., (2001), Essential Modern World History, Thomas Nelson: UK Yet if the US were to try and contain China, it would need the support of at least some South East Asian states. ... Mao expressed his basic intentions to unify China and create a "new world" in a poem: "Great plans are being made; A bridge will fly to join the north and south, a deep chasm become a thoroughfare the mountain goddess, it she is still there, will be startled to find her world so changed" - Statement made by Mao Zedong in 1949, when he gained leadership of China and claimed it as communist in Cowie H.R, (1980), Asi...

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The Cold War was a huge point in time for World History. ... Francis Fukuyama wrote a very interesting article called "The End of History?" ... Yes I do agree that the government is progressively getting more liberal but as we speak Mexico and Australia and other governments are changing, so we will never be able to have a government that will stay the same. ... In the end it all comes down to one subject matter, the end of history or Endism. ... The both believe that there will be and end to history, one thinks that it is the end of history after the Cold War (Fukuyama) the other thinks it mi...

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Stalin's real intentions with the Berlin Blockade, as the History Channel's web page describes were to "limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany" This would give the USSR edge over the Western allies in the fight for control over Berlin and consequently Germany. ... Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the South African Air Force flew ...

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