Like is said before, there has been tension between this cluster of countries for quite a while, even before the Korean War occurred. ... And after the war the U.S. came back confused. ... After I looked at that wreckage and those thousands of women and children and everything, I vomited (Uschan 94). ... That number is big considering that before the war there were only 30 million people living in the two countries. ... After flipping through numerous pages of information I finally realized that North Korea and South Korea were not friends if you will. ...

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After a sharp debate, Congress complied with the request. ... Even before Pearl Harbor he had spoken with Prime Minister Churchill in a naval vessel off Newfoundland, Canada, and had joined in issuing the Atlantic Charter on August 14, 1941. ... Shortly after this peace talks began, but collapsed in the winter of that year. ... During and after the mid 60's a distrust in the American government grew out of this conflict. ... In theory, Star Wars would allow the United States to intercept enemy missiles before they hit their targets. ...

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Before Reagan took office, America was in an economic crisis. ... Russia for the most part stayed dormant after WWII and spread communism around like the plague. ... Shortly after this, America swore to protect any country fighting against Communism. ... After Reagan took office and implemented his military rebuild, the fight between Communism and the Free World appeared balanced. ... The collapse of the USSR, and Communism, takes place between 1989 and 1991, after was out of office. ...

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After Stalin's death in 1953, Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev repudiated his policies and condemned Stalinism. Only after that, both the people of the USSR and the rest of the world have slowly become aware what really happened during Stalin' rule. ... After Lenin's death in January 1924, Kamenev and Zinoviev governed the party. ... Measures used against them ranged from imprisonment in camps of Gulag to execution after trials, often turned into public shows. ... Shortly before, during and immediately after WWII, Stalin conducted a series of deportations on a huge ...

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Right after the Second World War, the Cold War was one of the greatest subjects in the study of International Relations. ... It started right after the Second World War. ... In return, the Soviet agreed to enter the war against Japan after the war in Europe ended. ... Healy had mentioned in his article The Cold War, "Never before has the world become so polarized and so powerful while the entire globe became a playing field in a vast political struggle. The struggle brought people together like never before and the result was a revealing of identity that is unparalleled in modern ti...

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After the death of Lenin, the government was taken over by a man named Joseph Stalin, who began the regression back to an oppressive dictatorship. ... By 1941, Russia under Stalin's rule was in a worse condition than before their plan for the betterment of quality of life for the whole had begun. ... STORY The story begins when an old boar named Old Major insights revolution against Farmer Jones with the animals through the stirring speech he gave before he died. ... After the expulsion of Snowball, a number of animals confessed to being in cahoots with him, and were executed. ... Th...

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From about 1054, when the current ruler of Kievan Rus, Yaroslav passed away leaving the country in even bigger turmoil than before. ... Even before the siege and onslaught began, the people of Kiev had a chance to stop the Mongol invasion. ... After a somewhat calm period, the darugi began to shift the responsibility of collecting taxes to the princes of each area. ... But shortly after the destruction of Kiev by the Mongols, the Orthodox Church transferred its center of rule to the city of Vladmir. ... With the most powerful political Russian entity now within Moscow's walls, Moscow beca...

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After Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to popular power in January of 1933, the Jews of Germany, and later all of mainland Europe, would be living in a deadly, deadly society. ... Before the war began, 1939, most Jews had already begun to be sent to concentration camps, transit camps, or forced to live in ghettoes. After June of 1941, when the Soviet Union was invaded, Hitler sent out the infamous Einsatzgruppen, his "mobile killing units," who killed an estimated one million Soviet Jews. ... Before he can equate being Jewish with his (Hitler's) enemies, he must first ensure that ...

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The first problem I want to mention is the rapid turnover of leaders before Gorbachev came to power. ... They were too old to see the need for change and died shortly after their election. ... Another problem that had occurred before the reign of Gorbachev was in Afghanistan where Soviet troops had attacked to stop the civil war. ... Leader before him led the problems swift away with out doing something. ... Not even one leader before Gorbachev could manage to improve this sector, it could be said that it has worsened threw out the years. ...

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The soldiers had to wait for one of their comrades to die or be injured before they could acquire a gun and specific articles of clothing. ... An example of this is an unskilled worker earns 1rub-1 rub. 25 kop before the war, during the war he earns 2 rub. 50 kop. ... Now that they had power over the soviets the Bolsheviks had to take over Russia before the soviets all meet in congress. ... Lenin's role in the November 1917 revolution was to a large extent, although he missed the March Revolution and was came to Russia several weeks after the tsar had abdicated his role after the March Re...

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The day after her session with the psychiatrist, she and Chapman became engaged. They chose as their wedding day, Friday, June 13, 1924, the day before Margaret's twentieth birthday, just for fun. ... Also, they wrote North of Danube after returning from Czechoslovakia. ... She and the Kremlin interpreter scrambled after them. ... Margaret quickly snapped two exposures before his smile disappeared. ...

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Schools and churches were built for natives and now, after Alaska was sold to the USA, the Orthodoxy is still the predominant religion there. The friendship between Russia and America began before the first settlement was founded in America. ... After the Russian revolution in 1917 a lot of people came to the US. ... Unfortunately those prejudices remained even after the Cold War and until today a part of the conscience of most American people. 2 The Prejudices The Russian culture is a very rich one, but members of other societies and cultures mostly do not see that. ... As we see you...

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Finally, in June of 1944, after years of planning, the largest amphibious invasion known to man was launched on the coast of Normandy, France. ... After both, all German forces' major moves were in retreat with the exception of their counter attack in Belgium in December of 1944. ... The fights that came after the Battle of Stalingrad and D-Day were mainly stalling tactics for the Germans to regroup. After the retreat of each battle, the Germans did not stop retreating, in the Soviet's case, until they were defeated in Berlin. ... Basically, after each battle, the Allies chased the G...

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Fidel was disruptive and his schoolteachers were not able to deal with him, and he attended many schools before he completed his elementary education. ... He became a democratic leader during a military overthrow after a period of violent political unrest. ... After college Castro enrolled in Havana University's law school, and became interested in politics. ... His political speeches and performances began before he was even twenty. ... After the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Castro became more and more anti-American. ...

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Even before 1939 there were old apprehensions between East and West. ... Stalin felt that the West had invaded Russia many times before and could not be trusted. ... After Yalta the USSR tightened its grip on Eastern Europe, seen by the West as aggressive and expansionist and by the soviets as simply maintaining security of the USSR. ... After Germany had been divided in 1945 the US, British and French merged their zones into West Germany and emerging from the Soviet Zone came East Germany. ... Never before had the two superpowers of the world stood so close to destroying each other but they a...

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After detailed explanations of the UN proposal, by Secretary of State, Edward R. ... After much behind the scenes talks and debates, FDR was finally convinced to give France a seat in the ACC. ... Before ending with my conclusion, I would like to discuss what has become the issue of many debates. ... Roosevelt died two months later, after the Yalta conference in Warm Springs, Georgia. ... My dad, having lived through a lot of these changes going on after the war, (communists taking over) has told me many stories about the oppression the communists brought to Romania after the war. ...

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People involved in various artistic disciplines were called before the committee, with their attention eventually turning in earnest towards Hollywood in 1947. ... He would not return to the United States until 1972 – five years before his death – "when an apologetic Hollywood honored him with a life achievement award during the Oscar ceremonies.... Similarly, because Chaplin has spent time with young Rupert, it is assumed by the HUAC that he could also be a communist and he is called before them. ... As if to spell out his innocence to the public in reality, his character i...

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Before any state can ascend to the status of superpower a shared philosophy, or general direction, must first be established. ... Lenin believed that after the revolution a classless society would come into being and the remnants of the state would wither away. ... Not long after Lenin came into power their was evidence of his style of politics as he shut down all anti-Bolshevik newspapers, and dissolved the freely elected Constituent Assembly with armed guards. ... According to Robert Conquest, writer of The Great Terror - A Reassessment, before 1934 there was still some underground opposi...

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In 1963 his first major 14 page photo essay on the war in Vietnam was published after working on it for 6 months. ... He undertook army training in Sydney before he arrived in Vietnam in January 1966 at only 27 years of age. ... However before he was sent to Vietnam, every day the public would recieve a report of what had happened that day in the war, but once he got there he realized it was nothing like what was really going on. ... However World War II showed the more serious side of war, this photo (Appendix 4) was from the Netherlands, where a Dutch father who had been severely wounded in...

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When JFK met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko before the discovery of weapons in Cuba was exposed, JFK didn't tip his hand. ... On Tuesday October 23rd, the day after President Kennedy made his speech to the American people explaining the crisis, CIA Director John McCone reported that the Russians were beginning to camouflage the missile sites [p.36]. ... Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was the strongest advocate of the quarantine even though there was plenty of opposition from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who argued that the naval blockade would be like, "closing the door a...

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After that the Soviet Union tried to influence every other country possible to turn to Communism as a form of government. ... After World War II, America was with out a doubt the leading super power. ... Soon after the Cuban troops were armed and ready to go. ... Before Fidel Castro's time The Unites States and Cuba were in good relations with the previous Cuban President; Fulgencio Batista. ... Though living standards in Cuba before 1959 were considered and described as appalling. ...

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He spewed out accusation after accusation until his political agenda had gathered so much force that it was unstoppable. ... The statute of limitations had run out before Hiss could be charged with espionage, but his conviction of perjury sent a chilling message to the American people regarding the safety of Capitalist ideals within the nation's government. ... After a lengthy trial the case had reached the U.S. ... After this, McCarthy had a televised senate hearing in which he lost favor among Americans. ... After this, McCarthy was exposed for the foolish power hungry sinister th...

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Stalin "Before execution the prisoner changes into white underclothes only. ... Stalin's work camps were so repulsive and deadly that Hitler modeled his own concentration camps after them. ... He imagined that everyone, from the lowest farmer to his life long friends were after his power. ... Ever since his rise to power after Lenin's death, Stalin was consumed by the fear of losing it (Terror 1). ... Stalin sprung into action by arresting anyone who he had an acquaintance with before he became the Russian leader. ...

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Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959 after overthrowing the Batista regime. ... After the war, he was in charge of the recovery effort in Ukraine. ... Soon after Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov became prime minister. ... The Cuban government later released the captured exiles after a ransom was paid. ... This attack seemed to be a total failure before it ever happened. ...

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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known famously as Lenin, died on the 21st of January in 1924 after having suffered many strokes. ... In 1917 after emerging as premier of the Soviet Government his fame and fortune grew overnight. It was not long before people were hypnotized by his speeches and peasants as well as workers would bow in his presence. ... " This above all was what Lenin offered them, the idea that something could be done." (5) After 1905 Lenin remained leader of the Bolshevik movement but it was scattered all over Europe by factional strife. ...

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