Essays Tagged: "Soviet Union"

The Philippines and the World Market

tently being hostile toward communist countries, and did not maintain diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union or any other communist state.The United States is the largest foreign consumer of Phili ...

(1 pages) 197 0 4.2 Apr/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Korean War

cted a national desire to forget the events of the war as quickly as possible.Both the U.S. and the Soviets realized Korea was a strategic country; it was important to occupy because it lay in-between ... was a strategic country; it was important to occupy because it lay in-between China, Japan, and the Soviet Union. North and South Korea was divided by the 38th parallel, it evenly split the country in ...

(8 pages) 295 4 4.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The Threat of Nuclear Weapons

uilt in 1945, nuclear war has been a threat. The two majornuclear powers in the world today are the Soviet Union and the United States. If a war ever broke out betweenthe two, which involved the use o ...

(3 pages) 90 0 3.7 Apr/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Robert Boyle

to remember that drug use is not new.East Germany athletes used drugs to enhance their performance. Soviet Unionwas also involved in drug experimentation. In the United States the drug culturehad beco ...

(3 pages) 33 0 4.6 Feb/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The Internet

ence said to create a need for a large invulnerable network like the Internet was the launch of the Soviet Union Sputnik satellite in 1957. (Laursen p.1) This event had had influenced the U.S. preside ...

(2 pages) 58 0 3.0 Jan/2000

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Cold War vs. United States

The Cold War ended in 1991 after the Soviet Union fell apart. Since then, Russia's economy paralyzed, and the United States is three tril ... ed States and the Haiti's military government in the last minute.Secondly, the cold war made former Soviet Unions bleed to white but also put the United States three trillion dollars in debt, and the ... ing the Reagan administration, military spending skyrocketed because of the fear and mistrusts of a Soviet Union which would pose a threat to world peace. That was the Realism's way of thinking, that ...

(5 pages) 204 1 3.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Red Scare. The communis hysteria in the US during the 1950s.

dy machines dispensing goodies with tiny geography lessons. One lesson, under the hammer-and-sickle Soviet flag, read: 'USSR Population 211,000,000. Capitol Moscow. Largest country in the world.' 'Thi ... ormed. He quickly had the sinister sweets removed to protect the innocent from the knowledge of the Soviet Union. The preceding is an example of the extent to which the national hysteria of the ninete ...

(7 pages) 167 0 5.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

"Conquest"

The day they landed was the most horrible day I have ever been forced to live through.The Soviet Union had begun to regroup. It was not immediately joined by the smaller and weaker nations t ...

(7 pages) 41 0 4.0 Jun/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Rise and Fall of the Cold war

The Cold War was the longated tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. It started in the mid 40's after WWII had left Europe ... hey still had a military and a running, somewhat , economy. In the late 40's through early 50's the Soviet Union started to spread the Lenin ideological as it started moving in the Westward position. ... Warsaw Pact, it was the communistic version of NATO.Throughout the Cold War, relations between the Soviet Union and the west alternated between times of tension and crises and periods of reduced tens ...

(4 pages) 239 0 4.6 Jan/1994

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

The Cold War, the elongated tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S

The Cold War was the elongated tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. It started in the mid 40's after WWII had left Europe ... hey still had a military and a running, somewhat , economy. In the late 40's through early 50's the Soviet Union started to spread the Lenin ideological as it started moving in the Westward position. ... Warsaw Pact, it was the communistic version of NATO.Throughout the Cold War, relations between the Soviet Union and the west alternated between times of tension and crises and periods of reduced tens ...

(4 pages) 252 3 3.5 Mar/1994

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Hitler and His Downfall

Europe) Day. The outcome of this war left a new world order dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union.Adolf Hitler was born in Braunuam Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889 and died (committed s ... Europe) Day. The outcome of this war left a new world order dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union.Adolf Hitler was born in Braunuam Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889 and died (committed s ...

(18 pages) 169 0 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Gasoline prices, spiking and dropping all over the world

e five leading oil-producing countries and their approximate shares of the world supply of oil are: Soviet Union 21%, Saudi Arabia 17%, The United States 15%, Venezuela 4%, and Mexico 4%. These five c ... erests, but also in the interest of its allies and in the interest of maintaining peace. The former Soviet Union may now have an interest in selling some of their oil that they have a tremendous amoun ...

(8 pages) 388 0 4.1 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

The Cuban Missile Crisis

eighteen minutes.In April of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers for the Soviet Union was feeling pressured by the U.S. The United States had installed missiles in Turkey, j ... ad installed missiles in Turkey, just across the Black Sea from Russia. These missiles could strike Soviet soil in ten minutes, whereas it took Soviet Missiles located in Russia nearly twenty-five min ...

(8 pages) 251 1 4.9 Mar/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

US Aircraft During the Cold War

World War II until 1989, a silent war raged between the great countriesof the United States and the Soviet Union. When the United States dropped the first atomicbombs on Japan, it not only ended the s ... that it was simply insincere propaganda(Gaddis 94). Congress even went so far as to assume that the Soviet Union would never be ableto produce an atomic bomb (Kirk 29).Henry Wallace, then the Secretar ...

(9 pages) 66 0 4.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

JFK Assassination

deas to improve the nation. Kennedy, during his first term in office, improved peace talks with the Soviet Union. He also was working on ideas to halt the Vietnam War. His work could not be done in a ... e traveled to the Cuban Embassy to ask for visa to go Cuba. The Cubans told Oswald that he needed a Soviet Visa in order in gain a Cuban Visa. Oswald then traveled to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City ...

(13 pages) 232 0 4.8 Jan/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Guilty or innocent? The story of Ethyl and Julius Rosenberg all about j & e Rosenberg

0 as a civilian worker, and left the communist party in 1943. Accusers claim that this was when the Soviet Union first approached him. He was fired in 1945 simply for being a communist, even though he ...

(3 pages) 48 0 3.0 Jun/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

This essay describes the aftermath of the Cold War and competition that uprose between the USSR and the US, especially in the areas of the arms race, technology, and the space programs

The Cold War was an event that affected American and Soviet history tremendously. This political battle over communism cost the U.S. a significant amount ... eatened and violated."The Cold War was an extended conflict between the communist states led by the Soviet Union and the western states led by the United States, which lasted from 1945 to 1990. The st ... gh Western Europe. The amount of jealousy incurred throughout this dispute is amazing. The U.S. and Soviet governments seemed to have taken on the mindset of a two-year-old. Each was jealous of what t ...

(4 pages) 309 3 4.8 Jun/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Smuggling of Nuclear Material

- -Smuggling of Nuclear MaterialOver the past five years the former states of the Soviet Union haven¹t been able to prevent the leakage of nuclear material. Nuclear materials an ... d technologies are more accessible now than at any other time in history, due to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the worsening of economic conditions. No longer does the Soviet KGB, the Soviet mil ... nd the worsening of economic conditions. No longer does the Soviet KGB, the Soviet military and the Soviet border guards have the control to stop the smuggling of nuclear material¹s. With the Col ...

(4 pages) 76 0 4.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

The doomed empire - USSR (Soviet Union)

n: The 1940's and the next four decades after, were a time of bitterstruggle between the US and the Soviet Union. National identity as well as ideologicaldifferences brought both countries to the brin ... ntry would move and the other wouldcountermove. It was finally America that came out on top and the Soviet Union acollapsed failure, but not necessarily because the US was stronger and out muscled the ...

(4 pages) 135 0 4.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Nuclear Weapons

from nuclear radiation and to slow the development of nuclear weapons. In 1963, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States negotiated the first test limitation treaty, the Limited Test Ba ... 1970. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks(SALT) was a convention held by the United States and the Soviet Union to limit the numbers in nuclear weapons. In 1982, the United States and the Soviet Unio ...

(4 pages) 102 0 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science