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1. Introduction a. The term “Iron Curtain” - definition, origin and ambiguity Of the many definitions of the term “Iron Curtain”, a typical one reads as follows: “After World War II, communist governments were set up in Eastern Europe, based on the Soviet political model. From 1945 to 1990, military, political, and ideological barriers dramatically divided the Soviet bloc nations from western Europe. This division was referred to as the "Iron Curtain".In August of 1961, the East German

time. For 123 years Poland disappeared from the map of Europe. During the 19th century the Polish people revolted against the occupants. The most significant uprisings were in 1830-1831 and 1863-1864. Poland regained independence after the First World War, in november 1918, as the Second Polish Republic. But the peace did not last long. On the 1st September 1939 Poland was invaded by Germany, and on the 17th September - by Soviet troops. Polish resistance was crushed, and the country was partitioned

illustrator specializing in magazine covers. His work was always tremendously popular over many decades of a long career. That achievement is no small thing. He worked as a fairly successful magazine illustrator since World War I. The height of his career began in the course of World War II with his covers for The Saturday Evening Post. The demand for his work remained high and only increased through the 1950s. To give you an idea of the scope of that achievement, think of what Rockwell, a painter, competed

was a British Armyofficer. He saw action in World War I, and during World War II he successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning point in theWestern Desert Campaign. He was later a prominent commander in Italy and North-West Europe, where he was in command of all Allied ground forces during Operation Overlord until after the Battle of Normandy, and was the principal commander forOperation Market Garden. After the War he became Commander-in-Chief of the British

 reproduced   without  the  permission  of  the  authors.     The  discipline  of  International  Relations  is  usually  thought  to  hvae  occurred  at  the   end  of  World  War  I  with  the  establishment  of  a  Chair  of  International  Relations  at   the  University  of  Wales.  Other  Chairs  followed  in  Britain  and  the  United  States.

étudiants à interpréter et décrire les relations internationales, étudier la variété d’explications des différents évènements internationaux, et envisager les différentes prescriptions ou solutions aux différents types de problèmes internationaux. II. Matériel obligatoire. Un recueil de textes (qui inclut la majorité des articles)[1] et un ouvrage obligatoire: Battistella, Dario. (2003) Théories des relations internationales. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po. (ci-après, Battistella). III

in the pacific British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said "America stand at this moment at this summit of the world". Indeed the US had emerged from World War II not only victorious but supreme. It's true that the US had been the world's most powerful nation for many years before WWII but until the 1940's that power had not been accompanied by international responsibilities. The war provided this opportunity in its wake (sillage) most Americans no longer coincided their power as a means to isolate

materials (coil, iron, water). It has been the “Workshop of the World”, by 1973; Britain has been the first economic power within the sun never set, in a sense of EXTENSION. Insular (psychological meaning): narrow-minded, self-centred (interested in themselves) ( PRIDE Britain nowadays Britain is member of the G8 (8 most righteous countries) as Italy, USA, France, Germany and so on. It is the fifth economic power of the World, one of the 5 permanent members of the Union Nations Security

Lakes region of Africa faces a situation of infectious crisis, a political and social crisis which has changed the face of the whole region by its war and crimes. From a chronological point of view, everything started by the coming to power of Yoweri Museveni in Uganda in 1986 and continued with the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 as result of the civil war which started in 1990 by Rwandan exiles from Uganda. The horror of Rwanda was exported to DR Congo since 1996 and resulted in millions of killings

1930s to the 1940s he worked with Robert Piguet until being called up for military service. In 1942, having left the Army, Dior joined the fashion house of Lucien Lelong, where he and Pierre Balmain were the primary designers. For the duration of World War II, Christian Dior dressed the wives of the Nazi officers and French collaborators. On 16 December 1946 Dior founded his own fashion house, backed by Marcel Boussac, the cotton-fabric magnate. The actual name of the line of his first collection