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How the Cold War affected life in the US, the USSR and the rest of the world The History Journal The History Journal, Volume 1 No 1 (October 1, 2012) The Cold War as a World War Solving the mystery of Kennedy’s death How women were treated in the USSR The best propaganda in the Cold War How Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) works What the world learned from Chernobyl

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Page 1: The History Journal - World War III

How the Cold War affected life in the US the USSR and the

rest of the world

The History

Journal

The History Journal Volume 1 No 1 (October 1 2012) httpwwwstgeorgescollegeedupe

The Cold War as a World War

Solving the mystery of Kennedyrsquos death

How women were treated in the USSR

The best propaganda in the Cold War

How Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) works

What the world learned from Chernobyl

A Word from the Editor

Why is it important to investigate and report the news The question at first seems to be too obvious or too big to

ask Yet in a time when an answer to every question is no further than a quick search on our smartphones we

should think carefully about what really is ldquonewsrdquo Truly thorough investigation and honest reporting of the news are

virtues not celebrated nearly often enough The concept of a constant relationship between power and responsibility

is a familiar one In the 21st century if the power is instant access to an unprecedented level of information never

imaginable even a generation before then the responsibility is the development of skills to filter and select that

information which has true value This magazine seeks to do precisely that ndash to develop and demonstrate the skills

necessary to investigate and report

The obvious topic of this journal is the Cold War and few topics could provide more opportunity for reporting Not

only has the Cold War changed the world we live in irreversibly but it also showcases a battle of ideologies ndash that is

ideas ndash and wherever there exists a battle of ideas there will surely be efforts to manipulate public opinion

Propaganda from the West from the East from Latin America to Russia from East Asia to the United States was so

complex that it took on (as one of our articles will argue) its own art form Never before in human history had the

stakes in a battle of ideas been so high It has been said quite accurately that the Cold War was a war of words This

provides both the need and the opportunity to closely examine a wide variety of topics and unlike most areas of

history these events have all taken place in the modern era and thus we benefit from a wide variety of sources

This Journal like any other scholarly journal has followed a specific format and each article has been peer-reviewed

The following articles were selected as the best from the 2012 9th grade class of St Georges College The work is

completely original and includes only minor editing We hope you enjoy the History Journal

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler

Editor-in-Chief

Table of Contents

Comparing the CIA and the KGB (Eduardo Leon Henry Perez) 3

Cold War Propaganda (Victoria Borra Karen Rumay Sandra Un Jan) 7

Who killed Kennedy and why (Alexandra Granda Ana Caroline Ruiz) 11

Soviet Art and Cinematography (Valeria Jara Jimena Suarez) 14

What was Life like for Women in the Soviet Union (Valeria Paz Camila Soria) 18

Why did the Soviet Union Collapse in 1990 (Melanie Chinchayan Angie Su) 21

The Third World War was the Cold War a World War (Mariano Ranilla Jesus Vigil) 24

Does Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) work (Mayra Ochoa Cristina Zegarra) 28

What can We Learn from Chernobyl (Miguel Ju Zhu Sergio Ramirez Arturo Torres) 31

How did the US affect Argentina during the Cold War (Gabriela Gonzalez Alexandra Martinez) 37

The History Journal

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Jason Fowler

CO-EDITORS

Arturo Torres

Cristina Zegarra

3

by Henry Peacuterez and Eduardo Leon

uring the cold war the menace of nuclear

warheads caused fear and doubt in most if not all

countries This fear was so immense that the two main

countries of the moment (The USA and the USSR) began

doubting each other due to the belief that each had their

own secrets that were hidden from the world The US

feared that the USSR would take over the world by

spreading their ideals of communism while the USSR was

already afraid of the USrsquo constant aggression and their also

spreading ideal

of capitalism

For these

reasons the

US decides to

create the CIA

in 1947 This is

followed by

the USSRrsquos

creation of the

KGB in 1954

During their lifespan they both had similar goals such as

gathering up tactical information the government may need

and others Those goals were achieved in different ways

with different ranges of success Now the focus of this

article will be to compare and contrast the CIA and KGB in

terms of

1 functions

2 methods to achieve their goals and

3 their success during their active time and beyond

Functions

In terms of function one needs to make two time

comparisons During 1947-1949 the CIA had three mayor

tasks Gather information analyze the information

gathered and finally briefing the President and National

Security Council about the relevant information this means

that they had no power to make any decisions during this

time period On the other hand the KGB had different tasks

to accomplish They varied from gathering information in

other countries and protecting political leaders to

suppression of internal resistance secret operations and

managing propaganda From whatrsquos been said one could

assume that while the CIA only had the gathering of Intel as

a task the KGB had almost enough tasks to be the

government itself This lets us know that the USSRrsquos

government mightrsquove been dependant on the KGB for most

of their power and influences as well as for controlling the

population and maintaining the integrity of the USSR But

this is considering the pre-importance period of the CIA

Comparing

the CIA and

the KGB Different on the outside alike on the inside

D

A cartoon that shows the bear

(USSR) taking over the East while

Uncle Sam (US) watches in fear

4

In 1949 the Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed this

granted the CIA more powers such as the use of

confidential fiscal and administrative procedures and the

ability to use their budget in a free way with complete

secrecy This pact makes a difference in the comparison

between the CIA

and the USSR

since before it

the CIA seemed

like a ldquolibraryrdquo

since their only

vital function was

the searching of

information but

due to the

limitations it could only be inside the country In contrast

the KGB which had much more work to do than just

searching for information (which they could do worldwide

and secretly anyways) like containing internal riots and

controlling the peoplersquos way of thought by manipulating the

media But this drastic difference in power changed when

the 1949 pact was signed The boost of power given to the

CIA might have happened because the US government

noticed the effectiveness of the KGB worldwide and how

every country knew that they were watched by them( see

image below) so in an attempt to balance power between

the two mayor intelligence agencies in the world the US

government decided to give the CIA more power so that It

would be able to contend against the KGB in terms of

functionality and progress (The CIA was limited to the ways

in which they could find information) The implement in

power was successful at improving the CIArsquos reputation as it

began to rise as the powerful agency it was supposed to be

Their power rise was such that even cartoons and jokes

were made about how they saw everything

Methods

In order to achieve a successful comparison in methods we

need to take in mind that due to the CIA being active up to

this date there is few to no information about their

methods used during the cold war This is because since

they are an agency that is still active they wouldnrsquot want

anyone to find out about any possible illegal activities they

might have been involved with in the past So most of the

information regarding the CIArsquos methods wonrsquot be 100

exact

Anyways the KGB didnrsquot have anything holding it back

neither the law nor ethics This can be confirmed by looking

at the KGBrsquos functions while it was active Due to the

amount and difficulty of them and the fact that they were

indeed performed by the KGB during its active time one

can understand that there couldnrsquot have been laws

The picture shows an image that alludes to

the KGBrsquos Intel searching level It was

believed that they were so good at it that

they were actually watching everyone This

can be affirmed since up to this day some

people believe that the KGB is still running

Tony Bowden-2010(Image extracted from Flickr

site)

5

stopping the KGB since it would only hinderslow their

progress in their assignments This leads us to think that the

KGB would do anything to succeed at their mission of

securing Russiarsquos future by making it the strongest country

and also help with the spread of communism This can also

be backed up by noticing the multiple assassination

relations the KGB had during its active time and also the

multiple information about their torture methods and

others

On the other hand the CIA (before the act) was forced to

be passive due to the lack of strength that would allow it to

get secretly involved on international matters But this all

changed when the act was signed Ever since then they

adopted stronger methods to achieve their goals This

methods included torture undercover assassinations

altering other countries governments (see Pinochet) and

many more This further proves that the point of the act

was to make

the CIA stand a

chance against

the KGB by

removing any

type of

restrains from

them This can

be backed up

by the fact

that there is

information

about the

CIArsquos torture methods as well as their involvement in the

Pinochet coup and multiple tricks for spies (see image

below) The image shows one example of how the CIArsquos

methods were becoming even more similar to the KGBrsquos

due to the use of deception and espionage to gather

information or (in the case of the picture) possibly kidnap

someone to interrogate in a future occasion Thus one can

conclude that after the act was passed the CIA had similar

methodology used to achieve their goals success at all

costs

Success

This category also needs to be divided in 2 parts During the

Cold war and AFTER the cold war

During the cold war the KGB had the most success mainly

because it had been active for a longer time than the CIA

and they had no limit restrain since the start unlike the CIA

which had to wait 2 years after its creation in order to

actually be able to get involved in international matters and

be able to gather information without any restrains This

changes moderately once the famous act was passed since

it gave a mayor power increase to the CIA as well as the

ability to get involved in international problems and more

This helps the CIA reduce the effectiveness of the KGB since

now theyrsquore both unbound by rules and can provide

assistance to any event thatrsquos happening worldwide

without having to inform anyone

In the picture one can see one of the multiple Spy tactics used during the Cold war In this one the target is distracted by something trivial like lighting his cigarette while the agent secretly puts sleeping pills on the targetrsquos coffee Photo Secret CIA Magic Manual Shows Cold War Spy Tricks During Cold War American Magician Wrote Trickery and Deception Manual for CIA Phil FrankeHarper Collins

Dec 02 2009 0412 PM (abcnewsgocom)

6

After the war itrsquos simply obvious that the CIA was the

agency with the highest success because of one main

reason It hadnrsquot dissolved like the KGB did post-cold war

This proves that the CIArsquos importance was recognized by

the US government because otherwise the CIA would have

been dismantled just like the KGB was in 1991 This means

that without their main adversary the CIA was free to

eliminate any type of evidence that linked them to illegal

acts performed during the cold war while leaking the

multiple operations done by the KGB at the time

Conclusion

Concluding one can confirm that the difference between

the CIA and the KGB are close to none after the pact was

signed in 1949 since both agencies had similar powers and

werenrsquot restrained by rules or law Apart from that they

both used similar methods to obtain what they wanted

(torture to obtain information undercover mission to

change events etc) This can be confirmed by the multiple

rumors and conspiracies that rose during the Cold war era

which said that both agencies (CIA and KGB separately)

were involved in multiple assassinations and manipulation

of various governments in allied countries The only aspect

that separates them from being the same agency but with

different names would be the success they had since the

KGB was dismantled in 1991 unlike the CIA which stands

strong up to this day

So it would be correct to affirm that the CIA and the KGB

were similar in many aspects (methods functions actions

etc) with the only differences being that they belong to

different countries and that one had a higher success than

the other Itrsquos similar to brothers one looks up to the

other tries to be as good as him possibly imitates what the

older brother is doing (reason for which the act was passed

was so that the CIA could keep up with the KGB ie imitate

their methods and power) and finally becoming better than

the older brother by a long margin (the CIA stands strong

while the KGB was dissolved)

Bibliography

1 Anonymous writer Our Mission

CIA website April 12 2007 1003 PM

Last Updated Jan 03 2012 0105PM

httpswwwciagovkids-page6-12th-gradewho-we-are-what-

we-doour-missionhtml

2 JClark The History of the KGB

eHow website

httpwwwehowcomabout_5381628_history-kgbhtml

3 ThinkQuest KGB

httplibrarythinkquestorg10826kgbhtm

4 Derek Rhule The central intelligence Agency

Cold War Museum

httpwwwcoldwarorgarticles40sCentralIntelligenceAgencyC

IAasp

5 Normal Breathing Brainwashing Techniques KGB vs CIA

httpwwwnormalbreathingcombrainwashing-

techniquesphpUFaXebKTuc3

7

COLD WAR - PROPAGANDA

he Cold War lasted from the end of World

War II until the early 1990s

even though the Soviet

Union and the USA never

really had a direct battle

The cold war was

expressed by the

development of nuclear

weapons technological development

espionage and what we call ldquopropagandardquo

In this picture (on the left sidei) we can observe

two identical superheroes representing the US

and the Soviet Union It is trying to demonstrate

that both countries are equally destructive and

dangerous

When Cold War begins the ldquopropagandardquo

reappears here we want to demonstrate the

big importance of propaganda in the times

when the cold war started and the countries

who made the most interesting propaganda of

the cold war this is the question that we want to

answer Which country made the best and the

most interesting propaganda of the cold war

We also want to show the positive and negative

aspects that the propaganda created Finally

how did propaganda change the way people

thought

During the Cold War America and the Soviet

Union used propaganda to make sure that their

populations hated the enemy and wanted to

support the

government

The picture at the

leftii created by a

French anti-

communist group is trying to demonstrate that

Stalinrsquos sign of ldquopeacerdquo was not true because in

the other had he is holding a weapon

8

The next pictureiii was published a year after

Stalinrsquos death This

poster reinforces

that the Soviets

have developed

their weapons and

air-forces much

more The red stars

represent the pilotrsquos kill score

Propaganda is considered to be a

psychological manipulation technique of a

group of individuals usually known for creating

a negative influence Since the Russian

revolution to the final days of the Cold War

communists were experts at making

propaganda art Using this method the

communists won the hearts and minds of

Russian people making them see communism

as a shining and very attractive future

Most of the propaganda we see comes from

the Soviet Union or independent political activist

groups because after WWII the western

democratic states (USA) removed most of their

propaganda

But America has also created propaganda

through all periods of history They used it

particularly in times of war and international

crisis

While the USSR

showed off its

military strength

trying to impress

(see the image on

the rightiv) America

used Hollywood and media

One result of the immense anti-communism

propaganda was the persecution of many

Hollywood workers This is because there were

many secret Soviet agents that were hiding in

the American woodworking Senator Joe

McCarthy was responsible for finding them but

Strong citizens working for

motherland The BGTO

program was introduced

The boy in the picture is

holding a BGTO book

9

he also affected innocent people by making

them loose their job and not being able to find

another one Also when the television was

created The USA was able to spread

propaganda in a more easy fast and effective

way

As literature was so cheap the non-fiction books

and comics became methods to implant

propaganda These were sold very cheap and

were about superheroes defeating the

communists The story was usually about a

cowboy or soldier going against a terrible

situation but always saving the day

The non-fictional

books were very

fictional they were

always about

communism and the

reason why it was

bad It said how Soviets were waiting for any

moment to try to destroy America Comics that

were normally geared towards children took a twist-

in comic Is This Tomorrowrdquo Russians are shown

conquering

and enslaving

America

So which

country made

the most and

the best

interesting

propaganda of

the Cold War

According to

what was said above even though most of the

propaganda that we can see today comes from

the Soviet Union because of the reasons already

mentioned the US made the most interesting and

amazing propaganda using comics television

Hollywood books and posters Using all these

different strategies helped the US to make the best

propaganda

10

BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

[1] John B Whitton The American Journal of International Law Vol45 No 1 (published in January 1951) pp 151-153 Published by American Society of International Law URL httpwwwjstororgstable2194791

[2] Davidson Philip Propaganda and the American Revolution 1763-1789

Chapel Hill NC

published in 1941

URL httpwwwamericanforeignrelationscomO-WPropagandahtml

[3] Total Cold War US Propaganda in the Free World 19531960 PhD

dissertation University of California Santa Barbara Calif 2001 Many of this

essays conclusions are drawn from the original research in the dissertation

Read more Propaganda

Published in 2001

URL httpenglishrussia[3]com20060920soviet-propaganda-against-usa-

posters

[4] Politics and Film Propaganda and Its Influence during the Cold War

Heather Bullis Carnegie Vanguard High School

Published in 02082008

URL httphtimathuheducurriculumunits200802080202pdf

[5] Propaganda Merriam-Webster

Published in 11 Feb 2008

URLwwwmerriam-webstercom

Simple definition of the term used as a basic understanding for the students

[6] Soviet Propaganda cartoon DVDacutes by Cory Doctorow at 100 pm Sunday

Published in November 4

URL httpboingboingnet20071104soviet-propaganda-cahtml

MEMBERS - Victoria Borra

- Karen Rumay

- Sandra Un Jan

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 2: The History Journal - World War III

A Word from the Editor

Why is it important to investigate and report the news The question at first seems to be too obvious or too big to

ask Yet in a time when an answer to every question is no further than a quick search on our smartphones we

should think carefully about what really is ldquonewsrdquo Truly thorough investigation and honest reporting of the news are

virtues not celebrated nearly often enough The concept of a constant relationship between power and responsibility

is a familiar one In the 21st century if the power is instant access to an unprecedented level of information never

imaginable even a generation before then the responsibility is the development of skills to filter and select that

information which has true value This magazine seeks to do precisely that ndash to develop and demonstrate the skills

necessary to investigate and report

The obvious topic of this journal is the Cold War and few topics could provide more opportunity for reporting Not

only has the Cold War changed the world we live in irreversibly but it also showcases a battle of ideologies ndash that is

ideas ndash and wherever there exists a battle of ideas there will surely be efforts to manipulate public opinion

Propaganda from the West from the East from Latin America to Russia from East Asia to the United States was so

complex that it took on (as one of our articles will argue) its own art form Never before in human history had the

stakes in a battle of ideas been so high It has been said quite accurately that the Cold War was a war of words This

provides both the need and the opportunity to closely examine a wide variety of topics and unlike most areas of

history these events have all taken place in the modern era and thus we benefit from a wide variety of sources

This Journal like any other scholarly journal has followed a specific format and each article has been peer-reviewed

The following articles were selected as the best from the 2012 9th grade class of St Georges College The work is

completely original and includes only minor editing We hope you enjoy the History Journal

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler

Editor-in-Chief

Table of Contents

Comparing the CIA and the KGB (Eduardo Leon Henry Perez) 3

Cold War Propaganda (Victoria Borra Karen Rumay Sandra Un Jan) 7

Who killed Kennedy and why (Alexandra Granda Ana Caroline Ruiz) 11

Soviet Art and Cinematography (Valeria Jara Jimena Suarez) 14

What was Life like for Women in the Soviet Union (Valeria Paz Camila Soria) 18

Why did the Soviet Union Collapse in 1990 (Melanie Chinchayan Angie Su) 21

The Third World War was the Cold War a World War (Mariano Ranilla Jesus Vigil) 24

Does Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) work (Mayra Ochoa Cristina Zegarra) 28

What can We Learn from Chernobyl (Miguel Ju Zhu Sergio Ramirez Arturo Torres) 31

How did the US affect Argentina during the Cold War (Gabriela Gonzalez Alexandra Martinez) 37

The History Journal

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Jason Fowler

CO-EDITORS

Arturo Torres

Cristina Zegarra

3

by Henry Peacuterez and Eduardo Leon

uring the cold war the menace of nuclear

warheads caused fear and doubt in most if not all

countries This fear was so immense that the two main

countries of the moment (The USA and the USSR) began

doubting each other due to the belief that each had their

own secrets that were hidden from the world The US

feared that the USSR would take over the world by

spreading their ideals of communism while the USSR was

already afraid of the USrsquo constant aggression and their also

spreading ideal

of capitalism

For these

reasons the

US decides to

create the CIA

in 1947 This is

followed by

the USSRrsquos

creation of the

KGB in 1954

During their lifespan they both had similar goals such as

gathering up tactical information the government may need

and others Those goals were achieved in different ways

with different ranges of success Now the focus of this

article will be to compare and contrast the CIA and KGB in

terms of

1 functions

2 methods to achieve their goals and

3 their success during their active time and beyond

Functions

In terms of function one needs to make two time

comparisons During 1947-1949 the CIA had three mayor

tasks Gather information analyze the information

gathered and finally briefing the President and National

Security Council about the relevant information this means

that they had no power to make any decisions during this

time period On the other hand the KGB had different tasks

to accomplish They varied from gathering information in

other countries and protecting political leaders to

suppression of internal resistance secret operations and

managing propaganda From whatrsquos been said one could

assume that while the CIA only had the gathering of Intel as

a task the KGB had almost enough tasks to be the

government itself This lets us know that the USSRrsquos

government mightrsquove been dependant on the KGB for most

of their power and influences as well as for controlling the

population and maintaining the integrity of the USSR But

this is considering the pre-importance period of the CIA

Comparing

the CIA and

the KGB Different on the outside alike on the inside

D

A cartoon that shows the bear

(USSR) taking over the East while

Uncle Sam (US) watches in fear

4

In 1949 the Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed this

granted the CIA more powers such as the use of

confidential fiscal and administrative procedures and the

ability to use their budget in a free way with complete

secrecy This pact makes a difference in the comparison

between the CIA

and the USSR

since before it

the CIA seemed

like a ldquolibraryrdquo

since their only

vital function was

the searching of

information but

due to the

limitations it could only be inside the country In contrast

the KGB which had much more work to do than just

searching for information (which they could do worldwide

and secretly anyways) like containing internal riots and

controlling the peoplersquos way of thought by manipulating the

media But this drastic difference in power changed when

the 1949 pact was signed The boost of power given to the

CIA might have happened because the US government

noticed the effectiveness of the KGB worldwide and how

every country knew that they were watched by them( see

image below) so in an attempt to balance power between

the two mayor intelligence agencies in the world the US

government decided to give the CIA more power so that It

would be able to contend against the KGB in terms of

functionality and progress (The CIA was limited to the ways

in which they could find information) The implement in

power was successful at improving the CIArsquos reputation as it

began to rise as the powerful agency it was supposed to be

Their power rise was such that even cartoons and jokes

were made about how they saw everything

Methods

In order to achieve a successful comparison in methods we

need to take in mind that due to the CIA being active up to

this date there is few to no information about their

methods used during the cold war This is because since

they are an agency that is still active they wouldnrsquot want

anyone to find out about any possible illegal activities they

might have been involved with in the past So most of the

information regarding the CIArsquos methods wonrsquot be 100

exact

Anyways the KGB didnrsquot have anything holding it back

neither the law nor ethics This can be confirmed by looking

at the KGBrsquos functions while it was active Due to the

amount and difficulty of them and the fact that they were

indeed performed by the KGB during its active time one

can understand that there couldnrsquot have been laws

The picture shows an image that alludes to

the KGBrsquos Intel searching level It was

believed that they were so good at it that

they were actually watching everyone This

can be affirmed since up to this day some

people believe that the KGB is still running

Tony Bowden-2010(Image extracted from Flickr

site)

5

stopping the KGB since it would only hinderslow their

progress in their assignments This leads us to think that the

KGB would do anything to succeed at their mission of

securing Russiarsquos future by making it the strongest country

and also help with the spread of communism This can also

be backed up by noticing the multiple assassination

relations the KGB had during its active time and also the

multiple information about their torture methods and

others

On the other hand the CIA (before the act) was forced to

be passive due to the lack of strength that would allow it to

get secretly involved on international matters But this all

changed when the act was signed Ever since then they

adopted stronger methods to achieve their goals This

methods included torture undercover assassinations

altering other countries governments (see Pinochet) and

many more This further proves that the point of the act

was to make

the CIA stand a

chance against

the KGB by

removing any

type of

restrains from

them This can

be backed up

by the fact

that there is

information

about the

CIArsquos torture methods as well as their involvement in the

Pinochet coup and multiple tricks for spies (see image

below) The image shows one example of how the CIArsquos

methods were becoming even more similar to the KGBrsquos

due to the use of deception and espionage to gather

information or (in the case of the picture) possibly kidnap

someone to interrogate in a future occasion Thus one can

conclude that after the act was passed the CIA had similar

methodology used to achieve their goals success at all

costs

Success

This category also needs to be divided in 2 parts During the

Cold war and AFTER the cold war

During the cold war the KGB had the most success mainly

because it had been active for a longer time than the CIA

and they had no limit restrain since the start unlike the CIA

which had to wait 2 years after its creation in order to

actually be able to get involved in international matters and

be able to gather information without any restrains This

changes moderately once the famous act was passed since

it gave a mayor power increase to the CIA as well as the

ability to get involved in international problems and more

This helps the CIA reduce the effectiveness of the KGB since

now theyrsquore both unbound by rules and can provide

assistance to any event thatrsquos happening worldwide

without having to inform anyone

In the picture one can see one of the multiple Spy tactics used during the Cold war In this one the target is distracted by something trivial like lighting his cigarette while the agent secretly puts sleeping pills on the targetrsquos coffee Photo Secret CIA Magic Manual Shows Cold War Spy Tricks During Cold War American Magician Wrote Trickery and Deception Manual for CIA Phil FrankeHarper Collins

Dec 02 2009 0412 PM (abcnewsgocom)

6

After the war itrsquos simply obvious that the CIA was the

agency with the highest success because of one main

reason It hadnrsquot dissolved like the KGB did post-cold war

This proves that the CIArsquos importance was recognized by

the US government because otherwise the CIA would have

been dismantled just like the KGB was in 1991 This means

that without their main adversary the CIA was free to

eliminate any type of evidence that linked them to illegal

acts performed during the cold war while leaking the

multiple operations done by the KGB at the time

Conclusion

Concluding one can confirm that the difference between

the CIA and the KGB are close to none after the pact was

signed in 1949 since both agencies had similar powers and

werenrsquot restrained by rules or law Apart from that they

both used similar methods to obtain what they wanted

(torture to obtain information undercover mission to

change events etc) This can be confirmed by the multiple

rumors and conspiracies that rose during the Cold war era

which said that both agencies (CIA and KGB separately)

were involved in multiple assassinations and manipulation

of various governments in allied countries The only aspect

that separates them from being the same agency but with

different names would be the success they had since the

KGB was dismantled in 1991 unlike the CIA which stands

strong up to this day

So it would be correct to affirm that the CIA and the KGB

were similar in many aspects (methods functions actions

etc) with the only differences being that they belong to

different countries and that one had a higher success than

the other Itrsquos similar to brothers one looks up to the

other tries to be as good as him possibly imitates what the

older brother is doing (reason for which the act was passed

was so that the CIA could keep up with the KGB ie imitate

their methods and power) and finally becoming better than

the older brother by a long margin (the CIA stands strong

while the KGB was dissolved)

Bibliography

1 Anonymous writer Our Mission

CIA website April 12 2007 1003 PM

Last Updated Jan 03 2012 0105PM

httpswwwciagovkids-page6-12th-gradewho-we-are-what-

we-doour-missionhtml

2 JClark The History of the KGB

eHow website

httpwwwehowcomabout_5381628_history-kgbhtml

3 ThinkQuest KGB

httplibrarythinkquestorg10826kgbhtm

4 Derek Rhule The central intelligence Agency

Cold War Museum

httpwwwcoldwarorgarticles40sCentralIntelligenceAgencyC

IAasp

5 Normal Breathing Brainwashing Techniques KGB vs CIA

httpwwwnormalbreathingcombrainwashing-

techniquesphpUFaXebKTuc3

7

COLD WAR - PROPAGANDA

he Cold War lasted from the end of World

War II until the early 1990s

even though the Soviet

Union and the USA never

really had a direct battle

The cold war was

expressed by the

development of nuclear

weapons technological development

espionage and what we call ldquopropagandardquo

In this picture (on the left sidei) we can observe

two identical superheroes representing the US

and the Soviet Union It is trying to demonstrate

that both countries are equally destructive and

dangerous

When Cold War begins the ldquopropagandardquo

reappears here we want to demonstrate the

big importance of propaganda in the times

when the cold war started and the countries

who made the most interesting propaganda of

the cold war this is the question that we want to

answer Which country made the best and the

most interesting propaganda of the cold war

We also want to show the positive and negative

aspects that the propaganda created Finally

how did propaganda change the way people

thought

During the Cold War America and the Soviet

Union used propaganda to make sure that their

populations hated the enemy and wanted to

support the

government

The picture at the

leftii created by a

French anti-

communist group is trying to demonstrate that

Stalinrsquos sign of ldquopeacerdquo was not true because in

the other had he is holding a weapon

8

The next pictureiii was published a year after

Stalinrsquos death This

poster reinforces

that the Soviets

have developed

their weapons and

air-forces much

more The red stars

represent the pilotrsquos kill score

Propaganda is considered to be a

psychological manipulation technique of a

group of individuals usually known for creating

a negative influence Since the Russian

revolution to the final days of the Cold War

communists were experts at making

propaganda art Using this method the

communists won the hearts and minds of

Russian people making them see communism

as a shining and very attractive future

Most of the propaganda we see comes from

the Soviet Union or independent political activist

groups because after WWII the western

democratic states (USA) removed most of their

propaganda

But America has also created propaganda

through all periods of history They used it

particularly in times of war and international

crisis

While the USSR

showed off its

military strength

trying to impress

(see the image on

the rightiv) America

used Hollywood and media

One result of the immense anti-communism

propaganda was the persecution of many

Hollywood workers This is because there were

many secret Soviet agents that were hiding in

the American woodworking Senator Joe

McCarthy was responsible for finding them but

Strong citizens working for

motherland The BGTO

program was introduced

The boy in the picture is

holding a BGTO book

9

he also affected innocent people by making

them loose their job and not being able to find

another one Also when the television was

created The USA was able to spread

propaganda in a more easy fast and effective

way

As literature was so cheap the non-fiction books

and comics became methods to implant

propaganda These were sold very cheap and

were about superheroes defeating the

communists The story was usually about a

cowboy or soldier going against a terrible

situation but always saving the day

The non-fictional

books were very

fictional they were

always about

communism and the

reason why it was

bad It said how Soviets were waiting for any

moment to try to destroy America Comics that

were normally geared towards children took a twist-

in comic Is This Tomorrowrdquo Russians are shown

conquering

and enslaving

America

So which

country made

the most and

the best

interesting

propaganda of

the Cold War

According to

what was said above even though most of the

propaganda that we can see today comes from

the Soviet Union because of the reasons already

mentioned the US made the most interesting and

amazing propaganda using comics television

Hollywood books and posters Using all these

different strategies helped the US to make the best

propaganda

10

BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

[1] John B Whitton The American Journal of International Law Vol45 No 1 (published in January 1951) pp 151-153 Published by American Society of International Law URL httpwwwjstororgstable2194791

[2] Davidson Philip Propaganda and the American Revolution 1763-1789

Chapel Hill NC

published in 1941

URL httpwwwamericanforeignrelationscomO-WPropagandahtml

[3] Total Cold War US Propaganda in the Free World 19531960 PhD

dissertation University of California Santa Barbara Calif 2001 Many of this

essays conclusions are drawn from the original research in the dissertation

Read more Propaganda

Published in 2001

URL httpenglishrussia[3]com20060920soviet-propaganda-against-usa-

posters

[4] Politics and Film Propaganda and Its Influence during the Cold War

Heather Bullis Carnegie Vanguard High School

Published in 02082008

URL httphtimathuheducurriculumunits200802080202pdf

[5] Propaganda Merriam-Webster

Published in 11 Feb 2008

URLwwwmerriam-webstercom

Simple definition of the term used as a basic understanding for the students

[6] Soviet Propaganda cartoon DVDacutes by Cory Doctorow at 100 pm Sunday

Published in November 4

URL httpboingboingnet20071104soviet-propaganda-cahtml

MEMBERS - Victoria Borra

- Karen Rumay

- Sandra Un Jan

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 3: The History Journal - World War III

Table of Contents

Comparing the CIA and the KGB (Eduardo Leon Henry Perez) 3

Cold War Propaganda (Victoria Borra Karen Rumay Sandra Un Jan) 7

Who killed Kennedy and why (Alexandra Granda Ana Caroline Ruiz) 11

Soviet Art and Cinematography (Valeria Jara Jimena Suarez) 14

What was Life like for Women in the Soviet Union (Valeria Paz Camila Soria) 18

Why did the Soviet Union Collapse in 1990 (Melanie Chinchayan Angie Su) 21

The Third World War was the Cold War a World War (Mariano Ranilla Jesus Vigil) 24

Does Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) work (Mayra Ochoa Cristina Zegarra) 28

What can We Learn from Chernobyl (Miguel Ju Zhu Sergio Ramirez Arturo Torres) 31

How did the US affect Argentina during the Cold War (Gabriela Gonzalez Alexandra Martinez) 37

The History Journal

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Jason Fowler

CO-EDITORS

Arturo Torres

Cristina Zegarra

3

by Henry Peacuterez and Eduardo Leon

uring the cold war the menace of nuclear

warheads caused fear and doubt in most if not all

countries This fear was so immense that the two main

countries of the moment (The USA and the USSR) began

doubting each other due to the belief that each had their

own secrets that were hidden from the world The US

feared that the USSR would take over the world by

spreading their ideals of communism while the USSR was

already afraid of the USrsquo constant aggression and their also

spreading ideal

of capitalism

For these

reasons the

US decides to

create the CIA

in 1947 This is

followed by

the USSRrsquos

creation of the

KGB in 1954

During their lifespan they both had similar goals such as

gathering up tactical information the government may need

and others Those goals were achieved in different ways

with different ranges of success Now the focus of this

article will be to compare and contrast the CIA and KGB in

terms of

1 functions

2 methods to achieve their goals and

3 their success during their active time and beyond

Functions

In terms of function one needs to make two time

comparisons During 1947-1949 the CIA had three mayor

tasks Gather information analyze the information

gathered and finally briefing the President and National

Security Council about the relevant information this means

that they had no power to make any decisions during this

time period On the other hand the KGB had different tasks

to accomplish They varied from gathering information in

other countries and protecting political leaders to

suppression of internal resistance secret operations and

managing propaganda From whatrsquos been said one could

assume that while the CIA only had the gathering of Intel as

a task the KGB had almost enough tasks to be the

government itself This lets us know that the USSRrsquos

government mightrsquove been dependant on the KGB for most

of their power and influences as well as for controlling the

population and maintaining the integrity of the USSR But

this is considering the pre-importance period of the CIA

Comparing

the CIA and

the KGB Different on the outside alike on the inside

D

A cartoon that shows the bear

(USSR) taking over the East while

Uncle Sam (US) watches in fear

4

In 1949 the Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed this

granted the CIA more powers such as the use of

confidential fiscal and administrative procedures and the

ability to use their budget in a free way with complete

secrecy This pact makes a difference in the comparison

between the CIA

and the USSR

since before it

the CIA seemed

like a ldquolibraryrdquo

since their only

vital function was

the searching of

information but

due to the

limitations it could only be inside the country In contrast

the KGB which had much more work to do than just

searching for information (which they could do worldwide

and secretly anyways) like containing internal riots and

controlling the peoplersquos way of thought by manipulating the

media But this drastic difference in power changed when

the 1949 pact was signed The boost of power given to the

CIA might have happened because the US government

noticed the effectiveness of the KGB worldwide and how

every country knew that they were watched by them( see

image below) so in an attempt to balance power between

the two mayor intelligence agencies in the world the US

government decided to give the CIA more power so that It

would be able to contend against the KGB in terms of

functionality and progress (The CIA was limited to the ways

in which they could find information) The implement in

power was successful at improving the CIArsquos reputation as it

began to rise as the powerful agency it was supposed to be

Their power rise was such that even cartoons and jokes

were made about how they saw everything

Methods

In order to achieve a successful comparison in methods we

need to take in mind that due to the CIA being active up to

this date there is few to no information about their

methods used during the cold war This is because since

they are an agency that is still active they wouldnrsquot want

anyone to find out about any possible illegal activities they

might have been involved with in the past So most of the

information regarding the CIArsquos methods wonrsquot be 100

exact

Anyways the KGB didnrsquot have anything holding it back

neither the law nor ethics This can be confirmed by looking

at the KGBrsquos functions while it was active Due to the

amount and difficulty of them and the fact that they were

indeed performed by the KGB during its active time one

can understand that there couldnrsquot have been laws

The picture shows an image that alludes to

the KGBrsquos Intel searching level It was

believed that they were so good at it that

they were actually watching everyone This

can be affirmed since up to this day some

people believe that the KGB is still running

Tony Bowden-2010(Image extracted from Flickr

site)

5

stopping the KGB since it would only hinderslow their

progress in their assignments This leads us to think that the

KGB would do anything to succeed at their mission of

securing Russiarsquos future by making it the strongest country

and also help with the spread of communism This can also

be backed up by noticing the multiple assassination

relations the KGB had during its active time and also the

multiple information about their torture methods and

others

On the other hand the CIA (before the act) was forced to

be passive due to the lack of strength that would allow it to

get secretly involved on international matters But this all

changed when the act was signed Ever since then they

adopted stronger methods to achieve their goals This

methods included torture undercover assassinations

altering other countries governments (see Pinochet) and

many more This further proves that the point of the act

was to make

the CIA stand a

chance against

the KGB by

removing any

type of

restrains from

them This can

be backed up

by the fact

that there is

information

about the

CIArsquos torture methods as well as their involvement in the

Pinochet coup and multiple tricks for spies (see image

below) The image shows one example of how the CIArsquos

methods were becoming even more similar to the KGBrsquos

due to the use of deception and espionage to gather

information or (in the case of the picture) possibly kidnap

someone to interrogate in a future occasion Thus one can

conclude that after the act was passed the CIA had similar

methodology used to achieve their goals success at all

costs

Success

This category also needs to be divided in 2 parts During the

Cold war and AFTER the cold war

During the cold war the KGB had the most success mainly

because it had been active for a longer time than the CIA

and they had no limit restrain since the start unlike the CIA

which had to wait 2 years after its creation in order to

actually be able to get involved in international matters and

be able to gather information without any restrains This

changes moderately once the famous act was passed since

it gave a mayor power increase to the CIA as well as the

ability to get involved in international problems and more

This helps the CIA reduce the effectiveness of the KGB since

now theyrsquore both unbound by rules and can provide

assistance to any event thatrsquos happening worldwide

without having to inform anyone

In the picture one can see one of the multiple Spy tactics used during the Cold war In this one the target is distracted by something trivial like lighting his cigarette while the agent secretly puts sleeping pills on the targetrsquos coffee Photo Secret CIA Magic Manual Shows Cold War Spy Tricks During Cold War American Magician Wrote Trickery and Deception Manual for CIA Phil FrankeHarper Collins

Dec 02 2009 0412 PM (abcnewsgocom)

6

After the war itrsquos simply obvious that the CIA was the

agency with the highest success because of one main

reason It hadnrsquot dissolved like the KGB did post-cold war

This proves that the CIArsquos importance was recognized by

the US government because otherwise the CIA would have

been dismantled just like the KGB was in 1991 This means

that without their main adversary the CIA was free to

eliminate any type of evidence that linked them to illegal

acts performed during the cold war while leaking the

multiple operations done by the KGB at the time

Conclusion

Concluding one can confirm that the difference between

the CIA and the KGB are close to none after the pact was

signed in 1949 since both agencies had similar powers and

werenrsquot restrained by rules or law Apart from that they

both used similar methods to obtain what they wanted

(torture to obtain information undercover mission to

change events etc) This can be confirmed by the multiple

rumors and conspiracies that rose during the Cold war era

which said that both agencies (CIA and KGB separately)

were involved in multiple assassinations and manipulation

of various governments in allied countries The only aspect

that separates them from being the same agency but with

different names would be the success they had since the

KGB was dismantled in 1991 unlike the CIA which stands

strong up to this day

So it would be correct to affirm that the CIA and the KGB

were similar in many aspects (methods functions actions

etc) with the only differences being that they belong to

different countries and that one had a higher success than

the other Itrsquos similar to brothers one looks up to the

other tries to be as good as him possibly imitates what the

older brother is doing (reason for which the act was passed

was so that the CIA could keep up with the KGB ie imitate

their methods and power) and finally becoming better than

the older brother by a long margin (the CIA stands strong

while the KGB was dissolved)

Bibliography

1 Anonymous writer Our Mission

CIA website April 12 2007 1003 PM

Last Updated Jan 03 2012 0105PM

httpswwwciagovkids-page6-12th-gradewho-we-are-what-

we-doour-missionhtml

2 JClark The History of the KGB

eHow website

httpwwwehowcomabout_5381628_history-kgbhtml

3 ThinkQuest KGB

httplibrarythinkquestorg10826kgbhtm

4 Derek Rhule The central intelligence Agency

Cold War Museum

httpwwwcoldwarorgarticles40sCentralIntelligenceAgencyC

IAasp

5 Normal Breathing Brainwashing Techniques KGB vs CIA

httpwwwnormalbreathingcombrainwashing-

techniquesphpUFaXebKTuc3

7

COLD WAR - PROPAGANDA

he Cold War lasted from the end of World

War II until the early 1990s

even though the Soviet

Union and the USA never

really had a direct battle

The cold war was

expressed by the

development of nuclear

weapons technological development

espionage and what we call ldquopropagandardquo

In this picture (on the left sidei) we can observe

two identical superheroes representing the US

and the Soviet Union It is trying to demonstrate

that both countries are equally destructive and

dangerous

When Cold War begins the ldquopropagandardquo

reappears here we want to demonstrate the

big importance of propaganda in the times

when the cold war started and the countries

who made the most interesting propaganda of

the cold war this is the question that we want to

answer Which country made the best and the

most interesting propaganda of the cold war

We also want to show the positive and negative

aspects that the propaganda created Finally

how did propaganda change the way people

thought

During the Cold War America and the Soviet

Union used propaganda to make sure that their

populations hated the enemy and wanted to

support the

government

The picture at the

leftii created by a

French anti-

communist group is trying to demonstrate that

Stalinrsquos sign of ldquopeacerdquo was not true because in

the other had he is holding a weapon

8

The next pictureiii was published a year after

Stalinrsquos death This

poster reinforces

that the Soviets

have developed

their weapons and

air-forces much

more The red stars

represent the pilotrsquos kill score

Propaganda is considered to be a

psychological manipulation technique of a

group of individuals usually known for creating

a negative influence Since the Russian

revolution to the final days of the Cold War

communists were experts at making

propaganda art Using this method the

communists won the hearts and minds of

Russian people making them see communism

as a shining and very attractive future

Most of the propaganda we see comes from

the Soviet Union or independent political activist

groups because after WWII the western

democratic states (USA) removed most of their

propaganda

But America has also created propaganda

through all periods of history They used it

particularly in times of war and international

crisis

While the USSR

showed off its

military strength

trying to impress

(see the image on

the rightiv) America

used Hollywood and media

One result of the immense anti-communism

propaganda was the persecution of many

Hollywood workers This is because there were

many secret Soviet agents that were hiding in

the American woodworking Senator Joe

McCarthy was responsible for finding them but

Strong citizens working for

motherland The BGTO

program was introduced

The boy in the picture is

holding a BGTO book

9

he also affected innocent people by making

them loose their job and not being able to find

another one Also when the television was

created The USA was able to spread

propaganda in a more easy fast and effective

way

As literature was so cheap the non-fiction books

and comics became methods to implant

propaganda These were sold very cheap and

were about superheroes defeating the

communists The story was usually about a

cowboy or soldier going against a terrible

situation but always saving the day

The non-fictional

books were very

fictional they were

always about

communism and the

reason why it was

bad It said how Soviets were waiting for any

moment to try to destroy America Comics that

were normally geared towards children took a twist-

in comic Is This Tomorrowrdquo Russians are shown

conquering

and enslaving

America

So which

country made

the most and

the best

interesting

propaganda of

the Cold War

According to

what was said above even though most of the

propaganda that we can see today comes from

the Soviet Union because of the reasons already

mentioned the US made the most interesting and

amazing propaganda using comics television

Hollywood books and posters Using all these

different strategies helped the US to make the best

propaganda

10

BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

[1] John B Whitton The American Journal of International Law Vol45 No 1 (published in January 1951) pp 151-153 Published by American Society of International Law URL httpwwwjstororgstable2194791

[2] Davidson Philip Propaganda and the American Revolution 1763-1789

Chapel Hill NC

published in 1941

URL httpwwwamericanforeignrelationscomO-WPropagandahtml

[3] Total Cold War US Propaganda in the Free World 19531960 PhD

dissertation University of California Santa Barbara Calif 2001 Many of this

essays conclusions are drawn from the original research in the dissertation

Read more Propaganda

Published in 2001

URL httpenglishrussia[3]com20060920soviet-propaganda-against-usa-

posters

[4] Politics and Film Propaganda and Its Influence during the Cold War

Heather Bullis Carnegie Vanguard High School

Published in 02082008

URL httphtimathuheducurriculumunits200802080202pdf

[5] Propaganda Merriam-Webster

Published in 11 Feb 2008

URLwwwmerriam-webstercom

Simple definition of the term used as a basic understanding for the students

[6] Soviet Propaganda cartoon DVDacutes by Cory Doctorow at 100 pm Sunday

Published in November 4

URL httpboingboingnet20071104soviet-propaganda-cahtml

MEMBERS - Victoria Borra

- Karen Rumay

- Sandra Un Jan

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 4: The History Journal - World War III

3

by Henry Peacuterez and Eduardo Leon

uring the cold war the menace of nuclear

warheads caused fear and doubt in most if not all

countries This fear was so immense that the two main

countries of the moment (The USA and the USSR) began

doubting each other due to the belief that each had their

own secrets that were hidden from the world The US

feared that the USSR would take over the world by

spreading their ideals of communism while the USSR was

already afraid of the USrsquo constant aggression and their also

spreading ideal

of capitalism

For these

reasons the

US decides to

create the CIA

in 1947 This is

followed by

the USSRrsquos

creation of the

KGB in 1954

During their lifespan they both had similar goals such as

gathering up tactical information the government may need

and others Those goals were achieved in different ways

with different ranges of success Now the focus of this

article will be to compare and contrast the CIA and KGB in

terms of

1 functions

2 methods to achieve their goals and

3 their success during their active time and beyond

Functions

In terms of function one needs to make two time

comparisons During 1947-1949 the CIA had three mayor

tasks Gather information analyze the information

gathered and finally briefing the President and National

Security Council about the relevant information this means

that they had no power to make any decisions during this

time period On the other hand the KGB had different tasks

to accomplish They varied from gathering information in

other countries and protecting political leaders to

suppression of internal resistance secret operations and

managing propaganda From whatrsquos been said one could

assume that while the CIA only had the gathering of Intel as

a task the KGB had almost enough tasks to be the

government itself This lets us know that the USSRrsquos

government mightrsquove been dependant on the KGB for most

of their power and influences as well as for controlling the

population and maintaining the integrity of the USSR But

this is considering the pre-importance period of the CIA

Comparing

the CIA and

the KGB Different on the outside alike on the inside

D

A cartoon that shows the bear

(USSR) taking over the East while

Uncle Sam (US) watches in fear

4

In 1949 the Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed this

granted the CIA more powers such as the use of

confidential fiscal and administrative procedures and the

ability to use their budget in a free way with complete

secrecy This pact makes a difference in the comparison

between the CIA

and the USSR

since before it

the CIA seemed

like a ldquolibraryrdquo

since their only

vital function was

the searching of

information but

due to the

limitations it could only be inside the country In contrast

the KGB which had much more work to do than just

searching for information (which they could do worldwide

and secretly anyways) like containing internal riots and

controlling the peoplersquos way of thought by manipulating the

media But this drastic difference in power changed when

the 1949 pact was signed The boost of power given to the

CIA might have happened because the US government

noticed the effectiveness of the KGB worldwide and how

every country knew that they were watched by them( see

image below) so in an attempt to balance power between

the two mayor intelligence agencies in the world the US

government decided to give the CIA more power so that It

would be able to contend against the KGB in terms of

functionality and progress (The CIA was limited to the ways

in which they could find information) The implement in

power was successful at improving the CIArsquos reputation as it

began to rise as the powerful agency it was supposed to be

Their power rise was such that even cartoons and jokes

were made about how they saw everything

Methods

In order to achieve a successful comparison in methods we

need to take in mind that due to the CIA being active up to

this date there is few to no information about their

methods used during the cold war This is because since

they are an agency that is still active they wouldnrsquot want

anyone to find out about any possible illegal activities they

might have been involved with in the past So most of the

information regarding the CIArsquos methods wonrsquot be 100

exact

Anyways the KGB didnrsquot have anything holding it back

neither the law nor ethics This can be confirmed by looking

at the KGBrsquos functions while it was active Due to the

amount and difficulty of them and the fact that they were

indeed performed by the KGB during its active time one

can understand that there couldnrsquot have been laws

The picture shows an image that alludes to

the KGBrsquos Intel searching level It was

believed that they were so good at it that

they were actually watching everyone This

can be affirmed since up to this day some

people believe that the KGB is still running

Tony Bowden-2010(Image extracted from Flickr

site)

5

stopping the KGB since it would only hinderslow their

progress in their assignments This leads us to think that the

KGB would do anything to succeed at their mission of

securing Russiarsquos future by making it the strongest country

and also help with the spread of communism This can also

be backed up by noticing the multiple assassination

relations the KGB had during its active time and also the

multiple information about their torture methods and

others

On the other hand the CIA (before the act) was forced to

be passive due to the lack of strength that would allow it to

get secretly involved on international matters But this all

changed when the act was signed Ever since then they

adopted stronger methods to achieve their goals This

methods included torture undercover assassinations

altering other countries governments (see Pinochet) and

many more This further proves that the point of the act

was to make

the CIA stand a

chance against

the KGB by

removing any

type of

restrains from

them This can

be backed up

by the fact

that there is

information

about the

CIArsquos torture methods as well as their involvement in the

Pinochet coup and multiple tricks for spies (see image

below) The image shows one example of how the CIArsquos

methods were becoming even more similar to the KGBrsquos

due to the use of deception and espionage to gather

information or (in the case of the picture) possibly kidnap

someone to interrogate in a future occasion Thus one can

conclude that after the act was passed the CIA had similar

methodology used to achieve their goals success at all

costs

Success

This category also needs to be divided in 2 parts During the

Cold war and AFTER the cold war

During the cold war the KGB had the most success mainly

because it had been active for a longer time than the CIA

and they had no limit restrain since the start unlike the CIA

which had to wait 2 years after its creation in order to

actually be able to get involved in international matters and

be able to gather information without any restrains This

changes moderately once the famous act was passed since

it gave a mayor power increase to the CIA as well as the

ability to get involved in international problems and more

This helps the CIA reduce the effectiveness of the KGB since

now theyrsquore both unbound by rules and can provide

assistance to any event thatrsquos happening worldwide

without having to inform anyone

In the picture one can see one of the multiple Spy tactics used during the Cold war In this one the target is distracted by something trivial like lighting his cigarette while the agent secretly puts sleeping pills on the targetrsquos coffee Photo Secret CIA Magic Manual Shows Cold War Spy Tricks During Cold War American Magician Wrote Trickery and Deception Manual for CIA Phil FrankeHarper Collins

Dec 02 2009 0412 PM (abcnewsgocom)

6

After the war itrsquos simply obvious that the CIA was the

agency with the highest success because of one main

reason It hadnrsquot dissolved like the KGB did post-cold war

This proves that the CIArsquos importance was recognized by

the US government because otherwise the CIA would have

been dismantled just like the KGB was in 1991 This means

that without their main adversary the CIA was free to

eliminate any type of evidence that linked them to illegal

acts performed during the cold war while leaking the

multiple operations done by the KGB at the time

Conclusion

Concluding one can confirm that the difference between

the CIA and the KGB are close to none after the pact was

signed in 1949 since both agencies had similar powers and

werenrsquot restrained by rules or law Apart from that they

both used similar methods to obtain what they wanted

(torture to obtain information undercover mission to

change events etc) This can be confirmed by the multiple

rumors and conspiracies that rose during the Cold war era

which said that both agencies (CIA and KGB separately)

were involved in multiple assassinations and manipulation

of various governments in allied countries The only aspect

that separates them from being the same agency but with

different names would be the success they had since the

KGB was dismantled in 1991 unlike the CIA which stands

strong up to this day

So it would be correct to affirm that the CIA and the KGB

were similar in many aspects (methods functions actions

etc) with the only differences being that they belong to

different countries and that one had a higher success than

the other Itrsquos similar to brothers one looks up to the

other tries to be as good as him possibly imitates what the

older brother is doing (reason for which the act was passed

was so that the CIA could keep up with the KGB ie imitate

their methods and power) and finally becoming better than

the older brother by a long margin (the CIA stands strong

while the KGB was dissolved)

Bibliography

1 Anonymous writer Our Mission

CIA website April 12 2007 1003 PM

Last Updated Jan 03 2012 0105PM

httpswwwciagovkids-page6-12th-gradewho-we-are-what-

we-doour-missionhtml

2 JClark The History of the KGB

eHow website

httpwwwehowcomabout_5381628_history-kgbhtml

3 ThinkQuest KGB

httplibrarythinkquestorg10826kgbhtm

4 Derek Rhule The central intelligence Agency

Cold War Museum

httpwwwcoldwarorgarticles40sCentralIntelligenceAgencyC

IAasp

5 Normal Breathing Brainwashing Techniques KGB vs CIA

httpwwwnormalbreathingcombrainwashing-

techniquesphpUFaXebKTuc3

7

COLD WAR - PROPAGANDA

he Cold War lasted from the end of World

War II until the early 1990s

even though the Soviet

Union and the USA never

really had a direct battle

The cold war was

expressed by the

development of nuclear

weapons technological development

espionage and what we call ldquopropagandardquo

In this picture (on the left sidei) we can observe

two identical superheroes representing the US

and the Soviet Union It is trying to demonstrate

that both countries are equally destructive and

dangerous

When Cold War begins the ldquopropagandardquo

reappears here we want to demonstrate the

big importance of propaganda in the times

when the cold war started and the countries

who made the most interesting propaganda of

the cold war this is the question that we want to

answer Which country made the best and the

most interesting propaganda of the cold war

We also want to show the positive and negative

aspects that the propaganda created Finally

how did propaganda change the way people

thought

During the Cold War America and the Soviet

Union used propaganda to make sure that their

populations hated the enemy and wanted to

support the

government

The picture at the

leftii created by a

French anti-

communist group is trying to demonstrate that

Stalinrsquos sign of ldquopeacerdquo was not true because in

the other had he is holding a weapon

8

The next pictureiii was published a year after

Stalinrsquos death This

poster reinforces

that the Soviets

have developed

their weapons and

air-forces much

more The red stars

represent the pilotrsquos kill score

Propaganda is considered to be a

psychological manipulation technique of a

group of individuals usually known for creating

a negative influence Since the Russian

revolution to the final days of the Cold War

communists were experts at making

propaganda art Using this method the

communists won the hearts and minds of

Russian people making them see communism

as a shining and very attractive future

Most of the propaganda we see comes from

the Soviet Union or independent political activist

groups because after WWII the western

democratic states (USA) removed most of their

propaganda

But America has also created propaganda

through all periods of history They used it

particularly in times of war and international

crisis

While the USSR

showed off its

military strength

trying to impress

(see the image on

the rightiv) America

used Hollywood and media

One result of the immense anti-communism

propaganda was the persecution of many

Hollywood workers This is because there were

many secret Soviet agents that were hiding in

the American woodworking Senator Joe

McCarthy was responsible for finding them but

Strong citizens working for

motherland The BGTO

program was introduced

The boy in the picture is

holding a BGTO book

9

he also affected innocent people by making

them loose their job and not being able to find

another one Also when the television was

created The USA was able to spread

propaganda in a more easy fast and effective

way

As literature was so cheap the non-fiction books

and comics became methods to implant

propaganda These were sold very cheap and

were about superheroes defeating the

communists The story was usually about a

cowboy or soldier going against a terrible

situation but always saving the day

The non-fictional

books were very

fictional they were

always about

communism and the

reason why it was

bad It said how Soviets were waiting for any

moment to try to destroy America Comics that

were normally geared towards children took a twist-

in comic Is This Tomorrowrdquo Russians are shown

conquering

and enslaving

America

So which

country made

the most and

the best

interesting

propaganda of

the Cold War

According to

what was said above even though most of the

propaganda that we can see today comes from

the Soviet Union because of the reasons already

mentioned the US made the most interesting and

amazing propaganda using comics television

Hollywood books and posters Using all these

different strategies helped the US to make the best

propaganda

10

BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

[1] John B Whitton The American Journal of International Law Vol45 No 1 (published in January 1951) pp 151-153 Published by American Society of International Law URL httpwwwjstororgstable2194791

[2] Davidson Philip Propaganda and the American Revolution 1763-1789

Chapel Hill NC

published in 1941

URL httpwwwamericanforeignrelationscomO-WPropagandahtml

[3] Total Cold War US Propaganda in the Free World 19531960 PhD

dissertation University of California Santa Barbara Calif 2001 Many of this

essays conclusions are drawn from the original research in the dissertation

Read more Propaganda

Published in 2001

URL httpenglishrussia[3]com20060920soviet-propaganda-against-usa-

posters

[4] Politics and Film Propaganda and Its Influence during the Cold War

Heather Bullis Carnegie Vanguard High School

Published in 02082008

URL httphtimathuheducurriculumunits200802080202pdf

[5] Propaganda Merriam-Webster

Published in 11 Feb 2008

URLwwwmerriam-webstercom

Simple definition of the term used as a basic understanding for the students

[6] Soviet Propaganda cartoon DVDacutes by Cory Doctorow at 100 pm Sunday

Published in November 4

URL httpboingboingnet20071104soviet-propaganda-cahtml

MEMBERS - Victoria Borra

- Karen Rumay

- Sandra Un Jan

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 5: The History Journal - World War III

4

In 1949 the Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed this

granted the CIA more powers such as the use of

confidential fiscal and administrative procedures and the

ability to use their budget in a free way with complete

secrecy This pact makes a difference in the comparison

between the CIA

and the USSR

since before it

the CIA seemed

like a ldquolibraryrdquo

since their only

vital function was

the searching of

information but

due to the

limitations it could only be inside the country In contrast

the KGB which had much more work to do than just

searching for information (which they could do worldwide

and secretly anyways) like containing internal riots and

controlling the peoplersquos way of thought by manipulating the

media But this drastic difference in power changed when

the 1949 pact was signed The boost of power given to the

CIA might have happened because the US government

noticed the effectiveness of the KGB worldwide and how

every country knew that they were watched by them( see

image below) so in an attempt to balance power between

the two mayor intelligence agencies in the world the US

government decided to give the CIA more power so that It

would be able to contend against the KGB in terms of

functionality and progress (The CIA was limited to the ways

in which they could find information) The implement in

power was successful at improving the CIArsquos reputation as it

began to rise as the powerful agency it was supposed to be

Their power rise was such that even cartoons and jokes

were made about how they saw everything

Methods

In order to achieve a successful comparison in methods we

need to take in mind that due to the CIA being active up to

this date there is few to no information about their

methods used during the cold war This is because since

they are an agency that is still active they wouldnrsquot want

anyone to find out about any possible illegal activities they

might have been involved with in the past So most of the

information regarding the CIArsquos methods wonrsquot be 100

exact

Anyways the KGB didnrsquot have anything holding it back

neither the law nor ethics This can be confirmed by looking

at the KGBrsquos functions while it was active Due to the

amount and difficulty of them and the fact that they were

indeed performed by the KGB during its active time one

can understand that there couldnrsquot have been laws

The picture shows an image that alludes to

the KGBrsquos Intel searching level It was

believed that they were so good at it that

they were actually watching everyone This

can be affirmed since up to this day some

people believe that the KGB is still running

Tony Bowden-2010(Image extracted from Flickr

site)

5

stopping the KGB since it would only hinderslow their

progress in their assignments This leads us to think that the

KGB would do anything to succeed at their mission of

securing Russiarsquos future by making it the strongest country

and also help with the spread of communism This can also

be backed up by noticing the multiple assassination

relations the KGB had during its active time and also the

multiple information about their torture methods and

others

On the other hand the CIA (before the act) was forced to

be passive due to the lack of strength that would allow it to

get secretly involved on international matters But this all

changed when the act was signed Ever since then they

adopted stronger methods to achieve their goals This

methods included torture undercover assassinations

altering other countries governments (see Pinochet) and

many more This further proves that the point of the act

was to make

the CIA stand a

chance against

the KGB by

removing any

type of

restrains from

them This can

be backed up

by the fact

that there is

information

about the

CIArsquos torture methods as well as their involvement in the

Pinochet coup and multiple tricks for spies (see image

below) The image shows one example of how the CIArsquos

methods were becoming even more similar to the KGBrsquos

due to the use of deception and espionage to gather

information or (in the case of the picture) possibly kidnap

someone to interrogate in a future occasion Thus one can

conclude that after the act was passed the CIA had similar

methodology used to achieve their goals success at all

costs

Success

This category also needs to be divided in 2 parts During the

Cold war and AFTER the cold war

During the cold war the KGB had the most success mainly

because it had been active for a longer time than the CIA

and they had no limit restrain since the start unlike the CIA

which had to wait 2 years after its creation in order to

actually be able to get involved in international matters and

be able to gather information without any restrains This

changes moderately once the famous act was passed since

it gave a mayor power increase to the CIA as well as the

ability to get involved in international problems and more

This helps the CIA reduce the effectiveness of the KGB since

now theyrsquore both unbound by rules and can provide

assistance to any event thatrsquos happening worldwide

without having to inform anyone

In the picture one can see one of the multiple Spy tactics used during the Cold war In this one the target is distracted by something trivial like lighting his cigarette while the agent secretly puts sleeping pills on the targetrsquos coffee Photo Secret CIA Magic Manual Shows Cold War Spy Tricks During Cold War American Magician Wrote Trickery and Deception Manual for CIA Phil FrankeHarper Collins

Dec 02 2009 0412 PM (abcnewsgocom)

6

After the war itrsquos simply obvious that the CIA was the

agency with the highest success because of one main

reason It hadnrsquot dissolved like the KGB did post-cold war

This proves that the CIArsquos importance was recognized by

the US government because otherwise the CIA would have

been dismantled just like the KGB was in 1991 This means

that without their main adversary the CIA was free to

eliminate any type of evidence that linked them to illegal

acts performed during the cold war while leaking the

multiple operations done by the KGB at the time

Conclusion

Concluding one can confirm that the difference between

the CIA and the KGB are close to none after the pact was

signed in 1949 since both agencies had similar powers and

werenrsquot restrained by rules or law Apart from that they

both used similar methods to obtain what they wanted

(torture to obtain information undercover mission to

change events etc) This can be confirmed by the multiple

rumors and conspiracies that rose during the Cold war era

which said that both agencies (CIA and KGB separately)

were involved in multiple assassinations and manipulation

of various governments in allied countries The only aspect

that separates them from being the same agency but with

different names would be the success they had since the

KGB was dismantled in 1991 unlike the CIA which stands

strong up to this day

So it would be correct to affirm that the CIA and the KGB

were similar in many aspects (methods functions actions

etc) with the only differences being that they belong to

different countries and that one had a higher success than

the other Itrsquos similar to brothers one looks up to the

other tries to be as good as him possibly imitates what the

older brother is doing (reason for which the act was passed

was so that the CIA could keep up with the KGB ie imitate

their methods and power) and finally becoming better than

the older brother by a long margin (the CIA stands strong

while the KGB was dissolved)

Bibliography

1 Anonymous writer Our Mission

CIA website April 12 2007 1003 PM

Last Updated Jan 03 2012 0105PM

httpswwwciagovkids-page6-12th-gradewho-we-are-what-

we-doour-missionhtml

2 JClark The History of the KGB

eHow website

httpwwwehowcomabout_5381628_history-kgbhtml

3 ThinkQuest KGB

httplibrarythinkquestorg10826kgbhtm

4 Derek Rhule The central intelligence Agency

Cold War Museum

httpwwwcoldwarorgarticles40sCentralIntelligenceAgencyC

IAasp

5 Normal Breathing Brainwashing Techniques KGB vs CIA

httpwwwnormalbreathingcombrainwashing-

techniquesphpUFaXebKTuc3

7

COLD WAR - PROPAGANDA

he Cold War lasted from the end of World

War II until the early 1990s

even though the Soviet

Union and the USA never

really had a direct battle

The cold war was

expressed by the

development of nuclear

weapons technological development

espionage and what we call ldquopropagandardquo

In this picture (on the left sidei) we can observe

two identical superheroes representing the US

and the Soviet Union It is trying to demonstrate

that both countries are equally destructive and

dangerous

When Cold War begins the ldquopropagandardquo

reappears here we want to demonstrate the

big importance of propaganda in the times

when the cold war started and the countries

who made the most interesting propaganda of

the cold war this is the question that we want to

answer Which country made the best and the

most interesting propaganda of the cold war

We also want to show the positive and negative

aspects that the propaganda created Finally

how did propaganda change the way people

thought

During the Cold War America and the Soviet

Union used propaganda to make sure that their

populations hated the enemy and wanted to

support the

government

The picture at the

leftii created by a

French anti-

communist group is trying to demonstrate that

Stalinrsquos sign of ldquopeacerdquo was not true because in

the other had he is holding a weapon

8

The next pictureiii was published a year after

Stalinrsquos death This

poster reinforces

that the Soviets

have developed

their weapons and

air-forces much

more The red stars

represent the pilotrsquos kill score

Propaganda is considered to be a

psychological manipulation technique of a

group of individuals usually known for creating

a negative influence Since the Russian

revolution to the final days of the Cold War

communists were experts at making

propaganda art Using this method the

communists won the hearts and minds of

Russian people making them see communism

as a shining and very attractive future

Most of the propaganda we see comes from

the Soviet Union or independent political activist

groups because after WWII the western

democratic states (USA) removed most of their

propaganda

But America has also created propaganda

through all periods of history They used it

particularly in times of war and international

crisis

While the USSR

showed off its

military strength

trying to impress

(see the image on

the rightiv) America

used Hollywood and media

One result of the immense anti-communism

propaganda was the persecution of many

Hollywood workers This is because there were

many secret Soviet agents that were hiding in

the American woodworking Senator Joe

McCarthy was responsible for finding them but

Strong citizens working for

motherland The BGTO

program was introduced

The boy in the picture is

holding a BGTO book

9

he also affected innocent people by making

them loose their job and not being able to find

another one Also when the television was

created The USA was able to spread

propaganda in a more easy fast and effective

way

As literature was so cheap the non-fiction books

and comics became methods to implant

propaganda These were sold very cheap and

were about superheroes defeating the

communists The story was usually about a

cowboy or soldier going against a terrible

situation but always saving the day

The non-fictional

books were very

fictional they were

always about

communism and the

reason why it was

bad It said how Soviets were waiting for any

moment to try to destroy America Comics that

were normally geared towards children took a twist-

in comic Is This Tomorrowrdquo Russians are shown

conquering

and enslaving

America

So which

country made

the most and

the best

interesting

propaganda of

the Cold War

According to

what was said above even though most of the

propaganda that we can see today comes from

the Soviet Union because of the reasons already

mentioned the US made the most interesting and

amazing propaganda using comics television

Hollywood books and posters Using all these

different strategies helped the US to make the best

propaganda

10

BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

[1] John B Whitton The American Journal of International Law Vol45 No 1 (published in January 1951) pp 151-153 Published by American Society of International Law URL httpwwwjstororgstable2194791

[2] Davidson Philip Propaganda and the American Revolution 1763-1789

Chapel Hill NC

published in 1941

URL httpwwwamericanforeignrelationscomO-WPropagandahtml

[3] Total Cold War US Propaganda in the Free World 19531960 PhD

dissertation University of California Santa Barbara Calif 2001 Many of this

essays conclusions are drawn from the original research in the dissertation

Read more Propaganda

Published in 2001

URL httpenglishrussia[3]com20060920soviet-propaganda-against-usa-

posters

[4] Politics and Film Propaganda and Its Influence during the Cold War

Heather Bullis Carnegie Vanguard High School

Published in 02082008

URL httphtimathuheducurriculumunits200802080202pdf

[5] Propaganda Merriam-Webster

Published in 11 Feb 2008

URLwwwmerriam-webstercom

Simple definition of the term used as a basic understanding for the students

[6] Soviet Propaganda cartoon DVDacutes by Cory Doctorow at 100 pm Sunday

Published in November 4

URL httpboingboingnet20071104soviet-propaganda-cahtml

MEMBERS - Victoria Borra

- Karen Rumay

- Sandra Un Jan

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 6: The History Journal - World War III

5

stopping the KGB since it would only hinderslow their

progress in their assignments This leads us to think that the

KGB would do anything to succeed at their mission of

securing Russiarsquos future by making it the strongest country

and also help with the spread of communism This can also

be backed up by noticing the multiple assassination

relations the KGB had during its active time and also the

multiple information about their torture methods and

others

On the other hand the CIA (before the act) was forced to

be passive due to the lack of strength that would allow it to

get secretly involved on international matters But this all

changed when the act was signed Ever since then they

adopted stronger methods to achieve their goals This

methods included torture undercover assassinations

altering other countries governments (see Pinochet) and

many more This further proves that the point of the act

was to make

the CIA stand a

chance against

the KGB by

removing any

type of

restrains from

them This can

be backed up

by the fact

that there is

information

about the

CIArsquos torture methods as well as their involvement in the

Pinochet coup and multiple tricks for spies (see image

below) The image shows one example of how the CIArsquos

methods were becoming even more similar to the KGBrsquos

due to the use of deception and espionage to gather

information or (in the case of the picture) possibly kidnap

someone to interrogate in a future occasion Thus one can

conclude that after the act was passed the CIA had similar

methodology used to achieve their goals success at all

costs

Success

This category also needs to be divided in 2 parts During the

Cold war and AFTER the cold war

During the cold war the KGB had the most success mainly

because it had been active for a longer time than the CIA

and they had no limit restrain since the start unlike the CIA

which had to wait 2 years after its creation in order to

actually be able to get involved in international matters and

be able to gather information without any restrains This

changes moderately once the famous act was passed since

it gave a mayor power increase to the CIA as well as the

ability to get involved in international problems and more

This helps the CIA reduce the effectiveness of the KGB since

now theyrsquore both unbound by rules and can provide

assistance to any event thatrsquos happening worldwide

without having to inform anyone

In the picture one can see one of the multiple Spy tactics used during the Cold war In this one the target is distracted by something trivial like lighting his cigarette while the agent secretly puts sleeping pills on the targetrsquos coffee Photo Secret CIA Magic Manual Shows Cold War Spy Tricks During Cold War American Magician Wrote Trickery and Deception Manual for CIA Phil FrankeHarper Collins

Dec 02 2009 0412 PM (abcnewsgocom)

6

After the war itrsquos simply obvious that the CIA was the

agency with the highest success because of one main

reason It hadnrsquot dissolved like the KGB did post-cold war

This proves that the CIArsquos importance was recognized by

the US government because otherwise the CIA would have

been dismantled just like the KGB was in 1991 This means

that without their main adversary the CIA was free to

eliminate any type of evidence that linked them to illegal

acts performed during the cold war while leaking the

multiple operations done by the KGB at the time

Conclusion

Concluding one can confirm that the difference between

the CIA and the KGB are close to none after the pact was

signed in 1949 since both agencies had similar powers and

werenrsquot restrained by rules or law Apart from that they

both used similar methods to obtain what they wanted

(torture to obtain information undercover mission to

change events etc) This can be confirmed by the multiple

rumors and conspiracies that rose during the Cold war era

which said that both agencies (CIA and KGB separately)

were involved in multiple assassinations and manipulation

of various governments in allied countries The only aspect

that separates them from being the same agency but with

different names would be the success they had since the

KGB was dismantled in 1991 unlike the CIA which stands

strong up to this day

So it would be correct to affirm that the CIA and the KGB

were similar in many aspects (methods functions actions

etc) with the only differences being that they belong to

different countries and that one had a higher success than

the other Itrsquos similar to brothers one looks up to the

other tries to be as good as him possibly imitates what the

older brother is doing (reason for which the act was passed

was so that the CIA could keep up with the KGB ie imitate

their methods and power) and finally becoming better than

the older brother by a long margin (the CIA stands strong

while the KGB was dissolved)

Bibliography

1 Anonymous writer Our Mission

CIA website April 12 2007 1003 PM

Last Updated Jan 03 2012 0105PM

httpswwwciagovkids-page6-12th-gradewho-we-are-what-

we-doour-missionhtml

2 JClark The History of the KGB

eHow website

httpwwwehowcomabout_5381628_history-kgbhtml

3 ThinkQuest KGB

httplibrarythinkquestorg10826kgbhtm

4 Derek Rhule The central intelligence Agency

Cold War Museum

httpwwwcoldwarorgarticles40sCentralIntelligenceAgencyC

IAasp

5 Normal Breathing Brainwashing Techniques KGB vs CIA

httpwwwnormalbreathingcombrainwashing-

techniquesphpUFaXebKTuc3

7

COLD WAR - PROPAGANDA

he Cold War lasted from the end of World

War II until the early 1990s

even though the Soviet

Union and the USA never

really had a direct battle

The cold war was

expressed by the

development of nuclear

weapons technological development

espionage and what we call ldquopropagandardquo

In this picture (on the left sidei) we can observe

two identical superheroes representing the US

and the Soviet Union It is trying to demonstrate

that both countries are equally destructive and

dangerous

When Cold War begins the ldquopropagandardquo

reappears here we want to demonstrate the

big importance of propaganda in the times

when the cold war started and the countries

who made the most interesting propaganda of

the cold war this is the question that we want to

answer Which country made the best and the

most interesting propaganda of the cold war

We also want to show the positive and negative

aspects that the propaganda created Finally

how did propaganda change the way people

thought

During the Cold War America and the Soviet

Union used propaganda to make sure that their

populations hated the enemy and wanted to

support the

government

The picture at the

leftii created by a

French anti-

communist group is trying to demonstrate that

Stalinrsquos sign of ldquopeacerdquo was not true because in

the other had he is holding a weapon

8

The next pictureiii was published a year after

Stalinrsquos death This

poster reinforces

that the Soviets

have developed

their weapons and

air-forces much

more The red stars

represent the pilotrsquos kill score

Propaganda is considered to be a

psychological manipulation technique of a

group of individuals usually known for creating

a negative influence Since the Russian

revolution to the final days of the Cold War

communists were experts at making

propaganda art Using this method the

communists won the hearts and minds of

Russian people making them see communism

as a shining and very attractive future

Most of the propaganda we see comes from

the Soviet Union or independent political activist

groups because after WWII the western

democratic states (USA) removed most of their

propaganda

But America has also created propaganda

through all periods of history They used it

particularly in times of war and international

crisis

While the USSR

showed off its

military strength

trying to impress

(see the image on

the rightiv) America

used Hollywood and media

One result of the immense anti-communism

propaganda was the persecution of many

Hollywood workers This is because there were

many secret Soviet agents that were hiding in

the American woodworking Senator Joe

McCarthy was responsible for finding them but

Strong citizens working for

motherland The BGTO

program was introduced

The boy in the picture is

holding a BGTO book

9

he also affected innocent people by making

them loose their job and not being able to find

another one Also when the television was

created The USA was able to spread

propaganda in a more easy fast and effective

way

As literature was so cheap the non-fiction books

and comics became methods to implant

propaganda These were sold very cheap and

were about superheroes defeating the

communists The story was usually about a

cowboy or soldier going against a terrible

situation but always saving the day

The non-fictional

books were very

fictional they were

always about

communism and the

reason why it was

bad It said how Soviets were waiting for any

moment to try to destroy America Comics that

were normally geared towards children took a twist-

in comic Is This Tomorrowrdquo Russians are shown

conquering

and enslaving

America

So which

country made

the most and

the best

interesting

propaganda of

the Cold War

According to

what was said above even though most of the

propaganda that we can see today comes from

the Soviet Union because of the reasons already

mentioned the US made the most interesting and

amazing propaganda using comics television

Hollywood books and posters Using all these

different strategies helped the US to make the best

propaganda

10

BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

[1] John B Whitton The American Journal of International Law Vol45 No 1 (published in January 1951) pp 151-153 Published by American Society of International Law URL httpwwwjstororgstable2194791

[2] Davidson Philip Propaganda and the American Revolution 1763-1789

Chapel Hill NC

published in 1941

URL httpwwwamericanforeignrelationscomO-WPropagandahtml

[3] Total Cold War US Propaganda in the Free World 19531960 PhD

dissertation University of California Santa Barbara Calif 2001 Many of this

essays conclusions are drawn from the original research in the dissertation

Read more Propaganda

Published in 2001

URL httpenglishrussia[3]com20060920soviet-propaganda-against-usa-

posters

[4] Politics and Film Propaganda and Its Influence during the Cold War

Heather Bullis Carnegie Vanguard High School

Published in 02082008

URL httphtimathuheducurriculumunits200802080202pdf

[5] Propaganda Merriam-Webster

Published in 11 Feb 2008

URLwwwmerriam-webstercom

Simple definition of the term used as a basic understanding for the students

[6] Soviet Propaganda cartoon DVDacutes by Cory Doctorow at 100 pm Sunday

Published in November 4

URL httpboingboingnet20071104soviet-propaganda-cahtml

MEMBERS - Victoria Borra

- Karen Rumay

- Sandra Un Jan

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 7: The History Journal - World War III

6

After the war itrsquos simply obvious that the CIA was the

agency with the highest success because of one main

reason It hadnrsquot dissolved like the KGB did post-cold war

This proves that the CIArsquos importance was recognized by

the US government because otherwise the CIA would have

been dismantled just like the KGB was in 1991 This means

that without their main adversary the CIA was free to

eliminate any type of evidence that linked them to illegal

acts performed during the cold war while leaking the

multiple operations done by the KGB at the time

Conclusion

Concluding one can confirm that the difference between

the CIA and the KGB are close to none after the pact was

signed in 1949 since both agencies had similar powers and

werenrsquot restrained by rules or law Apart from that they

both used similar methods to obtain what they wanted

(torture to obtain information undercover mission to

change events etc) This can be confirmed by the multiple

rumors and conspiracies that rose during the Cold war era

which said that both agencies (CIA and KGB separately)

were involved in multiple assassinations and manipulation

of various governments in allied countries The only aspect

that separates them from being the same agency but with

different names would be the success they had since the

KGB was dismantled in 1991 unlike the CIA which stands

strong up to this day

So it would be correct to affirm that the CIA and the KGB

were similar in many aspects (methods functions actions

etc) with the only differences being that they belong to

different countries and that one had a higher success than

the other Itrsquos similar to brothers one looks up to the

other tries to be as good as him possibly imitates what the

older brother is doing (reason for which the act was passed

was so that the CIA could keep up with the KGB ie imitate

their methods and power) and finally becoming better than

the older brother by a long margin (the CIA stands strong

while the KGB was dissolved)

Bibliography

1 Anonymous writer Our Mission

CIA website April 12 2007 1003 PM

Last Updated Jan 03 2012 0105PM

httpswwwciagovkids-page6-12th-gradewho-we-are-what-

we-doour-missionhtml

2 JClark The History of the KGB

eHow website

httpwwwehowcomabout_5381628_history-kgbhtml

3 ThinkQuest KGB

httplibrarythinkquestorg10826kgbhtm

4 Derek Rhule The central intelligence Agency

Cold War Museum

httpwwwcoldwarorgarticles40sCentralIntelligenceAgencyC

IAasp

5 Normal Breathing Brainwashing Techniques KGB vs CIA

httpwwwnormalbreathingcombrainwashing-

techniquesphpUFaXebKTuc3

7

COLD WAR - PROPAGANDA

he Cold War lasted from the end of World

War II until the early 1990s

even though the Soviet

Union and the USA never

really had a direct battle

The cold war was

expressed by the

development of nuclear

weapons technological development

espionage and what we call ldquopropagandardquo

In this picture (on the left sidei) we can observe

two identical superheroes representing the US

and the Soviet Union It is trying to demonstrate

that both countries are equally destructive and

dangerous

When Cold War begins the ldquopropagandardquo

reappears here we want to demonstrate the

big importance of propaganda in the times

when the cold war started and the countries

who made the most interesting propaganda of

the cold war this is the question that we want to

answer Which country made the best and the

most interesting propaganda of the cold war

We also want to show the positive and negative

aspects that the propaganda created Finally

how did propaganda change the way people

thought

During the Cold War America and the Soviet

Union used propaganda to make sure that their

populations hated the enemy and wanted to

support the

government

The picture at the

leftii created by a

French anti-

communist group is trying to demonstrate that

Stalinrsquos sign of ldquopeacerdquo was not true because in

the other had he is holding a weapon

8

The next pictureiii was published a year after

Stalinrsquos death This

poster reinforces

that the Soviets

have developed

their weapons and

air-forces much

more The red stars

represent the pilotrsquos kill score

Propaganda is considered to be a

psychological manipulation technique of a

group of individuals usually known for creating

a negative influence Since the Russian

revolution to the final days of the Cold War

communists were experts at making

propaganda art Using this method the

communists won the hearts and minds of

Russian people making them see communism

as a shining and very attractive future

Most of the propaganda we see comes from

the Soviet Union or independent political activist

groups because after WWII the western

democratic states (USA) removed most of their

propaganda

But America has also created propaganda

through all periods of history They used it

particularly in times of war and international

crisis

While the USSR

showed off its

military strength

trying to impress

(see the image on

the rightiv) America

used Hollywood and media

One result of the immense anti-communism

propaganda was the persecution of many

Hollywood workers This is because there were

many secret Soviet agents that were hiding in

the American woodworking Senator Joe

McCarthy was responsible for finding them but

Strong citizens working for

motherland The BGTO

program was introduced

The boy in the picture is

holding a BGTO book

9

he also affected innocent people by making

them loose their job and not being able to find

another one Also when the television was

created The USA was able to spread

propaganda in a more easy fast and effective

way

As literature was so cheap the non-fiction books

and comics became methods to implant

propaganda These were sold very cheap and

were about superheroes defeating the

communists The story was usually about a

cowboy or soldier going against a terrible

situation but always saving the day

The non-fictional

books were very

fictional they were

always about

communism and the

reason why it was

bad It said how Soviets were waiting for any

moment to try to destroy America Comics that

were normally geared towards children took a twist-

in comic Is This Tomorrowrdquo Russians are shown

conquering

and enslaving

America

So which

country made

the most and

the best

interesting

propaganda of

the Cold War

According to

what was said above even though most of the

propaganda that we can see today comes from

the Soviet Union because of the reasons already

mentioned the US made the most interesting and

amazing propaganda using comics television

Hollywood books and posters Using all these

different strategies helped the US to make the best

propaganda

10

BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

[1] John B Whitton The American Journal of International Law Vol45 No 1 (published in January 1951) pp 151-153 Published by American Society of International Law URL httpwwwjstororgstable2194791

[2] Davidson Philip Propaganda and the American Revolution 1763-1789

Chapel Hill NC

published in 1941

URL httpwwwamericanforeignrelationscomO-WPropagandahtml

[3] Total Cold War US Propaganda in the Free World 19531960 PhD

dissertation University of California Santa Barbara Calif 2001 Many of this

essays conclusions are drawn from the original research in the dissertation

Read more Propaganda

Published in 2001

URL httpenglishrussia[3]com20060920soviet-propaganda-against-usa-

posters

[4] Politics and Film Propaganda and Its Influence during the Cold War

Heather Bullis Carnegie Vanguard High School

Published in 02082008

URL httphtimathuheducurriculumunits200802080202pdf

[5] Propaganda Merriam-Webster

Published in 11 Feb 2008

URLwwwmerriam-webstercom

Simple definition of the term used as a basic understanding for the students

[6] Soviet Propaganda cartoon DVDacutes by Cory Doctorow at 100 pm Sunday

Published in November 4

URL httpboingboingnet20071104soviet-propaganda-cahtml

MEMBERS - Victoria Borra

- Karen Rumay

- Sandra Un Jan

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

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structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

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7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 8: The History Journal - World War III

7

COLD WAR - PROPAGANDA

he Cold War lasted from the end of World

War II until the early 1990s

even though the Soviet

Union and the USA never

really had a direct battle

The cold war was

expressed by the

development of nuclear

weapons technological development

espionage and what we call ldquopropagandardquo

In this picture (on the left sidei) we can observe

two identical superheroes representing the US

and the Soviet Union It is trying to demonstrate

that both countries are equally destructive and

dangerous

When Cold War begins the ldquopropagandardquo

reappears here we want to demonstrate the

big importance of propaganda in the times

when the cold war started and the countries

who made the most interesting propaganda of

the cold war this is the question that we want to

answer Which country made the best and the

most interesting propaganda of the cold war

We also want to show the positive and negative

aspects that the propaganda created Finally

how did propaganda change the way people

thought

During the Cold War America and the Soviet

Union used propaganda to make sure that their

populations hated the enemy and wanted to

support the

government

The picture at the

leftii created by a

French anti-

communist group is trying to demonstrate that

Stalinrsquos sign of ldquopeacerdquo was not true because in

the other had he is holding a weapon

8

The next pictureiii was published a year after

Stalinrsquos death This

poster reinforces

that the Soviets

have developed

their weapons and

air-forces much

more The red stars

represent the pilotrsquos kill score

Propaganda is considered to be a

psychological manipulation technique of a

group of individuals usually known for creating

a negative influence Since the Russian

revolution to the final days of the Cold War

communists were experts at making

propaganda art Using this method the

communists won the hearts and minds of

Russian people making them see communism

as a shining and very attractive future

Most of the propaganda we see comes from

the Soviet Union or independent political activist

groups because after WWII the western

democratic states (USA) removed most of their

propaganda

But America has also created propaganda

through all periods of history They used it

particularly in times of war and international

crisis

While the USSR

showed off its

military strength

trying to impress

(see the image on

the rightiv) America

used Hollywood and media

One result of the immense anti-communism

propaganda was the persecution of many

Hollywood workers This is because there were

many secret Soviet agents that were hiding in

the American woodworking Senator Joe

McCarthy was responsible for finding them but

Strong citizens working for

motherland The BGTO

program was introduced

The boy in the picture is

holding a BGTO book

9

he also affected innocent people by making

them loose their job and not being able to find

another one Also when the television was

created The USA was able to spread

propaganda in a more easy fast and effective

way

As literature was so cheap the non-fiction books

and comics became methods to implant

propaganda These were sold very cheap and

were about superheroes defeating the

communists The story was usually about a

cowboy or soldier going against a terrible

situation but always saving the day

The non-fictional

books were very

fictional they were

always about

communism and the

reason why it was

bad It said how Soviets were waiting for any

moment to try to destroy America Comics that

were normally geared towards children took a twist-

in comic Is This Tomorrowrdquo Russians are shown

conquering

and enslaving

America

So which

country made

the most and

the best

interesting

propaganda of

the Cold War

According to

what was said above even though most of the

propaganda that we can see today comes from

the Soviet Union because of the reasons already

mentioned the US made the most interesting and

amazing propaganda using comics television

Hollywood books and posters Using all these

different strategies helped the US to make the best

propaganda

10

BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

[1] John B Whitton The American Journal of International Law Vol45 No 1 (published in January 1951) pp 151-153 Published by American Society of International Law URL httpwwwjstororgstable2194791

[2] Davidson Philip Propaganda and the American Revolution 1763-1789

Chapel Hill NC

published in 1941

URL httpwwwamericanforeignrelationscomO-WPropagandahtml

[3] Total Cold War US Propaganda in the Free World 19531960 PhD

dissertation University of California Santa Barbara Calif 2001 Many of this

essays conclusions are drawn from the original research in the dissertation

Read more Propaganda

Published in 2001

URL httpenglishrussia[3]com20060920soviet-propaganda-against-usa-

posters

[4] Politics and Film Propaganda and Its Influence during the Cold War

Heather Bullis Carnegie Vanguard High School

Published in 02082008

URL httphtimathuheducurriculumunits200802080202pdf

[5] Propaganda Merriam-Webster

Published in 11 Feb 2008

URLwwwmerriam-webstercom

Simple definition of the term used as a basic understanding for the students

[6] Soviet Propaganda cartoon DVDacutes by Cory Doctorow at 100 pm Sunday

Published in November 4

URL httpboingboingnet20071104soviet-propaganda-cahtml

MEMBERS - Victoria Borra

- Karen Rumay

- Sandra Un Jan

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 9: The History Journal - World War III

8

The next pictureiii was published a year after

Stalinrsquos death This

poster reinforces

that the Soviets

have developed

their weapons and

air-forces much

more The red stars

represent the pilotrsquos kill score

Propaganda is considered to be a

psychological manipulation technique of a

group of individuals usually known for creating

a negative influence Since the Russian

revolution to the final days of the Cold War

communists were experts at making

propaganda art Using this method the

communists won the hearts and minds of

Russian people making them see communism

as a shining and very attractive future

Most of the propaganda we see comes from

the Soviet Union or independent political activist

groups because after WWII the western

democratic states (USA) removed most of their

propaganda

But America has also created propaganda

through all periods of history They used it

particularly in times of war and international

crisis

While the USSR

showed off its

military strength

trying to impress

(see the image on

the rightiv) America

used Hollywood and media

One result of the immense anti-communism

propaganda was the persecution of many

Hollywood workers This is because there were

many secret Soviet agents that were hiding in

the American woodworking Senator Joe

McCarthy was responsible for finding them but

Strong citizens working for

motherland The BGTO

program was introduced

The boy in the picture is

holding a BGTO book

9

he also affected innocent people by making

them loose their job and not being able to find

another one Also when the television was

created The USA was able to spread

propaganda in a more easy fast and effective

way

As literature was so cheap the non-fiction books

and comics became methods to implant

propaganda These were sold very cheap and

were about superheroes defeating the

communists The story was usually about a

cowboy or soldier going against a terrible

situation but always saving the day

The non-fictional

books were very

fictional they were

always about

communism and the

reason why it was

bad It said how Soviets were waiting for any

moment to try to destroy America Comics that

were normally geared towards children took a twist-

in comic Is This Tomorrowrdquo Russians are shown

conquering

and enslaving

America

So which

country made

the most and

the best

interesting

propaganda of

the Cold War

According to

what was said above even though most of the

propaganda that we can see today comes from

the Soviet Union because of the reasons already

mentioned the US made the most interesting and

amazing propaganda using comics television

Hollywood books and posters Using all these

different strategies helped the US to make the best

propaganda

10

BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

[1] John B Whitton The American Journal of International Law Vol45 No 1 (published in January 1951) pp 151-153 Published by American Society of International Law URL httpwwwjstororgstable2194791

[2] Davidson Philip Propaganda and the American Revolution 1763-1789

Chapel Hill NC

published in 1941

URL httpwwwamericanforeignrelationscomO-WPropagandahtml

[3] Total Cold War US Propaganda in the Free World 19531960 PhD

dissertation University of California Santa Barbara Calif 2001 Many of this

essays conclusions are drawn from the original research in the dissertation

Read more Propaganda

Published in 2001

URL httpenglishrussia[3]com20060920soviet-propaganda-against-usa-

posters

[4] Politics and Film Propaganda and Its Influence during the Cold War

Heather Bullis Carnegie Vanguard High School

Published in 02082008

URL httphtimathuheducurriculumunits200802080202pdf

[5] Propaganda Merriam-Webster

Published in 11 Feb 2008

URLwwwmerriam-webstercom

Simple definition of the term used as a basic understanding for the students

[6] Soviet Propaganda cartoon DVDacutes by Cory Doctorow at 100 pm Sunday

Published in November 4

URL httpboingboingnet20071104soviet-propaganda-cahtml

MEMBERS - Victoria Borra

- Karen Rumay

- Sandra Un Jan

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 10: The History Journal - World War III

9

he also affected innocent people by making

them loose their job and not being able to find

another one Also when the television was

created The USA was able to spread

propaganda in a more easy fast and effective

way

As literature was so cheap the non-fiction books

and comics became methods to implant

propaganda These were sold very cheap and

were about superheroes defeating the

communists The story was usually about a

cowboy or soldier going against a terrible

situation but always saving the day

The non-fictional

books were very

fictional they were

always about

communism and the

reason why it was

bad It said how Soviets were waiting for any

moment to try to destroy America Comics that

were normally geared towards children took a twist-

in comic Is This Tomorrowrdquo Russians are shown

conquering

and enslaving

America

So which

country made

the most and

the best

interesting

propaganda of

the Cold War

According to

what was said above even though most of the

propaganda that we can see today comes from

the Soviet Union because of the reasons already

mentioned the US made the most interesting and

amazing propaganda using comics television

Hollywood books and posters Using all these

different strategies helped the US to make the best

propaganda

10

BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

[1] John B Whitton The American Journal of International Law Vol45 No 1 (published in January 1951) pp 151-153 Published by American Society of International Law URL httpwwwjstororgstable2194791

[2] Davidson Philip Propaganda and the American Revolution 1763-1789

Chapel Hill NC

published in 1941

URL httpwwwamericanforeignrelationscomO-WPropagandahtml

[3] Total Cold War US Propaganda in the Free World 19531960 PhD

dissertation University of California Santa Barbara Calif 2001 Many of this

essays conclusions are drawn from the original research in the dissertation

Read more Propaganda

Published in 2001

URL httpenglishrussia[3]com20060920soviet-propaganda-against-usa-

posters

[4] Politics and Film Propaganda and Its Influence during the Cold War

Heather Bullis Carnegie Vanguard High School

Published in 02082008

URL httphtimathuheducurriculumunits200802080202pdf

[5] Propaganda Merriam-Webster

Published in 11 Feb 2008

URLwwwmerriam-webstercom

Simple definition of the term used as a basic understanding for the students

[6] Soviet Propaganda cartoon DVDacutes by Cory Doctorow at 100 pm Sunday

Published in November 4

URL httpboingboingnet20071104soviet-propaganda-cahtml

MEMBERS - Victoria Borra

- Karen Rumay

- Sandra Un Jan

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 11: The History Journal - World War III

10

BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

[1] John B Whitton The American Journal of International Law Vol45 No 1 (published in January 1951) pp 151-153 Published by American Society of International Law URL httpwwwjstororgstable2194791

[2] Davidson Philip Propaganda and the American Revolution 1763-1789

Chapel Hill NC

published in 1941

URL httpwwwamericanforeignrelationscomO-WPropagandahtml

[3] Total Cold War US Propaganda in the Free World 19531960 PhD

dissertation University of California Santa Barbara Calif 2001 Many of this

essays conclusions are drawn from the original research in the dissertation

Read more Propaganda

Published in 2001

URL httpenglishrussia[3]com20060920soviet-propaganda-against-usa-

posters

[4] Politics and Film Propaganda and Its Influence during the Cold War

Heather Bullis Carnegie Vanguard High School

Published in 02082008

URL httphtimathuheducurriculumunits200802080202pdf

[5] Propaganda Merriam-Webster

Published in 11 Feb 2008

URLwwwmerriam-webstercom

Simple definition of the term used as a basic understanding for the students

[6] Soviet Propaganda cartoon DVDacutes by Cory Doctorow at 100 pm Sunday

Published in November 4

URL httpboingboingnet20071104soviet-propaganda-cahtml

MEMBERS - Victoria Borra

- Karen Rumay

- Sandra Un Jan

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 12: The History Journal - World War III

11

KENNEDYacuteS ASSASSINATION MYSTERY Who did it Why he was killed

By Ana Caroline Ruiz and Alexandra Granda

The Kennedys went to Dallas for JKFrsquos

campaign There were lots of people there

and the Kennedys where on a car waving

at the people The car turned off at the

Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 1230

pm the car continues to move passing the

Texas School Book Depository and

suddenly gunfire started in the plaza One

of the bullets struck in the presidentrsquos neck

and he slumped towards Mrs Kennedy

Every single person that has studied history

knows this stories is at schools books

and even movies but why Why is this

even so important in history What does

JFK had that made him different from other

killed person other president other

American And most importantly who

actually killed him

Kennedy represented hope and the

prospects for the new generation he

created an atmosphere that was different

from any other elections and therefore it

was devastating

Kennedyrsquos assassination represented the

end of an innocent time and the beginning

of a turbulent one Race relations the war in

Vietnam the threat of communism all

conspired together to make it a time of

anxiety The country and the whole world

was dividing into two the ones who wanted

to find the killer and the ones who were

hiding the killer

JFKennedy with his wife Jacqueline before

his assassination

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 13: The History Journal - World War III

12

The first to be accused was Lee Harvey

Oswald the man who allegedly pulled the

trigger of a rifle from the Texas School

Book Depository and was found 40

minutes Oswald denied involvement in the

killing Two days later while being

transferred to the county jail Oswald was

shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack

Ruby and then he killed himself

But why did Jack Ruby killed Oswald for

then killing himself There is a belief that

they were involved to a Mafia Contract and

that Oswald knew too much and Jack Ruby

owned a favor to the Mafia and he had no

choice still everything is a theory

There are also lots of probabilities that this

murder was a conspiracy The suspicious

people that were supposed to be involved

in this conspiracy and that will get benefit

from it are The that there could have been

an involvement from the Pentagon from

the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the FBI the

CIA and even the White House itself

because maybe President Kennedy was a

threat to their plans

A great example of how Kennedy could be

a threat was what he decided to do with the

Vietnam War The USA gave supplies

arms and every material thing that they

needed but Kennedy knew he could not get

the war further the USA was too involved

with the Vietnam War already in 1963 But

people like Vice President Johnson

opposed to the decision because they were

ambitious politicians and they could not let

communism won after what happen during

the Cold War and the Domino Theory so

there is a belief that every person that

wanted the United States to become

actively involved in the Vietnam send

someone or some people to kill Kennedy

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

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[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 14: The History Journal - World War III

13

However it is not only believed that the

Vietnam War was the only fact or reason

for killing Kennedy Before this there was

the Cuban Revolution Kennedy was also

involved in it and is said that because

President Kennedy did not help the Cubans

exiles in their attempt (1961) to invade

Cuba and stop the communism of Fidel

Castroacutes government he also did not

destroy Cuba on the Cuba missile crisis of

1962 this facts created a great anger from

those Cubans that believed USA would

help them and Kennedy was the one in

charge so this is a theory of why

someone would kill him

Conclusion

There are many theories on Kennedyrsquos

death and for each argument therersquos an

argument against making the research

even more difficult But the one that had

most motives and more arguments in

favor is Oswald being the one that has

more quotes videos and interviews in

other words more evidence It has being

proved that he had some psychological

issues He tried to enter the USSR it

didnrsquot worked so well and it seems that

he killed the president to gain favor with

Russians

Kennedy showing Vietnamacutes map and

what they have already done for them

Propaganda

saying how

Kennedy

should be

careful by

getting

involve with

Cuba

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiAssassination_

of_John_F_Kennedy

o httpwwwcoverupscomjfkwhohtm

o httpenwikipediaorgwikiLee_Harvey_O

swald

o httpwwwjfkmurdersolvedcomlhociahtm

o httplistversecom2007090811-

alternative-jfk-assassins

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

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[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 15: The History Journal - World War III

14

SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART SOVIET ART ANDANDANDAND

CINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHYCINEMATOGRAPHY Common themes between the Two

by Valeria Jara and Jimena Suarez

here is no doubt that most people

recognize the Soviet Union for its

communist ldquoachievementsrdquo advanced

technology nuclear weapons and

several conflicts with other countries For others the

Soviet Union is also one of the main producers of

high quality films and artistic masterpieces Soviet

art amp cinematography was influenced by the

surrounding events of the time resulting in the use

of a scale of descending colors Furthermore the

artists in charge never looked to an idealized past

but always

looked into

the future

Films and

posters were

also a great

propaganda

tool This

created hatred towards any sort of Soviet art in

some groups of people claiming that by having

this purpose there was nothing ldquo artisticrdquo about

Soviet cinematography and art at all

This article aside from showing characteristics and

the history of Soviet art and Soviet cinematography

will show the main common theme that these two

share by demonstrating how important it was for the

Soviets to diffuse propaganda as much as possible

using these mediums while keeping in mind the

ldquoartisticrdquo factors of them

Cinematography

After the Union of Soviet Social Republics (USSR)

stated that films could be a useful way to spread

TSoviet propaganda against Hitler

(1)

Movie leaflet

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 16: The History Journal - World War III

15

propaganda considering the immense popularity that

films had among citizens several Soviet films were

developed but needed support around WWI

Once that Stalin died in 1953 censorship was

constantly applied by the government to movies with

any undesirable or politically offensive material

However now directors were free to apply whatever

they thought that the public would like to see

unlike before Stalinrsquos death where films were done

just to spread propaganda

ldquoSocial realismrdquo was finally liberalized to allow the

creation of more human characters but communism

could not be criticized at all

ldquoA revolutionary cinema for the revolutionrdquo and

ldquoExperimentation as a systemrdquo were important ideals

of the Soviet cinematography It was necessary to

show the world the triumph of the revolution in a

revolutionary way and the government was

experimenting with films to build a revolutionary

state in every single aspect (including artistically)

They investigated cinematic theories

montages the film industry as a propaganda tool and

more In fact Soviet films did cause a worldwide

revolution mainly due to the highly realistic images

and excellent use of montages it showed everyone a

new type of expression

The Soviet film industry kept in mind the diffusion

of propaganda as proven before Nonetheless in the

end it was important for everyone else the way that it

expressed the message not the actual message The

mediums that it used to achieve this that is what

impressed the rest of the world which is why Soviet

cinematography is a very important point in the

history of films in general

Art

Before 1932 Soviet art drew on futurism cubism

and abstraction These were symbolic of the

new realism being established by the government

Several

recognized artists

produced

propaganda

posters and

sculptures

considered to

be true

ldquoOf all the arts for us the most

important is cinemardquo

-Lenin (2)

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

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[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

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[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 17: The History Journal - World War III

16

masterpieces of abstract symbolism

Years past 1932 symbolism was gone and realism

began

The new paintings included real-life themes such as

youth energy labor peasants and buildings It was

quite similar to Nazi art though Soviet Art looked

towards the future instead

The death of Joseph Stalin also affected the arts

positively causing a wave of liberalization Artist

now felt free to experiment in their work unlike in

the past However as time flew by it was not as

liberal as artists had hoped Artists who painted in

styles different from realism had to do it secretly and

in private Fortunately Mikhail Gorbachevrsquos

policies around the 1980rsquos made it nearly impossible

for the authorities to get involved or place

restrictions on artists and their freedom of speech

Soviet posters played a main role in the art of

propaganda They were introduced to Russia before

the Revolution yet Lenin created the first

modern propaganda machine These became

extremely popular as well as controversial and

nowadays are remembered by many as one of the

main contributors to the Soviet Union A prime

example can be the Anti-Hitler poster in page 1

In conclusion Soviet paintings and cinema

searched for freedom art and a way to express their

propaganda properly in any sort of mainstream

medium Still freedom seemed to be more important

for art than it was for cinematography and people

were actually allowed to experiment in films after

the death of Stalin There was also another very

common theme between the two revolution It was

the most important thing for the Soviet Union in

general and it was necessary to express the triumph

of revolution in both mediums

Soviet abstract sculpture

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 18: The History Journal - World War III

17

Bibliography

1 Anti-Nazi Poster Homepagedailycom

httpwwwhomepagedailycomuploads20090811

db4cf020-4e3f-4813-a60c-

eeff81f19190a55_redarmyjpg

2 ldquoOf all the arts for us the most important is

cinemardquo ndashLenin (January 17 of 1922) The

Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in

Documents 1896-1939 First published in

1988

httpbooksgooglecompebooksid=dkVKmMW3

V9ECamppg=PA53amplpg=PA53ampdq=of+all+arts+leni

n+most+importantampsource=blampots=HtRUi2P-

Dpampsig=xoLwWQcdAMR7Ga3KZGzkWVB5piwamp

hl=enampsa=Xampei=QXBNUMfAE4mQ9QS1-

4GADgampved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepageampq=of

20all20arts20lenin20most20importantampf=

false

3 Nazi amp Soviet Art Goodartorg

httpwwwgoodartorgartofnzhtm

4 Russian amp Soviet Cinema The British

Library Board

httpwwwblukreshelpfindhelplangrussianrussia

ncinemarusscinemahtml

5 The Russian and Soviet Cinematography ndash

great art from the big country

Magdaolchawskacom 2011

httpwwwmagdaolchawskacomentry164

6 Soviet Art Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiSoviet_art

7 Cinema of the Soviet Union Wikipedia

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCinema_of_the_Soviet_

Union

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

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[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

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[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 19: The History Journal - World War III

18

What was Life like for Women

In the Soviet Union By Camila Soria amp Valeria Paz

Women during the twentieth century wanted to have

the same rights as men had such as the same right to

work equal pay better education be able to

participate in social and political activities However this

didnrsquot occur in Russia until October 1917 which was a

milestone in the emancipation of women For the first

time the complete economic political and sexual

equality of women was put on the historic agenda Also

women would finally have the opportunity to work

outside of their homes and have a role in all spheres of

political and social life (1)

Furthermore in the soviet army there where

more than more than 8 percent of mobilized

troops that were women This situation

reflected more the propaganda efforts of the

soviets than the reality

Besides the Soviet Union was one of the first

societies that included women in their armed

forces Women were soldiers in World War 1

and 2 In the active force they worked in

clerical positions the communications field

administration as repair technicians and

particularly in the health and medical services

(3)

The Soviet Government wanted to mobilize millions of

women workers to participate in building the new

society For this to occur many conferences were

organized The government was doing everything it

could to enable the Soviet woman to be an

independent proletarian socialist worker (1)

Women propaganda

In these times women were more independent and

they were no longer obligated to live with their husband

Attention was paid to women maternity laws Also

womenrsquos department wanted to bring women into

politics by visiting factories and villages (1)

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 20: The History Journal - World War III

19

Women were encouraged to have large families

but also expected to work outside the home

Western feminists have often been confused to find

that for Russian women feminism means being able

to stay at home with their children rather than

having to work long hours at a job as well as having

to do all the housework cooking etc Russian

women have been having it all for decades and

many of them are tired of it Very few women in top

government jobs for instance and although there

were a lot of women doctors doctor did not have

particularly high status

From the beginning the soviet law recognized that

motherhood is not a private matter but rather the

social duty of the active and equal female citizen

As well the Soviet Union has solved one of the most

important dilemmas how women can work without

leaving their motherhood Vladimir Lenin who was a

Russian revolutionary leader said that the public

canteens kindergartens Young pioneer camps

playgrounds and cregraveches all facilitate women to

work by caring for their children

Moreover in this time the soviet state provides

increasing materials assistance to mothers and they

had support of the government In 1945 when the

families were bigger or one-parent homes the

government would pay them two billion roubles

The women of the Soviet Union worked on an equal

footing with men to advance science culture and

the arts and they had an outstanding place in the

national education and health services

Also they are implementing their political rights in

practice While 256 thousand women have been

elected to rural regional urban and republican

organs of state power

Lenin considered that the role of women was

essential to the success of revolution In 1918 in a

Womenrsquos congress he said the experience of all

liberation movements has shown that the success of

a revolution depends on how much the women

take part in it

In the elections of 1927 for the rural Soviets 6500000

women took part Also 146251 women were elected

to the rural Soviets In October 1927 women formed

128 percent of the membership of the Communist

Party Finally one-third of the students of higher

education were women Also there are huge

industrial enterprises in the USSR like the Skorokhod

Shoe Factory where 60 per cent of those employed

were women (4)

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

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[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 21: The History Journal - World War III

20

Therefore women laws were respected marriage

had no effect on the citizenship of either party and

women did not have to follow their husbands to

another place like it was before Other laws were

created in favor of women like providing a vacation

period with pay for women before and after

childbirth Some examples of successful women in

the USSR can be Valentina Grizodubova Paulina

Ossipenko and Marina Raskova who were fliers that

displayed such heroism in the art of flying in their

long-distance non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far

East They made a record in non-stop women flight

(6)

Conclusion

Womenrsquos lives were complicated because at first

they didnrsquot have the rights they deserved

however they fight for them and with the support

of the government women get the rights they

wanted Much educational propaganda also

helped women to succeed Women played an

important role in the Soviet Union and they

helped along World War 1 and 2 by being part of

the military troops Women received benefits

from the government as well as some of the

rights they wanted Women in the Soviet Union

should be considered as heroes because they

fight for the nations they wanted to help in the

society Women were accorded public honor for

good work or the attainment of greater skill (5)

(1) httpwwwsocialistappealorganalysi

swomen-marxism141-women-in-the-

soviet-union

Women in the Soviet Union - Monday 19

January 1998 1900

(2) httpwwwjstororgdiscover102307

128134uid=3738800ampuid=2ampuid=4ampsid

=21101032293193

Alice Schuster Vol 30 No 3 (July 1971) pp

260-267

(3) httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilair

chroniclesaureview1982jan-

febobrienhtml

Air University Review January-February 1982

Mary Louise OBrien

(4) httpwwwmarxistsorghistoryussr

government1928sufdsch25htm

Source Alexandra Kollontai Selected

Articles and Speeches Progress Publishers

1984 First Published Sovetskaya

zhenshchina(Soviet Woman) No 5

September-October 1946 pp 3-4 abridged

(5)httpwwwmarxistsorgarchivekollont

a1946fullhtm

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

(6)httpwwwmarxistsorgsubjectwome

nauthorspichuginawomenhtml

Published Foreign Languages Publishing

House 1939

Transcribed for marxistsorg in April 2002

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

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[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 22: The History Journal - World War III

21

WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE IN 1990 By Angie Su amp Melanie Chinchayan

he Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(USSR) was a former country with a

major world power which began with the

Russian Revolution of 1917 and ended in its

collapse in 1991 It was founded by a revolution

led by the Bolshevik party under the leadership

of Vladimir Lenin The country was ruled by

only one party the Communist Party When

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 he was replaced by

Joseph Stalin who later became known as one

of the most brutal mass murderers in history

The Soviet Union and the United States were

major rivals in the end of World War II creating

the Cold War i

There were disagreements over the size and

depth of the Soviet systems problems and no

one thought them to be on risk George Kennan

an American adviser political scientist and

historian found it hard to think of any event

more strange and startling and at first glance

inexplicable than the sudden and total

disintegration and disappearancehellip of the great

power known successively as the Russian

Empire and then the Soviet Unionii Richard

Pipes an American historian of Russia and

advisor to US President Ronald Reagan

called the revolution unexpected The Soviet

Union was far away from any decline and it did

not seem to have any serious problems But

underneath the surface were economic and

political issues specifically the amount of

money they needed to support all the weapons

and the fact that people were not sure if they

wanted to continue being communists

The Decline of the Soviet Union was between

the 1985 and the 1989 At the 1960s people

thought that communists were the best

because

they will

produce

more

goods than the USA and Western Europe By

the 1980s people started realizing that

capitalism was better and that communism had

failed because the people were poorer than the

people of Western Europe In addition to that

Soviet farming failed They had rich lands but

they could not produce enough food for the

people

Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet communism moved a long way from the

new kind of state based on fairness and

equality and it became more corrupt Lenin

closely predicts the Partyrsquos future when he asks

T

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 23: The History Journal - World War III

22

What if unscrupulous and malevolent men

succeeded in capturing these institutions and

manipulated them to cover-up or condone their

own abuses of power Years later in 1964

when Brezhnev came into power they system

would reflect Lenins fears and the hope for

true socialism would be gone As a result this

people had less respect for communism iii

During the Second cold war (1979 ndash 1985)

communist economies were in trouble and they

did not have enough money to pay for weapons

But America and its allies could pay for them

because their economies were better than the

Soviet Unionrsquos The cost of the Cold War

started to increase when US president Ronald

Reagan came to power in 1981 He increased

military spending and challenged USSR to join

a new arms race This started a big competition

between the Soviet Union and the USA to

destroy their missiles in space

In 1979 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan to

support its communist government The

invasion

was

criticized

by the

Islamic

world The Afghan rebels received help from

USA so the invasions made Reagan take a

tough anti- Soviet stance The Soviet military

action failed The Afghan army was not strong

enough to win so the USSR helped them but

this affected more the USSR economy

When Mikhail Gorbachev came to the power of

the Soviet Union their economy was still failing

but Gorbachev believed the communist system

needed to be reformed not replaced He

thought there was a way to do it called

ldquoPerestroikardquo or ldquoReformsrdquo

Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin 1986

He also wanted to stop corruption and he knew

that the cause of economic problems was the

amount of money spent on defense And the

ways to reduce it was taking Afghanistan out of

the Soviet Union negotiating arms reductions

with the USA and stop interfering in the affairs

of other communist countries He did some of

these things but they did not help the Soviet

Union get stronger

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

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[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 24: The History Journal - World War III

23

Gorbachev failed so he announced that the

Brezhnev Doctrine was now abandoned The

doctrine determined that when one country was

going to pass from a socialist (communist)

government to a capitalist one (democracy) it

concerned all socialist countries not only the

affected country So when the doctrine was

abandoned the Eastern Europe countries could

do whatever they liked In 1989 a series of

massive anti-communist protests took place on

Czechoslovakia the communist government

soon collapsed Through Eastern Europe there

was no more popular support for communism

and without the threat of Soviet tanks

communism fell apart

After that everybody wanted independence

from The Soviet Union and many people

demanded the end of communism The USSR

divided into separate republics and Russia was

the largest one Boris Yeltsin left the communist

party in 1966 and joined groups to destroy

Soviet communism Gorbachev tried to stop the

disintegration of the USSR by using forces

against

nationalists

in the

Baltic

republics this caused the loss of his long

standing friends and supporters In 1991 a

group of hard-line communists tried to seize

power by arresting Gorbachev and were

declaring an emergency In December of 1991

the individual Soviet Republic became

independentiv

To conclude the Collapse of the Soviet Union

was mostly because of economic issues how

they used most of the money for weapons in

wars It was also because of how people were

seeing communism different and how they

started realizing that capitalism was better

causing the major causes for the collapse of the

Soviet Union

i Anissimov Michael What is the Soviet

Union wiseGEEK Sep 11 2012 httpwwwwisegeekcomwhat-is-the-soviet-unionhtm ii Aron Leon Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy July 2011 httpwwwforeignpolicycomarticles20110620everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrongpage=full iii Unknown The Growing Problem of Corruption

Under Brezhnev Corruption under Brezhnev 2002 httpstalingrad_1943tripodcomstalingradid19html

iv McAleavy Tony Gorbachev and the fall of

the Soviet Empire 2002 Twentieth Century History International Relations since 1919 Pages 160- 165

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 25: The History Journal - World War III

24

The Third World War

Was the Cold War a World War

There are many reasons of why the Cold

War should be considered a World War

In the following article we are going to

present evidence that will support the

hypothesis of why was it a world war

One of the strongest arguments of this

was the intervention of the considerable

number of the most powerful countries in

the Cold War We are also going to analyze

the most powerful leadersrsquo works the causes

and effects of the Cold War how Africa and

the Middle East were involved in the war

and finally the comparison between the

world wars and the Cold War These will be

analyzed in order to answer our main

topic question

First we are going to ask ourselves what

is exactly a world war According the

TheFreeDictionarycom a world war is a

war in which the major nations of the

world are involved This concept confirms

our argument because as we can see in the

graph [1] these sorts of countries are

involved for example the US the USSR

England France Germany etc

The most powerful leaders in that era were

Churchill from UK Roosevelt from US (that

was then replaced by Truman at the Potsdam

conference) and Stalin from USSR as we can

see respectively in picture [2] At the

beginning of the Cold War we all know that

they had to discuss about the government of

most of the European countries that were in

ruins (economically speaking) They agreed

in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that

non-communist country had to have

emergency governments as the elections had

to occur as soon as possible also that the

[1]

Countries involved in the Cold War

(httpimgurcomAh9tS)

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 26: The History Journal - World War III

25

border between Germany and Poland would

be free of Nazi influence and get ready for

reparations As it was expected the US and

USSR did not respect those agreements so

instead of that they started to plan

separately how to in the case of the US how

to make European countries democratic and

become their allies and in the case of USSR

how to make countries communist and make

them their allies

The main reason of the Cold War was the

disagreements between these two world

powers on what to do with European

countries Stalin wanted the rise of

communism in Europe and eventually in the

whole world while Truman wanted each

country to decide by itself what to do and

which side to choose but of course he gave

some advantages to the countries that

wanted to be democratic For example the

Marshall Plan that consisted in helping the

economic developing of European countries

was only available to non-communist

countries So Stalin tried to copy every idea

the US created not just the Marshall Plan

but also the NATO by setting up a similar

system that was the Warsaw Pact But the US

plans were more successful

The Cold War in the Middle East was a US

victory After the Second World War the

Jewish and Arabs disputed about an area

called Palestine but finally the US decided to

create a Jewish state called Israel Therefore

as Israel was a US ally it was a Soviet Union

enemy An Arab named Nasser took control

in Egypt and he seized control of the Suez

Canal and asked the USSR for help Then

Israel and Arab states continued fighting

between each other but with American help

Israel won the war Then a new Egypt leader

Anwar Sadat broke relationships with the

[2] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta 1945

(httpwwwamericaslibrarygovjbwwiijb_wwii_stalin_2_ehtml)

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

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httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 27: The History Journal - World War III

26

USSR and established good relationships

with the US Finally the Americans achieved

to join the Jewish Israelis and Arab

Palestinians to sign a peace treaty in 1993

Summarizing the US was more successful in

influencing the Middle East than the Soviet

Union

Now the intervention of the world powers in

Central America was different In 1959

Castro promoted a revolution in Cuba and

introduced the idea of communism and

became a USSR ally

In 1961 the American CIA organized an

attack over Cuba to stop Castro and it ended

disastrously wrong with the humiliation of

the American President John F Kennedy

Then in 1962 Khrushchev (the new Soviet

leader) placed nuclear missiles on Cuba

There was a grave possibility of a nuclear

war When the US found this out Kennedy

insisted Khrushchev to take them out

Eventually Khrushchev did it but with the

condition that the US will take out their

missiles in Turkey And Kennedy agreed ldquoIt

was our judgment that within a short time

after the crisis was over those missiles would

be gonerdquo [3] And finally Cuba ended being a

Soviet Union ally because it was communist

In conclusion Was the Cold War a War Yes

it was and during this article we had seen

everything that can prove it Summarizing

the first evidence is that just like the two

world wars the Cold War included the two

most powerful countries in the world the US

and Russia and also the participation of many

others countries Also we have seen the

intervention of these two world powers in

the Middle East and in Central America

which means that this war take place in

many parts of the world And between these

we had discovered the roots of the Cold War

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 28: The History Journal - World War III

27

and similarities to any other world war

Therefore we can conclude that this huge

and historical war should be considered a

world war

httpwwwsparknotescomhistoryamericancoldwartermshtml

httpwwwshmoopcomcauses-of-cold-warjosef-stalinhtml

httpwwwthefreedictionarycomworld+war

httpenwikipediaorgwikiJoseph_Stalin

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War

httpwikianswerscomQWhat_countries_were_in_the_Cold_War

ldquoBiblioteca de Aprendizaje Interactivo Mundo Hispanordquo Editorial Oceacuteano ldquoLa Guerra friacuteardquo page

1384

httpenwikipediaorgwikiCold_War_(1953E280931962)

httpwebcachegoogleusercontentcomsearchq=cachevf1CO3x-

xhgJwwwgwuedu~nsarchivnsacuba_mis_crimomenthtm+It+was+our+judgment+that+withi

n+a+short+time+after+the+crisis+was+over+those+missiles+would+be+goneampcd=1amphl=esampct=cln

k

Jesuacutes Vigil amp Mariano Ranilla 9th Hawking

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 29: The History Journal - World War III

28

After the Vietnam War the US and USSR were

devastated and as a way to reduce the tension

between them and the countries which could be

involved they decided to use MAD doctrine Mutual

Assured Destruction is in fact a doctrine which

believes that there are enough nuclear weapons in

one place to destroy another one and vice versa so

both places have the same chances to win or fail

an attack if they fail there would be an ldquoassured

destructionrdquo The purpose of this article is to show if

people were for in favor of this policy and if it

worked making the countries abstain from using

nuclear weapons

This doctrine had many strategies One was the

nuclear deterrence and divided it into two to defeat

the USSR because USSR was expanding and the

US did not want to use conventional armament but

nuclear armament MAD was seen as a doctrine

which helped to prevent conflicts between the

USSR and the US Some people consider that the

Cold War ended in 1990 but although it ended

MAD did not and another strategy was to try to

convince the opponent that a minimum attack

would be responded with a total attack 1

Then the term ldquonuclear credibilityrdquo appeared which

was another strategy that consisted in the

possibility to reach the enemy the existence of a

wide range of nuclear weapons and the certainty or

commitment that will be used if necessary If we

divided it into three parts there would be the

counterforce strategy to destroy or reduce limits the

enemy the counterpart strategy which had the aim

to destroy the enemy resources and town and

finally the concept of triad which became strong in

the 1950rsquos

The Triad arises in the late 1950rsquos and had the aim

to destroy the nuclear arsenal of the opponent

Limited Nuclear War

The staff of the nuclear power also feature

strategies that seek to prevent nuclear escalation to

end in a nuclear war The second-order nuclear

powers like Britain and France due to their limited

arsenal are forced in many cases to use these

strategies Limited Nuclear War can be described

A cartoon showing the first strategy of MAD ldquoif you attack

me toordquo

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+destrc

tionampum=1amphl=esamprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE457ampbiw=1280ampbi

h=880amptbm=ischamptbnid=rQV8SUf1TM7bdMampimgrefurl=http)

wwwstephankinsellacom201004mutually-assured-

destruction-and-the-

guillotineampdocid=yNmOTdSOzJFfiMampimgurl=httpwwwstep

hankinsellacomwp-

contentuploads201004guillotinepngampw=600amph=570ampei=

Q4liUPKdLoqw0AH994HQBQampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=850ampvpy

=489ampdur=493amphovh=219amphovw=230amptx=140ampty=102ampsig=1

08208220467670828222amppage=1amptbnh=163amptbnw=171ampstar

t=0ampndsp=20ampved=1t429r13s0i106)

Did the policy Mutual Assured

Destruction (MAD) work By Cristina Zegarra and Mayra Ochoa

What is Mutual Assured

Destruction

How did it work

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 30: The History Journal - World War III

29

simply as a small-scale use of nuclear weapons by

two or more belligerentsThe concepts of limited

nuclear war are not compatible with strategies such

as maximum deterrence and other strategies

designed at the beginning of the nuclear age

Flexible Response Strategy

Responds to the concepts of graduated response

and tries to respond to each threat or aggression

with a proportionate response to the nature of that

hoping to master the process of climbing and

driving the opponent to restrain or negotiate Such

strategies were developed from the 1970rsquos to be

used in military organizations like NATO and in

response to very specific scenarios and defined

Tactical Nuclear War

The previous discussion of concepts was created

for strategic nuclear weapons which are those that

seek to destroy the adversarys military capability

primarily in the rear These strategic weapons often

have far-reaching and enormous destructive power

There are a class of so-called tactical nuclear

weapons or theater that are less powerful than the

strategic scope These weapons are under political

control but can be used by managers in direct

support of conventional forces and are used

primarily against enemy armies

Perfect detection

There is not possibility to camouflage a launch

because the use of stealth technology in aircraft

such as the B-2 bomber makes this assumption

less likely to be fulfilled

There are not errors in the equipment that have to

identify a launch by the other side but if it happens

accordingly will produce a full nuclear exchange

Perfect attribution occurs when a launch is

launched in the border of two countries for

example If there is a launch in from the Sino-

Russia border it could be difficult to identify which

nation is responsible thus both Russia and China

have the capability to decide where is place where

they want to launch 2

Perfect Rationality

Not every state can develop weapons however if

they do they stop behaving as a ldquorogue staterdquo and

subject themselves to the logic of MAD They must

not treat with other nuclear weapons states as

ldquorogue statesrdquo

The ldquorogue commandersrdquo cannot make decisions to

corrupt launch process

The leaders with launch capability must take care

of their fellows

This image is a proof made by the US in the Pacific

(Nuclear weapon test Apache -yield 185 Mt)

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa)=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE45)

7ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptbnid=yA7Ep4zuvCU9YM

ampimgrefurl=httpenwikipediaorgwikiMutual_assured_

destructionampdocid=CoMpLTMM1pLHMMampimgurl=httpu

ploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumbaa6Red

wing_Apachejpg280px-

Redwing_Apachejpgampw=280amph=223ampei=SohiUL31LLSy0AH

L64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=194ampvpy=533ampdur=1172

amphovh=178amphovw=224amptx=125ampty=100ampsig=1082082204

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 31: The History Journal - World War III

30

Inability to Defend

When a nation is inability to defend it doesnrsquot have

enough anti-missile technology to protect the

equipment

Conclusion

MAD did work because it convinced people

that the use of that power could devastate the

world and they believed strongly that a limited

nuclear exchange was impossible to accept If

US and USSR would have decided that having

the nuclear weapons was a good idea they

would destroy the world a lot of times but we

are still alive which means that the strategies

mentioned worked and was a brilliant idea for

the two countries to stop trying to have more

nuclear weapons because it brought more

peace for people and managed to reduce the

international tension although if these two

countries would have denied MAD doctrine

having no nuclear weapons would be safer

because people could be certain that any of

those countries would have any chances to

attack and it really would end tension

ldquoToday I can declare my hope and declare it from

the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see

the time when the number of nuclear weapons is

down to zero and the world is a much better

placerdquo3

mdashGen Colin Powell USA

Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Introduction to MAD Josh Clark 2007

httppeoplehowstuffworkscommutual-assured-destructionhtm

2 Richard R Muller talks about MAD

httpwwwstrategicstudiesinstitutearmymilpdffilespub585pdf

3 mdashGen Colin Powell USA Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

httpwwwairpowermaxwellafmilairchroniclesapjapj97win97parr

inhtml

An image showing people who believe that after the

total war humanity may live better

(httpwwwgooglecompeimgresq=mutual+assured+de

structionampum=1amphl=esampsa=Namprlz=1C1CHJL_esPE457PE

457ampbiw=1280ampbih=844amptbm=ischamptb)d=UZ5UNOmIILLj

Mampimgrefurl=httpswikisnyueduek6modernamericaind

exphpAmericanPowerAmpCulturalHegemonyNuclearPo

werampdocid=JOmRZBbleu3YhMampimgurl=httpwikisnyued

uek6modernamericauploadsAmericanPowerAm)

lHegemonyNuclearPower4gifampw=421amph=568ampei=SohiU

L31LLSy0AHL64DACAampzoom=1ampiact=hcampvpx=177ampvpy=

152ampdur=268amphovh=261amphovw=193amptx=113ampty=154ampsig

=108208220467670828222amppage=2amptbnh=149amptbnw=10

7ampstart=20ampndsp=30ampved=1t429r0s20i137)

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 32: The History Journal - World War III

31

What can We Learn from Chernobyl

The following

article would talk

about Chernobyl

Nuclear Power

Plant Disaster It

would try to

explain how this accident occurred and what

can we learn from it Also it would try to show

how this disaster affected history and changed

humanrsquos life

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located

in Ukraine 20km south of the border with

Belarus At the time of the accident the plant

had four working reactors The disaster was a

catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on

26 April in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian

SSR) which was under the direct jurisdiction

of the central authorities of the Soviet Union

There occurred a huge explosion and fire that

released large quantities of radioactive

contamination into the atmosphere which

spread over much of Western USSR and

Europe And the causes of this accident was

that there were an inexperienced staff they

were in a test to see the perform of the power

plant and suddenly that was the moment

where all starts The battle to contain the

contamination and avert a greater catastrophe

ultimately involved over 500000 workers and

cost an estimated 18 billion rubles The official

Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been

disputed and long-term effects such as

cancers and deformities are still being

accounted for

After the disaster Ukraine promulgate a lot of

laws not laws that they were going to do in

that moment but they accorded some

recovery projects and were three The first

one was the Chernobyl Shelter fund the

second one the United Nations Programed

and the last one was the International Project

on the health Effects of the Chernobyl

Accident

1

2 3

4

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 33: The History Journal - World War III

32

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was a

nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat(

49000 habitants) Ukraine It consisted of four

nuclear reactors of the RBMK- 1000 design

The reactor one and two were constructed

between 1970 and 1977 whilst the reactors

three and four were constructed in 1983

Moreover to the southeast of this nuclear

power plant was constructed an artificial lake

to purvey water to the reactors it was located

beside the river Pripyat The RBMK- 1000 is

the soviet design reactor that uses Uranium

Dioxide fuel These reactors were capable of

producing 1000 megawatts of electric power

10 percent of all Ukraineacutes electricity

There are 4 parts in the plant which produces

nuclear energy

1 The reactor which produces nuclear

fissionable reaction

2 The steam generator the heat produced in

the reactor is used to boil water

3 The turbine produces electricity with the

energy contained in the steam

4 The condenser or cooling systems where it

helps to remove excess heat in the plant

The goal of creating a nuclear plant is to

produce a better source of energy in a cleaner

way that does not produce greenhouse gases

as it is a type of renewable energy

What happened the 26th of April in 1986

Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up at

123 am on this day This is the worst nuclear

disaster in history to date It affected almost all

of the European countries especially the ones

that border Ukraine like Belarus and Russia

Other countries that were also affected by the

radioactive deposition were Sweden Finland

and Austria

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 34: The History Journal - World War III

33

Engineers that

were in charge of

the reactor

number four

began an

experiment

lowering the 20 percent of absorption of

neutrons and slowing the chain of reaction

required for the test Nevertheless many rods

made of uranium

were lower and the

reactor shut down

Engineers knew

that there could be

instability in the

Uranium dioxide

molecules so they raised the number of rods

to increase the output Later the output

generated by the

reactor was still

low so the

specialists raised

the number of

rods until power

reached 12

percent In consequence the power

generated increased to dangerous levels

After that the reactor overheated and the

water that is supposed to cool it started to

convert into steam The power generated was

one hundred times more than usual this

caused two explosions that caused the

reactoracutes roof to be blown off (as we can see

in the figure 4) As air entered to the reactor it

caused a

flammable carbon

monoxide gas

causing the

reactors to burn for

9 days Can you

imagine how much water firefighters spent

trying to put that fire out Large amounts of

radioactive fallout escaped into the

atmosphere

Effects of Chernobyl Radioactivity

Chernobyl nuclear

disaster not only

affected humans

physically but it

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 35: The History Journal - World War III

34

also psychologically affected around 5 million

people in Belarus Ukraine and Russia

The psychological impact is now considered

to be Chernobyls biggest health

consequence said Louisa Vinton of the

UNDP People have been led to think of

themselves as victims over the years and are

therefore more apt to take a passive approach

toward their future rather than developing a

system of self-sufficiencyrdquo

As for the physical

impacts radiation

can cause human

beings many kinds

of dangerous

diseases in the

body like cancer deformations in the body

and even malfunctions in internal organs Just

one radioactive atom is enough to cause this

disease Besides the most vulnerable

persons are unborn babies because they

havent finished developing and arent as

stronger as adults or young people In

Chernobylrsquos incident there were approximately

93000 deaths from cancer most of them

were babies that were born with deformities in

all the body

+ Krypton 85 affects the entire body and

increases the chances of getting leukemia

+ Cesium 137 can attack the entire body

centering on the liver and the muscles

+ Barium 140 gathers in the bones and can

cause tumors

+ Iodine 131 gathers in the thyroid It

produces cancer there

What can we learn from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster in

history with a level 7 on the International

Nuclear Event Scale This accident has

demonstrated us that the cost of ensuring

safety in the nuclear reactor is much lower

Baby with malformations

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 36: The History Journal - World War III

35

Chernobyl Nuclear plant

after explosion in 1896

than that of

confronting with

accident effects

(physiological

and physical

damages)

Billions of dollars

have been

reported from

Belarus Ukraine and Russia as a result of

this accident over 26 years

This accident created a negative perception

about this renewable energy and showed the

importance of following the principles for

nuclear power plants construction This is

because Chernobyl nuclear power plant was

made of flammable materials that caused the

fire for 9 days Moreover this accident

demonstrated that responsible governments

should establish an emergency response in

case of accidents and should create public

dialogues about nuclear energy instead of

trying to make all the decisions by their own

Furthermore this accident produced important

scientific researches about radiation safety

and medicine Thanks to different countries

like USA Japan Belarus Russia Ukraine

and international organizations as UN WHO

IAEA However managing the radioactive

deposition from the accident have not been a

successful programmed and this topic is

becoming a major problem as time passes

because radiation would continuing spreading

through Europe and Asia

Besides we have learned how to deal with the

agro industrial materials that has been

contaminated by the radionuclides that have

affected the soil As we all know plants take

the nutrients from the soils but if you plant

crops in this contaminated soil there will be a

radionuclide transfer from soil to plan and later

from plant to human or any animal that feed

on these crops

Plants

contaminated

with radiation

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

Bibliography

[1] European Centre of Technological Safety URL httpwwwtesec-intorgchernobylLessonshtm

[2] Jennifer Ciotta Mar 22 2011 URL httpsuite101comarticlethe-chernobyl-disaster-can-we-learn-from-history-a361016

[3]httpenwikipediaorgwikiChernobyl_disaster

[4] World Nuclear Association April 2012 URL httpwwwworld-nuclearorginfochernobylinf07html

[5] Environmental Issues date not specified URL httpenvironmentaboutcomodchernobylpchernobylhtm

[6] David E Hoffman Monday March 14 2011 URL httphoffmanforeignpolicycomposts20110313the_lesson_of_chernobyl

[7] heodor Abelin Professor for Social and Preventive Medicine University of Berne Current Concerns Nordm1 2006 URLhttpwwwcurrentconcernschindexphpid=57

[8] Rich East High School Date retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwricheastorghtwmchernobylchernobylhtml

[9] Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Russian Federal service of Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Russian Science Academy Russia Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwweolssnetSample-ChaptersC09E4-11-06-06pdf

[10] A Report Commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO Year Published 25 January 2002 URL httpwwwunorghachernobyldocsreportpdf

[11]The New York Times Date of Publication March 24 2011 URL httptopicsnytimescomtopreferencetimestopicssubjectscchernobyl_nuclear_accident_1986indexhtml

[12] Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group ldquoEnvironmentrdquo (EGE) Year Published August 2005 URLhttpwwwiaeaorgnewscenterfocuschernobylpdfsege_reportpdf

[13] David L Stern March 7 2011 URLhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchnewsregionseurope110306chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-ukraine

[14] Jennifer RosenbergLast Retrieved 16092012 URL httphistory1900saboutcomodhorribledisasterspChernobylhtm

[15]BBC News The Chernobyl Disaster Last Retrieved 16092012 URL httpnewsbbccouk2sharedsplhiguides456900456957htmlnn2page1stm

[17]The day in History Last retrieved 16092012 URL httpwwwhistorycomthis-day-in-historynuclear-disaster-at-chernobyl

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 37: The History Journal - World War III

36

Nowadays there are new laws about nuclear

security however the probability of a nuclear

accident will never be zero Chernobyl

accident provides a unique opportunity to us

for improving an emergency response system

otherwise people would suffer in case

radiation leaks or depositions

In conclusion Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster

taught us many lessons like being more cautious if we

are talking about nuclear energy because if there is any

nuclear fallout it could affect physically to humans or any

animals that could be contaminated in a long period of

time Also it taught us that in future occasions we

should always be prepared for an emergency so we

must have emergency system routine Moreover it also

taught us that security is always first over other things

that superfluous In my opinion all the things that left this

accident was chaos Poor people suffer from this

radiation and die Also they were not the only countries

that were affected by this tragedy also Moldova Italy

Belarus and more Until the day when you ask some of

the survivors the only thing that they are going to tell you

is that they would never forget that moment and will last

until death

Arturo Torres Miguel Ju and Sergio Ramiacuterez

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37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 38: The History Journal - World War III

37

How did the US

affect Argentina

during the Cold

War

The cold war was an

extremely important event to

the world and was between

the world powers the United

States and the USSR in 1947

and was a war of thinking

because US think that

nationalism was better than the

USSR ideology that was

communist We all know what

happen between them but what

we really do not know is what

was happening in other parts of

the world and how did the US

affect other countries to be

secure that communist did not

expand

At the moment that World

War II ended Argentina with

other small countries get

together and made up a

lsquoglobal international systemrsquo This

made up a world community of

economy technology political

and more [1]

The US was not the only

one who had influence over

Argentina during the cold war

To General Juan Domingo

Peroacuten and his regime there was

not benefit having US

involvement because of his Nazi

ideology in others words that

any other country could not get

involved in Argentinarsquos economy

and politics based on

capitalism

The USrsquos aim was to get

the general Juan Domingo

Peroacuten out of the government

because of his kind of ideology

and for not letting the US get

involved and put a US type of

government That means that

Juan Domingo Peroacuten was not in

favor of either US or USSR and

this created a lot of external

commercial relationships without

any kind of discrimination

(Communist Nationalism or

Socialist) Argentina also had

commercial relationship with

Czechoslovakia Romania

Poland and Bulgaria However

historically both countries have

been among the strongest and

most independent countries in

America

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 39: The History Journal - World War III

38

Argentines for the first time

built their first railroads with

external help in the year 1947

Also they developed the job in

transportation thanks to the

British and French[5]

European and American

companies were trading

overseas The Argentina

economy depended on the

British French German and US

trades like mining and public

resources The US in an effort

to prevent Communism from

spreading wanted support from

Argentina and did that by

making up some kind of

Marshall Plan for Latin America

to gain greater international

influence and concomitantly to

attain a greater degree of

industrialization with the

attendant assured markets in

South America[1]

There was a treatment

called TIAR (Inter-American

Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)

in 1947 that includes military

assistance with Latin American

countries with the objective of

having more international help

Argentina also encouraged the

signing of this treatment by

Latin American countries

Argentinarsquos first goal was to

make small economic countries

to have a bigger economy [2]

In 1975 there was also

an important US plan called

Operation Condor This was for

removing communist influence in

South America in such countries

as Argentina Brazil Chile

Colombia Ecuador Panama

Paraguay Uruguay and

Venezuela but with the

condition that the United States

would supervise all the process

That means that Latin American

countries were not free to

make their national decisions

because the United States

supervised and the US had to

agree with everything that

Argentina wanted [3 4]

First railroads in

Argentina and built

with external help

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 40: The History Journal - World War III

39

Maybe one main reason

that the United States wanted

to make a treaty with Latin

America was because several

countries in Latin America were

communist in this moment but

with the treaty they made sure

that those countries were only

capitalist

However the dictatorship

ended for Argentina and other

countries such as Brazil and

Chile between the years 1983

and 1990 The kidnapping the

torture and corruption was over

for them

In conclusion the US

affected Argentina in the

positive side improving their

economy and they gave the

country money to improve their

lives like for college and school

transport and medical resources

In the negative side the US did

not want Argentina to be free

they were always supervising

and watching the country

because they were afraid of

Argentina to become communist

like other countries like Cuba

Bibliography

[1] Noah Ron Hagood 2011 The

cold war in Argentina

URL httpvoicesyahoocomthe-

cold-war-argentina-

9116669htmlcat=37

(Last retrieved September 9 2012)

[2] Anonymous 2010 Neacutestor amp

Cristina Kirchner = Juan amp Isabel

Peroacuten

URLhttpwwwplawloticcomta

g=economic-policy

(Last retrieved September 11

2012)

Improvement of Argentina

starts in 1875 increases over

time and that may happen

because of US economic

support

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html

Page 41: The History Journal - World War III

40

[3] Katie Clough 2011 Abstract

Cold War Politics in Argentina and

Cuba American and Soviet

Spheres of Influence

URL

httpupperclassmonroeblogsw

medu20110201abstract-cold-

war-politics-in-argentina-and-

cuba-american-and-soviet-

spheres-of-influence

(Last retrieved September 10

2012)

[4] Arturo Jimenez 2007 The

Condor Case [Operation Condor]

the human costs of militarization in

Latin America

URL

httpwwwthirdworldtravelercom

South_AmericaOperationCondo

r_humancosthtml

[5] Maria Candelaria Government

of Peroacuten

URL

httptranslategooglecomtransl

atehl=esampsl=esamptl=enampu=http3A

2F2Fwwwtodo-

argentinanet2Fhistoria2Fperoni

sta2Fperon12F1947html