Offensive modernization in Japan was increased in 1868 as part of the Meiji Restoration. ... By 1876, the Japanese eradicated the samurai class as well as the luxuries associated with it. ... The creation of a conscription based army led to Japan's new opposing force that led it to be one of the quickest growing superpowers. ... The increasingly larger companies created the spread of large corporations that marked America's path to industrial success. ... America further advanced their industrial success by implementing Great Britain's scheme of tapping outlying resources. ...

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The most obvious and famous of the triangles linked the Soviet Union, China and the United States, but the Soviet-US- Japan triangle was also important. ... Sino-Soviet -Japanese triangle 2. ... The great post-war exception was the Soviet-US-Japan triangle. Relationships among the three countries scarcely changed, apart from fluctuations in US-Soviet and US-Japanese relations from time to time. ... The Soviet-Japanese-American triangle drove Soviet policy towards Japan, since the Soviets viewed Japan as a creature of American engagement in Asia. ...

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ROLES OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST AND JAPAN IN PROMOTING ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN THE NORTHEAST ASIA The relation between the Russian Far East and Japan is 'near and far'. In the Cold War period there existed an 'invisible wall' in the Sea of Japan. ... Nevertheless, the business between the Russian Far East and Japan has not made a big progress. ... Since socialism with the Soviet Union as its top had collapsed, the confrontation between America and the Soviet Union had disappeared, and America's hegemony over the world was established. Owing to this fact, American value...

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Newman explains that Stimson argues throughout his article that the atomic bombs were the most efficient way to end the war because the Japanese refused to surrender, the Soviets had no intimidation factor on the Japanese, and that Americans were simply war weary and need a quick resolution. ... Stimson had known that the Japanese were adamant about not unconditionally surrendering and from this information did everything in his power to rid the American people of their wartime blues. He knew that Americans had long since been tired of the war and fervent to bring the troops back home. ... St...

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However, that approach lacked success, and tactics were reformed in the 1980s when Joseph Nye, an American political scientist, classified two concepts known as hard and soft powers. ... Japan's economic success legitimized its role as a model in the eyes of its neighbors, thus outshining China and its Maoist ideals. Surrounding countries began to look up to Japan, which then created a much more relaxed proximate for it. Although Japan may not have been considered powerful, its impact was very influential which later produced desired outcomes for Japan (Cooper, 2004). ... It uses captivat...

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For example, Cuba being a sphere of influence of the United States had greatly benefited Americans up until Castro's revolution in 1958. ... In the terms of this treaty, the Soviets provided China with $300 000 000 worth of goods and materials, and mutual military aid incase of an attack from Japan or its allies. ... This American alliance included most of western Europe. ... This formation of American alliances in Europe also helped the American policy of containment of soviet Expansion in Europe. ...

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Also, by a secret agreement with Roosevelt, Stalin promised to declare war on Japan three months after the end of hostilities in Europe. ... Roosevelt and Churchill were further inclined to assent to the Yalta agreements because they assumed, mistakenly as it turned out, that Soviet assistance would be sorely needed to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific and Manchuria. ... In America, the Polish-American public had to be appeased for popularity and voting purposes. ... In areas of America with large Polish populations, Pennsylvania for example, anti-Communists sentiments burned with a vengea...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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Others supported the revisionist view and would claim that it was not an aggression but a self - defence policy and that the American involvement in the South America and therefore its Imperialism resulted in the Cold War. ... By the end of the year there were nearly 200.000 troops there from the USA, Britain, France and Japan. ... An angry Khrushchev said in Los Angeles in 1959: "Never have any of our soldiers been on American soil, but your soldiers were on Russian soil." ... According to what I have been taught and what I have read from the Russian point if view, that was a great betrayal...

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A "genius of strategy" his excellent tactical command repelled a Japanese incursion at Khalkhin-Gol, Mongolia. Japanese archives reveal that it was this crushing defeat that was instrumental in their decision not to attack Russia in 1941. ... Allies Russia's "strange alliance" with Britain and America was pivotal in her ability to resist and overcome Nazi Germany. ...

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Russia, still reeling from its defeat by Japan, backed down and the crisis passed, but Bulgaria took advantage of the situation to declare its full independence from the Ottoman Empire. ... However, by the early twentieth century, Germany and America were now outstripping Britain's industrial production, and in 1898, Germany had launched a ship building program which threatened British naval supremacy. An Alliance with Japan in 1902, reduced Britain's naval commitment in the Pacific Ocean and two years later, Britain entered into the entente cordiale with its traditional enemy France...

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Many Americans and Germans came to the USSR as technical consultants because they could not find jobs in the depression era. ... The Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy and Japan in September 1940 and Hitler ordered the highly secret ˜Operation Barbarossa'. ...

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Even though China has been strongly integrated into the U.S-dominated international system and following U.S-established rules and regulations (in the practice of fair trade), the rise of China continues to be seen a threat to American policy-makers (Yue, 2008). ... China has not only expanded trade throughout the world dramatically (exports and imports all the way from Mexico to Australia), but it has also become the "main export destination for South Korea, Taiwan and Japan" (Sutter, 2004, p.285). ...

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One result of the war was the US economic leap, predefined and adequate growth of their political ambitions in world politics, what mood prevailed in government circles of America B. Baruch testified saying: "Thanks to the power of its armed forces, its excellence in the field of economy, its resources and moral force, resulting from the American way of life, America is in a position to assert its leadership of the world. " It must be recognized that such an attitude was a real basis. Limited participation in direct hostilities (during the war years the number of American troops did not exceed...

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In today's society more than ever the worry over the nuclear capability of countries is at the foreground of debate, some countries possess weapons of mass destruction a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the most notorious of which are the USA and the Soviet Union. ... India wants to continue as a nuclear power to try and deter the Pakistani government from launching into Indian Territory, if the United States were to build their Anti Ballistic Missile system (ABM) in North America, it would be a clear violation of...

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Russia was in the midst of a civil war between the Bolsheviks and a number of opponents (including a considerable number of foreign cadres--among them British, Czech, French, and American detachments). ...

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The importance of securing natural energy resources is taking center stage in the European Union's (EU) future plans. Turkey, a candidate for a full membership to EU, is located close to 70% of the world's oil and gas reserves. Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. This would give all the countries involved a necessary alternative to the Russian supply routes - and it would become the fourth most dynamic energy corridor for Eu...

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