To compete with the United States and Russia, smaller nations began to assert their power through "hard power," an approach that involves military power. Therefore, smaller states began developing and researching nuclear weapons. ... Despite that many treaties in place to prevent the dangerous spread of nuclear weapons, most current resolutions lack complete acceptance by all member states. ... As a smaller, non-nuclear country, South Korea feels countries that have nuclear weapons should be the leaders of deterrence and ultimately disarmament. ...

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This included Russia, who had a small number of forces in the country to help support the pro-modernization of Afghanistan. ... Once he took sides with the west and wanted to put more western capitalist ideas into place, the Russians saw that as a threat to their goal of spreading communism in the Middle East. ... In his place, the Soviet Union put a man named Babrak Karmal in charge of the Afghan government. His job, and his life depended on the fact that he had to keep Soviet Ideals in place, and that he allow the Russian military to support him and his government. ... Russia was equipped wi...

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Another factor supporting this theory is that when a war takes place in a democratic nation, their leaders must accept blame for that loss, by the voters of that particular nation. In a democratic nation, voters have a large say in what takes place in their country. ... Israeli relations have evolved from an initial American policy of sympathy and support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in 1948 to an unusual partnership that links a small but militarily powerful Israel, dependent on the United States for its economic and military strength, with the U. ... While the Vietnam War was taking...

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In many places in Latin America, people were poor and did not have access to basic necessities: 'The Chileans' standard of living is lower than in Argentina. ... 'The group's founders, who had trained in Cuba and been directly encouraged by che, shared his faith that a small group of steel-willed men could win the people's support and overthrow an unjust regime no matter how large or well trained the enemy's army might be...' ... (Perez, 15), a small island like Cuba had one revolution and effectively terrified and traumatized the US government and American p...

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The New England coastline, specifically the Maine coastline, is thoroughly described as a place of frequent travel. ... Historically, this places the United States right in the midst of the Vietnam War Conflict.The time period in which the article was written could give us an idea of what it was like inside Scofield's mind when he wrote the article. ... Therefore, appreciating the smaller, less dense aspects of life became easier. ... Had there been an absence in the influence of this bias, the author may have described Maine as a nice place to consider for a visit, and left it at that. ...

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The allies objective here can be construed as a method of arms control' but from media evidence and the fact that the Gulf conflict is still taking place it can be argued that it doesn't create stability for the states concerned or the International stage. ... A good example to look at to find evidence of this almost bully boy tactics by larger states towards smaller states to accept arms control is that of India and Pakistan. ... Smaller countries such as India have to worry about threats, as the big ones' do not. ...

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The first being complete nationalism and socialisation of all non-farming activity from large industry to small business. ... This charter made it legal to re-grant to peasants a small private plot on which they could keep a small number of livestock and trade surplus produce grown on their private plots. The result was that yields from these small plots were much higher than yields from collectivised farms as the peasants spent entirely disproportionate amounts of time and energy on their own private plots compared to the collectivised farms. ...

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This attack and many smaller ones, is a continual reminder that terrorists groups will always be there. ... The war would be extremely expensive and there is a possibility that either the country will not recover, causing regional instability or another dictator will take Saddam's place. ...

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Being such smaller nations aliened themselves with either the U.S or Russian, depending on their political ideologies, locations, and interdependence on the superpower. ... Had the U.S not had enough power and the ability to mobilize those resources Russians may have succeeded in strategically placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. While the U.S. influenced the Russians not to do so, the Russia influencing the U.S. to remove strategically places nuclear weapons in Turkey as well. ...

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The reasons why the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred was ultimately the reaction of Soviet Union's attempt to balance power between Communism and Democracy and the fact that America had missiles place in Turkey aiming at Moscow. ... By the 1940's and 50's the balancing of power took place. There were three sections of power within the world, first being the United States which represented the Democratic aspect of politics, second, the Soviet Union representing the Communistic side of things, and third being the smaller independent nations between. ... The U.S created the Marshal...

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Of course, one must also take into consideration the fact that the institution that the US in fact had had a civil war in the first place was slavery. ... The feeling of respite which England held towards the US did not last forever however, as the US would soon rise to a place of glory taking her seat in the annals of history alongside world powers such as England before her, the Roman Empire, the Grecian Empire of old whom the US borrowed her form government. ... Prior to the start of the Great War, the United States and Great Britain had relatively small, if any, relations with each ot...

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First, the hunting scenes were shot, not in the smaller and older Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, but in the superior Cascades of Washington. In fact, when the deer proved to be too small for the director, Cimino airlifted in larger animals from a New Jersey preserve because myths deals with expectations rather than reality. ...

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The theory behind collectivisation was that it would replace the small scale un-mechanised and inefficient farms, with large scale mechanised farms that would produce food far more efficiently. ... In February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev condemned the deportations as a violation of Lenist principles, asserting that the Ukrainians avoided such a fate only because there were too many of them and there was no place where to deport them. ...

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This is shown through the child being referred to as "small- which suggests that he is vulnerable and powerless to the mother, who controls him in various ways from not letting him out to guiding him to the bathroom. ... In turn, this leaves the reader with a self critical point of view, as this is the reality of life in many places, though if we cannot relate to it, we simply view it as entertainment. ...

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The US wanted to prevent Vietnam from turning into a communist nation so in 1964 they intervened militarily in the small Asia country even though they didn't have suppose of the American people. ... Many people are happy that the Cold War was just an arms race instead of an actually war because if a war took place then it might have been the end of the world and it would have been label World War III. ...

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Another possible reason these women have been ignored is that they were comparatively small number and many Americans simply do not realize that women played an active role in the U.S. war effort. ... Journalists made up a much smaller element of the overall population of American women serving in Vietnam. ...

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Subsequently, an examination of Harry Trumans first meeting with Vyacheslav Molotov, his behaviour at the Potsdam conference and his response to the Moscow Council of Foreign Ministers shall take place. ... At best, such an operation could take place no earlier than 1943. The Americans attempted to compromise by proposing to send small contingents of troops to the French coast in order to test Germanys strength. ... The document called for Hungary and Yugoslavia to be split 50/50 between the Eastern and Western powers; Romania was to be split 90/10 in favour of the Soviet Union; a 75/25 split ...

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History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal o...

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While it is true that the above connoted act played an important role in enhancing immigration into the United States, it is of the essence that immigration of Italians into the United States took place way before the establishment of this act. ... While it is true that a significant proportion of the Italians immigrated into the United States, it is of the essence to note that others immigrated to other places including America and Europe. ... This led to the emergence of small Italies. ...

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Also, in 1981 he appointed conservatives who would carry out his vision of smaller government to agencies like the environmental protection agency, his cabinet, and the courts. ... In determination to avoid an expensive arms race and allow economic growth to take place, Gorbachev declared a suspension, or delay, on deployment of medium range missiles in Europe and asked the United States to do the same. ...

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Kirov rejected this notion, but at the Fifteenth Party Congress in 1934 many members expressed disapproval of Stalin's tight control, and a small percentage of the delegates actually voted against re-electing him the Central Committee. ...

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These are only a few of the many other freighting events that took place in the beginning of the twenty-first century. ... And the final weapon that we have to worry about terrorist or leaders of small countries trying to get their hands on are nuclear weapons. ...

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