Cold War, a term used for the period of tense relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, stretching from the late 1940s to the late 1980s when Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe and the USSR ceased to exist. ... Another main reason was that there was a long history of mistrust between the two countries The Cold War was characterized by mutual distrust, suspicion and misunderstanding by both the United States and Soviet Union, and their allies. At times, these conditions increased the likelihood of the third world war. ... The Soviets, meanwhile, charged the United States wit...

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The Korean War 1950-1953 was the first proxy conflict of the Cold War costing 5 million lives, 54,000 of which were American soldiers, yet it has often been described as America's, "forgotten war." Thus, eluding to the idea that it was not as significant to world affairs or security as other conflicts during the Cold War such as in Vietnam. ... " This essay shall evaluate how significant the American government perceived the Korean War to be to global security by analysing key documents from the early war period such as daily summaries in addition to key speeches and NSC 68 and 48/2...

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The United States and the Soviet Union became the two superpowers of the post - World War II era. ... The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... Although, I personally wo...

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Castro was also a striking figure himself, standing juxtaposed from other, much older revolutionaries, many describing him as a charming, well educated, courageous, etc. ... Castro encouraged people to 'be like Che' - to be revolutionaries and change the world, which was an attractive notion to consider. ... (Perez, 15), a small island like Cuba had one revolution and effectively terrified and traumatized the US government and American people, especially since this all occurred during the Cold War era where a nuclear war with USSR was very real. ... The aftershocks of the revolution ...

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Not just empire's but events such as the cold war, WII or even the crusades have brought and gave new revolutionary inventions and equipment. ... The Roman Empire brought a fascinating range of languages as well as that they also used these languages to communicate with each other during war so their enemy wouldn't understand what they were attempting to plot. ... After the period of the crusades, after WWI and WWII there was a Cold War. ... The cold war also saw a revelation in tanks as the most developed main battle tanks with harder shelters and a greater range in shooting power w...

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In my essay I will focus on this dual analysis of the content and form of the major patterns of strategic geometry and their change over time from Cold War to post Cold War. ... How this took place during and after the Cold War is in many ways quite dissimilar. ... the Cold War era The Cold War system of international relations was a geopolitical intermixing of security, ideology and the balance of power, especially military power. ... The great post-war exception was the Soviet-US-Japan triangle. ... However, our emphasis is on the usefulness of the concept for studying the "transition" fro...

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He quit the seminary before graduation, in order to be a full-time revolutionary. Stalin's revolutionary career began in 1899, when he joined the Social-Democratic party as a propagandist among Tbilisi railroad workers. In 1902 he was arrested by the police, under the charge of revolutionary activities, and he was imprisoned for eighteen months in Baku. ... Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms). ... Stalin argued strongl...

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Past expansionism was driven by the events occurring directly after the Revolutionary War, in the late 1700s, which included the acquisition of new lands that lead to a migration of Americans guided by motivations of profit, land, and religion. ...

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To support my claim, lets take a look at the general history of the US and how it became the hegemony it is today, beginning with the inception of the US and the revolutionary war. ... Other examples include: carrying out the manifest destiny, admitting Texas into the union in 1845, the war of 1812, and the US-Mexican war; all for the aim of continental expansion and a rapid expansion of industrial and regional power. ... Using WWI as an example of when the US tried to implement strictly liberalist tendencies and how it failed: when idealist, Woodrow Wilson claimed that the war was good for de...

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In 1902 Joseph was arrested for his revolutionary actions and exiled to Siberia but escaped 2 years later and returned to Georgia. ... In 1917 after the overthrowing or the Russian czar Stalin was able to return where as a result of the February and October revolutions he was named Commissar of nationality affairs of the communist party. 1918 was Stalin's time to shine as a military power, he served as a general of the red army in a civil war which lasted for 3 years, Lenin then appointed him commissar of the workers and peasants. ... In January 1943 the German armies thought that if ...

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After leaving the Seminary in 1899, he joined the Social Democrats, Russia's Marxist political party, and became a professional revolutionary. ... After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... Meanwhile, World War II was fast approaching. ... But he wanted to avoid war at all costs, and in 1939 he signed the Nazi- Soviet Pact, which pledged that the two dictatorships would not attack one another, and granted Stalin permission to take over the Baltic States and eastern Poland, and prosecute a war in Fi...

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These funds were used to interfere in Grenada and El Salvador, and aided pay an undercover war against the revolutionary government of Nicaragua. As expected from a timid Liberal Congress, funding for the Nicaraguan war was blocked. ...

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Why Was Official Revolutionary Rhetoric No Longer Able To Conceal The Reality Of The Authoritarian One-party State In Eastern Europe In The Late 1980s? On the night of November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall-the most potent symbol of the cold war division of Europe-came down. ... The collapse of the Berlin Wall was the culminating point of the revolutionary changes sweeping East Central Europe in 1989. ... As a result, Poland held its first competitive elections since before World War II, and in 1989, Solidarity formed the first non-Communist government within the Soviet bloc since 1948. ... The ...

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The collapse of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day of 1991, was a great disappointment to the hopes of many revolutionaries. ... During the height of the Cold War (from the 1960s onward), the Soviets unfortunately lost the great race for arms with the West. ... This was central to the "culture" of war in those times. ... "5 This was then pushed to extremes by the "war on propaganda," which was carried out by none other than the USSR's enemy, The West. ... To conclude, the Soviet Union lasted a grand total of sixty-nine years, with its breakup successfully ending t...

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The collapse of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day of 1991 was a great disappointment to the hopes of many revolutionaries. ... During the height of the Cold War (from the 1960s onward), the Soviets unfortunately lost the great race for arms with the West. ... This was central to the "culture" of war in those times. ... " This was then pushed to extremes by the "war on propaganda," which was carried out by none other than the USSR's enemy, The West. ... To conclude, the Soviet Union lasted a grand total of sixty-nine years, with its breakup successfully ending th...

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Summary of the Content of the Document The 'percentages agreement' was taken from Churchill's (1953) 'The Second World War, Vol. 6, Triumph and Tragedy'. During the final year of the war, the British premier, Winston S. ... Every time the losses from the Russian were considerable, but the losses during the WWII were unprecedented, which required Stalin to make sure that this kind of devastating war does not emerge again for Soviet Union. ... Firstly, in general, the Greek Civil War was viewed as treachery and a blatant breach of the 'percentages agreement'...

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America and the Soviet Union have always been at particular rivalry, but have been directly at war with one another. They faced a different type of war; the Cold War, which was a battle between nuclear arms and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990. ... After World War II, America was with out a doubt the leading super power. ... The missiles placed on Cuban territory were what Khrushchev claimed "not to start a war, but to simply avoid a war between Cuba and America". ... This Revolutionary government caused great concern among the American government, because they had 60 year...

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As the most treacherous incident in the history of the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis has inescapably enticed the observation of numerous diplomatic historians. With the dual superpowers wavering on the edge of nuclear war, the dispute of how to eliminate Russian arsenals from Cuba in October 1962, while conserving the harmony, epitomized the utmost trial of John F. ... The revolutionary 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. ... The Cuban Missile Crisis was an undeviating and treacherous opposition amongst the United States and the Soviet Union in the course of the Cold War. It was the period o...

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If the Soviet Union were the face attack from these capitalist powers it would need a stronger industrial platform with which to launch a successful war effort. Memories of help given to the counter revolutionaries during the civil war only helped to highlight the potential disputes. ... However, it is quite possible that Stalin overstated the probability of war deliberately to push through his ambitions and to strengthen his personal power within the party. ... By 1926, pre war production levels had only just been achieved after the huge damage to Russia's infrastructure inflicted by the...

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