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Guy Lawson the author of Arms and the Dudes is against the excess spending of millions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the use of FedBizOpps. FedBizOpps is a website ran by the government where they post contracts for anybody to fulfill at the best possible prices. This website helps fuel the international arms trade, since people use it as a way to make a lot of money through shady arms trade. In 2006 the US Army needed to arm Afghanistan as quickly as possible to aid in the defense from muslim extremists. At first the Pentagon decided not to use “FedBizOpps to buy third-rate supplies from the Balkans via dodgy like AEY” (Lawson 58). The government knew it was throwing money out the window so they turned to Russia to supply brand

On April 30th, 1803, the United States doubled its land area when the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed making the 828,000 square miles of the Louisiana territory a part of the New World. After the exchange of $15 million to France in exchange for Louisiana, France’s influence in the United States was demolished. When the proposition of purchasing the Louisiana territory arose, Thomas Jefferson had many diverse opinions whether the addition would have a positive or negative effect on the future of the United States.

The United States, sought a peace treaty that would address how World War I began. The United States also wanted a treaty that would not punish Germany for fear of instigating resentment with the German people, for example, resentment was one of the factors in the rise of the Nazi regime. The final version of the treaty did not sit well with President Wilson, even more, only eight of his Fourteen Points were actually merged into the Treaty. Some of Wilson’s points were not respected by either side, for instance, point five urged countries to work towards disarmament and reduction of munitions. President Wilson, initially regarded the Treaty as a means of a temporary fix to an unbalanced world. This regard was based on the fact that the President knew very little about Europe. Furthermore, President Wilson became extremely embittered as the corrections to the Treaty became more punitive towards Germany. Even though the United States successfully avoided a high casualty and damage rate from the war, likewise, President Wilson and the American people shared the same disappointment that he felt towards the Treaty of Versailles. Therefore, the treaty was greeted with disappointment in the United States and due to the ‘fourteenth point- The League of Nations, Congress refused to ratify it.

On the Home front in The United States the production of weapons and war related supplies were fundamental in defending and defeating any threats. Franklin D. Roosevelt believed the mass production of weapons would “energize America and frighten the enemy” setting an “impossible” goal for the American people to fulfill in 1942, however, by “1943 the organization was in place to maximize American industrial might” (PBS – American Industrialization par 3). By the end of World War II The United States super passed its “impossible goal,” and had produced millions of war related items. Big corporations aiding in supplying the war, increasing their profits by billions in addition to

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as well as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) were failures. The North American Free Trade Agreement was one of the most controversial documents of the 20th century, beginning January 1st 1988.1 The reason it was so controversial was because it was loved in some ways yet hated in others. One of the reasons why the FTA and NAFTA were failures is due to the fact that Prime Minister Brian Mulroney lost a lot of votes caused by the amount of voters that disapproved of the FTA and NAFTA. Another reason the FTA and NAFTA were failures is because the agreement did not improve the amount of full time jobs in Canada, which was one of the reasons that the FTA and NAFTA was created in the first place. The final reason the deal failed was because the deal was supposed to improve productivity around Canada but really did nothing. The FTA and NAFTA were failures because it only helped a small handful of Canadians and hindered many more.

The Case Against a U.S.-Arms Monopoly by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall is an article about the controversial topic of the United States having a monopoly over the global arms. Christopher J. Coyne is the F.A. Harper professor of economics at George Mason University and has also taught the University of

The Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, named after the Soviet secretary of state Vyacheslav Molotov and also the German secretary of state Joachim von Ribbentrop, formally the treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and additionally called the Ribbentrop–Molotov pact or Nazi–Soviet pact, was a non-aggression treaty signed in Moscow within the late hours of twenty three August 1939.

The United States has been a major supplier of arms to foreign buyers for the better part of the last 75 years. Major military exports beginning under the Lend-Lease Act, Robert M Gates reports in his Foreign Policy piece “Helping Others Defend Themselves”, led the United States to continue supplying weapons to nations that would pay for them in lieu of retreating back into the isolationist policies put forth on the heels of World War I (Gates). Today, America is the largest arms exporter by a wide margin. Per Amnesty International, between 2010 and 2015 the United States facilitated upwards of $55 billion worth of conventional arms sales (“Killer Facts: the scale of the global arms trade”). While a significant portion of the United States’s

The Cold War was a unique war, nothing like the wars that had come before. It did not have a clear start, no real first battle to start the hostilities. It could be said that the Warsaw upraising in 1944 was the beginning, though what that symbolized was coming went unnoticed by the United States. It was not until two years later in 1946 that the United States finally realized that they had walked out of the fire World War II and into the frying pan of a new war (International). That kind of subtle development was common in the Cold War and continued until it 's resolution in 1990. There was no clear aggressor, it was a mutual war over ideologies, a nature clash between communism and and capitalist democracy. No one wanted things to dissolve into military conflict so it was fought primarily with policy (International, Gale). The question of avoidance is always present and especially with the Cold War. Answered simply, yes, if the United States or the Soviet Union had taken either more peaceful or more aggressive actions it could have led to a peaceful resolution or mutual destruction instead. Remnants of the Cold War can be found wide and far, from the complete destruction of historic Japanese society to nuclear waste and the death and illness that accompanies it in Kazakhstan (The Cold War in Asia, Werner). The Cold War, mutually started by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, could have been avoided but may have been the best option despite the severely negative legacy in left

Asif Efrat presents his study about the international regulation of goods, focusing particularly on the regulation of the trade of small arms and light weapons, that he defines as “weapons for individual use or designated for a small crew” . He starts by explaining that the “liberalization of markets and world trade is among the most important economic trends of the twentieth century” , since more and more countries are joining the ‘world trading system’. Efrat points out that states do not all have the same interests and are thus not willing to regulate trade the same way,

The Treaty of Paris was a signed agreement between the United States and Spain. It was signed on August 12. The fight only lasted about 15 weeks. The Unites States and Spain met in Paris. The terms of the Treaty of Paris were that Spain had freed Cuba and moved over the islands to Guam and Puerto Rico and moved them to the Unites States. During the Treaty of Paris Spain had sold the Philippines towards the Unites States for about $20 million. By the late 19th century, Spain had the most powerful colonial nation. The Spanish American war was between Spain and the Unites States in 1898. It was the result of the intervention of the Cuban War of Independence. The war had ended due to signing the Treaty of Paris in December 10, 1898. Spain had lost

The cold war was a period of struggle and conflict between the superpower the USA and the USSR between the end of WW2 in 1945-1991. Both the superpower saw a threat form each other to its continue of survival and adopted strategies to preserve their position. The superpower divided Europe into two: Eastern Europe which is leaded by the communist USSR, while there was democratic which is leaded by the USA in the Western Europe.

Friedman goes on to say that this is why countries like North Korea and Iraq have remained “hot spots” in the world, countries that contain conflict and violence are very common. Since these countries are not a part of any supply chain, they are more eagerly aggressive and violent with the other countries.

The picture above illustrates the devastation of nuclear weapons in war. It was a tragic day for the entire world on August 6, 1945. On this fateful day in Hiroshima was the first use of nuclear weapons in war, on innocent civilians. In less than a billionth of a second, 70,000 people were killed on impact. That is 20% of Hiroshima’s population, gone. Approximately 200,000 suffered the wrath of nuclear radiation. This is an estimated 270,000 people affected by this weapon out of a population of about 350,000 people . From this day forward these weapons of mass destruction have not only made an impact on the land it was detonated on, but have opened a can of worms on the generations of people following it. The cold war following close

In 1939 just before the start of World War 2 Albert Einstein and several other scientists told the then president of the USA Franklin D. Roosevelt that Nazi Germany was putting efforts into purifying Uranium 235 which could be used to build an atomic bomb. The United States launched the Manhattan Project shortly after this which was committed to research and production that would produce a viable atomic bomb (Purohit V. 2004 Online “The Atom Bomb: A Brief History”).