The system is designed to protect the U.S from the other superpowers, Russia and China. The U.S is saying the system is to protect from its current enemies so a cold war will not break out; the U.S versus Russia and China. ... The U.S plan for a defense system has caused problems with the Russian Chinese alliance. ... Both Russia and China fear the U.S is becoming too powerful. ... Russia, China, North Korea) see the development of a defense system as a threat. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

France under Charles the Gaulle and China under Mao Zedong desired the same political benefits nuclear weapons gave Britain. ... China also wanted to accelerate its own nuclear program. ... In 1964, China joined the nuclear club just four years after France. Nuclear weapons also gave China the status and prestige to attract Communist states and parties to its side. ... [WWW document]. http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol4/v4n25nuc.html Nuclear History at the National Security Archive [WWW document]. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At this time, Japan was aiming to take control of China, though China refused. So, the United States started supplying China with war gear. ... I could not worry about what history would say about my personal morality. ... World War Two was the worst war in history. ...

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Nuclear Weapons History. ... Through the early years of the cold war Americans believed that nuclear weapons were war fighting tools that were likely to be used in an international conflict involving both the US and the Soviet Union; however, nuclear weapons were not used on China during the Korean War for fear that the Soviet Union might retaliate with a nuclear weapons attack on the U.S. ... That China would need Wen Ho Lee's help to build a compact nuclear warhead is indisputably absurd and calls to question the intelligence, competence and character of numerous U.S. officials and co...

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• Grade Level: High School

But, even with this threat fading into history with the fall of the once grand Soviet Union, this book looks back at what then, could have been, and now what once might have been. Now the next few chapters were very well written due to the fact that as stated before knowing the exact consequences to war are impossible, the writer tells of mass hysteria, destruction, panic, and the launch of missiles by every major country including the China, but the book does have one flaw in its attempt to stay as close to possible realistic outcome, when Pat Frank was writing this novel talk of the star war...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The December 7, 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was one of the great defining moments in history. ... Among the attendees at the Conference were allied leaders of Britain, Russia, China and the US (Churchill, Stalin, and Truman). ...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hiroshima started the day like any other normal city; people were trying to live their lives like there was not a war going on. But the fear of being the next target swept through Hiroshima, other cities such as Kure, Iwakuni, Tokuyama, and other nearby towns were air raided by B-29 also known as M...

• Word Count: 1065
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Ever since the first contact between the English settlers and the Powhatans in Virginia in 1607, a then the arrival of Africans in 1619, race has been significant in our history. ... When the first Chinese immigrants arrived, they were condemned as the "yellow peril." ...

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Eisenhower is one of the most influential and productive men in American history, winning the country over by playing a key role in ending the Korean War as well as instituting the Interstate Highway Funding Act. ... The North Korean casualties were estimated to be around 520,000 and about 900,000 Chinese soldiers died supporting the North Koreans. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Tensions between Russia and the West have been high throughout history. ... However, Communism was prominent in China and towards the end of the Cold War U.S-Chinese relations were relatively good. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"In both legend and history, famous warriors have possessed swords with extraordinary powers" (7). ... "The Chinese discovered that a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur produced a compound that had explosive effects" (40). ...

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"Stimson.. seemed at least as much concerned with the role of the atomic bomb in the shaping of history as in it's capacity to shorten this war" Stimson then tackled this project head on and an Interim committee was set up to control the S-1 issue. ... Even after the Chinese Prime Minister had physically gone to the White House to inform the president that this would be the best way for America to win the war. ...

• Word Count: 2270
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School