However, there was many similarities and differences in the American expansionism during those two centuries. From the early years of the century until the Civil War, policy debates centered on extending our North American borders. ... The purchase of the Louisiana Territory, for instance, raised important constitutional issues concerning the legality of land purchase. ... The period following the Civil War up to the late 1870's was given over to consolidating the territorial lands and integrating them into the political and economic mainstream. ... From the end of the Civil War to the...

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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. ... Stalin's job was, basically, to manage relations between the various ethnic groups of the former Russian Empire and to develop some sort of coherent policy toward the questions of national secession and civil rights. ... Russia was in the midst of a civil war between the Bolsheviks and a number...

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The year 2001 was extremely important for both USA and Russia political life. ... Vladimir Putin during his speech in Munich accused USA of overusing the terms of democracy and peace to pursue particular interests of the US. ... Worth mentioning is a fact that at that time people started to talk about the beginning of a New Cold War. ... What is more important, this brings back a popular belief that Russia had a possibility to change borders using its power, yet they did not do that. ... The first quarter after the end of the Civil War was more of mutual cooper...

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Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. ... The 1950's began with the first armed conflict of the Cold War, that is, the Korean War. ... Few people were willing to challenge or defy societal norms, weary of being branded "un-American", and therefore, a communist. ... The Civil Rights movement, encouraged by the goals of WWII, which sought to destroy the racist policies of Nazi Germany, came to prominence during Eisenhower's adm...

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During this period, the Social Democrats split into two factions, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin, and the Mensheviks. ... The new government, led by Lenin, made peace with the Germans and undertook a bloody, three-year civil war, in which Stalin commanded on several fronts. ... Even during the war, he made inflexible demands of his new allies, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States. ... This brief swell of dissent only shows how egregiously people still misunderstood the nature of Stalin's rule. ... (It is important...

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During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S. ... During World War II he headed the Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving perhaps as much as 15 billion dollars (whitehouse.gov). ... The American people would not of been able to trust a man who regretted or second-guessed his actions in a time of crisis. ... One of the most important tactics to counter communist influence was the introduction of the Marshall Plan (Divine 670). ... Unfortunately, the lack of troop support from the Americans and lack of morale and leadership from the Nationalist le...

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Mayhem immediately arose on the Ole Miss campus, with uprisings resulting in two people dead, hundreds of people injured and countless other people detained, when the Kennedy administration summoned 31,000 National Guardsmen and supplementary federal forces to impose command. ... "Meredith attempted to register four times without success" (Civil Rights Movement). ... "Doyle also noted that two other factors were equally important: John F. ... During the University of Mississippi riots "two people were killed and many others injured in the ensuing chaos" (The Integratio...

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Memories of help given to the counter revolutionaries during the civil war only helped to highlight the potential disputes. ... By 1926, pre war production levels had only just been achieved after the huge damage to Russia's infrastructure inflicted by the First World War and the civil war. ... Dissatisfaction was building among those who fought the civil war for the reds. Stalin's drive for the five-year plans was popular throughout the lower sections of the party, and communism being the government of the workers; it was hard for the more important officials to object to it. ... To...

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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 1924 Lenin died, the country was led by 5 people: Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lev kamenev ,Grigori Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin. ... In 1934 to 1939 during Stalin's "reign of...

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On the night of November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall-the most potent symbol of the cold war division of Europe-came down. ... The movement simply went underground, and the rebellious Poles organized their own civil society, separate from the Communist government and its edicts. ... 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 collapse of communism in East Central Europe and the Soviet Union marked the end of the cold war. ... On the other han...

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