On the 25th of August 1939 the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was initiated where the Soviet union and the Germans had agreed upon a non-aggression pact. ... August 6, 1945 amid WWII, USA dropped the first nuclear bomb utilizing B-29 over the Japanese city, Hiroshima. ... Hirohito, head of Japan surrendered and reported the nations surrender on August 15 over the radio. He did this in light of the fact that he knew he would not win against another force known as the bomb. ... All in light of the fact that the power he had was insufficient and thusly felt the need to build it by enforcing his belief...

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This brought to light the Soviet policy governing the Warsaw Pact, the Brezhnev Doctrine, that stated "When forces that are hostile to socialism and try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries". ... The government's inability to forestall Poland's economic decline led to waves of strikes across the country in April, May, and August 1988. In an attempt to take control of the situation, the government gave de facto recognition to Solidarity, ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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