For better or worse, revolutions dating as far back as The English Revolution, have one way or another formed national relationships amongst each other. The outcome of each revolution, has effected the style and manor of the next revolution there after in the world. ... No revolution since has encountered such a large number of casualties as The Vietnam Revolution did. ... This war would be the Vietnam Revolution. ... The revolution in Vietnam was imminent, and the American government believed it had no other choice but to help South Vietnam fight for its freedom. ...

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In just viewing one of these great social changes occurring within the United States at this time, the sexual revolution, which effectively broke down the pre-existing gender roles, sex laws, and the sexual morality of mainstream American society, one may see that this change, though beginning slowly eventually became so great and so widespread that it not only affected American culture, but, also, the legal institutions of the United States as well. ... ACLU (1997) the full extent of the effect of the sexual revolution upon the Supreme Court can clearly be seen. ... Few people were willing...

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America's foreign policy treatment towards Iran seems to satisfy these conditions set forth by Snow. ... This is precisely what has happened with Iran and the United States since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. ... So when the revolution successful captured the American Embassy in Tehran and ousted the ruling government in 1979, the new Islamist government was built on a strong foundation of anti-Western sentiments, more specifically, anti-American sentiments. ... As to be expected from the rise of an anti-American government in Iran and the detention of 52 Americans for over 400 days, a ...

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Interestingly the first scholarly mention of the term American exceptionalism actually comes from a man called Max Lerner in his book titled "America as a Civilization".13 He mentions that one of the main institutions that is singled out as the root of American exceptionalism, is the constitution. ... For Americans what claims their pride is the declaration of the independence. ... They state that narrow focus on the constitution "has distorted our understanding of American constitutionalism and inflated our sense of America's difference.... However American involvement wa...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's...

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Furthermore, the period preceding the American Revolution prompted various skilled Italian musicians, painters, artisans, and sculptors to explore into various opportunities provided by the American Revolution era. ... Even so, the number of Italian immigrants in various American contexts was not noticeable. ... Deductively, immigration of Italian Americans into the United States changed over time. ... This made it difficult for the Italians to transition and fit into the American culture and environment. Certainly, the new and unpredictable American environment was not as easy as expected. ...

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The Islamic revolution, which took place in Iran, created the first major foreign policy problem for Carter. ... Reagan devoted a lot of his attention to reversing the affects of the Marxist Revolution in Central America and the Caribbean. After the Nicaraguan Revolution got rid of Anastasio Somoza, the United States accused the new government of aiding Marxist rebels in El Salvador. ... Newspapers had also revealed that the United States had turned many profits from weapons sales to help the Contras fighting the Marxists in Central America. ... He also believed that his rivals in Moscow resp...

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The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. ... As soon as the war ended, the relations between America and Russia cooled. American's regretted their isolation in the years between the wars. ... America fully agreed with the "Iron Curtain" speech." ... The Truman Doctrine was the beginning of American policy for the Cold War. ...

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American feared another economic depression and required the European market. ... Americans still believed that the Soviet Union was out for world domination, as she attempted to expand outside of Eastern Europe. ... Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. ... Both the Ameri...

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"(2) Brezhnev believed that eventually, the capitalist West would experience revolution and would turn towards their socialist brothers for support. ... This attitude in America served to heighten American concerns over Soviet influence abroad and increased paranoia in the United States. Thus, the failure of American detente in the 1970s was inevitable without cooperation in some way by the Soviet Union. ... The 1980s brought a new face to the American presidency and a new look to the Cold War. ... This 'New Thinking' offered an entirely new attitude to Leninism-Marxism and all the p...

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Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities withi...

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The separation of Germany also polarized America and Russia. ... The four major powers in Europe, Britain, France, America and Russia decided to divide Germany into four different parts. ... In the 1950's, another issue polarized America and Russia. ... Perhaps one of the most famous yet unknown Soviet submarines, called the K-19, came within miles of the American coastline. Many Americans were unaware of the sub being this close until the movie, K-19: The Widowmaker came out. ...

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The deterioration of Soviet-American relations was the combined result of the mistrust between both sides and the inconsistent American foreign policy resulting from the replacement of Franklin D. ... Lastly, it is important to consider how American economic and military concerns provided further motivation for the creation of a new threat. ... The American presidents military advisors soon made it clear to him that an invasion of France during 1942 was out of the question. ... The Americans attempted to compromise by proposing to send small contingents of troops to the French coast in order ...

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One thing people remember about the sixties was the years of the "American Camelot". ... Kennedy's death was the fall of the "American Camelot" The War on Poverty was also another movement important to the sixties. ... americans became aware of the dangers they encountered everyday and would perhaps hand down to their children. ... she envisioned beautification all over america. ...

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