In Cuba, the educational system is controlled and financed by the government as it is with the Mexican system. ... A Cuban report in 1979 stated that over 90% of Cubans are literate. Mexico is a country made up of 31 states that coexists with one central government, much like the political system in the United States. The head of the government is the president who is elected by the people for a six-year term. ... Cuba is a communist country with one leader who oversees much of the economy in Cuba. ...

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They have been unhappy with the government for a while now. ... He stood in front of tanks belonging to the government to show them that the people had taken enough of the government. ... The tank man did not want the tanks or the government in his city. ... The fourth country is Cuba. ... Cuba is not really a communist country either. ...

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When Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba from 1959-present, declared the government Communist in 1961; President of the U.S. ... The invasion was held by U.S. supported Cuban rebels that ended up in a disaster on April 17, 1961. The U.S. was determined to keep communism from spreading into Latin America, this was not an easy task to do because Cuba was allied to the Soviet Union. ... Nicaragua came to know a different type of government in the late 70's. ... The United States did something that the Soviets did not do to Nicaragua and Cuba, and that was to actually send troops to the cou...

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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. ... If your people revolt, your country's government is going to go downhill fast. ... An example is how the United States is invading Iraq and changing the government because we feel that it isn't a "high-quality" government. It is indisputable that if a country is trying to change your government and uses force your government will fail. ... In fact, all of the above stated facts are the causes in almost every faile...

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Truman ordered the dismissal of any government employee whose loyalty appeared questionable. ... Government agencies used the list as a guide to help determine the loyalty of employees and of people seeking jobs. ... Many employees, to keep their jobs, were required to take oaths of loyalty to the government. ... Which lead young educated people, not to go into the government. ... Begin a child of Cuban parents, communism is a subject that has been discussed in my house. ...

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Cuba, Algeria, China, and some African countries already fall into the communist hands, and many others could follow. ... Cuba and China aided Congolese rebels. ... Only possible solution for many politics at that time was to fight it, like in Korea or stand firm as in Cuban missile crisis. ... Government overstates danger, and understates, or did not report true situation in South Vietnam. Stone in his "A Reply to the "White Paper", successfully criticizes US official report known as "White Paper", and leaves many doubts if government was honest to its citizens why United States enter the Vie...

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This movie showed how the right side of the government was thinking. During the cold war the Cuban missile crisis was one of the most important events happening in the news at that time. ... The government was so intent to show America that communist are the devil themselves and anybody that has any kind of liberal or democratic view about the government may be a communist also. ... This was a ploy that the government had to comfort America from the fear of the nuclear attack from Cuba. ... It was the liberals against the government. ...

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Communism is based around the government owning everything and the people having the right to the same things no matter what their status in society is. As soon as the government becomes corrupt communism falls apart and the system breaks down. ... North Vietnam, Russia, Cuba, As well as china are all or were all communist countries. ...

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During the Cold War there were many major events including: The Berlin Blockade (1948), The Korean War (1952), the Hungarian Revolution (1956), The collapse of the Berlin Wall (1961), and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). ... Hungarian communists were gradually gaining control of Hungary's government. Matthias Rakosi was head of the communist party, and head of the government. ... The Moscow radio announced that a new government had been formed under Kadar in Hungary. ... Along with governments that were once friendly to the U.S.S.R. ...

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The intellectuals of the time opposed the strict control thrusted upon them by the ruling government and embraced violent ideologies to bring about political change. ... In this utopian setting, all class distinctions would be abolished as would national governments and religion which Marx regarded as tools of bourgeois oppression on the working class. ... Lenin worked most closely with Leon Trotsky in the Bolshevik take over of the government. Within a few months, opposition to the new government developed in many parts of the country. ...

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When you start mixing politics and philosophy, you get a strange mixture of theories that work in theory itself but have never been tested in practice. Most philosophers try to talk about the politics, but for me the only ones interesting are those that talked about it a long time ago and who actual...

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1. There is one message portrayed in these two cartoons. It is that the government was lying to everyone. They were giving false reasons on why our troops were there when know body knew why they were there especially the soldiers. Then it shows Nixon ticking everyone while he strings along the war w...

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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under Stalin, used their armed forces to...

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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under Stalin, used their armed forces to...

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• Grade Level: High School

This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under Stalin, used their armed forces to...

• Word Count: 5545
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• Grade Level: High School