The reform movement that ended communism in East Central Europe began in Poland. Solidarity, an anti-Communist trade union and social movement, had forced Poland's Communist government to recognize it in 1980 through a wave of strikes that gained international attention. ... The movement simply went underground, and the rebellious Poles organized their own civil society, separate from the Communist government and its edicts. ... Instead, he encouraged the local Communist leaders to seek new ways of gaining popular support for their rule. ... It underwent an inflation of terms, as t...

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As a result, people began to question the authority of the magistrate and what had made them special as religious leaders. ... In the turn of the 19th century, another revival movement spread through the nation. ... Around this time the evangelicals Jerry Falwell and Ed Dobson preached to convince Christians they had a higher calling than to protest in the Civil Rights Movement. In addition to that, the 1960s brought the Vietnam War, student rebellion, the hippie movement, flower children, recreational drugs, and the complete detachment of religion from politics. ... This is just how Martin Lu...

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Authors of radio programs pointed out that the leaders of these countries had been put in power by Stalin, and behaviors, existing there, were not so different from those that had been established in the USSR under Stalin. ... Khrushchev's speech undermined the political positions of many leaders of the communist parties in the world. ... The mixed reaction of the international communist movement, disorders in the socialist countries of Europe, the events in Georgia, a secondary failure of returning Yugoslavia in the socialist camp during Tito's visit to the USSR in June 1956, le...

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Forty years of Japanese rulings in South Korea resulted in major difficulties in finding a leader. ... Unfortunately, the lack of troop support from the Americans and lack of morale and leadership from the Nationalist leaders resulted in the Nationalists to lose countless battles against the Communists during their civil war (Ferrell 113). ...

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The most powerful and therefore, most important such institution, the United States Supreme Court, was no exception, and in fact, was the leader of such legal change. ... 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 administration and made tremendous strides toward equality. ...

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This outraged the dominant Muslim population of Afghanistan and led to mass arrests of Muslim leaders [Chr08]. ... The missiles were key to the victory of the Mujahedeen because it gave them ability to shoot down Soviet helicopters, and transport planes, giving them more freedom of movement and putting an almost dead stop to soviet supplies. ...

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In December 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union at the time, announced the Sinatra Doctrine which stated that the Braznev Doctrine would be abandoned and that the Eastern European countries could do what the liked. ...

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Abstract The American dream comes to mind to most of us when overlooking some of the greatest accomplishments that some of our most inspiring American icons have achieved. Ronald Reagan is just one of the many hundreds of role models that our society is appreciative of. As the fortieth president of ...

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The continent had seen the leaders of Germany, in the span of less than thirty years, twice embark on a conquest that brought the world into war. ... They pointed to evidence of the Soviets objective to support and set up governments in Eastern European countries that reflected not only their communist views, but also the Soviet way of running those governments through a " return to doctrinal belligerence by Russian leaders. ... The interpretations that came from this newer movement were an amalgamation of both Orthodoxy and Revisionism, called Post-Revisionism. ...

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Congress's movement of termination slowed and ceased because of many Native Americans crossed tribal lines to protest termination legislation. ... Leaders of these Native American tribes saw themselves as leaders of nations, domestic and dependent but still a nation. ...

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This changed the Soviet Union; it became a political movement of the communist Party in 1986. ... Although both men were equally creative, innovative and powerful only Xiaoping became one of the greatest peaceful transformation leaders in human history....

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"Meredith attempted to register four times without success" (Civil Rights Movement). ... "Long telephone conversations between the president, the attorney general, and Governor Ross Barnett failed to produce a solution" (Civil Rights Movement). ...

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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. ... Until the last years of the czarist Russia, Stalin was more an up-and -coming follower than a leader. ...

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