This chapter attempts to examine the effects of the cold war upon the states of the Middle East. Although the region was not so profoundly affected as other parts of the world in terms of loss of life and re...
The Cold War and Eastern Europe.Presents a review of the books 'The End of the Cold War,' edited by David Armstrong and Erik Goldstein; 'And None Afraid. Soviet-Western Suspicion and Trusting from Red October to Glasnost Dialogue,' by Henry T. Bernstein; 'The Bloc that Failed. Soviet-...
After prosecuting Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials, Truman in 1947 also outlined the Marshall Plan, which set aside more than $10 billion for the rebuilding and reindustrialization of Germany. The Marshall Plan was so successful that factories in Western Europe were exceeding their prewar...
By the late 1940s, Soviet intervention and Western aid had split Europe into two blocs. At the epicentre of this division was post-war Germany, now cleaved into two halves, and its capital city Berlin, occupied by four different powers. In 1948, Soviet and East German attempts to starve ...
Figurative East–West barrier engendered by Soviet control of internal dissent and information flow in Eastern Europe after World War II. The term was popularized by Winston Churchill during a speech in Fulton, Missouri, March 1946. McCarthyism ...
The 45-year standoff between the West and the U.S.S.R. ended when the Soviet Union dissolved. Some say another could be starting as tensions with Russia rise.
UK food firms need to shatter their misconceptions about central and eastern Europe because it holds "highly-sophisticated"retail outfits to partner with to exploit extensive export opportunities. UK firms have retained a Cold-War era perception of the region, which has hindered their ability to tap...
France (1956) Tank – Patent Only Post-World War Two Europe was a continent rich in the legacy of the war. A legacy which took the form of an abundance of tanks, both in the form of legacy leftovers of the war, and a ready supply of new tanks from Britain (Centurion) or the ...
This article considers the principal changes that have occurred in the illicit arms trade across the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. It discusses the changed nature of demand and the sources and means of illicitly supplying arms to areas of conflict.
The emergence of a European region: business cycles in South-East Europe from political independence to World War II "The emergence of a European region: Business cycles in South- East Europe from political independence to World War II." European Review of Economic ... M Morys,M Ivanov - ...