Russia for the most part stayed dormant after WWII and spread communism around like the plague. ... Both Soviet Russia and the US had many stockpiles of nuclear weaponry, with capabilities of turning most of Planet Earth into a nuclear wasteland. ... With no actual military action during his presidency, President Reagan urged the Russian Dictator Mikhail Gorbachev to start giving up power, asking him to "tear down this wall", referring to the wall in Berlin" (Mann 37). ... There was a violent revolution in the former country of Czechoslovakia, where the rebels won and broke away from the USSR....

• Word Count: 1379
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Americans became concerned when the Latin American nations came into debt with European powers because they were often poor nations that were unable to pay and prone to revolution. ... Roosevelt mediated the conflicts between Russia and Japan to put an end to their war. ...

• Word Count: 647
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Revolution against Great Britain was on the minds of many, including his cousin, Samuel Adams, a leader of this uprising. ... After Thomas Jefferson's two terms as president, James Madison took over and sent Adams to Russia, and later to London. ... Adams believed that liberty had been won by the American Revolution and that this liberty was guaranteed by the Constitution. ...

• Word Count: 1053
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, purchased Alaska from Russia. ... Their conviction that they were not equals with the United States in the Union was strengthened when the American government directly interfered with a revolution in Chile in 1891 and a trade dispute in Brazil in 1893. ... Bunau-Varilla engineered a revolution and U.S. warships prevented Colombia from stopping Panama's attempt to break away. (In 1921, the U.S. paid an indemnity to Colombia in recognition of the U.S. role in the Panamanian revolution). ...

• Word Count: 2823
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The Islamic revolution, which took place in Iran, created the first major foreign policy problem for Carter. ... Reagan devoted a lot of his attention to reversing the affects of the Marxist Revolution in Central America and the Caribbean. After the Nicaraguan Revolution got rid of Anastasio Somoza, the United States accused the new government of aiding Marxist rebels in El Salvador. ... In 1990 Germany returned to being a unified country; in 1991 the USSR fell, and Russia as well as other Soviet republics emerged as independent states. ...

• Word Count: 3150
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

The Treaty of 1814 was concluded between France on the one hand and Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia on the other after the first abdication of NApoleon I. ... Below his country, the Mexican Revolution was in full swing. ...

• Word Count: 2611
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

In 1903, when negotiations with Colombia for a Canal Zone lease broke down, Roosevelt quietly supported a revolution in that country. ... Then when Japan went to war with Russia over control of Manchuria and Korea in 1905, Roosevelt arbitrated the dispute. ...

• Word Count: 4679
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

In 1903, when negotiations with Colombia for a Canal Zone lease broke down, Roosevelt quietly supported a revolution in that country. ... Then when Japan went to war with Russia over control of Manchuria and Korea in 1905, Roosevelt arbitrated the dispute. ...

• Word Count: 4612
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School