An insight to what North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Union are dealing with.

A breif summary in an essay form on the events during the Cold War.

The red poppy is a common weed of Europe and was adopted as the official flower of remembrance and honor to those whom fought and died in foreign wars. As we approach another patriotic holiday in America I am again reminded of the sacrifices that so many soldiers made to keep our nations free.

Since the embargo of the United States imposed on Cuba in 1970, Cuba has still managed to flourish in its own way under dictator rule. When the embargo finally lifts, the Cuban economy will boost but it will be in danger of losing its old world charm.

Is NATO still needed in the post-Cold War era to deter Russia or could it actually provoke a military confrontation with Russia?

Various internal and external factors allowed the regime of General Franciso Franco to last as long as it did. The Franco regime managed to last longer than the two regimes that allowed it to win the Spanish Civil War, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The Franco regime lasted longer than the other fascist and authoritarian right-wing regimes of Central and Eastern Europe such as those of Hungary and Romania.

Ashared history has frequently divided Europeans as much as it has united them. Europeans are or have been divided in most other ways yet diversity is not always the same as being divided. There will be an evaluation of the factors that could have made a shared history more a divisive factor than a unifying factor amongst Europeans.

The start of the National Atlantic Treaty Organization during WWII.