What are spheres of influence?
"Spheres of influence" are found in most areas of life - not just international relations.Geographic spheres of influence usually are areas adjacent to a specific major nation, consisting of smaller nations. They exist for military reasons (providing defensible borders for the larger nation) and for economic ones (most trade is between adjacent nations).The fact is that "spheres of influence" have analogues even in the relationship between a major city and its suburbs, and especially with regard to economic status.In politics, the existence of "political parties" is also an analogue - with persons sacrificing some individual interests in the knowledge that by associating with others they increase their influence on decisions. Even in corporations, there is evidence that the same principles apply.They exist for the most logical of all reasons - they fulfill a strategic need.
What countries are under the Chinese Sphere of Influence?
Most of its neighbours now well aware what is big in Future Mighty China a Global super power …may be by 2030.It's already a Regional Power in Asia.N.Korea, Pakistan, Combodia , Mongolia are already more are less under Chinese influence…Myanmar , Khazakstan will fall in to it in coming years.Vietnam , Japan ,South Korea & Philippines fate will depends on American Interests in Asia.
What were the main countries involved in World War 1? How did they got involved?
The main countries were:Axis Powers: The German Empire, The Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Ottoman EmpireAllies: UK, France, Russia, Serbia, Canada, India, Australia and NZ, Greece, and Italy. I’m not sure if South Africa had a presence in the war but most of the countries in the British Empire were there.Later, the USA arrived in about 1917, around about the time that the Russian Royal Family succumbed to a nationwide revolution and withdrew from the war.It was due to growing tensions in Europe over land (alsace-lorraine), and the right to self-determination (Serbia wishing to not be a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). All the major powers in Europe took sides after Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Arch-duke to the Austro-Hungarian throne Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in July 1914 (Russia sided with Serbia, Germany sided with Austria-Hungary, France sided against Germany with Russia, and Britain vowed to defend Belgium from German invasion because they aren’t a fan of being flanked so joined France and Russia). The countries that were part of their respective Empires were also brought into the war.The USA got involved because German U-boats sank a US ship bound for the UK. The Lusitania might have had weapons onboard that were being shipped to the UK, but it also had civilians on it. The Germans sank it anyway. The USA joined on the side of the Allies.
What are all the major countries that were involved in world war 2?
United Kingdom (England, Great Britain) United States (America, USA) Soviet Union (USSR, Russia) France Canada Australia China Poland Greece Netherlands Belgium Czechoslovakia Luxembourg Norway Yugoslavia Germany Italy Japan Finland Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia
Is there a map showing the spheres of influence in China around 1894 - 1900?
I couldn’t find a quality map depicting this, strangely enough. I remember seeing one of European spheres of influence in China, but can’t seem to find it now.Best I could dig up is this map (covering 1910) from what seemed to be a textbook or classroom PowerPoint. Thus, I can’t vouch for the accuracy of it.
Can Europe be divided into three major cultural spheres: Latin, Germanic and Slavic?
I think Europe can certainly be divided into three cultural spheres: South, North-West and East, but definitely not based on languages and language families.Honestly, German speaking Austrians or Bavarians are very far from Germanic culture, Nothern French are hardly Latin, they are more Germanic, Czechs and Poles are different from say Ukrainians and Serbians (all Slavs) just as much as Russians are different from Albanians or Turks.I would suggest to you almost the same three part partition of Europe in cultural spheres, but based on other principles: Catholic - Ireland, Spain, France (partly), Italy, Poland, Hungary, Czech republic (partly), Croatia, Austria, Germany (partly), Lithuania and Latvia, then Protestant - UK (excluding Scotland), parts of France, most of Germany, all Scandinavian countries, Estonia, Switzerland, and then Eastern Orthodox - Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia.As you can see they don’t fall into Latin-Germanic-Slavic classification easily, but maybe I’m wrong too, just wanted to let you know that you asked a very interesting question, and we really can divide Europe into three distinct regions, I just haven’t figured out yet what would be the main principle.
What was the 'Soviet Sphere of Influence' in the Cold War?
Well the Soviet Union headed the Warsaw Pact, communisms answer to NATO, and COMECON, Communisms answer to the EU. Through all this, they did not just influence but actually completely controlled Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. In addition, they had a massive influence over other European Communist countries such as Yugoslavia, Albania and Romania. Finland, although neutral and non communist was fairly compliant to Soviet wishes also. In Asia, Communist nations such as Viet Nam, Mongolia, Laos, North Korea were under Soviet influence. China, although Communist, was essentially a rival of the USSR. Middle Eastern nations such as Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Libya and Yemen, although to a lesser degree, were under the Soviet sphere of influence, as was for a time at least the South Asian nation of Afghanistan. In Africa, Communist Angola, Mozambique and Ethiopia were under Soviet influence or control. In the Americas, it was Cuba and Nicaragua only that were allied to the Soviets, and for a very brief period, Greneda. Of course the USSR itself was in fact a Russian Empire, with the Russians holding the following peoples, all now independent, under forced Russian rule within the USSR; Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kirghizistan and Tadjikistan. The Soviets also influenced and funded various rebel and terrorist groups around the world, including the Kurdish PUK in Turkey, and violent groups in Germany, Italy, Greece, France and in many parts of South America,Central America, Asia and Africa. Hope this all helps!
How did the SEATO and CANTO contribute to the maintenance of the US sphere of influence?
I can't speak about CANTO, but SEATO did not in any way expand the US sphere of influence. It was a military alliance, but the only war in which SEATO was invoked was the Vietnam war and that hardly expanded US influence. Membership of SEATO did not appear to bring the countries involved in the alliance any closer together. The only thing the signatories had in common was a fear of communist expansionism. Its hard to see what Bangladesh and New Zealand had in common other than that, or why they would want to be in a military alliance together. Had SEATO never existed, its hard to see how the world would be any different today. It was eventually dissolved due to lack of interest and lack of purpose.
How far do you agree that non of the great powers involved in Korean war had expansionist ambition?
None of the superpowers, including the PRC, were expressing expansionist ambitions through the Korean War. The origins of the Korean War come from the end of WWII. Korea was occupied by the Japanese until the end of the war in 1945. The 1945 partition of Korea by the Soviet Union and the United States was ostensibly to allow both powers to accept the surrender of Japanese forces on the Korean peninsula. In 1948 the partition was formalized into two separate countries representing spheres of influence between the US and the USSR - part of the delicate, but not necessarily effective, balance of power in the immediate post-war years. The war actually started off as a civil action along the border between the two client states in 1948-1950, before North Korea invaded the South in a war of reunification.