"1 Polarity is defined by how the power is distributed in the international scenario. ... The example of the United Sates after the Cold War is the most recent example of a unipolar world. ... However, one can argue that in the case of the Cold War what prevent the two nations from engage in war against each other was the risk of a nuclear war, in which would put the whole world and the human race in great danger. ... Both World Wars is a perfect illustration of it. ... A period of time in political history that great exemplifies a multipolar world was the time after the Napoleonic war ...

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The United States and the Soviet Union became the two superpowers of the post - World War II era. ... Although, I personally would agree that the policies of the World War II played a significant role in shaping the international politics of the post - war world, and possibly could be blamed for the beginning of the Cold War. ... Under the new Government Russia wants to withdraw from the World War I that they were involved in at that time. Therefore, the Bolsheviks sign a separate peace treaty with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk on very unfavourable terms, giving up 1/3 of the population and 1/...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. ... One result of the war was the US economic leap, predefined and adequate growth of their political ambitions in world politics, what mood pr...

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIA "This is the only region in the world where so many combinations and permutations of two- three and four- and even two plus four or three plus three- power games can be played on the regional chessboard with all their complexities and variations." ... From 1948 onwards, a more or less clear-cut line divided Europe into two main political and military blocs: the communist bloc and the free world of Western Europe, resulting in an almost perfect bipolarity. ... In addition, five others also helped to shape Soviet policy 1. ... The great post-war exception was ...

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The decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki put an immediate end to World War II. ... Alperovitz's second argument lies in the regrets of World War II military leaders. ... Henry Stimson had been Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Secretary of War during World War II. ... The United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) concluded that "certainly prior to December 31. 1945, and in all probability prior to November 1, 1945 even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated,"...

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The Cold War started in the closing moments of World War II in 1945. ... "World events were dominated by a great struggle between the democratic and capitalist countries of the west, led by the United States, and the Communist nations, led by the Soviet Union " (Kort). ... The Cold War left a great impact on Germany, dividing Berlin in two with the Berlin Wall. ... The women who had unplanned children at a younger age were more likely to be unmarried mothers (Vasagar 1). ... The Cold War was such a rough time for everyone all around the world, however it hit the hardest for the Germans. ...

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 The Life and Death of Détente: Nixon, Carter, and Reagan, 1968-1988 "If we can learn to live together on these issues and work together and negotiate on these we may change the world. ... By the 1970's, the destructive capabilities of the world's two superpowers along with an emerging third power in the nation of China, had combined to make the world a dangerously unstable place. ... "Kissinger believed that international stability was the best way to preserve American power and one way to assure that was to allow China to enter into a bala...

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Is it really possible that the status quo from 80s and the revival of the Cold War is a fact? ... In this essay I would like to take a closer look to that issue and make an effort to answer the questions above.1 To appropriately understand the subject being here discussed, one has to go far back of the historical processes. ... Attacks at World Trade Center were a watershed and a huge shock for the whole West as well as for Russia. ... Obama's administration would avoid to name that tensions as a Cold War. ... The first quarter after the end of the Civil War was more of mutual cooper...

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He was 1 of 4 Sons who lived of Vissarion a shoemaker and an alcoholic and Tekaterina a washer. ... In 1934 to 1939 during Stalin's "reign of terror" Joseph had his secret police send over 25 million people to the gulags and over 1 million executed and 7 million died in the gulags , these people were sent to the gulags and murdered because Stalin was paranoid of enemies and conspirators so he had whoever he thought was suspicious send to the gulags or murdered. ... The Russians were the first into the German capital of Berlin in 1945 with the whole world now looking at Stalin as gre...

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The pact was officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague on July 1, 1991. ... The Soviet Union acknowledged this, and the pact was officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague on July the 1, 1991. ... A full scale "east versus west" war never actually broke out, hence the metaphor of a "cold" war, rather than a "hot" shooting war. Instead, the conflict continued from the end of World War II until the break up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. ... After World War II it became a communist country, ( Petar II Karadjordjevic was the last king) under president Josip Broz Tito, but unlik...

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This was the year in which World War 2 began in the region, during the period of Japanese expansion. ... World War 2 did not change Australian attitudes so much as it reinforced them. For a long time there was a fear among the Australian people of Asian invasion, firstly from the Chinese when they flocked to Australia during the gold rush, and then from the Japanese after World War 1, nicknamed the "Yellow Peril". ... After World War 2 there were also changes in policies and attitudes concerning foreign affairs. ... The reason the USA was against communism was because it was during the Cold Wa...

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Stalin joined the more radical Bolsheviks, and by the time World War I arrived, in 1914, he had attended a number of Party Congresses and risen high in Lenin's favor, who appointed him to the Bolshevik Central Committee. ... Meanwhile, World War II was fast approaching. ... The Cold War had begun. ... Part 1:The Great Terror and the Nazi-Soviet Pact In the early 1930s, a famine developed in the Ukraine; learning of the suffering there, Stalin's wife Nadezhda confronted him, demanding that he remedy the situation. ... Thus Stalin made Kirov the scapegoat, and it was Kirov who was ...

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1. Summary of the Content of the Document The 'percentages agreement' was taken from Churchill's (1953) 'The Second World War, Vol. 6, Triumph and Tragedy'. During the final year of the war, the British premier, Winston S. ... Comment on the Date of Publication and Discussion on the Wider Social, Economic, and Political Context The 'percentages agreement' was made public by Churchill only through the publication of his book The Second World War, Vol. 6, Triumph and Tragedy'. ... During the end of the WWII, the USA was at the verge of becoming the wo...

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Appearing in short films just as the Great War was getting started, he would be one of the world's biggest stars by the time it ended. ... His relationship with the world's major conflicts became more direct with the release of The Great Dictator (1940), a direct parody of Adolf Hitler right as World War II was getting into full swing. ... Similarly, Chaplin had been vocal in calling for a second front to be opened in order to support the Soviet Union during World War II. ... It was in the context of these events – and the Cold War – that the film A King in New York was...

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The basic aim of this alliance was to protect European states from the possible aggression by USSR, which after the Second War looked determined to expand her frontiers. ... The Treaty: The treaty of NATO consists of the following 14 articles: Article 1. ... (iii) The Regional Command: The Regional Command is entrusted with the task of defending Canada and US NATO after the disintegration of USSR: The collapse of socialism in the late eighties and the disintegration of USSR in December 1991 virtually ended the cold war between the socialist and capitalist countries, which had marked the lat...

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"1 It can be said with reasonable evidence that one of the immediate causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union was economic unrest and peril. During the height of the Cold War (from the 1960s onward), the Soviets unfortunately lost the great race for arms with the West. ... This was central to the "culture" of war in those times. ... "5 This was then pushed to extremes by the "war on propaganda," which was carried out by none other than the USSR's enemy, The West. ... To conclude, the Soviet Union lasted a grand total of sixty-nine years, with its breakup s...

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The possibility of the end of the Cold War for so long seemed out of the question. Because of the definition of the Soviet ideology which stated that war with the capitalist nations of the world was inevitable, peace was paradoxical. ... Following its inception after World War Two between the two major world powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, began an ideological race for world domination. ... "(1) Under Brezhnev, the foreign policy rotated around the concept that the "correlation of forces was moving in favor of socialism... The 1980s brought a new face to the American presidency...

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The need to be ready for war with nuclear weapons and peacekeeping with no weapons are both different ethical environmental issues that are closely associated with each other. ... On the other hand, peace should not involve the testing and construction of nuclear weapons that cause mass destruction and death throughout the world. ... For years these nuclear weapons have been contaminating our environment by discharging harmful contaminants into the environment, but yet they still seem to be the backbone of our nation being built and tested every single day (Armstrong, David, 1). Throughout ...

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History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. ... 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. ... The Nepmen were seen as capitalists and a reminder of the Old World'. ... Dissatisfaction was building among those who fought the civil war for the reds. ...

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On July 1, 1968 the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was opened for signature. ... As of March 2002, 182 other nations have signed this treaty in an effort to make this world a safer community by limiting the transfer and creation of nuclear weapons. ... At the height of the Cold War, MAD, or Mutually Assured Destruction, was the only thing keeping the United States and Russia from going to war. ... In theory, it would only take one nuclear warhead to end this world. ... Moreover, President Bush's administration's nuclear weapons decisions and policies "suggests that our existing nuc...

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As the most treacherous incident in the history of the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis has inescapably enticed the observation of numerous diplomatic historians. With the dual superpowers wavering on the edge of nuclear war, the dispute of how to eliminate Russian arsenals from Cuba in October 1962, while conserving the harmony, epitomized the utmost trial of John F. ... Regardless of the ferocious opposition, James Meredith enrolled as the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi on October 1, 1962. ... The Cuban Missile Crisis was an undeviating and treacherous opp...

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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 argued strongly for the continuation of the war and for cooperation with the Provisional Government. ... Stalin had initially argued against the treaty, agreeing with Trotsky that Russia could declare itself withdrawn from the war without having to sign any sort of diplomatic agreement. ... Russia was in the midst of a civil war between the Bolsheviks and a number of opponents (including a considerable number of foreign cadres--among ...

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As the world watched in amazement, the most successful communist country, the USSR, collapsed and disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. ... After World War II, people increasingly sought for a much variety of goods which should not only fill their basic needs, but also satisfy their personal demands. ... (Problems)" The graph shows Soviet real incomes from 1983 to 1993 (see fig.1). It indicates that the income significantly fell by one-third in years between 1990 and Fig.1 Graph from Harrison 1993. ... Congress granted Solidarity 1 million dollar to support their anti-communism a...

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