He got the influence for his first book, Down and Out in London and Paris, when he moved to England and France in 1930. ... He once commented on these moments saying, "This was the great lesson of my boyhood: that I was in a world where it was not possible to be good."" ... Smyer may have described him best when saying, "Orwell belongs to that small group of twentieth century writers whose fictional works have influenced the thinking of readers who are only slightly interested in imaginative literature."" ...

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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. These countries conglomerated to not solely for economic or military reasons, but for ideological reasons as well; France/England/US on the virtues of self-determination and democracy, Germany/Italy/Japan on the ideas of fascism and world domination. ... Consider this hypothetical scenario: the PRC and the USSR signed a mutual aggression pact, saying that, if one country is attacked, it is an atta...

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Roosevelt eventually undercut the conference by saying that he had little interest in currency stabilization and by announcing that he would work for economic recovery in other ways. ... In the spring of 1940, after Germany had conquered Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France Roosevelt convened a special session of Congress and asked it to lift the embargo on the sale of weapons, a provision that primarily hurt the European countries opposed to Hitler and Germany, known as the Allies. ...

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Britain's foreign secretary, Lord Castlereagh called it "a great nonsense" and in the Congress System (1818-1828) Britain and France constantly disagreed with the Holy alliance. Also, during the Crimean War (1854-1856), France sided with Britain against Russian aggression in the Near East. ...

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France, Great Britain, and the U.S. disagreed with the Soviets on topics such as the division of Germany, free elections in Poland, and the reparations paid by Germany. ... Khrushchev justified his actions in Hungary by saying they involved the terms of the Warsaw Pact, but it was only the Soviets who attacked, no other Warsaw Pact countries aided in the invasion. ...

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After Germany had been divided in 1945 the US, British and French merged their zones into West Germany and emerging from the Soviet Zone came East Germany. ... Speeches like these did cause nervousness during the Cold War, instead of only distrusting countries indirectly, like in World War II; the West was clearly saying that it did not trust the East. ...

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