This isn't a new idea, it's at the heart of almost every war, and it occurs today, but the significance of Hitler's belief in this idea was that he was the first leader to employ such a philosophy after the world had begun to view such ideas as evil. 3. ... Stalin's Soviet Union was a major factor in the defeat of Hitler in World War Two, and Stalin emerged from the war as leader of one of the world's two superpowers, quickly building a 'Communist Bloc' in Eastern Europe. 4. ... Mazzini Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unif...

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If the United States did not show how serious they were about stopping communism, the movement could have gone too far, just like Hitler's movement did during World War II. ... The leaders of the U.S. feared that if we let communists have Korea, or Asia, they could gain momentum and take Europe. ... When the leaders of the country faced the choice of deciding whether or not to intervene in communist aggression across the globe, they looked back to previous events in American history and saw that their powerful nation must exercise its authority and stop the spread of communism, an immor...

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Peaceful co-existence is started by the soviet leader Khrushchev in the mid 50s, it was after Stalin's death and Khrushchev introduced the new policies of "De-Stalinization" and "peaceful co-existence". ... During this invasion USSR poured large sum of money into this military movement. ... Therefore Reagan gave support to a lot of anti communist movement in Eastern Europe. ... After the inflation in Poland their influence on the public once again became vital, it operated openly and the leader was seemed the leader of the country. This time the leader of the USSR is the newly appointed M...

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Many Black leaders had sided with Kennedy in the presidential race because Kennedy claimed to be a strong believer in civil rights. ... With leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, the Civil Rights Movement grew to be one of the most important movement in the sixties. ... By early 1965 a new black leader had arose, whose name was Malcolm X. ... Another movement that started in the sixties, was the environmental movement. ... The Women's Movement took flight in the sixties also. ...

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Due to the unique beliefs and ideals democracy has instilled in Americans, they feel obligated to act as leaders of the world and help other countries in need. ... The French created plans to bring down Ho, and replace him with a leader of their own. ... There was to be a free movement of populations allowing them to choose in which of the two parts of the country they wished to live" . ...

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In the late sixties there was a huge movement among the young generation known as the hippie movement. ... Many black leaders spoke out against the war saying, "They weren't going to fight in a white man's war". ... They weren't the only civil rights movement group to stand up against the war. ... Black leaders such as Martin Luther King challenged the American spending, saying that they were neglecting the more pressing social issues, such as racism, social security and many other internal affairs that were bothering America at the time. ... The sickened public were appalled at...

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JFK- wore wrinkled khaki's to Congress PET- wore sandals to house of commons JFK-Cuban Missle Crisis PET- War Measures Act JFK-Civil Rights Movement-pushed equality on the top of nations agenda PET-Official Languages Act JFK- "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country- inaugural speech PET- "The Government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation- JFK-new level of idealism and activism PET- Charter of Rights and Freedoms, JFK-Televised debate, he won- Radio-Nixon won- awesome speaker, good presence PET-Same thing, used the me...

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And while Castro was at first regarded as a "progressive leader favorably disposed to democracy," as Palmer so ironically puts it (955), people soon learned, with Cuba's increasing lean towards the Communist movement, that Cuba was a force to be reckoned with. ... Of course, the question that they, the opponents of this "Communist Movement" should've been asked at this point was, is it worth it? ... In mid-1962 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced his plan to defend Cuba against another American invasion. ...

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Authors of radio programs pointed out that the leaders of these countries had been put in power by Stalin, and behaviors, existing there, were not so different from those that had been established in the USSR under Stalin. ... Khrushchev's speech undermined the political positions of many leaders of the communist parties in the world. ... The mixed reaction of the international communist movement, disorders in the socialist countries of Europe, the events in Georgia, a secondary failure of returning Yugoslavia in the socialist camp during Tito's visit to the USSR in June 1956, le...

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Roosevelt threw himself into the role of wartime leader with determination and enthusiasm. ... A whole subculture, the hippy movement, had developed among teens opposed to the war. ... Reagan's insistence on the Star Wars program brought strategic arms control talks to a standstill and provoked strong protests from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, during his summit meetings with Reagan in 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988. In 1987 the two leaders did agree to scrap land-based nuclear missiles of intermediate and shorter range, a small fraction of their nuclear arsenals. ...

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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 financial movement was undertaken by NSC staff member Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. ... Even though the U.S. failed to aid its southern neighbor, when Latin American leaders such as Arbenz, Castro, and the Sandanistas, took a different road then the U.S. desired it came at these leaders with a vengeance. ...

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In protest of such regulations the Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California at Berkeley, the first of the 1960s campus student movements to make headlines all over the world, was born.  ... Berkeley protesters became national leaders as the protests spread nationwide; more than 50,000 students, faculties and other activists from different universities traveled to Washington D.C to protest the war (Von Eschen lecture, Global Protest and Détente) From this atmosphere, two Berkeley residents formed the Black Panther, an African American revolutionary leftist party that ...

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The most powerful and therefore, most important such institution, the United States Supreme Court, was no exception, and in fact, was the leader of such legal change. ... The Civil Rights movement, encouraged by the goals of WWII, which sought to destroy the racist policies of Nazi Germany, came to prominence during Eisenhower's administration and made tremendous strides toward equality. ...

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It was condemned because the leaders misused it. ... It was the movement that meant to overthrow the capitalist order by revolution (The Columbia Encyclopedia). ... This time he took away Mátyás Rákosi and put Nagy, the leader of the moderate communist, to his position. ... With Lenin and Stalin as example, we could see that the communist leaders did not obtain their position with legal ways; instead, they obtained their position through coercive tactics in order eliminated all their opposition. ...

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Either to help South Vietnam, which was highly impossible because South Vietnam had only consisted of armies with low morale, and all the corrupted leaders and officials, or to fight against communism, which was another hard task to accomplish because if they were to fight communism, they would have to fight communism in the surrounding countries, including Russia and China. ... The American troops had relied too much on the high tech equipment; in the forests it was impossible for them to track them down, because of all the movement going on from tree to tree. ...

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While Stalin was doing a revolutionary movement for Lenin, he was again caught by the czar's police. ... Stalin was not like other generals and other leaders in war, as he learnt from previous mistakes and elected staff by military status rather than political. ... Joseph Stalin grew from the depths of the gutter into one of the most powerful leaders of his time. ...

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Nixon thought that calmness had to be restored in America and ending the war with his "secret plan," and encouraging the civil rights movement. ... McCarthy at times would be seven points ahead of Nixon, the leader most of the time in the race. ... Secondly, the race would bring out the yearning of the American people for a leader who would guide them into the next decade and try to make sense of all that had happened in the last one. ...

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In December 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union at the time, announced the Sinatra Doctrine which stated that the Braznev Doctrine would be abandoned and that the Eastern European countries could do what the liked. ...

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The United States society is portrayed in a negative way according to Paul Potter, a young student leader, John F. ... When addressing all of these issues, Potter believes that we must create a movement or system that works not just in Washington, but in communities and with the problems that face people throughout society. This movement would also understand the nation of Vietnam rather than allow the State Department and the Pentagon to use it as a "laboratory of experimentation". ...

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Known by the common person as an American defeat, the Vietnam War has scarred our country with past mistakes but necessary lessons learned. Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. We failed to accomplish the goals we created in the beginni...

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His addiction to drugs, in particular heroin, saw many of the alternative life stylers who felt alienated from society looking to Dransfield as a leader of their kind and someone from whom they could gain an identity. ... The Labor government immediately started an anti-war movement and soon enough had the Australian troops removed from Vietnam. ...

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This changed the Soviet Union; it became a political movement of the communist Party in 1986. ... Although both men were equally creative, innovative and powerful only Xiaoping became one of the greatest peaceful transformation leaders in human history....

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The tunnel system was an unexpected resistance movement dug by hundreds of East Berlin students with thousands more willing to help. ... Walter Ulbricht, who was a German Communist leader under the command of Stalin, organized the construction of a large wall to be built in order to keep illegal emigration from the East to the West. ...

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So at around 1910 Japan attempted to eliminate all that was Korean, and when Koreans held a massive demonstration called March First Movement thousands of Korean civilians were killed by the Japanese. ... North Korea again trying to cause conflict and kill southern leaders planted a bomb that killed 17 members of the South Korean delegation; North Korea was also blamed for a bomb on a Korean Air Lines that killed all 115 passengers aboard. ...

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Ignorance is one of several things in life that is very damaging. Many people have heard the saying "ignorance is bliss;" this is the same as saying "boys are stronger than girls." Both sayings are said on a regular basis, but are misleading. Ignorance is the farthest thing from being bliss. It is a...

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