No people were really afraid. ... In fact there were few problems and everything worked for the best. ... "Everybody thinks he deserves to live forever, so if there's anything out there that can cure them, then you get it. ... "All the time I was saying no that's the president, and no not my president there's no way this could be true. ... "There were a whole bunch of us sitting around watching this on TV, I mean we were having our won little party going on. ...

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The shelves in the stores were practically bare, and what was there was not in very good quality. ... There were many escape tunnels dug under the wall. ... There were 302 watchtowers, and 20 bunkers. ... There was no way to see relatives or anything on the west side of the wall. ... Then just two days later thousands took the streets shouting "no more violence!" ...

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This was very significant because throughout all of World War I there were no major battles fought on the German homeland. ... There were delegates from twenty-seven different countries there, but the Germans and the Russians were not represented. ... Even as the war continued to rage on, there were wartime conferences. ... They were under the control of one dictator and then went under the control of another. ... There was talk that they were going to be occupied for up to twenty years or even longer. ...

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There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. ... He worked in Tiflis, and then in the Black Sea port of Batumi, organizing worker protests, which led to his arrest in 1902. ... But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda (there existed no real difference between these "wealthiest" peasants and all other peasants), and collectivization reaped disaster--the government persecuted and killed the peasantry, famine swept the country, and as many as ten million may have died. ... For in his mind, there was no question of his primacy: he was to be first, period; there was ...

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Therefore the war became a rather solitary war, where one soldier was sent alone, and then proceeded to return back home alone. ... So if the soldier only worried about himself, then he would not have feelings for other soldiers. ... Green troops or "f---ing new guys" with almost no experience in combat were thrown into their places. ... Over 8000 women served in the country of Vietnam and of those 8000 there were eight that were killed (Allen 1996). ... Even though over 58,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War there were approximately 600,000 Communists killed in the same war. ...

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However, there was no actual fighting between the two, just threats and anti-opposition propaganda. Another problem with the Cold war is that because it is a vague term, there is no actual start date to the war. ... However it is difficult to see this as an actual cause of the Cold War, as the world was very different then, than it is in the twentieth century and it didn't involved the U.S. ... At the end of the war, the U.S.A and U.S.S.R were clearly masters of the world. They were so far ahead of all the other countries in power and influence that they were called "superpowers". ...

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Currently there are no international laws banning nuclear weapons, but there are restrictions on testing these weapons. ... They may have bad relations with some of the member states at the convention, this raises a problem, there is no possible way to make states comply with terms that in fact other countries have set down, it seems that for arms control to create stability each country has to take the guidelines and restrictions that arms control carries it cannot be forced or compromised. ... There are however, several disadvantages of adhering to the CTBT. ... There are definite fears thro...

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The first action would be to altogether avoid nuclear war, and it would be to take no action. ... Also in the speech were seven objectives of the United States. ... Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation, yes or no?" ... As Stevenson replied "You are in the courtroom of world opinion right now and you can answer yes or no. ...

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" (Hopkins, pg. 27) There was a temporary division on the 17th parallel in Vietnam. ... " (Hopkins, pg. 49) Although there were good intentions from the Americans, it was not the right or legal decision to get involved especially before elections in two years. ... No one would ever take us seriously again. ... There is a large dispute on whether there was a second attack or not by the North Vietnamese. The United States government said there was and the North Vietnamese said there was not. ...

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First, it would remove some of the burden from the Red Army, which until then had done the vast majority of fighting against the German forces. ... At best, such an operation could take place no earlier than 1943. ... Rather, they preferred to import a large quantity of food and raw materials from these regions, process them and then re-sell them back to these very same areas for a sizeable profit. ... Following 1945, the West could no longer exploit Eastern Europe as it had in the past. ... The Germans were no kinder to Soviet cultural institutions. ...

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There was however, one final attack in which 7,400 Koreans were killed and U.S. forces were threatened. ... Guatemala In 1953 the CIA contacted a group of Guatemalan exiles under the command of Carlos Acastillo Armas to start an uprising over then president Jacob Arbenz. ... The coup, which occurred in 1979, brought Hafizullah Amin to power which brought aboutfierce reatalliation by the USSR, who then installed Babrak Karmal as president. ... In addition, 15,000 Soviet soldiers were killed and 37,000 wounded. ... Soon thereafter, an onrush of East Berliners headed towards West Berlin, and ...

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This was the first time that weapons of mass destruction were ever used. Many people were horrified by the prospects of there existing weapons that could inflict so much destruction. These actions changed the face of world relations not only then but forever. ... After WWII, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union were heated. ... The U.S. felt that if the Soviets achieved that, then they would try and do the same to Western Europe. ...

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This essay discusses many important events of US history from the 70s to the present day THIS TOOK ME FOREVER TO RESEARCH AND THEN WRITE, ENJOY! ... They're acts were later linked to a White House sponsored plan of espionage against Nixon's political opponents. ... Nixon refused to release the tapes; he said they were vital to national security. ... The Iranian hostage crisis had played a huge part in setting the mood for foreign contact between the United States and many other Middle Eastern nations into the 00s, however there were many other events that shaped U.S. involvement in ...

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There was no turning back. At the end of the Second World War, whole countries were left in disarray and destruction. Economies were reduced to rubble, as was most of Europe. ... There were strings attached, which was no surprise. ... West Germany prospered while the Eastern Germans were left behind. ...

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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. ... Then in 1930, a Vietnamese man by the name of Ho Chi Minh and his followers organized the Indochinese Communist Party, which opposed to the French Rule. ... Though the captain later said no attack took place, six hors later a retaliation, was placed by American forces. ... There was an increasing sense among many people that the government was misleading the American peo...

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The most powerful and therefore, most important such institution, the United States Supreme Court, was no exception, and in fact, was the leader of such legal change. ... Few people were willing to challenge or defy societal norms, weary of being branded "un-American", and therefore, a communist. ... This is perhaps, no more clear, than in the strict roles followed within the American family. ... There were those who did challenge these views, namely the Beats, who were the predecessors to the hippies of the 1960's. ... In light of this decision, the Supreme Court found it then neces...

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There were many problems; both political and economic, facing the Soviet Union in 1928 and the decision to launch the five-year plans must have been influenced in part by these. ... There were also economic reasons to embark on wide scale rapid industrialisation as Stalin proposed. ... To conclude, the most important reason for industrialisation in the USSR was to ensure the survival of communism in its then form. ... Stalin had many reasons to undertake the five-year plans, and his glorification was such a reason, but there were far more important reasons for Stalin to introduce the five-year...

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American foreign policy decision makers were at the time operating under the understanding that the Soviet Union was gaining power. ... However, Brezhnev died in November 1982, and no longer had to deal with the situation any longer. ... Gorbachev introduced his new policies at the United Nations in December of 1988: . . . . human interests take precedence over the interests of any particular class; the world is becoming increasingly interdependent; there can be no victors in a nuclear war; security has to based on increasingly on political rather than military instruments; and security mu...

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If one were to discuss life after the Second World War, if they were not a historian would perhaps not talk much about Harry S. ... The war ended and the world was thrown into new territory, there were essentially two superpowers left in the world. ... The aide outlined in Truman's speech is not a significant amount monetarily, four hundred million dollars were sent as aide to both Turkey and Greece. ... This would turn into the Berlin Crisis, Truman played a crucial role in this crisis no matter which side you take. ... There will be no mistaking whether or not a country could get awa...

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There was mutual suspicion concerning ideology. ... The entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan were also outlined On the surface, everything seemed friendly, but there was tension behind the scenes. There were different views on how to enforce a peace in postwar Germany. ... This new government should then be called the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity- (15). These terms recognized the government that Soviet occupants had imposed upon Poland, as legitimate and left no basis for how any voice from the Polish people regarding their political future would be hear...

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In either case, for those who assume that all or at least most of those sailors were devout followers of Hitler, there is very little sympathy. ... The shot then cuts back to the shot of the road as the camera travels along it. ... The camera then cuts back to the CU of the Captain driving, as the lieutenant/war correspondent looks at him for an explanation in bewilderment, in the background, from the passenger side. ... We then see a LS of a collection of sailors around a piano singing. ...

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This paper will first focus on the diversity and power of some of the weapons of mass destruction, then I will focus on the origins of military doctrine, specifically the command and control systems for launching any weapon of mass destruction. ... Finally, I will conclude by going over The beginning of the twenty-first century saw such an alarming rise in events where chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons were involved. ... Even though the virus has been eradicated, there is a strong fear that terrorist will make new strains of smallpox that we have yet to make a vaccine. ... Up to 40%...

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Both his parents were peasants. ... There he married his first wife, Yekaterina Svanidze. ... There he resumed the editorship of Pravda. ... 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 within the new Bolshevik government. ... Ultimately, though, Stalin's defense of the region proved unsuccessful, the Red Army units in the area lost 60.000 men while he was there, and the Whites were later able to capture the city and hold it for an extended period. ...

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"2 His words were a far cry from a "Lincolnian" rhetoric depicting America as "the last best hope of man on earth.... "14 There is an enormous sense of pride surrounding the constitution, and it is clear to see why. ... As John Fousek states "No anti-soviet consensus yet existed."21 How then would Truman's government sway this wave of public opinion? ... No longer could other nations be trusted to operate cohesively. ...

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Medical breakthroughs were important in the sixties. ... Amongst other problems President Kennedy faced with the Soviet Union, no other was more serious than the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... These decisions were perhaps Kennedy's greatest moment as president. ... Kennedy were in Dallas, Texas. ... "On November 24, a Dallas Man, Jack Ruby, shot and killed Oswald before there was a chance to put him on trial." ...

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