World History term paper
| [...] "But Sazonov was as well aware of the role of the Habsburg system in the international power balance as were Whitehall and the Quai d'Orsay. Since they sought to preserve as much as possible of that system, it was his chief purpose to destroy it. Whereas the main enemy of the West was the Hohenzollern Empire, that of Russia was the Dual Monarchy. In Petrograd, therefore, the immediate advantage of isolating Germany counted for less than the prospect of eliminating the principal rival in South-Eastern Europe." [...] |
| [...] "Churchill's attitude to Poland was widely different from Roosevelt's, and yet in practice it converged with his toward the same outcome of surrender to Russian demands. Where Roosevelt saw Stalin as a just and good man who only wanted security for his country, Churchill saw him as an irresistible conqueror of Eastern Europe and held that only by abject submission to his demands could the Poles expect to retain even a fraction of their independence. In Moscow, in October 1944, he told Romer, the Foreign Minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile, that " Poland is threatened with virtual extinction and would be effaced as a nation" unless the Polish government agreed forthwith to cede to the Soviet Union nearly a half of Poland's prewar territory and amalgamate with the Lublin Committee, the latter's terms for the coalition being that the Communists should have three-quarters of the Cabinet seats, including control of the army and police." [...] |
| [...] "Nasser's prestige reached its peak during the decade following the 1956 Suez/Sinai War, and revolutionary Egypt became the model for and leader of radical forces throughout the Arab world, in every country from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. Cairo provided material assistance and advice to antiestablishment groups in countries with conservative regimes. Nasser's influence was evident in the civil wars and revolutions that shook Lebanon and Iraq in 1958 and Yemen in 1962 and in the political unrest in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The new radical Nasserite political groups were no more willing to establish peaceful relations with Israel than were their conservative predecessors. After 1956 the Middle East was no longer exclusively a Western sphere of influence. In the competition to win clients and allies, both superpowers were responsible for escalating the arms race; the Soviet Union provided massive weapons shipments to Egypt, to Syria and to Iraq after its 1958 revolution." [...] |
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