Question: Please answer the following questions in a response of 150 to 200 words each, and submit your responses in a Word attachment no later than Sunday of this week at 11:59 p.m. EST.
- Discuss the reasons for the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979, and how that has impacted US-Iranian relations since.
- Examine the motives of both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Provide at least two examples in which these motives led to potential conflict between the two superpowers and/or their proxies (smaller nations in their respective spheres of influence).
- Evaluate the assumption that the East European revolutions of 1989-90 that led to the breakup of the Warsaw Pact were a direct cause for the collapse of the Soviet Union. To what extent did these events influence the latter? Could the USSR have relinquished control of Eastern Europe yet remained intact?