The Warsaw Pact acted as a counter weight to the noncommunist N.A.T.O. countries. ... Romania reduced its participation in the Warsaw Pact and followed the defense strategy of Yugoslavia and Albania called, "Ear of the Entire People- (Appendix C: The Warsaw Pact, online). ... The main goal of the Soviet military strategy was to have a quick victory over NATO in a non-nuclear war. The Soviets planned to defeat NATO before it could even convene a strategy if the Warsaw Pact planned to attack. ...

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This essay firstly aims to explain and analyse the theoretical differences between the two strategies on a macro level and illustrate various achievements and reality with statistics. ... Russia and NTLS Neoliberalism, the core of Neoliberal transition strategy, was initially coined by Milton Friedman who recommended the use of ˜shock therapy' to make a sudden and radical transition within a few years (Kotz, 2000). ... In comparison, China's experience was completely opposite as there was a dual existence of the state sector i.e. a planned economy and the market " the f...

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Reagan accomplished lowering taxes this by pressuring congress to pass an act known as the Tax Reform Act of 1986. This act alone lowered the top income tax from 50% to 28%. ... This act eliminated fifteen levels of income taxes to only four, which created an average tax for four levels of income. The act also mandated that capital gains, a profit that results from a movement of a capital asset, for example stocks, bonds, or real estate, to the actual value of the asset, also be taxed at the equal rate as regular income. ... Along with his economic strategy, he wanted to restore the military t...

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The embargo was tightened by the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, and the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996 (Helms Burton). The 1992 act penalized other countries if their ships stopped in Cuba. ... In the face of this near "Melt Down- of the economy, Cuba's leadership modified the basic development strategy with a number of institutional and policy innovations. ... Additional US policies affecting trade with Cuba are the Torreliceli Act and the Helms-Burton Act. ... Canada, Mexico, and European countries objected strongly to the extraterritorial nature of the Helms-Burton ...

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The strategies of hard power actors are geared towards threatening other actors into compliance. ... In 1995, the Iran Sanctions Act was enforced to respond to Iran's nuclear program and also its supposed funding of organizations such as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (public diplomacy, 2013). ... One sub-strategy of this main strategy is the continued presence of Russian state television in the former Soviet satellite states. ...

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Finally the Poles would incorporate the Underground Army's actions in a broader scope of Allied movements and strategy across Europe (SA197). ... Winston Churchill saw Poland as a prime territory to realize his strategy to "set Europe ablaze" with covert operations that would harass the Nazis and keep their resources stretched (BLAZE). ... Churchill admitted having cloudy morals regarding the lack of assistance Britain could give Poland because of the tight rope act they were having to play with their new alliance, "...we had a strong obligation to support the interest of ...

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The West took it as an act of treachery which then convinced them that Russia was untrustworthy. ... According to Hitler, Communism was a Jewish political strategy to conquer Germany and the rest of the world and for this reason he hated Communism and Jews with a passion. ... Stalin promptly denied any accusations for this barbaric act . ...

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Lenin had a clear direction as to what he wanted the Bolsheviks to do, and his pre-revolution strategy alone gave the Bolsheviks strength and set it in good stead. ... In wanting peace at any price, Trotsky acted in Lenin's stead to be the chief negotiator, delaying terms as long as possible in hope of revolution breaking out in Germany or Austria. ...

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The first of Gorbachev's reforms and basically his strategy as a whole was called Perestroika, meaning "restructuring". ... Another strong achievement was pulling troops from Afghanistan in 1988 and doing it on schedule symbolizing the act of a strong precise leader. ...

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Reagan "used conservative rhetoric to keep his right-wing supporters happy, but he often acted in a pragmatic manner" (p. 75). ... Reagan understood that the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse, and he "coordinated a comprehensive strategy to force it to surrender" (p. 153). ...

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In the Pacific, U.S. forces had won the naval battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, landed in Guadalcanal and began the island hopping strategy that by 1945 had won back the Philippines and where a striking force at Japan's doorstep. ... The German leadership acted as if these landings were a diversion. ...

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On December 25, 1991, the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russia. As the world watched in amazement, the most successful communist country, the USSR, collapsed and disintegrated into...

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