The Usa After The Second World War

Britain 1945-1979: The Beveridge report (a) What was the Beveridge report? (b) To what extent did World War II change Britain? (a) The keystone of Labour policy after the 1945 landside was setting up the Wefare state. This idea of comprehensive social reform, which was one of the key factors in explaining the labour landside in 1945, was not a new concept. The concept's real birth can be situated around the end of the Victorian period and first moves in western Europe towards reform

during the cold war The Two Super powers which emerged from the second world war have their ideas completely opposed and that in all aspects, cases .. thay have their own vision of thinking .. and they want to spread their own ideology to the world, dominate the world with their ideology that's why the world at the end of the war is divided into two camps there is the capitalism with the usa in one side and the communism with the urss in the other side. So we talk of " the cold war " , usa and

Introduction a. The term “Iron Curtain” - definition, origin and ambiguity Of the many definitions of the term “Iron Curtain”, a typical one reads as follows: “After World War II, communist governments were set up in Eastern Europe, based on the Soviet political model. From 1945 to 1990, military, political, and ideological barriers dramatically divided the Soviet bloc nations from western Europe. This division was referred to as the "Iron Curtain".In August of 1961, the East German government

The “containment” policy was created by the Truman’s administration; it had been formulated in 1947 by George Kennan. It meant blocking the expansion of the East but not attempting to roll back its borders, which was what the USA tried later on. Kennan believed therefore that containment would be sufficient because he argued that time was on the side of the West, and that the USSR would one day self-destruct and collapse. Many examples of the policy of Containment can be observed during the 1940’s

The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis (known as The October Crisis in Cuba and Caribbean Crisis in Russia) was a confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War. The documents given are a map showing the location of Cuba and the range of the Cuban missiles, a photograph of Cuban missiles sites taken in October 1962, an extract of Robert Kennedy’s book, 13 Days describing events on Thursday 18th October, and a cartoon

segregation is the separation of different kinds of humans into racial groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a washroom, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home. In the United States, legal segregation was required in some states and came with "anti-miscegenation laws" (prohibitions against interracial marriage). There were laws passed against segregation in the USA in the 1960s. Segregation

REACTIONS TO THE VIETNAM WAR Few years after the French pulled out in 1954, the South government of Vietnam led by the anti-communist leader Diem seemed to be very close to fall to the Communist block. In fact, it had to face series of overthrow attempt launched by the north communist vietnam government. And when Diem died in a coup in 1963, it alarmed the US government which clearly feared an another spread of communism at that time. Because South East Asia was then clearly determined to follow

After the second world war, the worls was separated in two blocs (competiting group of countries) , There were the east led by USSR a country who was communist and the other the west led by the USA a capitalis country, The USA created the north athlantic treaty oraganisation to fight (NATO in 1949) against a threat; the soviet occuped eastern europe countries. Them they created the warsaw pact in 1955. The USA wanted to stop comminism in the world consequently they created the south asia treaty

The New York Stock Exchange Slide 1: The New York Stock Exchange was born in 1817. It is situate in the south top of Manhattan, in New York. The main street is obviously calling Wall Street, a street which is built by the Dutch settlers in order to protect them against the Indian and English attacks. It is today the main worldwide Stock Exchange place where the biggest sum of money is sharing. Unfortunately, after several events, everybody found out that the worldwide economy depend, a little

: Fifth Avenue , the Statue of Liberty , the Empire State Building , the Rockefeller Center , Ellis Island , Brooklyn , The Big Apple, ... you’ll answer : “New York City”, of course. New York has been the most populous city in the United States since 1790. Geography New York City, the capital of the state of New York, is located on the Atlantic coast of United States. It’s approximately halfway between Washington D.C. and Boston (MA). The Hudson River flows through the city which comprises