The means of communication used during the crisis appear quite absurd when considering the high drama and imminent peril both powers found themselves in at the time, and it was these set of circumstances that bought home to the USA and the USSR the need to find a different modus vi! ... This meant that West Germany refused to recognise East Germany, and undertook to break off all diplomatic relations with any states that did so. ... All of Europe (apart from Albania), the US and Canada took part in subsequent negotiations. ... These were all contributions to what was beginning to appear as a ...

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As far as Soviet Russia goes, if tactics are distinguished from policy, it is obvious in retrospect that Soviet diplomacy had never emancipated itself from the fundamental principle of Bolshevik foreign policy: hostility to the West. ... In the end however, a bland statement was issued from the Yalta Conference that specified that the Eastern frontier of Poland would be based on the Curzon line, but it did not mention where it would leave the northern and western frontiers. ... It resulted from a meeting at sea between Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941. ... And when the Soviet violati...

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Since 1945, the United States and Western Europe had been fighting off Communism as if it were a plague. ... "Under true communism," argues the author, "all incomes are completely equal. ... And from our perspective, that makes complete sense. ... This is a western, individualistic way of thinking, but it makes sense. ... Of all the times from 1945 to 1992, when the only two superpowers in the world, the U.S. and the USSR, were at the height of their spying activities, the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 was by far the most important, militarily and diplomatically. ...

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The escalations of force between the two states held the distinct possibility of an all-out nuclear weapons confrontation. ... The Soviets utilized the threat of nuclear war and their sheer power to force Mao to back down, but it's quite possible that Mao and Brezhnev used Sun Tzu's tactics to deal with their mutual adversary: the United States. In Sun Tzu's Art of War first chapter, entitled Laying Plans, the eighteenth rule is as follows: all warfare is based on deception (Cantrell, 2003). ... To Western powers, the threat from communism seems to have diminished, but th...

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We propose the Baruch Plan, which in a paraphrase states that: All United Nations member nations would disclose all of their nuclear materials All United Nations member nations would disclose all of their nuclear research After these first two steps were complete, the U.S would destroy all of their Atomic bombs. ... Stalin would say that with western hostility growing, that holding eastern Europe was in fact a defensive move on his part. ... The western powers realized that in order to revitalize Europe under the Marshall plan, they would first have to rebuild Germany which was still s...

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The main principal of N.A.T.O was that if the Soviet Union were to attack any one of the joined allies then it would be considered an attack on all of them. ... Much of this technology was retained through the use of western spies located with the government. America began a widespread hate to all Communists. ... Fidel Castro, since his taking to Communism, has been viewed by the United States as a threat to the western world and to Democracy. ... He stated that he would reduce or completely cut off America from his countries sugar export, which was a serious thing since 75% of Cuba's...

• Word Count: 1988
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Fashion in the early 20's was still quite elaborate: hairstyles, hats and skirt shapes varied. ... Hats were worn all the time in the 40's, and after the war they were little, sloping down, and dish shaped. ... The new silhouette had been quite childlike with rounded limbs, and the model, Twiggy, with her childish, innocent look was the face of the decade. ... The period of 1980's was all about dressing for power. ... Thunder of 90's - a tall girl with a short hairstyle or without hair at all or she made her hair look like a sponge. ...

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At the time of the bombing all people seemed to take into consideration was the amount of destruction they saw and they amount of lives that had been lost because of those bombs. ... President Roosevelt had decided that keeping information from the Soviets about the development of the bomb was beneficial. ... For time after Western Europe would rely on the United States because even though the United States did not have ground troops there Europe would fall under the protection of the Atomic bomb and the power it held. ... As typical citizens we may never understand why something so destructiv...

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Isolationism is the idea that we keep to ourselves and our own western hemisphere rather than venture into the affairs of the eastern world. ... Back when the United States was just breaking away from Britain and starting as a nation, President James Monroe came up with a declaration called the Monroe Doctrine. ... What Monroe didn't know was that he was establishing a beginning to a leadership responsibility in not only the western hemisphere, but in the entire world. ... This timid and wishful approach to foreign policy made some Americans quite upset; it is not like the United States n...

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The specifics of communism's demise varied among nations, but similarities in both the causes and the effects of these revolutions were quite similar. As well, all of the nations involved shared the common goals of implementing democratic systems of government and moving to market economies. ... In Europe, on the other hand, the shift from communism was taking place in a different context altogether. The peoples involved were not looking to affect a narrow set of policy reforms; indeed, what was at stake was a hyper-radical shift from the long-held communist ideology to a...

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His campaign strategies were to unite the Republican party and he appealing to voters in border, southern, and western states by enunciating conservative policies that distinguished the GOP from the liberalism of the Democrats and the more conservative views of the American Independent party. ... His goal was to get all US troops out of Vietnam. ... Nixon worked hard to promote peace and accomplished quite well. ... Nixon's administration went downhill from there. ... On a scale from 0-5, I would give Nixon a 3 1/2. ...

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