The same day of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination the Austrian government retaliated by declaring war on Serbia. Russia's Emperor, Nicholas II was pressured by Russia's military to defend Serbia. ... Germany, being power hungry, and allied with Austria-Hungary, then declared war on Russia. Then, following its alliance with Russia, France declared war on Germany. ... The American government campaigned to tell the public that entering the war was good. ...

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This war took place because the Vietnams couldn't agree on one government so they broke up into two major parts, North and the South. North Vietnam wanted to have Communism for a government under the influence of Ho Chi Minh, and the South wanted to have democracy, under the influence of the French rule. ... They thought this because the Northern Vietnam was backed by China and Russia. ... Russia at that point had already expanded its empire into Eastern Europe, Korea and Cuba. ... The Government of America, noticed how people felt about this war, and started to make instant plans for...

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It showed that the post's articles about the Break in at the Watergate and supposed government involvement didn't have any impact on the republican campaign. ... Government because they would not back out of Vietnam. ... In the early 1970's President Nixon visited Russia. He was the first U.S. president to visit Russia since it became communist. While in Russia president Nixon signed the Salt I treaty, which showed a cooling down of tensions between the U.S. and Russia. ...

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Fortunately, by using his knowledge in history and government, he was finally recognized and appointed to two important committees. Finally, the government finished their investigations, revealing no signs of wrongdoing. ... When the Russians blockaded the western sectors of Berlin in 1948, Truman created a massive airlift to supply Berliners until the Russians backed down. ... In June 1950, when the Communist government of North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman conferred promptly with his military advisers. ... Truman kept the war a limited one, rather than risk a major conflict with China ...

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Before the war taxes were raised and because of it many teachers and other government workers will be fired because our country needs a lot of money now. Also after crash of the spaceship in Texas government decided not to send any spaceships in the galaxy for couple of years. It will make the space researches much slower and countries like Russia and China may use it to their advantage. ... Hussein kept very dangerous weapons and also made chemical weapons that are totally banned by every government. ... After several months of worthless talks American troops invaded into Iraq without any h...

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Great Britain, France and Germany were all decimated either financially and/or physically, leaving only the United States and Russia to duel out for total supremacy. ... This was a huge problem for the anti-communist government of the United States. ... Russia as communist-evil and the United States as anti-communist-good are childish. Whitcomb further argues that this doctrine increased dramatically the hatred toward the United States by the Russians, and hastened the militarization of the Cold War . ... This obvious slap in the face to the post war agreement between Russia and the United...

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He gained national exposure in his second term as the chairman of the Senate Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program and his opposition to corruption in government operations, while remaining loyal to Roosevelt. ... Some of the tasks included the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and approving the surrender of the Japanese government. ... After tensions with Russia heated up, he supported "containment" policies that aggressively dealt with communism. ...

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Hoover then really took action as the head of Food Administration and he extended aid to famine-stricken Russia in 1921. ... In 1931 depression had escalated and so did unemployment, even though President Hoover developed and proposed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to aid business, additional help for farmers facing mortgage foreclosures, banking reform, a loan to states for feeding the unemployed, expansion of public works, and drastic governmental economy. ...

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He took on JP Morgan and other "big trust" companies; Roosevelt was considered a trustbuster in response to public pressure for greater government intervention into businesses, he passed the Hepburn Act. This Act says that railroads can only charge the amount that is set by the government and allowed the government to inspect financial records. ... This act says that all foods and drugs had to be tested and approved by government officials before they went onto the market. ... Roosevelt's concern with the destruction of the forest, prairies, streams, and wilderness led to putting the gove...

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This was in fact what the U.S. government had to do when it came to the Iraq war where two permanent members of the UN. ... One of the two states, Russia, had serious economic concerns with the outcome of the war. Russia, having a heavy dependence on oil sales, would not like to see the opening up of Iraqi oil fields to the international market. France's opposition towards the war in Iraq was not as clear-cut as that of Russia's. ...

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To understand this we must look at both the people and government's point of view. ... When he was asked to evaluate how many troops were available if and when the United States would get involved, the army could only gather an amount of one hundred thousand, when the French, Russian, and Japanese armies numbered in millions. ... In September 1939 the Air Corps had only 800 combat aircrafts again compared with Germany's 3600 and Russia's 10,000. ... After all let us not forget that the American government is there for the people and that meant that the people's view did p...

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For the past two years, Syria has been at war with itself, as their government forces clash daily with armed, civilian rebel groups. When evidence emerged implicating the Syrian government in the chemical weapons usage, the United States has been forced to consider intervention as a policy mechanism to bring peace to Syria. ... After much domestic backlash, Obama scrapped that plan in favour of negotiating a deal with Russia, Syria's ally. ... As Moravcsik writes "Every state would prefer to act as it pleases, yet each is compelled to realize its ends under a constraint imposed by the pre...

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To try to understand this, one must look both at the people and government's point of view. ... When asked to evaluate how many troops were available if and when the United States would get involved, the army could only gather a mere one hundred thousand, while the French, Russian and Japanese armies numbered in millions. ... In September 1939 the Air Corps had only 800 combat aircrafts again compared with Germany's 3600 and Russia's 10,000 . ... After all do not forget that the American government is there "for the people and by the people" and therefore the people's view ...

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Yet with the end of World War II, the containment of Russia and its allies became the concentration of the executive branch planners. ... They are: Individual leaders in both branches play a key role in making foreign policy, Bipartisanship is a useful method for overcoming president-Congress conflict in foreign policy formulation, Trust is the ethical dimension within which the two branches function, Executive initiative of foreign policy is the general pattern, but the congressional power to propose, delay and shape such policy remains substantial, The war power is a salient issue in the pr...

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For both sides in the election, the outcome would be a major factor in which party would retain control of the government. ... At the time of the election of 1800 the Federalist Party was in control of the majority of the power in the government. ... This caused the Panic of 1819, in which for the first time, the government had to face the problem of nationwide pauperism. ... The government, for the time, did little to help the impoverished, since the government was to blame for the problem in the first place. ... Manufacturing firms pressed the government for greater protection from forei...

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The reasons why we should not have invaded Iraq are because there is no proof involving the Iraqi government with the Al Qaeda terrorists, we had no proof of Iraqi government having nuclear weapons, and other countries in the U.N. had major disagreements on the invasion. ... The first reason why we should not have invaded Iraq is because there is no proof involving the Iraqi government with the Al Qaeda terrorists. ... Until this day, we have no legitimate proof of Iraqi's government processing illegal weaponry. ... Most of the big countries in the United Nations such as Russia, Franc...

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However this rebellion was ruthlessly crushed by the combined armed forces of England, Russia, Germany, Japan and the U.S.A. ... A U.S. civil government in 1902 replaced the military authority in the Philippines with William Howard Taft becoming the first civil governor. ...

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Roosevelt mediated the conflicts between Russia and Japan to put an end to their war. ... The policy stated that to win American recognition, they must not only exercise power but reflect "a just government based upon law, not upon arbitrary or irregular force." ...

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However it didn't stop Roosevelt from pushing around the British and the Canadians over the southern land that was purchased from Russia in1867 by America when new gold was discovered in Alaska. ... When Roosevelt original came to the government of Panama, which was owned by Colombia. ...

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Revolutions were taking place all over- Mexico, Russia, Argentina, England, and China to name a few. ... The federal government is investing more money in elementary and secondary education than at any other time in American history. ...

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Though the string of US sanctions on Iran up to the Bush government undoubtedly reduced the funding available for terrorist organisations and damaged the Iranian economy, they did little to remove the autocratic government in power in Iran and served to further damage the image of Western society within the nation, pushing them further into isolation. ... Iran's pursuit of Nuclear technology, whether for use in weaponry as alleged by the US, or for use in research and the production of power as claimed by the Iranian government, has been the main point of contention with marked progress ...

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After Thomas Jefferson's two terms as president, James Madison took over and sent Adams to Russia, and later to London. ... Adams believed in expansive and expensive changes in government, internal improvements which would bring high protective tariffs. ... His administration was generally regarded as a complete failure, but Mary Hargreaves argues otherwise, saying "Adams established the federal government as guardian of the general interest." ... His contributions to the future political views of our government will never be forgotten. ...

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The Declaration states that governments "derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." ... The Corollary was imposed, purportedly, in an attempt to protect the people of the North, South, and Central Americas from corrupt leaders and foundering governments, as Roosevelt himself said in his annual address to Congress (Doc F). ... This action of the American government, however unsuccessful, was characteristic of Roosevelt's "Big Stick" policy of forcibly moving pieces on the board of international affairs. ... Within two years after hostilities ceased, the ...

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Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, purchased Alaska from Russia. ... Their conviction that they were not equals with the United States in the Union was strengthened when the American government directly interfered with a revolution in Chile in 1891 and a trade dispute in Brazil in 1893. ... The company, which also had large interests in Cuba and Colombia, came to exert great influence upon the policies of the American government towards the so-called "banana republics" in Latin America. ... But in 1889 the Germans, who also had economic interests in the islands, sought to...

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Détente, which was a peaceful however strained policy of coexistence with the USSR, was de-emphasized, and the United States foreign policy was against all government movements under soviet influence. ... After the Nicaraguan Revolution got rid of Anastasio Somoza, the United States accused the new government of aiding Marxist rebels in El Salvador. ... As a result of the Iranian hostage crisis, congress had marked Iran as a terrorist nation and had outlawed the sale of weapons to the Iranian government. ... The Soviet government began to reduce its forces in Europe, and in 1989 pulled ...

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