After World War II many Third World countries in Latin America seemed to have some interest in the political system of the Soviets. ... The United States was aware of this happening, and that is when it became more involved in Latin America. ... Once again the communist "virus- created by the Soviets was spreading throughout Latin America. ... Another nation in Latin America that was attacked by communist guerrilla forces was El Salvador, located in between of Guatemala and Honduras in Central America. ... To ensure democracy in Latin America the U.S. has given large amounts of money to f...

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America wanted to spread democracy and capitalism while finding places to trade with in the open market. ... The American view of the Soviet Union was well known. ... Communist's scorned democracy, violated human rights, pursued military aggression, and created closed state economies that barely traded with capitalist countries. Americans compared communism to a contagious disease. ... One can more easily contain communism when these Western European capitalist democracies are doing well. ...

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The Cold war era was a time of fear and the first time the Americans felt threatened by a country that matched our abilities and power. America believed that right under their very nose conspiracies by communist were taking place, which is the basis for the movie "The Manchurian Candidate". ... In 1950 McCarthy made a speech accusing 205 government workers for being apart of the American communist party. ... These items are placed in the movie as a nifty way of showing good versus evil and democracy over communism. ...

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Contrary to the popular belief of the average American, Communism is not "evil". ... The Children of America were not taught that the Soviets were "evil", they were simply not told anything about Communism. ... 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. ... Had American Democracy been under the same strains I highly doubt we would be in such a system. ... Also, let's not forget the flaws of Democracy (and the Republics such as the U.S.). ...

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This was especially true when it came to those Americans that were against the war and the U.S, involvement. But, the suspicion and distrust was also directed against German-Americans (Germany was the main enemy of the U.S. and its allies in World War), immigrants, and people who were considered to have "radical"" or extreme political beliefs that were thought to be "anti-American." ... Another factor that led to the Red scare was the formation of worker's unions that fought for better wages and working conditions for the millions of American workers (many of them immigrants or first gen...

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Western European and America are the rich countries because they did the stealing. ... In 1976 the first election was held and Americans voted on "Tweetle Dumb." ... Democracy will wither away after generation of socialism. ... The "Procedure" is Direct Democracy (Workers Democracy), discussion and debate, where the majority rules and everyone has say. ... Direct Democracy in the work place and in the Soviet everyone has say. ...

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For generations most American people believe that there is nothing better than Democracy. It is true Democracy is great, however why hasn't our government ever considered Socialism for a change. ...

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Democracy had been spreading throughout the world for the preceding two decades, but with a very important difference. ... Preuss notes that when the constitutional state gained favor in North America, it was founded on the principle of the unitary state; it was not designed to address the lack of national identity which is found throughout Europe - and which is counter to the concept of the constitutional state (48). ... According to theories of modernization, the higher the levels of socioeconomic achievement, the greater the pressure for open competition and, ultimately, dem...

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Television, newspapers, and the radio all play a major role in a lot of Americans lives. ... Abbie Hoffman was arguably one of the most well known "American Rebels". ... These demonstrations were actually part of a communist plan to destroy the HUAC and weaken the American Democracy. ... America was fighting a war over in Vietnam during the 70's against communism. Over here in America was another battle. ...

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The socialist Bolshevik regime believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their intentions. ... Wilson had initially kept the United States neutral in the Great War but in 1917 he proclaimed, that the "world must be kept safe for democracy." Wilson set his fourteen points out which secured open markets, individual democracy, self-determination, individual freedom and national wealth. ... American's believed strongly in democracy and were deeply hostile to communism. ... America fully agreed with the "Iron Curtain" speech." ...

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Democracy Contributed to the Collapse of S.C.,19).This type of pressures,violances and terror on people damaged the systems own foundation and it 'collapsed on its own'. Problems as described above made a basement for West to accelarete the collapse of Soviet Union.To answer the armanent of U.S.A,Soviet Union made big expendurties for buying and researching weapons.U.S.A politicans should see the bad economic conditions of S.U. and they improved the expendurties then S.U tried to follow this race but they could only follow U.S.A to own bankruptcy.West incite The ...

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The United States became paranoid that Communists from the Soviet Union were bound to overthrow democracy in America. ... This oath was extremely important because if America did not hold to this promise the worlds view on America could be forever damaged. ... These broadcasts opened Americans eyes that the war in Vietnam was not the only one being fought. ... American troops were unprepared to fight this type of warfare. ... The fear of Communism struck the U.S. like a wave and because of the fear and paranoia the lives of Americans were forever changed. ...

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The Communists took over the countryside and Chiang Kaishek (A nationalist leader and head of the Kuomintang), with American naval assistance, took over the cities. ... The Americans sent Gen. ... First there would be the new democracy; that would change to socialism; and finally, China would achieve what the Soviet Union had not, true communism, classless and with plenty for all. ... The American involvement in this conflict was not very smart. By aiding Chiang and the Nationalists, America set itself up for tense foreign affairs with the future Communist China. ...

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The students did it non-violently by many of them walking in one at a time insisting that some historical documents that shaped our country on democracy like An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, On Liberty, and Common Sense, be available to them. ... As shock to Buckley, many people applauded Zinn's opposition and he did not understand his criticism of the American government. ... The Unites States was and still is on a global spread of their so called democracy, but Zinn has seen first hand on how it fails especially during the Civil Rights Movement. ...

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The meaning of "communism" according to The American Heritage Dictionary, is: "A social system characterized by the absence of classes and by common ownership of the means of production and subsistence." ... Also, the kind of democracy practiced in Utopia is not accepted in the totalitarian Soviet states. ... In a Utopian society a true American would commit suicide after realizing that they could no longer be individuals. ...

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They started to rebuild their world under the policy of democracy and very quickly became a very prosperous country. ... They were instrumental in the Japanese "economic miracle" by the permitting of Japanese goods into the American market. ...

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