The United States, sticking true to their foreign affairs policies regarding communism; "In helping free and independent nations to maintain their freedom, the United States will be giving effect to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations" (Truman Doctrine, 1947), immediately moved troops into South Korea, fearing the Soviets would make a move for the southern portion of the Korean peninsula as well. ... The UN quickly organized a UN army, consisting of soldiers from 15 other countries, to move in and fight alongside the US in South Korea. ... Speaking about the US'...

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Even before the siege and onslaught began, the people of Kiev had a chance to stop the Mongol invasion. ... It provided the people with hope during the dark and hopeless years of Mongolian rule. ... Throughout history it seems that whoever controls the money, controls the influence, and therefore controls the people. ... Once a village was built up enough, they would again move further into the unsettled areas of Kievan Russia trying to, and mostly succeeding, spread the Christian religion. Not only did the Orthodox try expanding their influence, but they also moved away from their original lo...

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His appropriate sense of timing, with action planned for the eve of the second All-Russian Congress o Soviets, led to the storming of the Winter Palace on the 25th of October 1917 and the subsequent recognition of the Council of People's Commissars (with Lenin as chairman) by the Congress of Soviets. ... Their decision to continue with the war due to their commitment to the allies was a hugely unpopular move. ... Despite Lenin's attempts to establish a socialist Russia, the adverse conditions he faced gave him little or no results, and on the whole there was no improvement in the...

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The penetration of the Communist regime into every facet of life left the Russian people with little democratic traditions. ... Khrushchev would openly denounce Stalin and his actions because they were unnecessary and harmful to the Communist party and the Russian people (Harris). ... The Yeltsin Regime The Yeltsin regime began the move from socialism to capitalism with a series of profound reforms. The movement away from the penetrative, all-encompassing Soviet economic octopus has caused enormous hardships for the Russian people. ... And finally, by the end of 1993, energy prices would...

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When Hitler diplomatically took power of Germany by first becoming prime minister of the Weimar Republic, one of his first moves was to take Germany out of the League of Nations. Hitler believed that the Germans were a superior race to all other people and that they did not need to be bound to any other country by this agreement. ... At first he began to send all of the racially inferior, such as Jews, slavs, gypsies, Soviets, homosexuals, to forced labor camps, but the quantity of undesirable people was so enormous that Hitler needed a new mean to erase them from the planet. The Final Solutio...

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The modernization theory is the fundamental proposition that people in traditional societies should adopt the characteristics of modern societies in order to modernize their social, political and economic institutions . ... As this was happening, the population of traveling people decreased and the sedentary population increased, particularly in the south. ... Iraq moved away from its close relationship with the Soviet Union and drew closer to the United States. Nationalism is the aspiration for national independence felt by people under domination. ...

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Today, many people are informed about nationalism. ... But, few people got down to the core of nationalism, how it aroused and developed. Some scholars think that nationalism emerged when the first people appeared in the World. ... In this case people are predisposed to express their national values and are easily affected. ... At the same time, some Proto-Georgians moved north to black Sea region and to the Valeey of Kura River, where they create their confideration called Armezi Mtskheta. ...

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People involved in various artistic disciplines were called before the committee, with their attention eventually turning in earnest towards Hollywood in 1947. ... I would like to have told them that the sooner I was rid of that hate-beleaguered atmosphere the better, that I was fed up of America's insults and moral pomposity. 5 Move To Europe and Production of A King in New York All of these events would set the stage for Chaplin, now residing permanently in Europe, producing his first film. ... Once again, the parallels are clear, as Chaplin's real life friendships with people su...

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In the 1950's railroads carried close to 80 percent of the total freight tonnage, and trucks moved only 13 percent. By 1976 only about 37 percent of all freight was moved by rail, and 56.5 percent was carried by truck. ...

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The sheer efficiency of this control could easily stamp out any move of meaning opposition to him. ... Social activities for young people were also organised by Soviet Union officials through pioneer organisations aimed at seven to thirteen year olds and through Komsomol for teens and twenty year olds. ... He also moved away from the earlier emphasis on social equality by introducing wage differentials and accentuated ranks within the army. ...

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In 1931 Stalin made a speech to his people based around the following excerpt "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. ... While Stalin focused almost purely on building Russia as an important world power, he was sacrificing both the liberties and lives of millions of Russian people. ... To encourage rural movement into urban areas higher taxes were placed on food produced outside collectives in the hope that peasants who didn't join collectives would move into urban industrial employment. ... Propaganda was extensively used to instil pride and a series of goals amo...

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In 1922 Lenin gave Stalin the position of General secretary of the central committee of the communist party, This position gave Stalin the power to appoint people were loyal to him key jobs in the Party. In January 1924 Lenin died, the country was led by 5 people: Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lev kamenev ,Grigori Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin. ... The Russian people were afraid to state their own opinion because they knew the penalties were harsh and swift. in the 1930s the rules were changed a little because of most of the crops in the state owned farms were harvested and the farmers who work...

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This system, called globalization, has revolutionized the way society thinks, moves, communicates, and functions. ... Televisions and satellite dishes allow people to visually absorb events, lifestyles, and entertainment from the environment surrounding them. ... When information can be reach so easily by so many people, the ability to learn about a wide range of topics surfaces. Gone are the days that governments have the ability to isolate their people from the rest of the world and misinform them concerning life beyond their domestic borders. ... When people begin to demand information a...

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Only after that, both the people of the USSR and the rest of the world have slowly become aware what really happened during Stalin' rule. ... The USSR now moved to implement collectivisation of agriculture, which was often done in a forcible way. ... Thousands of people merely suspected of opposing Stalin's regime were killed or imprisoned. ... About one million people were shot during the periods of 1935-38, 1942 and 1945-1950, and millions of people were transported to Gulag labour camps. ... Over 1.5 million people were deported to Siberia and the central Asian Republics. ...

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On the twenty-sixth of April 1986, very poorly trained technicians (classic Soviet move to cut corners) decided to undertake a systems test of the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, at one-thirty in the morning. ... It was once a place where the citizens were generally satisfied with and trusting of their government, however this satisfaction and trust blinded people to issues such as public safety and "political transparency." As some contradictions became more visible, the Soviet people became more and more angered by the propaganda of government-controlled media....

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On the twenty-sixth of April 1986, very poorly trained technicians (classic Soviet move to cut corners) decided to undertake a systems test of the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, at one-thirty in the morning. ... It was once a place where the citizens were generally satisfied with and trusting of their government, however this satisfaction and trust blinded people to issues such as public safety and "political transparency." As some contradictions became more visible, the Soviet people became more and more angered by the propaganda of government-controlled media....

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This collapse came as a direct result of Mikhail Gorbachev's attempt to integrate a Marxist-Leninist society into the world economy without the full knowledge of the consequences of such a move. ... Instead, the unity of all peoples for peace was stressed. ...

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Even so, the industrial revolution did not come in uniformly and neither did it move swiftly compared to the other countries like the Britain and this forced the peasants to migrate into the rapidly developing towns and cities in order to seek employment. ... The royal family has ruled and did not have any form of representation among the people considering that Tsar easily ignored the Duma, a body that was elected in the year 1905. ... The effect of this poor ruling and governance was the fact that the people ended up to be peasants in their own country and there was a major division between ...

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According to Borein et al (2002), tourism can be: domestic, i.e. if tourists travel within their own country, inbound when tourists visit another country from abroad, outbound when people travel away from their countries. According to Conwill (2011) the Tourism industry represents five percent of the global GDP and employs directly one every twelve people in advanced and developing countries. ... Moreover Dantri et al state that in Africa also the media don't promote the gender equality and only the twenty per cent of people showed in the television are female. ... As a result the temple ...

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Differences between the former Allies after it was generally uniting them during the war aim, moved to another plane. ... Limited participation in direct hostilities (during the war years the number of American troops did not exceed one million, and the population at that time was approximately 110 million people), and also the most active and significant maintenance of industrial and financial basis of the fight against fascism contributed to the extraordinary growth of economic power of America. ... Even more significant were the casualties of the Soviet Union - over 27 million people. ... ...

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After Mikhail Gorbachev came into power as the leader of the Soviet Union, continuing the economic liberalisation moved the economy towards a market-oriented socialist economy. ... The number of people living below poverty line declined from 30% in 2000 to 14% in 2008. ...

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The Armenian people began organizing nationalistic political groups by the late 1800s. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation, or Dashnaks wanted an autonomous Armenia within the Russian and Ottoman Empires, and the Hunchak party moved for an independent socialist Armenian state. ... Armenia fought Georgia and Azerbaijan unsuccessfully for the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and other lands inhabited by Armenian people. ... In 1999 the Republican Party of Armenia and the Peoples Party of Armenia formed the Unity bloc to oust the PNM, but split again in 2001 opening room for other parties. ...

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In response to a letter in a newspaper by writer Maxim Gorky criticizing the Bolshevik actions, Lenin wrote: "As the State is only a transitional institution which we are obliged to use in the revolutionary struggle in order to crush our opponents forcibly, it is pure absurdity to speak of a Free People's State. ... Interesting to note that a young Stalin, then the head of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities, wanted to deprive the Soviet Republics of their independence by turning them into republics within the RSFSR, but had his proposal rejected when Lenin opted for his ow...

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These protests in Kiev started peacefully, but eventually started to become more chaotic leading to violent clashes between protesters and police and, in late January, two people were shot and killed by officers2. ... President Vladimir Putin defended this movement of troops as a way to protect Russian-speaking people who resided in Ukraine against the growing opposition to the former Ukrainian President and the rise of anti-Russian involvement in state affairs. ... This invasion was a strategic move to target Eastern Ukraine where a majority of its citizens were Russian speakers. ... From pea...

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And, indeed, hatred and loathing played a major role in his demagogical speeches to the German people. ... Or was there perhaps, in his rants against the Jewish people, a hidden, practical, political reasoning behind them? ... This constant association of Jews with the problems of Germany was due to Hitler's attempts to gain control of the hearts and minds of the people of Germany. ... By making Jews out to be the enemy, Hitler provided focus to his people, so as to maintain a secure grip on power. ... One of his first strikes was by writing the poem Marxerei, "filled with contempt f...

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