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    As one of the crucial points of the Cold War, the Berlin Blockade of the Soviets and the Berlin Airlift of the Allies displayed failure in Soviet aggression in contrast with the success achieved by the peace seeking Western Allies. The Berlin Blockade of the East Germans effectively blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the Berlin sectors under Western control. As a direct siege on half of Berlin, the Allies came to this problem with an ingenious solution –an airlift. A

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    Cold War; the Cold War was a result caused by the tension of the after math of what had happened with world war 2 .The tension that was there wasn 't just any kind of tension it was military tension between the power of the eastern bloc and the power of the western bloc. The Cold War wasn 't only one war but it was decades of "little"wars and intimidation. Germany was busy after the war, there where so much tension between the Soviet Union and the western allies because they had feared each other

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    Marshall Plan Essay

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    evaluate the Marshall Plan aid in Europe. Liberalism in the international political economy is a theory that arose together with the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Adam Smith and David Ricardo are two major theorists who promoted the idea that free trade and open markets are beneficial to all states and that they can generate wealth for all parties involved. (O’Brien and Williams, 2013, pg.13-14) Within liberalism the important actor, the basic unit of analysis, is the individual, who is thought of

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    Berlin Wall in Germany

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    Abstract This assignment is submitted as partial requirement of Global Trade. This report depicts the sequences of Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall, erected November 13, 1961, served to separate communist East Germany from Western influences. Intended to "protect" East Germans, the wall actually was erected to prevent them from leaving the country. The Wall finally came down August 13, 1989, reuniting families and symbolizing the end of the cold war was near. The initial plans for Allied occupation

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    US Led Democratization Efforts: an Example of Empire Building The responsibility to protect is an international political norm, endorsed by the United Nations. The responsibility to protect doctrine is based on three pillars that are laid out in the in the Outcome Document of the 2005 United Nations World Summit. The first pillar reaffirms that States carry the primary responsibility for ensuring that their citizens are protected from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing

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    The First Cold War

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    The first Cold War was, occurred during 1947 to 1953, political and military tension after World War II between power of Eastern Bloc and Western Bloc. People felt tired from fighting, started to recover their emotional feelings, and society and economic was trying to recover from the war. During this period, artists started thinking about society that increasingly turned their attention to defining identities of national and globally. They also focused for a renewed attention in art and design

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    If these countries were to all fall into the system of capitalism and under the influence of America, then the Soviets would lose their ability to have a centrally planned economy with other blocs, it would also mean that America and it’s ideals would spread across Europe leaving little to no chance for Stalin and the Soviet Union to assert themselves as a true superpower with allies to back them up. But how would these countries accomplish

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    In ASEAN we used AFTA or Asean Free Trade Area. It is a trade bloc agreement by Association of Southeast Asia Nation. Under AFTA, there are six countries of Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) including Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Brunei, and Thailand are no tariffs on approximately 8,000 product. Another four developed ASEAN nations will have further period to phase in tariff cuts. In Asean we trade everything not only goods and services, but the citizen also can go around

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    The Cold War Essay

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    The Marshall Plan would also try to remove trade barriers so that trade goods could more easily flow throughout Europe. With these plans implemented the United States along with her allies still could not prevent the take-over countries like Czechoslovakia. The Democratic world began feel the only solution

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    Policies On Cuba Essay

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    Cuba. In 1991 as the Soviet Union disappeared and the former Eastern Bloc countries struggled for their own existence the future of Cuba once again was questioned. Subsidies, favorable trade agreements, economic and military aid from these countries disappeared. In the early 90's Cuba lost their only major economic connection to the outside world. By 1992 the total value of trade turnover (imports plus exports) with Eastern Bloc countries had been reduced to 7% of what it had been just 3 years previously

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