According to Mandlebaum, the fate of the region has "for the last two centuries" depended "on the fate of three major powers--China, Japan and Russia, on the stability and tranquillity of their mutual relations." ... The most obvious and famous of the triangles linked the Soviet Union, China and the United States, but the Soviet-US- Japan triangle was also important. ... First, China's centrality: China figures in nearly all of the triangles, not even the US affected Soviet policy to this degree. ... Through the 1960s, there were 4 main triangles in the Asian political arena: Soviet Union...

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By the 1970's, the destructive capabilities of the world's two superpowers along with an emerging third power in the nation of China, had combined to make the world a dangerously unstable place. ... S. anti-communist fervor as a backdrop, seemingly shared by both Republicans and Democrats framing an increasing distrust between the Russians and the Chinese, Kissinger saw an emerging third Superpower in a competitive communist China as an American advantage which needed to be exploited. ... Moreover, the opening of relations with the Chinese would put the United States in a uniquely ad...

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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 as a major factor. Truman is ranked seventh among forty one presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton . Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the da...

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., Britain, China, France, and the Soviet Union signed the United Nations charter. ... As was earlier stated, it is clear that the UN has been both effective and ineffective in its short history. ... The entire history of the U.N. has been quite inexpensive. ...

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You Can Kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win" (Lowe 10). Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940's Western Civilization, as we know it today, has been shaped by the many revolutions that nations throughout the land have participated...

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However, the possession of nuclear arms by Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Israel, and Pakistan are not treated as threats to America's vital interests. ... The revolution used anti-Westernism as a catalyst, due to the monarchy's very close relations with the United States and the history of political meddling by Western powers, such as, Britain and the US. ...

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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 mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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Tensions between Russia and the West have been high throughout history. ... However, Communism was prominent in China and towards the end of the Cold War U.S-Chinese relations were relatively good. ...

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It was considered a place where history and identity could disappear in an instant. ... North Korea was backed by the communist countries, The Soviet Union and China. ... The Chinese were the major supporters of the North Koreans. ...

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U.S. History Interview Jason Paris 1. What impact did the Cuban Missile Crisis on your community or family? " On me it didn't really effect me, I was at Ft. Rucker at the time." No people were really afraid. "The media would make it out to be more than it really was. The military knew...

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" I intend to start by looking at the root of the idea and how its history manages to evoke passionate responses of American Nationalism in the transition period between the end of World War One and the Cold War. ... In this survey 80% of Americans agreed with the statement "the United States has a unique character because of its history and Constitution that sets it apart from other nations as the greatest in the world....

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About 1 million Chinese died in this battle and American casualties numbered 54,246 people. ... The mujahidin were supported by aid from the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia, channelled through Pakistan, and from Iran. ...

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Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... "Participants in the Geneva Conference were the four parties that had called for the meeting, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States; also present were China, Cambodia, and Laos; and representing elements within Vietnam itself were spokesmen Bao Dai's government and for the Vietminh. ...

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The possibility of the end of the Cold War for so long seemed out of the question. Because of the definition of the Soviet ideology which stated that war with the capitalist nations of the world was inevitable, peace was paradoxical. The Americans in a sense fostered the Soviet position by executing...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and dec...

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The present is based on the past. The experiences in our past lives shape the way we live today. The same can be held true for the world of politics and international relations. The present system of the world is established on what happened centuries ago. To follow from that, what happened fifty- six years ago - the end of World War II. ...

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