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Book Conflict and Tension Between East and West  1945 1972

Download or read book Conflict and Tension Between East and West 1945 1972 written by Clever Lili and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945-1972 is a wider world depth study that investigates international relations. The course focuses on the causes and course of the Cold War. It considers why the conflict occurred, as well as how it developed into a global conflict over the following quarter of a century.

Book The Cold War  a Very Short Introduction

Download or read book The Cold War a Very Short Introduction written by Robert J. McMahon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.

Book The Tension Between East and West

Download or read book The Tension Between East and West written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1983-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 lectures, Vienna, June 1-11, 1922 (CW 83) This challenging set of lectures attempts to lift the veil from modern social and spiritual problems as experienced in the contrasts between East and West. By ascribing to human thinking only a shadowy, subjective validity, modern science tries to invalidate the very faculty that gives us our human dignity. At the same time, however, this "unreality" of thought images makes possible an inner freedom that scientific doctrine tends to deny in principle. The need arises from these contradictions to extend the limits of ordinary scientific thinking to new investigative faculties. In part one, "Anthroposophy and the Sciences," Rudolf Steiner esplains that this can be achieved in a healthy way through two kinds of meditative excercises, very different in character from yoga and asceticism and other older paths to higher knowledge. These disciplines lead to the discovery of a paradoxical truth: "If you would know yourself, look into the world. If you would know the world, look into your self." The spiritual-scientific philosophy thus presented provides a framework within which the second half of the book ("Anthroposophy and Sociology") considers how a healthy social life can be understood and shaped. Today the old social instincts of humanity have grown uncertain, and the rational intellect is proving unsuited to comprehend and foster a humane social life. While admitting that we are only beginning to discover the right relationship between individual and community, Steiner describes how a conscious spiritual life is able to give the same social certainties as did the earlier "instictive" life. He then explains how we might find a way from our highly developed sense of personal self into the worldwide social organism. This volume is a translation of Westliche und östliche Weltgegensätzlichkeit - Wege zu ihre Verständigung durch Anthroposophie.

Book Oxford AQA GCSE History  Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945 1972 Student Book

Download or read book Oxford AQA GCSE History Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945 1972 Student Book written by Tim Williams and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Student Book is written specifically to match the new 2016 AQA GCSE History specification, and is developed by Aaron Wilkes, an experienced Head of History, and Jon Cloake, an author with examining experience. Features such as Sources, Practice Questions and Study Tips help students prepare for the new AQA exams.

Book The Cold War at Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Jenkins
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780807847817
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Cold War at Home written by Philip Jenkins and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant industrial states in the country, with a powerful radical tradition, Pennsylvania was, by the early 1950s, the scene of some of the fiercest anti-Communist activism in the United States. Philip Jenkins examines the political an

Book Oxford AQA GCSE History  9 1   Germany 1890 1945 Democracy and Dictatorship Revision Guide

Download or read book Oxford AQA GCSE History 9 1 Germany 1890 1945 Democracy and Dictatorship Revision Guide written by Aaron Wilkes and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Germany 1890-1945 Democracy and Dictatorship Revision Guide is part of the popular Oxford AQA GCSE History series. Written by our original author team to match the new AQA specification, this guide covers exactly what your students require to succeed in the Paper 1 Germany Period Study exams. Recap key events with clear visual diagrams and brief points. Apply knowledge with targeted revision activities that tests basic comprehension, then apply understanding towards exam-style questions. Review and track revision with progress checklists, suggested activity answers and Exam Practice sections. Step-by-step exam guidance based on the popular 'How to' student book feature. Examiner Tip features most up-to-date expert advice and identifies common exam mistakes. Boost student confidence on all AQA GCSE Germany question types with revision activities such as Interpretation Analysis and Bullet Points. Perfect for use alongside the Student Book or as a stand-alone resource for independent revision.

Book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Download or read book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order written by Samuel P. Huntington and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in today’s geopolitical climate—with a foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Since its initial publication in 1996, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. Samuel Huntington explains how clashes between civilizations pose the greatest threat to world peace, but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order explains how the population explosion in Muslim countries and the economic rise of East Asia have changed global politics. These developments challenge Western dominance, promote opposition to supposedly “universal” Western ideals, and intensify inter-civilization conflict over such issues as nuclear proliferation, immigration, human rights, and democracy. In his incisive analysis, Huntington offers a strategy for the West to preserve its unique culture and emphasizes the need for people everywhere to learn to coexist in a complex, multipolar, multi-civilizational world.

Book The Cold War in the Classroom

Download or read book The Cold War in the Classroom written by Barbara Christophe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today’s history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point to ambivalence, vagueness and contradictions in textbook narratives understood to be echoes of societal and academic controversies. Others focus on teachers and the history classroom, showing how unresolved political issues create tensions in history education. They render visible how teachers struggle to handle these challenges by pretending that what they do is ‘just history’. The contributions to this book unveil how teachers, backgrounding the political inherent in all memory practices, often nourish the illusion that the history in which they are engaged is all about addressing the past with a reflexive and disciplined approach.

Book The Marshall Plan

Download or read book The Marshall Plan written by Benn Steil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.

Book Oxford AQA History for GCSE  Conflict and Tension 1918 1939

Download or read book Oxford AQA History for GCSE Conflict and Tension 1918 1939 written by Ellen Longley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note this title is suitable for any student studying:Exam Board: AQALevel/Subject: GCSE HistoryFirst teaching: 2016First exams: June 2018This Student Book has been approved by AQA. Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 is part of a brand new series written specially to match the new 2016 AQA GCSE History specification, and is developed by an expert team led by an experienced head of history and an author with senior examining experience. This Conflict and Tension Wider World Depth Study focuses on the causes of the Second World War, and seeks to show how and why conflict occurred, and why it proved difficult to resolve the issues which caused it. Students will study thecomplex interests of different states, the role of key individuals and groups in shaping change, and how they were affected by and influenced international relations. Carefully selected Sources allow students the opportunity to analyse and evaluate primary sources in context. Practice Questions and StudyTips help students prepare for the new AQA exam questions, and features such as Extension, Over to you, and How to provide step-by-step explanations of how to put into practice essential history skills such as analysing a source, cartoon or essay writing.

Book The Collapse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Sarotte
  • Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
  • Release : 2014-10-07
  • ISBN : 0465064949
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The Collapse written by Mary Sarotte and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall—infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe—seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime—nor was it the result of a bargain between either Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It was an accident. In The Collapse, prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte reveals how a perfect storm of decisions made by daring underground revolutionaries, disgruntled Stasi officers, and dictatorial party bosses sparked an unexpected series of events culminating in the chaotic fall of the Wall. With a novelist’s eye for character and detail, she brings to vivid life a story that sweeps across Budapest, Prague, Dresden, and Leipzig and up to the armed checkpoints in Berlin. We meet the revolutionaries Roland Jahn, Aram Radomski, and Siggi Schefke, risking it all to smuggle the truth across the Iron Curtain; the hapless Politburo member Günter Schabowski, mistakenly suggesting that the Wall is open to a press conference full of foreign journalists, including NBC’s Tom Brokaw; and Stasi officer Harald Jäger, holding the fort at the crucial border crossing that night. Soon, Brokaw starts broadcasting live from Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, where the crowds are exulting in the euphoria of newfound freedom—and the dictators are plotting to restore control. Drawing on new archival sources and dozens of interviews, The Collapse offers the definitive account of the night that brought down the Berlin Wall.

Book The Global Cold War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Odd Arne Westad
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2005-10-24
  • ISBN : 0521853648
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book The Global Cold War written by Odd Arne Westad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing.

Book Not One Inch

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. E. Sarotte
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2021-11-30
  • ISBN : 030026335X
  • Pages : 567 pages

Download or read book Not One Inch written by M. E. Sarotte and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, this book reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall “The most engaging and carefully documented account of this period in East-West diplomacy currently available.”—Andrew Moravscik, Foreign Affairs Not one inch. With these words, Secretary of State James Baker proposed a hypothetical bargain to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev after the fall of the Berlin Wall: if you let your part of Germany go, we will move NATO not one inch eastward. Controversy erupted almost immediately over this 1990 exchange—but more important was the decade to come, when the words took on new meaning. Gorbachev let his Germany go, but Washington rethought the bargain, not least after the Soviet Union’s own collapse in December 1991. Washington realized it could not just win big but win bigger. Not one inch of territory needed to be off limits to NATO. On the thirtieth anniversary of the Soviet collapse, this book uses new evidence and interviews to show how, in the decade that culminated in Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, the United States and Russia undermined a potentially lasting partnership. Prize-winning historian M. E. Sarotte shows what went wrong.

Book The Cold War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Odd Arne Westad
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2017-09-05
  • ISBN : 0465093132
  • Pages : 720 pages

Download or read book The Cold War written by Odd Arne Westad and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world. In The Cold War, Westad offers a new perspective on a century when great power rivalry and ideological battle transformed every corner of our globe. From Soweto to Hollywood, Hanoi, and Hamburg, young men and women felt they were fighting for the future of the world. The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, where nearly every community had to choose sides. And these choices continue to define economies and regimes across the world. Today, many regions are plagued with environmental threats, social divides, and ethnic conflicts that stem from this era. Its ideologies influence China, Russia, and the United States; Iraq and Afghanistan have been destroyed by the faith in purely military solutions that emerged from the Cold War. Stunning in its breadth and revelatory in its perspective, this book expands our understanding of the Cold War both geographically and chronologically, and offers an engaging new history of how today's world was created.

Book HISTORY OF THE DECISIVE WAR BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Download or read book HISTORY OF THE DECISIVE WAR BETWEEN EAST AND WEST written by Dr.LI, JIN WEI and published by LI JIN WEI. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 2500 years, the world has witnessed numerous wars, conflicts, and battles, each with its unique story, causes, and consequences. Among the most significant conflicts in history are those that pitted the East against the West, with battles that shook the very foundations of civilizations and reshaped the world's political, social, and economic landscape. The East and West have a long and complicated history of interactions, with cultural, political, and economic exchanges since ancient times. However, these interactions were not always peaceful, and the two regions often found themselves at odds, competing for power and influence over each other. From the battles between the Greeks and Persians to the Crusades, from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the European powers, the East and West have engaged in numerous wars and battles that have left a lasting impact on history. However, one conflict stands out as the most decisive and consequential of them all: the war between the East and West in the 20th century. The 20th century was a time of unprecedented change and upheaval, with the world witnessing two devastating world wars, empires rising and falling, and the emergence of new superpowers. At the heart of many of these events was the struggle between the East and West, as two ideological and political systems clashed in a battle for dominance. The war between the East and West was not a single battle but a series of confrontations over several decades. It began in the aftermath of World War II, as the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as the dominant powers in the world. The two nations had vastly different political and economic systems, with the Soviet Union advocating for communism and the United States championing capitalism and democracy. The conflict between the two nations was driven by a deep-seated ideological divide, with each side viewing the other as threatening its way of life. The Soviet Union sought to spread communism worldwide, while the United States sought to contain its spread and promote democracy and capitalism. The war between the East and West played out on multiple fronts, including military, political, economic, and cultural arenas. It led to proxy wars in Vietnam, Korea, and Afghanistan and intense political and economic competition in Europe, Africa, and Latin America. The conflict also profoundly impacted the global balance of power, shaping the world we live in today. The war between the East and West was marked by intense tension and confrontation, as well as periods of détente and cooperation. It saw the development of new military technologies and strategies, including the arms race and nuclear deterrence. It also introduced new diplomatic and economic institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations. Despite the high stakes and enormous consequences, the war between the East and West is often overlooked or dismissed as a relic of the past. However, its legacy can still be felt today as the world grapples with political, economic, and ideological conflict issues. The East-West battle is a cautionary tale, warning us of the perils of ideological extremism, political division, and armed conflict. This book will explore the war between the East and West, delving into the causes, events, and consequences of this historic conflict. From the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union to the soldiers and civilians caught up in the conflict, we will examine the key players. We will analyze the strategies and tactics employed by both sides, from the development of new military technologies to the use of propaganda and diplomacy. We will consider the impact of the war on the world today as we seek to understand the lessons of this decisive conflict between the East and West. Throughout the book, we will draw on various sources, from historical documents and government archives to personal memoirs and oral histories. We will provide a balanced and nuanced perspective on the war, seeking to understand both sides' complex motivations and actions. Our goal is not simply to provide a blow-by-blow account of the conflict but to offer a deeper understanding of its significance and legacy. We will look at how the war changed the world's political and economic institutions, from the advent of the United States as a global superpower through the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. We will explore how the war shaped popular culture, from films and novels to music and art. We will consider the ongoing debates and controversies surrounding the war, including questions of responsibility, accountability, and justice. Ultimately, this book is an invitation to explore one of the most consequential conflicts in history, a war that shaped the world we live in today. We hope it will inspire readers to think critically about the complex issues and challenges facing our world, engage in meaningful dialogue, and debate about how we can build a more peaceful and just future.