Tag: ukraine
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History of the Cold War. III. 1968-1991.
Prolonged political stagnation along with exceedingly low living standards, high degrees of waste and totalitarian state brutality with draconian legislation were characteristic of conditions in the eastern bloc nations, while the armed stalemate balance of terror characterised international relations between the western and eastern bloc of nations, with the underlying threat of mutual assured…
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History of the Cold War. II. 1947-1968.
The failure of the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers was a key postwar event in view of the position taken by the Soviet negotiators was thoroughly unambiguous: Stalin refused to move toward a definitive settlement in Europe, which could have partly been in reaction to the pronouncement of the Truman Doctrine two days after the…
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History of the Cold War. I. 1945-1947.
The end of the Second World War left Great Britain as no longer being a great power while it was practically bankrupt at the end of the war, and then increasingly less powerful during the process of decolonization that followed. The Soviet Union suffered heavier losses than any other country in the war, as they…
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History of Postwar Germany: 1947-1949.
The consolidation of Soviet controls in Eastern Europe continued, and this process culminated in the coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948, which did not have a fully communist government before this time. Non-communist leaders in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania had been eliminated by terrorism, faked trials and political purges by the end…
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History of Postwar Germany: 1945-1947.
Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States discussed how a defeated Germany was to be treated, and determined the “negative” aims of demilitarisation, disarmament and denazification, and the prosecution of war criminals. The representatives of these Big Three powers agreed at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 that the country was to be…
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History of German Foreign Policy: 1882-1890.
Bismarck maintained peace in international European relations by maintaining the Triple Alliance, and blocking the formation of an opposing alliance, while fostering good relations with neighbouring states. Of the five major powers in Europe, three were now allied with Germany, Britain was not interested in European alliances, while the main rivals of the British…
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History of Germany from 1871 to 1887.
An imperial constitution was promulgated on 16 April 1871 that established relations between Prussia and the other German states that retained their independence in a federated system, as it was rebuilt on the constitution of 1867. The national government in Berlin was responsible for foreign policy, the military, economic and social policy, and federal law.…