In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. ... This would be an opportune time, since the United States was heavily invested, both economically and politically, in the Vietnam conflict in 1969. ... Both the Chinese and Soviets hoped the United States and our Western allies would deem this rift as a sign of regional and political instability between the two Asian nations, resulting in military cutbacks and a reduced...

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Also, the stipulations in the Treaty of Versailles, such as the German loss of its international colonies, which caused the loss of foreign markets, shipping and investments, the restriction of its boundaries, and the occupation of the Ruhr, made it very hard for Germany to rebound from its financial depression. ... Also, Germany proposed a network of bilateral trade agreements that was designed to somewhat unite a politically divided Europe. ... He furthered Lenin's work by forcing the Russian population to conform to the beliefs of his political party. ... However, his system already ha...

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The Suez Crisis of 1956 demonstrates the inextricable link between the vehemence of Cold War politics and the decline of the once invincible imperial powers. ... The Suez crisis undoubtedly resulted in a pivotal shift in global politics. ... Furthermore it is a prime example of Cold war behaviors and politics in order to gain geographic and cultural alliance, just as it was seen in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. ... The crisis also emphasized the intensity and complexity of the Cold War crisis and the lengths, but also boundaries experienced by both America and the USSR. ...

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Instead, communist governments were established in all those countries, noncommunist political parties were suppressed, and genuinely democratic elections were never held. ... Poland's western boundary will be moved to the Neisse River, a territory containing approximately nine million Germans. ... These ethnic groups view the decisions made at Yalta as a political betrayal of their respective nations. ...

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Russia is a nation that has gone through many hardships and reformations to get where it is today. After the Tsarist regime over the country disintegrated, many leaders arose with plans that included radical reforms to change Russia from where it stands, as well as one that attempted to stabilize th...

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But these religious persecutions gradually faded as most people in Europe became more politically sensitive with strong political affiliations and tenacious resistance to their new revolutionary style governments. ... Their attempts at radically revolutionize their various countries led to the emergence of new kind of political upheaval that produced political refugees of the 19th century. ... Also, the inordinate ambition for violent territorial expansion of nation states which replaced the collapsed empires in these regions meant that political opposition alliances to such ideals were crush...

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Stalin's first political pseudonym was "Koba" (a fictitious hero in Georgian literature). Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms). ... It was during this period that Stalin ordered his first executions (mostly of captured Whites and other various political prisoners). ...

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Roosevelt had hesitated to discuss the Polish issue in detail for political reasons. ... Some members of the exile government in London to be integrated into the communist Lublin government Stalin promised to hold free elections at the end of hostilities The main issue surrounding this provisional Polish government at the Yalta Conference was its status in determining the country's political future The Soviet Union had occupied parts of Poland ever since 1944. ... These terms recognized the government that Soviet occupants had imposed upon Poland, as legitimate and left no basis for h...

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