How did the shifts in relations between the superpowers in the 1970s and the 1980s affect Europe? ... This bought the fear that another world war, again with Europe its main arena, a distinct possibility. ... The missile crisis was a tremendous shock to the two superpowers, unlike the Korean war of 1950 - 53, the confrontation this time was not between substitutes, but between the Americans and the Soviets themselves, who were both looking at the prospect of having each other's nuclear missiles bearing down on themselves. ... The policy of Ostpolitik had a positive effect on Soviet and...

• Word Count: 1917
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... (Poland, 1956: Khrushchev, Gomulka, and the "Polish October" ) Unlike Stalin, Khrushchev was a little bit gentler in dealing with the revolts. ...

• Word Count: 2474
• Approx Pages: 10

First, they convinced Eastern European countries to switch to communism. Eventually, European countries were divided into East and West by the "Iron Curtain" (Doc A), the boundary that separates the Warsaw Pact countries from NATO countries; America was in charge of Western Europe and the Soviet Union was in charge of Eastern Europe. ... However, Greece and Western Europe couldn't avoid the chaos of communism spreading. Many Western European countries were a mess of poverty and homeless, which led to the fear all around the world. ... The threat of nuclear attack was unlike any ...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6

Unlike the western democratic nations with free markets, the Soviet Union operated an economy that was completely centralized. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of the Eastern European Soviet Block countries intended to organize against the perceived threat from the NATO alliance. ... All the Communist countries of Eastern Europe except Yugoslavia were included. ... 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. The new government in Eastern Europe were much less supportive to the Warsaw Pact, and in January 1991 Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland announced that they would withdraw all support by...

• Word Count: 2078
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Similar events were widely held in Eastern Europe through 1990s. ... On August 24, 1990, supported by Solidarity, Tadeusz Mazowiecki became the first non-communist Prime Minister in Eastern Europe. ... "The spread of Western media in eastern Europe speeded a mass fear and paranoid. ... Unlike Gorbachev who hoped to change the Soviet Union, Yeltsin wished to dissolve it. ...

• Word Count: 1863
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Unlike Tito, Mihajlovic wanted to restore the old Yugoslavian ruling order that had governed the country before World War Ï. ... Stalin wanted to add Yugoslavia to the East European Communist bloc. ... It was his leadership that made Yugoslavia one of the most liberal communist countries in Europe. ...

• Word Count: 1552
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Introduction The collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 sparked a wave of marketization in Russia Federation and Eastern Europe during which the term ˜transitional economy' was coined. ... It neither brought the Big Bang style transition as it did in some Eastern European countries nor a smooth one like in China and Vietnam. ... Unlike the transition in Russia during which the economy turned into a disastrous state, the Chinese Communist Party managed to continuously bring people out of poverty and achieved unsurpassed double digit GDP growth. ...

• Word Count: 1874
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Unlike the 'brain drain' common in the the USA and other western industrial countries, the fundamental reason that young students from socialist countries attended college in foreign socialist countries was the endeavour the be trained in highly qualified jobs for their home countries, which they strongly felt related to due to their Asian mentality. ... While in the European CMEA-states many workmen were needed, Vietnam had a huge ''available'' labour reserve. ...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

The necessity of this was due to foreign invasion by a coalition of five European countries and the fear of further Royalist plots to overthrow the constitution and return power to the King. ... Unlike France, the chaos in Russia was not dealt accordingly which further implicated the society as Russian peasants seized land illegally, hence consolidating threats to the Russian Revolution. ...

• Word Count: 1713
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

Eisenhower described Zhukov's role as "crucial to victory in Europe." ... However as the war progressed this disparity diminished, in his own words Stalin possessed a " first-class army" by 1943, "very unlike the Red Army of 1941." ...

• Word Count: 2415
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate