Introduction Recent history has certainly provided us with many examples of powerful, mutually beneficial alliances: France/England/US in WW I, Germany/Italy/Japan in WW II, just to name a few. ... Sino-Soviet History The winds of change were blowing over Eastern Europe and China towards the end of World War I. ... For China, it was a similar situation. ... In perhaps the most undocumented military incident in recent history, the Soviet Union and China came close to the brink of nuclear war. ... Indeed, the world could be a very different place, had there been more cooperation and uni...

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Why Communism Is a Failure Communism throughout history has been a failure. The Soviet Union was communist and failed, as a matter of fact, even communism in present day country's, such as China, is deteriorating. ... Actually, almost every who has tried to have a communist government country (Cuba, North Korea, The Soviet Union and China), ends up with a totalitarian government. ...

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Many other countries were also involved in the war such as China and Vietnam, among many others. ... Losing China to the communists was a devastating blow to the United States. China was faced with the need for military and economic aid which it eventually received from Russia. ... Thirty million Chinese starved to death during the Great Leap Forward, making it one of the worst man-made disasters in history. In 1964, China explodes its first nuclear bomb. ...

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The cold war was a long and tense time in American and European history. ... Palmer, Joel Colton and Lloyd Kramer, in their textbook A History of the Modern World, discuss how Fidel Castro overthrew the 1959 regime of Fulgencio Batista, after returning from exile with his band of guerrillas. ... The idea of a group taking care of you, and being intensely patriotic, sounds good to some people, and the Chinese still believe in it. ... Returning to the text of "A Modern History," we learn that after Eisenhower's term "the same term that thought up the invasion in the first place &q...

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It happened when China and Soviet aided Communist North Korea in its attack against South Korea. ... The American government did not want to invade a Communist country for fear of retaliation by the Soviets or the Chinese (Healy 3). ... "It was the longest conflict in American history and had a vast political importance for many American politicians" (Healy 3). ... In the post Cold War, it was the first time in history that global politics has become multi-polar and multi-civilizational (Huntington 21). ... People define themselves in terms of religion, language, history, values, customs, ...

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China and India also have huge lands and they house lots of ethnic groups who speak many different languages. "The Republic of China is also a complex case because there are fifty five national minorities (seven percent of the population) in the country who do not speak Han Chinese of the majority population in a nation of over one billion people" (Farnen, p.43). ... Canada is the satellite of USA, and USA has never had much trouble with it in history because she did not try to exploit Canada. ... It had caused many empires to collapse (Austria-Hungry Empire, Ottoman Empire etc.) throughout ...

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We often considered that socialism was hand in hand with democracy. But reviewing the past century in which socialism developed so rapidly and fiercely, we maybe will get difficult conclusion. What is the democracy? There were so many great thinkers that talked about democracy, such as Plato, ...

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When we were attempting to stop Japanese aggression in China, Stalin and his comrades were not deemed to be "evil", at least not when wee needed his help. ... Democracy, the greatest psychological war the human race has ever faced (almost bringing the species to extinction), and it gets less than 50 pages in a 900 page American History book. ...

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Throughout this era however, the phrase 'history repeats itself' comes to mind. ... The Vietnam War became a proxy between the United States, the Soviet Union and communist China. Despite their rivalry for leadership of the communist bloc of nations, the Soviet Union and China collaborated to support North Vietnam's effort to destroy South Vietnam. ... The 7 major mujahidin guerrilla groups were supported by aid from the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia, channeled through Pakistan, and from Iran. ...

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., Britain, China, France, and the Soviet Union signed the United Nations charter. ... As was earlier stated, it is clear that the UN has been both effective and ineffective in its short history. ... The entire history of the U.N. has been quite inexpensive. ...

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In 1936, Stalin gave a new constitution to the U.S.S.R, which provided for such features as a secret ballot and universal adult franchise. 12.3 Consequences and Significance of the Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution is regarded as one of the most remarkable events in human history since it set up a new way of living and thinking. ... Countries like Albania, Bulgaria, Poland, Peking, China and Mongolia established proletarian dictatorship. ...

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Marxism was known as the scientific socialism or better known as Communism which stated that human history was determined by class warfare. ... Despite the efforts of the Seminary's administrators, Stalin and his classmates read many anti-establishment literature ranging from the romantic novels of Victor Hugo to the works of Charles Jean Marie Letourneau who was a Frenchman who attempted to analyze all of the world's history through the lens of his own radical political ideas. ...

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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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It was considered a place where history and identity could disappear in an instant. ... North Korea was backed by the communist countries, The Soviet Union and China. ... The Chinese were the major supporters of the North Koreans. ...

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