OHH AND IT WAS AN A+ 70s The Watergate incident was named after the office complex it took place in. ... After these events took place Nixon's popularity steadily eroded away. ... After the Nicaraguan Revolution got rid of Anastasio Somoza, the United States accused the new government of aiding Marxist rebels in El Salvador. ... In theory, Star Wars would allow the United States to intercept enemy missiles before they could reach the their targets. ... Even before these closing events took place nearly all competition that was the basis for the Cold War had disappeare...

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Twenty years after the First World War had come to an end, realists has shown that the human element of greed and annihilation was too much for the Fourteen Points; World War 2 being the obvious and excruciatingly painful proof. ... However the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, just two years after the war began, as well as the Axis powers declaring war two days after the attack, brought the US into World War II, something that analysts believe sealed the fate of Germany and Italy. But it was the economic and military polices that the US employed after the war- the Marshall Plan and the Truman ...

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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. ... Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the day after his inauguration said "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."" ... To begin to talk about life after the end of War World II without discussing the war in detail may due it some injustice, but after all it is only a fifteen page paper. ... Even before the Truman Doctrine was introduced to the joint congress, some of Truman's memoirs indicate that he saw Russi...

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He quit the seminary before graduation, in order to be a full-time revolutionary. ... After his first escape from Sibiria in 1904, Stalin returned to Georgia. ... She died in 1907, just after she gave birth to Stalin's first son: Yakov. ... Before this treatise appeared (1914), however, Stalin was sent to Siberia . ... Before the winter of 1918, Stalin had been recalled to Moscow by Lenin. ...

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After the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a fierce war, one without fighting, however. ... However, after the war ended, the Soviet Union and the United States became bitter enemies again, much like they were before the war. ... However, after finding photographic evidence to the contrary, the United States and John F. ... President Kennedy, after deciding on a course of action, felt it necessary to inform the general public of the crisis at hand. ... As tensions between the two sides escalated, the United States military level, previously set to ...

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The U.S. and the Soviet Union has been in a race to try and create an atomic bomb before the other could. ... After WWII, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union were heated. ... After WWII, Germany, as well as Berlin, was divided among the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. ... After WWII, China adopted a type of communism to fit their needs. ... It was not until after the incident at Tiananmen Square in Beiji...

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The conflict in Vietnam started well before the United States got involved. ... " (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. ... This is who America decided was a threat that they wanted to stop before all of Indochina became communist. ... Soon after this, in the same year, President John F. ... After President Kennedy died, his Vice President Lyndon B. ...

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It was a direct result/consequence of the inability of the left and center to co-exist after the disappearance of the right. ... Events before, and after the war, as well as conflicting ideologies and the U.S. military involvement in Japan as well as the prevailing military reality resulted in the inability of the Great Powers to solve those conflicts and led to the Cold War. ... The Soviet delegation argued that a change of governments so soon before a series of free elections would supposedly be held was completely unnecessary. ...

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Worth noting is the fact that after the World War II, there are various factors that offered a comprehensive platform that enhanced entry of immigrants into the United States. One of the most comprehensive factors that enhanced entry into the United States is the policies that were set after that Second World War. ... After ten years a higher proportion of Italian immigrants were concentrated in California. However, it was not long before New York became the residence for millions of Italians. ... After the young lot came and accumulated wealth and returned back to Italy, Italian immigrants co...

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That unseen enemy was not carrying a visible weapon, nor was it uniformed, but it was an enemy that they had seen before and just never knew that it could be an enemy. ... After accumulating so many points, an individual was rotated home, regardless of the progress of the war, or placement of the troops that they were fighting with. ... Every individual serving in Vietnam, except general officers, knew before leaving the United States when he or she was scheduled to return. ... The disadvantages to DEROS were not clear and some time elapsed before they were noticed. ... It was rare, after the...

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After WWII was over Germany was divided into four parts. ... After all the land was divided the Soviet Union controlled East Germany. Just like the Soviet Union, the economy in East Germany was struggling to get back on its feet after the war. ... After that was a patrol track with a corridor for watchdogs, watch towers, and bunkers. ... Soon after the free passage was allowed the Berlin Wall was taken down. ...

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Never before, however, has the human race been so close to inaugurating this Utopian ideal of establishing and empowering government on a planetary scale. ... This is what the advocates of an "empowered United Nations are really after. ... "After World War I, the League of Nations was formed, and after World War II, the United Nations. ... We had better not wait for World War Three before seeking to make the U.N. more effective."" ... The statistics that put this statement into perspective are rather disturbing: "The weapons industry is the world's number-two industry, after oil. ...

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After leaving the Seminary in 1899, he joined the Social Democrats, Russia's Marxist political party, and became a professional revolutionary. ... After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... At first, the Red Army suffered catastrophic defeats, but they rallied, and after crushing the Nazis at Stalingrad in 1942-43, they were on their way to winning the war. ... After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments in Eastern Europe and further his country's i...

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Thus, after an army captures an enemy base they can lay the VX around leave and not have to worry about anyone mounting a counterstrike. ... Up to 40% of people who catch the virus will die within the first two weeks, and there is no vaccine because it has to administered before the virus is contracted. ... Botulin toxin is a bacteria that restrains the release of chemicals in nerve cells that cause muscle contractions, after the paralysis sets in death follows quickly. ... In 1991 after the Gulf War, Iraq was found to in violation of the NPT for having a large scale nuclear program. ... W...

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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. ... They felt Brezhnev had to be stopped before his gradual spreading of socialism went any further. ... Allen Lynch writes: The strong ideological tone adopted by the Reagan administration in 1981, together with its downgrading of arms control, eventually shattered a strong consensus in Moscow that there were strict limits to hostility intrinsic to the Soviet-American relationship.(3) Reaction in Moscow was reluctant and re...

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After collapsing of Communist Block in Europe USA's administration begun to launch new order in Europe. ... In the 90s, just after the fall of communism, the countries of central and eastern Europe received the promise of their inclusion in the structure of NATO in exchange for full support of the US political aspirations. ... The last European country being included before 90s to NATO was Spain and it was in 1982. ... The highest point of the mutual cooperation was present after 11 September 2001. ... The first quarter after the end of the Civil War was more of mutual cooper...

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On May 7, 1945 the Germans finally surrendered, though their fate was sealed well before this date. ... War criminals were sought after and rounded up for trial. ... It seems as that the Potsdam Conference is remolding Germany back into the way it was in the past, before it was unified under Bismarck. ... This was the idea of a democracy although a democracy was tried before, but it failed. ... Just two years after the war had ended the Germans were reduced to "poor, hungry, and the subject to total foreign control in a country becoming irrevocably divided. ...

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Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. ... Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. ... In Europe after W.W.II, a lot of the continent was left in ruins. ... In 1955, after being occupied for several years, West Germany was allowed to rearm and join NATO. ... Germany, after W.W.II, became a divided country. ...

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The Cold War is a term used to describe the period of non-violent conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies, between the mid-1940s and lasted until the early 1990s. This essay seeks to examine the political relations between the leaders of Britain, the United States of America and the Soviet Union during and immediately following World War II. 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. Rooseve...

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The outcome of each revolution, has effected the style and manor of the next revolution there after in the world. ... The Vietnam Revolution was an epilogue of events that started way before the conflict that occurred during the 1960's and 1970's. ... After 1954 Ho Chi Minh and his Communist followers began preparing for a battle with South Vietnam to unify the country under Communist rule. ... After World War II and The Korean Conflict, the last thing U.S. citizens wanted was for the government to send troops into Vietnam. ... In 1961, after Kennedy was elected he recognized the...

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These two countries became the strongest super powers after World War II and paraded their strength using the threat of nuclear weapons which came to a head in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, a memorable date for those at the time who waited in the fear that their way of life could be obliterated forever. ... If this were to be so, India would have to stockpile enough nuclear arms to keep up with Pakistan similar to the Cold War syndrome involving US and Russia, "Pakistan might in relation to India inherit the role of the Soviet Union in relation to the United States, courting total ...

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After fighting to a stalemate along the original border of the 38th parallel, the American public grew weary of the war, resulting in the defeat of the Democratic Party in the election of 1952. ... "McCarthyism", as it was called, forced many government officials and Hollywood celebrities to go before McCarthy and the rest of the committee, in order to deny their involvement with the Communist Party. ...

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New German Cinema "Although some maintain that the end of New German Cinema did not occur until after the cold war, many of the filmmakers associated with the movement felt, after Das Boot, that it was finally all right to make it in Hollywood--a sentiment that was to be the death knell of a wholly independent German cinema tradition." ... It is the night before they set out to sea. ... After following the Lieutenant out the bathroom, he walks back out to the confusion and chaos that is the brothel. ... After identifying with the sedated the Lieutenant, and the common sailor, the a...

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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. In the end, what it has to do with is the survival of the United States and with it, the chance of survival of civilization." -R. Nixon "I don't see why we need some fancy French word in dealing with the Russians; we already have a word for it- Cold War." --Golda Meir By 1972, the Soviet Union had built an arsenal of 1,500 intercontinental nuclea...

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The Constitution's Involvement in Exceptionalism However before I can analyse the role played by exceptionalism in the early part of the Cold War, I must first look at the root of the idea and how much prevalence it had in the minds of the American people. ... It may have taken root as a way of giving Americans the sense of their place in the sun, after the struggle for freedom.... "17 Interestingly however, in Mila Versteeg and Emily Zakin's essay they dispute whether the constitution really is exceptional after all. ...

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