The events of the Cuban missile crisis bought home to the two sides that an arms race was not a solution, and that they need to come to some agreements that would attempt to avert the chance of a heating up of the situation. ... This paradox was bought home to both superpowers in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. ... The means of communication used during the crisis appear quite absurd when considering the high drama and imminent peril both powers found themselves in at the time, and it was these set of circumstances that bought home to the USA and the USSR the need to find a different modus ...

• Word Count: 1917
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their freedom found under Gorbachovian reforms lashed out of control striking at all who held power over them, with the exception of those they freely elected. ... If he could maintain a supposed belligerent foe and keep socialism firmly in place at home, he would have no problems contrary to Marxism-Leninism. ... He sought to achieve these goals through his policies both at home and abroad. ...

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Basic freedoms, like those held by Americans, are guaranteed unconditionally and cannot be abused without the entire world knowing. ... The worldwide web is the ideal place for intercontinental communication: "No one owns the internet, it is totally decentralized, no one can turn it off, it can potentially reach into every home in the world -(62). ... Investors are now able to buy and sell stocks from around the world from their home computer, using Internet brokerage sites that provide free information and tools to make educated trades. ...

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Arms control is arguably one of the most prominent issues every nation of the world has to deal with, this is because every man woman and child on the planet may potentially be affected by the arms another country posses. 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. These two countries became the s...

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In my opinion such an invasion in what the Russians would see as "home affairs" could give a birth to a major mistrust and even hostility between the two states. ... By 1945, Stalin was the veteran revolutionary, a man who had held the reins of Soviet power and authority for nearly twenty years. ... The Soviet Union has seen America as a state with the desire for an Empire, who was interfering with their home policies; the US has seen a direct threat in the foreign policies of the USSR and therefore has seen their role as state which would lead the whole world to democracy. ...

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Adding to their spiritual scars, Mongol forces regularly held the false claim that God sent them to make the Russian people pay for the sins that they had committed. ... Because of Vladmir's such sharp decline, Moscow earned the spot as the Orthodox Church's new home. ...

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Although the Nazi's forbade education it took place clandestinely, where small groups of pupils would meet either in the soup kitchen or in the home of the teacher. ... When the Nazi's entered the ghetto on April 19, 1943, Passover Eve, they met determined resistance; in factthe Jews held back the Germans for longer than the French army could hold back German invasion in France. ...

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This transition began reshaping the preceding social structure and firmly held beliefs of Russian culture as communism began to take root. ... Although the excitement of returning back to the worker's factory is present, the pain of returning to a permanently changed home is even more emotionally potent. ... Although Gleb remains a strong, revolutionary figure throughout the novel, Gladkov delves deeper into the internal conflict Gleb must attempt to overcome in order to adjust to a new society, a new wife, and a new home. ... On a general level, sacrifices are made in the town, with c...

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Khrushchev concerned himself with lessening the plight of the individual, attempting to increase the food supply and switching from heavy industry to light industry, which would produce home appliances. ... A majority of voters expressed confidence in Yeltsin in a referendum held on April 1993, but they rejected a proposal for early parliamentary elections. ...

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In a place that holds much discrimination and hierarchies that typically took place on the sidewalk, at work and at home separated them and kept them from unity" (Borneman 53), Just as racism has had an effect on the United States, Berlin has the same issue. ... Much of the unemployment was all because of when East Germany turned over its currency and economy to West Germany, on July 1 (Schmemann 64). 15,000 distribution centers opened up for the East Germans to switch their worthless money over to the West German money that held greater worth for the ratio of 1:1, because of this, the money t...

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That following month, democratic elections were held resulting in a landslide victory for the NCChP led by former Soviet Air Force general Dzhokhar Dudayev. ... The Caucasus is also home to a large selection of ethnic groups and religions, making it a very diverse area in terms of beliefs and cultures. ...

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He assumed the identity of a man named Trotsky who was one of the colleagues of his in the Siberian jail he was being held in. ... Despite this fact, the Russian empire was the home of mainly peasants who were farmers even though it is believed that the lives of the Russians was improved in the year 1861 from which they were serfs, implying that they were owned and traded like goods by their owners. ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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