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- 871: The Conflicts Between The United States and The Soviet Union
- ... This had a major effect on world affairs because Cuba met with stiff American clash. This also gave Cuba the chance for America to have an agreement never to attack Cuba. The Soviets relationship with China had soured also as a result. Luckily if the United States had not stepped in, then the world would be on the brim of a nuclear war. Another example to the effect of the split ...
- 872: The Fall Of Rome
- ... poor fled to barbaric lands. The poor made up a large percentage of the Roman population. Barbarians disrupted trade on the Mediterranean Sea. Rome's gold and silver were being drained into buying luxuries from China, India, and Arabia. The government decreased the silver content in money. The value of the money also decreased. Diocletion attempted to curb the inflation. He issued an edict that fixed maximum prices and wages throughout ...
- 873: Kosovo and US Involvement
- ... other surrounding countries would not become involved in the conflict and it would not escalate. However, in the past couple of weeks, the opposite has happened. Russia has become involved, allying with the Serbs, and China has done the same. Russia gave the United States an ultimatum stating that if the U.S. sends in ground troops, then a nuclear war will be waged. The other countries surrounding Kosovo and Serbia ...
- 874: Who Was Responsible For The Cold War?
- ... world was under the constant threat of total devastation, caught between the nuclear arsenals of the United States, Great Britain, and France on one side and the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China on the other. Any crisis precipitated by the struggle between the forces of democracy and communism could trigger a nuclear exchange of such stupendous proportions and overwhelming horror and suffering that would render life on ...
- 875: Bangkok's Thammasat University Uprising
- ... have tolerated riots against Chinese immigrants in Thailand which left many hundreds dead. Later still -- in the forties and fifties -- anti-Chinese measures were sought to be explained by fears of communism spreading from neighbouring China. But in recent years the concept of 'one Thai race' has come under increasing attack from the Chinese community. The community -- called Thai-Chinese -- are now richer and more powerful than ever before as a ...
- 876: The Ninth And Tenth Century Dynasties
- ... be rulers of the whole Islamic world, and their achievements were impressive. At their peak they ruled North Africa, the Red Sea coast, Yemen, Palestine, and parts of Syria. Fatimid merchants traded with Afghanistan and China and tried to divert some of Baghdad's Arabian Gulf shipping to the Red Sea. But the Fatimids' dreams of gaining control of the Islamic heartland came to nothing, partly because many other independent states ...
- 877: Reasons For The Fall Of Socialism/Communism In Russia
- ... He expanded the authority of the Soviet presidency and transferred power from the Communist party to popularly elected legislatures in the union republics. In international affairs, he withdrew Soviet troops from Afghanistan, normalized relations with China, signed a series of arms control agreements with U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush. During this period of change strong Nationalistic opinion started in the republics of the Soviet Union causing major upheaval ...
- 878: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... THE PEOPLE OF THE SOVIET UNION The Soviet Unions total population as of its final census, in January 1989, was 286,717,000, making it the third most populous country in the world, after China and India. Its population increased between 1959 and 1989 by about 78 million, or 37 percent. The Russian Empire in early 1917 was overwhelmingly rural, with only 18 percent of its subjects residing in urban ...
- 879: The End of World War Two
- ... many Allied and Japanese leaders. The Marianas had been a key area within Japan's defense perimeter; now Japan would be within range of bombing runs from Pacific Ocean locations that were superior to the China bases that had been used for bombing missions. And so from November 1944 onward, Japan was the subject of numerous large scale B-29 bombing raids. When the United States Air Force chief General Hap ...
- 880: NATO Airstrikes in Kosovo
- ... countries have their own administrative policies. NATO may interfere with other countries' policies by its powerful force if they don't agree with their governments' democratic values and policies. For example, what would happen if China tried to reunite Taiwan by force? May be a nuclear war. After world war II the world has been uneasily experiencing about 50 years of relatively peaceful time. The Warsar Treaty has collapsed but the ...
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