Thursday, September 10, 2009

COMMENTS FROM ANDRES GUTIERREZ- 957754



World War 1
Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism played major roles in the conflict. The immediate origins of the war lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the July Crisi ofm 1914.
There were many different reasons as to why WWI began. However, in my opinion, the most important cause of the war was the Alliance System. The other two factors discussed will be the Moroccan Crisis and the assassination of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand.


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Cold War
The cause of the Cold War is debatable. Because the Cold War doubles as a conflict between two countries (the USA and the USSR) and between two ideologies (Capitalism and Communism) several different causes can be suggested:The Cold War (1945–1991) was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition existing after World War II (1939–1945), between the USSR and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States.


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World War 2
Allied and Axis Powers in the Second World War
Britain


France


USA (after 8/12/1941 – Pearl Harbour)


USSR (after 22/6/1941 – When Hitler invaded the USSR)


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Nuclear weapons and the United States
The United States was the first country in the world to develop nuclear weapons, and is the only country to have used them as actual weapons, during the two bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. Before and during the Cold War it conducted over a thousand nuclear tests and developed many long-range weapon delivery systems.


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The World Most Powerful Countries. My list of the Top 3 in terms of power in 2009.



1 The United States of America
The world's biggest economy and by far in terms of spending and power the world’s strongest army, the most powerful democracy, and the media centre of the world, plus in many ways the centre of world diplomacy and foreign relations. This easily makes the USA the worlds most powerful country. ¿But what about crisis? ¡¿There is not another country with more develop caracteristics than US? Even because of this crisis, US continue being better than the other countries.



2 Russian Federation
The second largest army, and a puppeteer of many Central Asian states. The largest European population, and largest world area, which gives it immense control over itself, and immense levels of independence . The size of Russia helps give it extra resources and abilities that make it such a big power.



3 Peoples Republic of China
The 4th or 2nd largest GNP depending on different measures (Either normal measures, or ones which cancel out misleading totals for currency values, in that later case China places second) a recent riser, above France and Britain, It also has established itself as having nukes. a huge army, and is becoming even more of a international power, as of the resource hungry booming economy, though even if that stalled, it would still be 3rd, as of other advantages.