During the end of the WWII, the USA was at the verge of becoming the world's largest superpower, producing more than 50% of the globe's manufacturing outputs, owning a navy that was as big as the rest of the globe's combined navies, and possessing the only weapon of atomic bomb in the world, and this was demonstrated even before the end of the war (Todd, 2011) Therefore, Roosevelt demonstrated deep interest to fill the power vacuum in Europe when the Nazi Germany would be defeated by spreading the doctrine of democracy (Todd, 2011). ... For instance, according to The Churchill C...

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A struggle for both Arab and geographical influence saw American president Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev fight for an Egyptian alliance, wielding weapons of promissory fiscal rewards, diplomatic influence, and arms. ... The United Nations saw fit to deploy their first ever-armed peacekeepers to the canal in 1956 (The History of Peacekeeping, n.d), and further they threatened to halt Britain's oil supplies. ...

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An example of a hard power exercising military forces can be the invasion of Iraq by the US in 2003 over the concern of Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (UCLA International Institute, 2014). ... The sanctions were created to limit the US' investment in Iran's oil fields. ...

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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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