Post-Soviet states

significant end. During WWII, the United States and Soviet Union served as allies against the Axis Powers. Though this wasn’t the only alliance standing against Japan, Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria; The United States’ and USSR’s relationship at this point in history was controversial because the two nations never completely trusted each other although fighting common enemies. According to historian Gar Alperovitz, “The bomb made it possible for the United States to do whatever it wanted to Europe

War was a state of political hostility between the U.S and the Soviet bloc, the most powerful nations in the world. The two countries fought together as allies in World War II but toward the end of the War the two nations competing ideologies and visions of the post War prevented them from working together. The Cold War was by far the biggest threat to human existence the world has ever seen, although their was never any declaration of War between the two competing nations, the Soviet Union and

the United states attempt to limit any geographical expansion of the Soviet Union further into Europe and to keep the identity of each European country their own. Because Kennan knew that the Soviets would not want to engage in any battle to risky he said that the best thing to do would be to have the United states, as another super power, threaten the Soviets to not to expand any further. The document was released 1946, one year before the start of the cold war where both the Soviet Union and the

Germany was left indebted to the United States for the relief it received. Guinnane noted that prior to entering the war, governments guaranteed their citizens that allied parties will pay for the costs accumulated during the war (9). The assurance left Germany indebted to France and Italy given that they entered the war in alliance to the nation. Guinnane reported that end of World War II marked the end of the Nazi regime and reparations from Germany to the Jewish group for the cruelty inflicted

began. The cause of the Cold War, can be traced back to the Second World War. It’s no secret that the United States of America fought alongside the Soviet Union against the tyrannical Nazi Germany and Japan forces. However, their comradeship was a tense one. The U.S were well aware that the Soviet

In 2007, the Helsinki Commission held a congressional hearing focusing on energy security in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe. The hearing took place in the wake of the first major Ukrainian-Russian gas dispute in 2006 that not only demonstrated the Kremlin’s motives to use its energy resources, natural gas in particular, as a weapon to meddle in its immediate neighbors’ domestic affairs, but also show the rest of Europe’s, especially Central and Southeastern Europe’s, extreme dependency on Russia’s energy

British Winston Churchill, the Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and the President of the United State Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the Yalta Conference, the heads of the “Big Three” were discussion about the problems of the German surrender and question on the post-war reconstruction of Europe. In the Yalta Conference, the most important condition is that the “Big Three” agreed to divide Germany into four military occupation zones, United State, British and France would occupy the Western

sovereign state while Outer Mongolia is. Declarative theory and constitutive theory will be used for explanation. Attitude of China towards the two cases will be discussed and finally will be the conclusion. Manchurian Declarative theory Manchurian seems can fulfill the conditions of statehood in terms of declaratory theory. But actual practice implicates she cannot fulfill the conditions. Declaratory theory refers to the Article 1 of the Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States. It stated

written by George Kennedy is essentially a review of the United States Government's views on the Soviet situation. It introduces the idea of a policy of containment which ultimately was going to be the way America would battle the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The article begins with Kennan outlining the Soviet's position after World War Two, primarily about their adoption of Marxist ideas into their own. Kennan thought that the Soviets saw no future in which capitalism and communism could exist peacefully

Introduction The term “Cold War” refers to the second half of the 20th century, usually from the end of the World War II until 1990, when the Soviet Union collapsed. Since the 1940s and 1950s the scholars have disagreed on the topic of the origins of the Cold War. There are several groups of historians and their interpretations are very different, sometimes even contradictory. The three main schools are the orthodox, the revisionist and the realist. The classification is not completely accurate