After the war, he became President of Columbia University. In 1951 he was Supreme Commander of NATO. He oversaw the cease-five of the Korean War and kept the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War
During the war the Soviet Union and the USA formed a close alliance due to the shared aim of the defeat of Germany. The Soviet Union became a lot more powerful due to Stalin’s five year plans, and became a contender with the USA for the world’s largest superpower. This sparked conflict between the two nations and a race to see who would be the most powerful, the Cold War. One of the main factors that that caused the relationship between the Soviet Union and the USA was the arms race, which consisted of both nations building up their military and economic power to more than the other. A large army, navy, air force and weaponry were maintained and each party aspired to be more powerful with the bigger military force.
- Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom were original members. 2. The Warsaw Pact a) Soviet led alliance of Eastern European nations. 3. The Berlin Wall a) After the war, in occupied Germany, Berlin was split in two separate country, a democratic West Germany and a communist East Germany.
Franklin Township Needs Assessment Elyse Kocylowskyi October 8, 2012 Franklin Township, NJ Franklin Township is the most populated municipality of Somerset County, containing 62,300 people, with a population density of 1,350 persons per square mile (Brandstetter, 2010). Franklin Township, to be hereafter called Franklin, not only has the largest population, it also has the fastest growing – with a rate 2.4 times higher than any other municipality, accounting for 43.9% of the total population growth in Somerset County between 2000 and 2010 (NJSDC, 2011). Money Magazine’s ranking of the ‘one-hundred best places to live’ in the US listed Franklin as the fifth best place to live in 2008, and the twenty-fifth best place to live for
The population provides the much needed labor force that has propelled the country’s industrial and agricultural sector to great heights of productivity. China’s population is the largest in the world. As per mid-2011, the country had a population of over 1.3 billion people (Rosenberg, 2011). This is a 20% representation of the World’s total population because the world population is estimated to be around 6.7 billion. Besides providing labor for industries, the large Chinese population forms a ready market for goods and services.
It is also contributed to United States oil industry by seventeenth percent of produce oil, as said by (Pam Barrett pg. 43) “Oil is by far the largest of Alaska’s industries”, and (R. Warren Anderson ) “Former Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton summed up its success in 2003 that Today the pipeline produces 17 percent of our domestic petroleum. It has pumped nearly 14 billion barrels of oil and $400 billion into our economy”, it gave jobs for several thousand people, Alyeska workers and sub-contractors. The pipeline has help Alaska which is the most heavily tax state to the most tax-free state. Alaska has profit more than half of the income from the pipeline has produces and the other profit goes to the United States.
Berlin Airlift After World War II, Germany was divided into four sections. Those four were controlled by the United States, the Soviet Union, France and Great Britain. The Soviet Union took control of the Eastern half of Germany, while the Western side was being dominated by the U.S, France, and Great Britain. Berlin was right in the middle of the Eastern and Western division, so many tried to control Berlin’s Government. A four-power provisional government was called the Allied Control Council.
This was the second step. The United States claimed their role as the front line of democracy after the Second World War where they gained the title superpower . The US economy made a considerable profit during WW2 selling goods to the allies and started a massive military rearmament which resulted in the United States having the biggest military and economic power in the world. The only one that threatened their position and ideals were the USSR who had political and economic agendas that opposed the American political structure and their free market model. The two countries became the two sides in a war without
‘The rise of nationalist movements was the primary motive behind British decolonisation after 1945.’ The British Empire was the largest empire in history. At its peak, it consisted of 14 million square miles of territory and 400 million people. Yet, even though it had a history of over 400 years, it became redundant in 40. Imperialists such as Cecil Rhodes believed that the destiny of Britain was to colonise the world. Unfortunately, similar to the Roman Empire, its fall was both unanticipated and catastrophic.
India is the world’s premier center for diamond cutting and polishing. Nine out of every 10 stones sold in the world pass through India. India has the highest number of annual bulk drugs filings (77) with USFDA. Indians are the richest immigrant class in the US, with nearly 200,000 millionaires. India is ranked the sixth country in the world in terms of satellite launches.