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… Dr. Aaron Retish, historian and expert in late Imperial and Soviet history at Wayne State University.   Dr. Aaron … French culture and the impact of war and personal and national identities.   Julie Powell    Hello.    Jessica … periphery, to the United States, and ultimately the Soviet Union, as a result of the First World War and also the shift …

… cultural heritage, check out Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum , A Postcard from Warsaw, …   Dr. Steven Conn:     If we were to look at what the Soviet Union took out of Eastern Europe during and in the wake of …

… particular historical resonance, coming 50 years after the Soviet Union sent up the world's first artificial satellite in … times, made the same types of rational calculations about national self-interest as their U.S. counterparts. This gave …

… connections to that time.” The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in 1987. Turning numbers … was no lasting legacy in Russia of the First World War. The Soviet state remembered the war as an “imperialist” conflict … effect on state politics in what would become the Soviet Union and its reverberations across the world. On August 1, …

… to reduce the staff of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to 15 people and move it fully … and it was not developing much at all.  Meanwhile, the  Soviets  had gotten better at foreign aid over the course of … As the divide between the United States and the Soviet Union grew, development was given a new purpose. Officials …

… its ends. Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg to honor the Union dead after the battle near that small Pennsylvania town, a bloodbath that turned Civil War in the Union’s favor. In only 266 words, he redefined the Union … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… 14.80 percent in July of 2015 (according to the INDEC, the national statistics institute). And these official numbers … they were comparable to Western Europe. The increase in union jobs fostered the development of a robust middle class … numerous loans. Conditions worsened as the government began union-busting under the pretext that unions were housing …

… say the Games help create mutual understanding and international peace. Our willingness to accept this lofty … the wrong reason. Proponents say the Olympics create international harmony because the Games are apolitical. But the … observers thought that all those gold medals piled up by Soviet and East German athletes were a sign that the "Free …

… United States wasn’t the only nation that aspired to international leadership. The rise of the Soviet Union, in many ways the ideological & economic foil to the …

… Since 1890, May 1st has been celebrated as International Workers Day. So declared the International … Machine Company were locked out after the notoriously anti-union company moved to replace iron molders with molding … May. They did so against the advice of the American Railway Union (ARU), led by a thirty-nine-year-old rabble-rouser …

… than the earlier treaties that produced today’s European Union (EU). In fact, the constitution failed in part because … currency is governed by a European board, beyond direct national control. An EU supreme court sometimes does battle … Europe closest to political unity. Threats from Stalin’s Soviet Union pushed six countries to sign up for a unified …

… During the 1920s and 1930s, the  Kuomintang (KMT, the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai-shek) generally … the emerging Cold War between the United States and  the Soviet Union . Many in the West perceived the establishment of a  …

… of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.” This policy was first executed to … and often beat, groups of Marines. This period sparked a national craze for baseball. Once the last U.S. troops left … the Marine Honor Guard shortly after his arrival at Union Station in Washington D.C. on July 6, 1939. By 1937, …

… enormous legal problem that put at risk the future of international law as we know it. For these writers, the … Serbia positioned itself with Europe and the European Union, many EU politicians undoubtedly expected Serbia to … yet fully external obstacle to Serbia's road to joining the Union. However, the conspiracy accomplished its goals: EU …

… and violence.  While President Nayib Bukele and the National Police reported very few homicides during these … campesinos to help form labor organizations such as the Union of Rural Workers ( Union de Trabajadores Campesinos , UTC) in 1974 in …

… to produce the first constitution and even longer to hold national elections. Debates raged over whether Pakistan … plotting a coup. The government then cracked down on trade unions and several prominent writers. A few months later, … two of a series of alliances designed to contain the Soviet Union. India, a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, …

… led and funded by the United States, to contain/encircle Soviet and Communist power in Eastern Europe, prevent … commitment to fight abroad as part of a coordinated multinational alliance and a major user of the multi-trillion … to do with the topsy-turvy world of 1997, when the Soviet Union and its allies are no more, and the most …

… decades, this success in what is regarded as Afghanistan’s national sport provided a much-needed moment of collective … in 2022.  While Pakistan’s players are regarded as national heroes, members of the American team play cricket … who fled their country between 1979 and 2001 due to  the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989), Afghan Civil War (1992-1996), …

… health (20). Vaccination also played into concerns about national security : improving the health of American … … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Global/Transnational … Science & Technology … Vaccines and Responsible …

… harbor, past Confederate fortifications, and to the Union fleet blockading the city. The architect of this … and courage would go on to make him important to the Union war effort and, afterwards, one of the most … Smalls' leadership and courage made him important to the Union war effort and, afterwards, one of the most …

… the starting point. Many attendees were young African nationalists whose core agenda was eradicating colonialism … world. Although a communist nation, China declared both the Soviet Union and the U.S.-led Western powers neo-colonialists. …

… of how the geopolitical atmosphere dominated by the U.S.-Soviet rivalry shaped the decolonization and radicalization … and the Global Cold War (2020). The “fruit of a multinational, multilingual effort by fifteen scholars,” this … and 1970s while also seeking economic ties with the Soviet Union. Part I, entitled “Third World Nationalism,” focuses …

… have persisted with their fight to hold a U.S. corporation—Union Carbide—guilty for killing and maiming thousands of … Happened in Bhopal? On the night of 2-3 December 1984, a Union Carbide chemical facility at Bhopal leaked over 27 … inputs , the period often termed as “green revolution,” the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) was eager to reap profit …

… States be thirteen stripes alternate red and white and the union be thirteen stars in a blue field, representing a new … to replace the first American flag, known as the Great Union Flag (seven red and six white stripes with the British … and South America. There, the United States impeded nationalist movements and established lucrative markets …