... Somewhere another predator...
Diaspora Trilogy is the story of Tillers" family's history; Diaspora is the introduction to it. ... Throughout Diaspora, the fact that Tillers adopted "I" instead of "1" and "I" in the roman numerals and numbers appears to intensify the feeling of self and of his family history, making Diaspora more personal than his previous oeuvres. ... Tillers uses other artists" voices to tell his family history due to the fact of his personal issues, and the impact of his parents" trauma had on him. ... It is his way to reframe the traditional history art and modernism, in the way of deconstructing b...
The usefulness of economic sanctions as instruments of foreign policy enjoys at best a chequered history. ... In 1989 FW de Klerk came into power and released Nelson Mandela, leader of the ANC. ... The arguments against economic sanctions are many, due to their unsuccessful history. ...
Although not completely inaccurate, noble-grunt films can manipulate the viewers understanding of the Vietnam War by displaying its history as an emotional drama. ... The only major production during the Vietnam Conflict, John Wayne's 1968 The Green Berets, illustrates how directors concentrated on drama rather than history. ... Cimino offers the people no sympathy or history. By stereotyping the Vietnamese characters as merely savage anti-American enemies and removing the story of the Vietnamese struggle, Cimino, in effect, de-contextualizes the history of the Vietnamese people. ... B...
Since the British National Party (BNP) moved into its southeast London headquarters in 1989, local organisations reported large increases in racial incidents, including the murder of three black teenagers, Rohit Duggal, Rolan Adams and Stephen Lawrence. ...
In 1989 the General Assembly of the United Nations declared that the international community needed to meet with the purpose of reviewing and analyzing progress in human rights since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. ...
The possibility of the end of the Cold War for so long seemed out of the question. Because of the definition of the Soviet ideology which stated that war with the capitalist nations of the world was inevitable, peace was paradoxical. The Americans in a sense fostered the Soviet position by executing...
