The two new superpowers, The United States of America and The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had many different ideological, economical, and political views, which soon began to have conflicts with one another. ... During the same time Latin America while no longer colonized, had many of the same goals as the newly independent nations in Africa and Asia, which included moderation. The modernization movement in Latin America gave raise to several other movements, like the educational and nationalistic movements. The educational movement is of critical in understanding of many of the revolu...

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Similarly, the Industrial Revolution served as a catalyst for expansion, especially in the late 1800s and early 1900s, by supplying more military goods, sparking a desire for wealth and profit through innovation, and developing new methods for expansion. ... America's strengthened navy was a deviation from past expansionism because it incited and enabled the ability to spread outwards and continue the basic driving force of Americans: land ownership. ... Manifest Destiny as a driving force behind American expansion is an element seen throughout America's westward expansion beginning ...

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For better or worse, revolutions dating as far back as The English Revolution, have one way or another formed national relationships amongst each other. The outcome of each revolution, has effected the style and manor of the next revolution there after in the world. ... No revolution since has encountered such a large number of casualties as The Vietnam Revolution did. ... This war would be the Vietnam Revolution. ... The revolution in Vietnam was imminent, and the American government believed it had no other choice but to help South Vietnam fight for its freedom. ...

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American who wanted imperialism made clear that the spread of their ways and ideas would be the answer to how the civilization would grow. ... The expansion of America had also pleased many people be, especially African Americans. ... The Americans who are against this relive the event of the American Revolution. ... Finally, if the U.S. would decide to become an imperialistic nation, it would affect the American society negatively. According to Jane Addams, there were murders and an upward surge in violence by Americans. ...

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However television did not keep Americans from reading. ... They were not happy days for Americans. ... The Americans were going through rough times. ... Jay Rogers, Life After Television, The Optics Revolution. 1992, January 28 2003 . ... Kagan Neil, The American Dream. ...

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America's foundation is capitalism where Communism's foundation is equality. ... Kennan an American diplomat in Moscow proposed a policy of containment. ... Truman's Marshall Plan called for substantial financial assistance to rebuild Western Europe to reduce the threat of communist revolution. ... This caused the fear of Communism in America to grow.  ... Around 1938, HUAC, Home Un-American Activities Committee, was established. ...

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The American view of the Asian "other" largely affected American assumptions from the beginning, as they believed most Vietnamese were politically immature and lacking a sense of nationhood. As we can see from the beliefs of the American subcommittee, "the idea that indigenous political traditions or abilities might permit the Vietnamese to govern themselves in the postwar period was almost inconceivable," and this rested on "pervasive American assumptions of Vietnamese subservience and susceptibility to external control," (Bradley 89, 93). ... The lesson the Americans learned was that t...

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In just viewing one of these great social changes occurring within the United States at this time, the sexual revolution, which effectively broke down the pre-existing gender roles, sex laws, and the sexual morality of mainstream American society, one may see that this change, though beginning slowly eventually became so great and so widespread that it not only affected American culture, but, also, the legal institutions of the United States as well. ... ACLU (1997) the full extent of the effect of the sexual revolution upon the Supreme Court can clearly be seen. ... Few people were willing...

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Chinese Revolution Many aspects of China's history attributed to China's revolution in 1911. ... Generally there is not one source that makes a revolution happen. China's 1911 revolution was no different in that the reasons that it happened were numerous. ... The alleged spy scandals and accusations of theft of American nuclear secrets are also factors. ... President Bush, who entered office pledging to take a tougher stand toward China, has brought a personal touch to the diplomacy, visiting China twice in one year, a first for an American president. ...

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Many Americans were encouraged to try new things and take advantage of their "postwar freedom." ... This boom-or-bust cycle of births begot a bulging wave along the American population curve. ... Young adulthood saw massive changes in attitudes to many social issues, including opposition to the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, mass political action for causes including war opposition but extending to civil rights and feminism amongst others, and radical upheavals in popular culture. ... After World War II, most of America's moderate migrants fled from the cities to the new suburbs o...

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America wanted to spread democracy and capitalism while finding places to trade with in the open market. ... The American view of the Soviet Union was well known. "The devotion to Marxism, the attack against capitalism, and the often repeated desire to provoke Communist revolutions in other countries had made that nation the object of American suspicion long before the coming of World War II or even Vietnam." ... Americans compared communism to a contagious disease. ... This was the first military treaty between the United States and Europe since the American Revolution. ...

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In his book, The Interest of America in the Sea Power, U.S. ... He stated: "America must begin to look outward. ... In this case, they made a revolution, overthrew the Queen and took control of Hawaii. ... On the other hand, many Americans opposed imperialism. ... Two clear examples are The Philippines and The Native American's Land. ...

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The war had shown that even America's vast military might could not stop the spread of Communism. ... This in turn led to the Iranian Revolution as students and then the public began to protest the Shah's regime (The Global Disruption of 1968). ... For the U.S, animosity towards Iran came from that hostage crisis, while for Iran, anti-American buildup came from the 1953 coup and reinstatement of the Shah's regime. ... In the case of the Soviet Union, the Iranian revolution became interlinked with the December, 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and 'Reagan's Jihad.' .....

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Latin America After world War II until the 1980's, many Latin American leaders installed reforms to deal with new demanding issues in their country. ... The concentration of aid to Europe was a immense concern to the countries of Latin America. Latin America countries wanted the U.S. to stress economic development in the post war era. ... The new Cuban government, under Fidel Castro confiscated private property, sent agents to initiate revolutions in several Latin American countries, and established diplomatic and economic ties with leading socialist powers, such as USSR In June Congres...

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The Americans supported Capitalism, which meant minimum interference of state in economy, competition and individual reward, and the right of voting, variety of political parties and freedom of speech and press among others (liberal democracy). ... Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need ...

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America's foreign policy treatment towards Iran seems to satisfy these conditions set forth by Snow. ... This is precisely what has happened with Iran and the United States since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. ... So when the revolution successful captured the American Embassy in Tehran and ousted the ruling government in 1979, the new Islamist government was built on a strong foundation of anti-Western sentiments, more specifically, anti-American sentiments. ... As to be expected from the rise of an anti-American government in Iran and the detention of 52 Americans for over 400 days, a ...

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Interestingly the first scholarly mention of the term American exceptionalism actually comes from a man called Max Lerner in his book titled "America as a Civilization".13 He mentions that one of the main institutions that is singled out as the root of American exceptionalism, is the constitution. ... For Americans what claims their pride is the declaration of the independence. ... They state that narrow focus on the constitution "has distorted our understanding of American constitutionalism and inflated our sense of America's difference.... However American involvement wa...

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The Cold War A war that has created controversy amongst two of the greatest world leaders, United States of America and The Soviet Union, is known as The Cold War. ... America's policy was one that contained the spread of communism in Eastern Europe. Russia, under Lenin's rule called for a world revolution and brought the United States into it. ... Thus creating the Berlin Blockade, which forced America to create the Berlin Airlift. ... The Americans then questioned their own security. ...

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In American eyes, only China looms as a likely future rival. ... The foreign policy objectives of a communist China however are not purely national in spirit, because Mao firmly believed in the ideological superiority of communism and claimed for China the role of leadership in the drive to world revolution. ... The USSR sheltered China under a "nuclear umbrella" from possible American aggression and was the only conceivable source of development aid as it offered the only model of communist development. ... Once USA became deeply involved in Vietnam, it became a matter of national pride to th...

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In 1917, Russia was going through a revolution which led to the removal of the last Tsar, Nicholas the second. ... The Western leaders despised the idea of communism to the point where they sent troops to help stop the Bolshevik revolution from occurring, but these efforts were to no avail as the Bolsheviks overthrew the government and established Communism . The West's attempt of stopping the revolution convinced Russia that the West was against their new regime. ... On December 7, 1941 Japan started an extensive scale assault on the American Naval base, which was situated at the pearl ...

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Contrary to the popular belief of the average American, Communism is not "evil". ... After the revolution in Russia in 1917 (when the Soviets gained power from the cruel Czars) the control of power in Russia was taken from the slim minority by the workers (for which Communism freed) to make life better and to keep the terrors of WWI from happening again. ... The Children of America were not taught that the Soviets were "evil", they were simply not told anything about Communism. ... Democracy, the greatest psychological war the human race has ever faced (almost bringing the species to extinctio...

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For example, Cuba being a sphere of influence of the United States had greatly benefited Americans up until Castro's revolution in 1958. ... This American alliance included most of western Europe. ... This formation of American alliances in Europe also helped the American policy of containment of soviet Expansion in Europe. ...

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The Islamic revolution, which took place in Iran, created the first major foreign policy problem for Carter. ... Reagan devoted a lot of his attention to reversing the affects of the Marxist Revolution in Central America and the Caribbean. After the Nicaraguan Revolution got rid of Anastasio Somoza, the United States accused the new government of aiding Marxist rebels in El Salvador. ... Newspapers had also revealed that the United States had turned many profits from weapons sales to help the Contras fighting the Marxists in Central America. ... He also believed that his rivals in Moscow resp...

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The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. ... As soon as the war ended, the relations between America and Russia cooled. American's regretted their isolation in the years between the wars. ... America fully agreed with the "Iron Curtain" speech." ... The Truman Doctrine was the beginning of American policy for the Cold War. ...

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The Mexican War/The War Against Iraq The Mexican war between the U.S. and Mexico was started because of a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on April 25, 1846. ... Numerous rebellions had occurred within Mexican territory and the Texas revolution had resulted in the independence of Texas. ... But, in 1979, this relationship fell when Iranian revolutionaries deposed the American-backed shah and took U.S. hostages. ... Since then, America has tried several Iraq policies: engagement during the 1980s, armed confrontation during the 1990-91 Gulf cris...

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