Marshall Plan

The World War II changed the world order drastically. First of all, as it was agreed on the Potsdam Conference the Soviet Union legalized its aspiration to establish the world “Communism Camp”. Europe   was divided according to the sphere of interests between the victors, the United States and the USSR. That was the greatest tragedy…

Though the United States (US) and Soviet Union (USSR) were former allies, after the Second World War, they could not settle their disagreements and cooperate in peacetime. Cold War started as tension and hostility was developed between capitalist bloc led by US and communist bloc led by USSR. Fortunate enough, there was not any large-scale…

1.) In less than twenty years after 1945, Western Europe was able to rise from the ashes like a phoenix despite being physically, economically, and psychologically destroyed. Accurately distinguishing and assigning appropriate significance to the factors behind this remarkable recovery is crucial. Europe’s triumph can be credited to the initial support it received from the…

Roosevelt met with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta to work out the future of Germany and Poland. They agreed on the division of Germany into American, British, French, and Soviet occupation zones. The League of Nations, founded at after WW1, had failed largely because the United States refused to join. This time, policymakers got congressional…

America: Land of the free, and the home of the brave. This famous expression has been used numerous times throughout history, even scoring a line in our country’s national anthem. But in our high-tech socety, many Americans can not even understand what our forefathers went through to achieve this American dream. People do not even…