Algeria - the largest of France's North African colonies. In 1954, radical nationalist groups merged to create the National Liberation Front, and launched an uprising in cities all around Algeria. France, having just lost Indochina, sent a bunch of troops and fought a war that lasted 7 years. Large number of atrocities led to it being labeled the "dirty war". Charles de Gaulle helped get France out of the mess.
Jacobo Arbenz - leader of Guatemala who was deposed in 1954 when a small-scale insurgency composed of Guatemalan dissidents and CIA pilots forced the leftist regime from power. The operation that the Bay of Pigs was based on.
Aswan High Dam - 1955, an immense Egyptian power and irrigation project that was funded by the U.S. and British to keep Egypt out of the communist camp. When Egypt formally recognized communist China they withdrew their financial and technical assistance. Nasser proceeded to nationalize the Suez Canal, and the Soviets offered their assistance to Egypt. Israel feared for its safety, so together with France and Britain they attacked Egypt. They did this behind the U.S. back, annoying us and forcing us to disapprove of the actions of our closest allies while supporting the Soviets. The invasion was unsuccessful and showed how important the U.S. was to Europe.
Austria - one of key issues between west and east was removal of Soviet troops from Austria. When this did finally happen, U.S. did the same thing, it proved to be a slight easing of tensions.
Baghdad Pact - a pact created in 1955 by the U.S. and Britain. Formed CENTO, which incorporated Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan into a new alliance system. This alliance proved counter-productive as it helped to alienate the Egyptians and other Arab nationalist states, paving way for increased Soviet influence in Middle East.
Bandung Conference - 1955, Nehru, the leader of India helped create Conference of Non-aligned Nations.
Over the next several hundred years, rivalry with the Champa led to an almost constant state of war between the two countries. ... Until the last years of the Vietnam War, more than eighty percent of the Vietnamese people lived on the land. ...
Just War For more than a thousand years Christian ethicists and theologians have used the language of just war theory to determine when it is morally acceptable for a Christian to go to war. ... When asked about war some would allude to the Just War Theory. ... Only he can declare war. ... So for them the just war conditions only apply to aggressive wars. ... The idea of war being fought in a proper manner means that not all is fair to do in war. ...
They are not just clubs, but a guiding light for life. ... Instead of just pushing themselves to run another lap, lift another set, study for another hour, or learn another theorem. Imagine a world if the early American settlers had given in to the British, if the North had given in to the South after the first loss of the civil war, or if Michael Jordan had given up after being cut from the team in high school. ... So fellow students I say to you, when you are in a jam and breaking into a cold sweat and your first desire is to give up or quit, rethink the problem. ...
They are not just clubs, but a guiding light for life. ... Instead of just pushing themselves to run another lap, lift another set, study for another hour, or learn another theorem. Imagine a world if the early American settlers had given in to the British, if the North had given in to the South after the first loss of the civil war, or if Michael Jordan had given up after being cut from the team in high school. ... So fellow students I say to you, when you are in a jam and breaking into a cold sweat and your first desire is to give up or quit, rethink the problem. ...
He briefly served in the republican army while regularly studying alone in the provincial library. ... They guided the mass in rising against the oppression of imperialism. ... Furthermore, Mao's theory of people's war guided the Chinese revolution (Richards, 1986). The people's war has 3 essential principles. ... Due to Mao Tse-Tung's assertion that immorality can be a political virtue, Henry Kissinger (2000), called him the cold-blooded and violent version of Machiavelli....
The prison is a war zone with violence at every corner and communication to the outside to order killings. ... The battle of keeping the gang leaders from running the gang still while in prison is more of a war instead of a battle. ... An individual might come across one of these factors by him or herself and not decide to give in to peer-pressure or let his or her abuse suffering guide him or her to a life of crime. ... Each of the cells do not have a window and has nothing but metal everywhere around it, which could be a cold eerie sensation to be surrounded by the darkness and cold. ... Thi...
Minh ardently argued the importance of communism to win the battle against the French imperialists, "In order to carry out this task, the Party must uncompromisingly fight sectarianism and organize the systematic study of Marxism-Leninism in order to raise the cultural and political levels of the Party members It must maintain close contact with the French Communist Party." ... William Duiker, Minh's biographer, a man who served in Saigon's US embassy during the Vietnam War and who interviewed Minh's colleagues, succinctly summarizes Ho's description of the party's aim...
Proposal Type of study -Overlooking contrasting approaches to a historical personality, issue or event -How has history been constructed and recorded over time? ... This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. ... Consequently, this subject was dropped in favour of studying the history of the Chinese Communist Party, as it was an area which I was keen to learn about, overlapped in many places with Soviet history and had a relatively large amoun...
