Differences in European ways of life were influenced by culture and tradition, economic development, and political systems. ... After World War II, Europe became the center of the cold war, which divided Communist-controlled Eastern Europe from non-Communist Western Europe. ... Most of Europe's Christians are Roman Catholics. ... Soccer is the national sport in Europe. ... The economies vary great due to culture. ...

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In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... A second related factor, which had a hand in bringing about the end of communism in Eastern Europe was the fact that communism never really had the support of the people. There was constant societal opposition to communist rule in Eastern Europe. ... The states of Eastern Europe in the post-war period had been forced to adhere to...

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In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... A second related factor, which had a hand in bringing about the end of communism in Eastern Europe was the fact that communism never really had the support of the people. There was constant societal opposition to communist rule in Eastern Europe. ... The states of Eastern Europe in the post-war period had been forced to adhere to...

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In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... A second related factor, which had a hand in bringing about the end of communism in Eastern Europe was the fact that communism never really had the support of the people. There was constant societal opposition to communist rule in Eastern Europe. ... The states of Eastern Europe in the post-war period had been forced to adhere to...

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After the tearing down of Russia, Europe as not broken out into war, thus making Gorbachev a key factor in European History. 2. ... Hitler looked around at a world that was quickly becoming a globalized singularity and, perhaps out of fear, he began espousing the idea that the German "race" and culture was under threat. While Europe took its first steps towards unity, the German dictator lashed out and said no - we are German and we must fight for the continued existence of the German culture. ... When their influence began in the early 15th century, much of the glorious period of the Renai...

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Communism in the Eastern Europe was a tragedy. ... However, it was Gorbachev's reformation that truly brought Communism in Eastern Europe to its end. It proved that Communism in Eastern Europe was just a theory that did not work in reality. ... This modification contributed to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. ... The freedom of politic, social, culture, and economic were controlled. ...

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On the night of November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall-the most potent symbol of the cold war division of Europe-came down. ... The reform movement that ended communism in East Central Europe began in Poland. ... The revolutions of 1989 marked the death knell of communism in Europe. ... The collapse of communism in East Central Europe and the Soviet Union marked the end of the cold war. ... It was this that gave generations of Soviets confidence in the future, a developed education system and reasonable mass healthcare, a very high level of culture and the emergence of a broad stratum of the intel...

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After World War II, Europe was in wreck. ... In 1980, the city of Berlin was developing two different cultures. ... Furthermore, the fall of the Berlin Wall marks the end of the Cold War and also more importantly it stamps the 'death' of communism in Europe. ... It opened the doors to a new era, to a new Europe, to a new birth of a democratic superpower state in the World, a unified Germany. Also, the fall of communism in Western Europe specifically in Germany, opens the doors and leads the way for further development in the continent; the falling of communism and socialism in the E...

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He was faced with the following two problems that had been facing the Russian Empire for centuries: the need to centralize the vast Russian terrain and the need to solve the backwardness of Russian culture and technology. ... Most importantly, the people were too uneducated and the culture was so removed from the rest of Europe that they had no clear notion of liberty, or how to obtain emancipation. ... Meanwhile, external factors in Europe were forcing change. ... Russia was in dire need of a strong ruler, with European relations in friction and its internal strife at its height. ... He w...

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USSR, with the lead of Josef Stalin felt that it had the right to the Eastern European nations it had occupied in World War II. ... In return, the Soviet agreed to enter the war against Japan after the war in Europe ended. ... This treaty was the beginning of the cold war and a tension between Eastern and Western Europe. ... A civilization may include people who share in and identify with its culture, but who live in states dominated by members of another civilization. Civilizations usually have one or more places viewed by their members as the principal sources of the civilization's c...

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The Armenian language is a discrete branch of Indo-European, with unique alphabet, which has been established by Mesrop Mashtots in 405 AD.There is an institute of ancient manuscripts, which was named "Mesrop Mashtots". It has unique collection of approximatly 17,000 manuscripts includes almost every sphere of Armenian ancient and medieval science and culture. ... Historical documents show that the Armenian advance from Capadocia -- the region of Europe known as Thrace -- to the plateau of Erzerum, in the neighborhood of Mt. ... In 1915, under the cover of WWI, the Turkish government imp...

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Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and others live in the Soviet Union; all of them have a right to satisfy their spiritual needs- this is the only way toward a new culture and new politics that can meet the challenge of our time." ... By the end of 1989, all the citizens throughout Eastern Europe were protesting for mass reforms. ... "As the chorus of protests mounted, the Soviet leadership became faced with the defection of Eastern Europe. ... "The collapse of communism in East Central Europe and in the Soviet Union marked the end of the cold war. The U.S. long-term policy of withholding ...

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David (2012) states that the UNESCO is known as the intellectual agency of the UN and has five main themes to his program: education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication. UNESCO's mission is to build and maintain the peace, eradicate the poverty from the world and create an international dialogue through science, education, culture, communication and information. ... Rowe (2011) states that UNESCO has a cultural bias towards Europe; in fact the distribution of the WH sites in the world is unequal, Eurocentric and with a prejudice towards un-developed co...

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Chaplin declined the invite and instead decided to abandon the US entirely, moving to back to Europe and taking up residence in Switzerland instead. ... I would like to have told them that the sooner I was rid of that hate-beleaguered atmosphere the better, that I was fed up of America's insults and moral pomposity. 5 Move To Europe and Production of A King in New York All of these events would set the stage for Chaplin, now residing permanently in Europe, producing his first film. ... It was born out of the troubles that Chaplin faced personally as well as the culture that the Cold War...

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Elements like economics, politics, war, aesthetics, art, literature and culture also played a big role within these movements and will also be touched on. It all started with the Great War that crippled the people in Europe not only emotionally but also economically. ... The debacle of World War I and the rise of the Fascist governments in Italy and Germany that shattered the economies of the European continent and stunted the growth of the industry there, assured the international dominance of the American corporations. In Europe, the concept of cinema as art had appeared early...

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Despite the ongoing debates over the borders of Europe, most of the scholars tend to consider the region to be the south-eastern angle of Europe. ... Located at the meeting point of southeastern Europe and western borders of Asia this region was historically under the influence of Roman Empire, Greeks and later Mongols, Persians, and Turks. ... During that time Georgia, located near the Black Sea region was influenced by Greek culture, Armenians by Byzantine Empire and later by Greeks, but Azerbaijan tribes were influenced by Persian culture. ... But only Turkic conquest in 11th century set up...

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Then, in 1815, the Industrial Revolution SPREAD to other European countries following the French Revoultion and Napoleonic Wars. In 1880 (lasting until 1915) reached its high peak of European control of Africa, parts of Asia, and India, along with US involvement in Latin America. ... Beginning in 1939 as a European conflict between Germany and an Anglo-French coalitoin, it widened to include most of the nations in the world. ... Because miscommunication will always occur, there will always be differences in ideas, cultures, and beliefs, hatred, and greed in this world. ...

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Europe was effectively split into two spheres of influence. Western Europe, aided by the United States, was democratic and capitalist. Eastern Europe, comprising of the USSR and the satellites, was Communist. ... The plan, also known, as the European Economic Recovery Plan, aimed to use money to stabilise post-WW2 Europe to minimize the chance of communist uprisings. ... There was no reference to the reunification of East and West Germany in this agreement but it did provide for improved communication between the two Germany's in terms of trade, culture and personal contacts. ...

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The doctrine declared that the United States would stay out of European affairs and also warned the Europeans not tomeddle? ... Monroe made it very clear that any European interference with the western hemisphere wouldimpinge upon the rights and interests of this nation.? ... He was strongly influenced by advisers, who had no faith in European central bankers and felt that there was nothing to be gained by tying the U.S. economy to a hazardous international agreement. ... In the spring of 1940, after Germany had conquered Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France Roosevelt convened...

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Although both Truman and Stalin broke the tension between Western Europe and Asia, Stalins obsession over converting the world into communism is what caused such rebellious acts from western europe, which inevitably forced them to resist to preserve its social and political culture. 1917 was the point where a clear difference between the "West" and Russia was established, Russia was mainly responsible for creating this division and was also, to an extent, to blame for the increase of distrust and tension this division caused. ... The emergence of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s signaled t...

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After collapsing of Communist Block in Europe USA's administration begun to launch new order in Europe. The main tool being used to extend its influence in Europe was NATO. ... Russia's weakness has been used largely by the US, which increased its manor in Europe to the greatest extent since the beginning of the Cold War. The last European country being included before 90s to NATO was Spain and it was in 1982. ... "The Clinton administration reneged on that commitment when it decided to expand NATO to Eastern Europe". ...

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The cold war started before the World War had ended. During the final battles of W.W.II, the Russian economy was at the bottom of the bucket. They had requested much money from America to help defer war costs. Having had already supplied the soviets with vast numbers of trucks, jeeps, planes, and t...

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-Walter Cronkite The origins of the Cold War have been debated since 1945 when, at the end of World War II, the allied countries of Great Britain, The United States, and The Soviet Union had to decide how to map out the fate of Europe. ... McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. They pointed to evidence of the Soviets objective to support and set up governments in East...

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Russia is located east of Europe and west of North America, so close where some people living in Alaska or islands off of Alaska consider themselves citizens of Russia instead of the United States. ... A lot of these aspects of Russia are the same today as they were pre-World War 1, yet the culture and government was much different. ... And in these cultures they had unique beliefs and cultural traditions such as; they would never begin a journey or start an important task on a Monday because it is believed that it is the worst day of the week and that nothing of that magnitude should be sta...

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As an autocrat, no other monarch in Europe claimed such large powers or stood so high above his subjects as Nicholas II. ... The Tsars who ruled in Russia were firm autocrats in an era where the nearby Europe was transforming to liberalism and republicanism. ... As much as it tried to westernize itself, it did not enjoy the equal citizenship of a European democracy. ... There were hundreds of different ethnicities, languages, cultures, and many different religions, ranging from sects of Judeo- Christian to Islam to even Buddhism. ...

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