Estonia supported it -> help them. For a while Estonia was the most active member. X The US in the middle of the 20th century (HEDO) · Prohibition (bootlegging and the mob) · Jazz Age and the "Lost Generation" · Wall Street Crash · Great Depression · New Deal by Franklin D. Roosevelt · Pearl Harbor · The US in WWII (operation Overlord, the use of atomic bomb) · The impact of WWII on the USA and its international position XI The Cold War Period (beginning) · Marshall Plan European Recovery Program In operation for 4 years Modernize European industrial and business, reduce artificial trade barriers and instill a sense of hope and self-reliance help non-soviet countries that the wars had damaged a lot By 1952 the economy of every participant state had surpassed pre-war levels · Formation of the NATO and the role of the US in the organisation NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION after WWII U.S.S
War and Peace 1) a) Couve de Murville's prediction was very correct. When the Americans withdrawed all of their offers to help Nasser nationalised the Suez canal so that he could use the it's revenues to finance the Aswan High Dam. b) When Nasser nationalised the canal the Brits and the French were outraged because they were the main financiers and shareholders of the Suez Canal. They wanted Nasser destroyed and removed.By August 1956 the British and the French were holding meetings to discuss a possible seizure of the Suez canal by force. The French wanted the Israelis to join their side but it would have been a problem because the Brits had a treaty with Jordan. However, when they found out that Israelis weren't intending to attack Jordan any time soon, the Brits, French and Israelis decided to join their forces against Egypt and started to make plans. Israel would attack Egypt and the French and the Brits would send troops into the S
Public International Law is a system of law, different from domestic law. Why is this system unique? Usually law regulates relations between people, people and the state etc, PIL regulates relations between states. Thats why PIL is important for international relation students. PIL influences the life of everybody, it doesn't regulate people directly but indirectly (through the decisions of the states), because it's everywhere. It's like air. E.g. when you want to send a letter to Brazil, you put a stamp from your own country and send it from your post office and the letter gets delivered. Why is this so easy, because there are certain international conventions that regulate postal services. E.g. traffic signs are almost the same everywhere, why? Because of certain int conventions that require the states to have more or less unified traffic signs. States apply international regulations to national regulations and they have to be in accordance with each other, the s
1. What is known about the earliest settlers from Estonia to the territory of the present-day US? *The first immigrants from Estonia in the US = 1627 no trace of the "Estonians and Livonians" who left their homeland to settle at the mouth of the Delaware River (a Swedish colony) · 1654 at least one Estonian in the settlement of New Sweden on the Delaware River Johan Schalbrick, a drummer from Tallinn (Reval) · New Sweden Swedish colony on the Delaware River from 16381655 · 1657 Martinus Hoffman, born in Tallinn (Reval), came to New York (New Amsterdam), started to work as a saddlemaker. · His great-granddaughter Cornelia Hoffmann (b. 1734) married Isaac Roosevelt, which makes her the great-great-grandmother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the US from 193345. · Hans Rebane = 1897 founded the first Estonian-language newspaper in the US Eesti Ameerika Postimees (published in NY until 1911)
CANADA REVISION QUESTIONS 2010 1. The main physiographic regions of Canada. Canada may be divided into seven physiographic regions: Arctic Lowlands, Cordilleran Region, Interior Plains, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canadian Shield (Forest Lands), St Lawrence Lowlands and Appalachian Region. Divisions are based on each area's relatively similar physical geography and landforms. Physiographic regionalization is defined here as the process by which regions with relatively homogeneous physical geography are determined 2. Who are the native people of Canada? Into which three groups can they be divided? Canada's constitution specifies three categories of aboriginal peoples: Indian (First Nations), Métis, Inuit. According to Canadian census 2011, 1.4 mln people of Aboriginal origin (4.3%): 852,000 First Nations persons, 452,000 Métis, 59,000 Inuit. In
Estonian history between 1710-1850 and 1850-1918 Contents Contents.................................................................................................................................. 2 17101850.............................................................................................................................. 3 Population and social structure........................................................................................ 4 Serfdom and the intensifying manorial economy ............................................................. 4 Influences of Pietism and the Moravian Brethren............................................................. 5 Enlightenment and enlightened absolutism...................................................................... 6 18501918.............................................................................................................................. 8 The national awakening......
Tartu Kivilinna Grammar School Netherlands Report Composer: Reino Urbanovits Supervisors: Tiia Krass Erika Hunt Tartu, 2003 Table of contents Table of contents............................................................................................................................2 Introduction....................................................................................................................................3 Chapter 1........................................................................................................................................4 The Netherlands.............................................................................................................................4 Chapter 2......................................................
%party members? Indicted late? Office of security. Struggle for/against nationalism. Anti soviet vs anti-Semitic. Tied to Il, raising army, intl Js. Yiddish dying, need preserve culture. Nation wo territory, autonomous rights. From ghetto? P 104. Not enough evidence for show trial. Scared of betrayal. Scare Lithuanians, Ukrainians, still fighting. MBG found file. $ from Joint, build settlements in Crimea, letter in 1944. 48, Cold War 2 yrs, W vs SU nearly fighting. Connection to Joint, CIA, bourgeois J plot. Why didn't use as a show trial? Needed confessions. Heroes of SU, will they actually confess? 49, give up on show trial. Quiet, military trial. Didn't know what happened until 55-56, rehabilitations. Benefits, work for family. These were some of the highest people in the SU. Other anti-fascist committees stopped functioning, while J committee kept receiving letters. People thought, well we've
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