Soon after, Kim Il Sung came down with Soviet troops and the Korean Communist Party and took over the North. ... On October 2, 1950 the South Korean army crossed the 38th parallel, while the Chinese communists threatened to enter the war if the UN crossed the 38th parallel. ... * * * The United States had stood by the Republic of Korea in its struggle "against Communist aggression, which the United States believed trampled upon human dignity and which replaced national sovereignty with a humiliating satellite status." ... " * * * After a long winter recess, the Communists wer...

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Soon after, Kim Il Sung came down with Soviet troops and the Korean Communist Party and took over the North. ... On October 2, 1950 the South Korean army crossed the 38th parallel, while the Chinese communists threatened to enter the war if the UN crossed the 38th parallel. ... * * * The United States had stood by the Republic of Korea in its struggle "against Communist aggression, which the United States believed trampled upon human dignity and which replaced national sovereignty with a humiliating satellite status." ... " * * * After a long winter recess, the Communists were willing...

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Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. ... The Soviet government saw this and other signs as an indication of an anti-Communist conspiracy. ... Stalin's socialism in one country' had mixed support with some communists siding with it and other preferring the idea of spreading the revolution as promoted by Trotsky. ... Under the N.E.P industrial production was very disappointing to many communists. ... The five-year plans presented an opportunity to Stalin to glorify him at the foundations of the communist party. ...

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Carl Marx created The Communist Manifesto which which called for a huge revolt. It ends with Carl marx's stating "let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. ... Many people believed that the communist manifesto provided the blue print for communism and changed the future of economics and political development. ... In 1922, the Communist Party's Central Committee elected Stalin as its general secretary. ...

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The Bolsheviks (later communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. ... In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) was created, under the communist control of the ruthless, Joseph Stalin. ... These communist countries became satellites of Russia, nothing more than provinces of Russia. ... It showed that the communist Russia, the worlds only other proper superpower, were rivals to the US. ... This was a very threatening speech directly aimed at Russia and any communist expansion across Europe. ...

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The letter is a warning that there " is a possibility of a civil war developing between the communist and nationalist factions in Korea (Lee 2001:6). ... "Worse still, in Hodge's eyes was the presence of Communists in some of the KPR's key positions" (Cumings 1983:107). ... It also was a period of political organization; Korean leftists emerged from the underground and began to rebuild their communist parties. ... "While internecine squabbling and conflict both with southern rightists and the American military government preoccupied communists in the South and the politics of the ...

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In prison he wrote the Mein Kamph (My Struggle) It talked about his hatred against Jews and Communists. ... During the summer of 1932 Nazi`s and communists fought it out and died on the streets of every major city in Germany. ... As soon as Hitler learned a of the fire, he blamed the communist. Van der Lubbe did have the communist sympathies, but he was not a member of the Communist Party There was no evidence that party members, let alone communist deputies in the Reichstag were part of a conspiracy to burn the parliament building. ... Then within a few days, three thousand communists ...

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The People's Republic of China has been a communist state since 1949, when Mao Zedong declared, after a bloody civil war, that all of China was to be combined under one banner, and that banner was Communism. ... Be it from the fact that China is still considered a Communist country or that almost every country in one way or another is currently in China's debt financially, some people do not put much faith into China. ... Accordingly, the Communist country should not have military action taken against it only due to mistrust by other nations. ... China made a similar claim to territo...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ... Thus in 1991, the -2- Communist Soviet Union was done. ... North Korea was backed by the communist countries, The Soviet Union and China. ... Since the parallel became a boundary, the country was divided with the Communist North and the non-communist South. ... For the U.S., the Korean War increased fear of Communist aggression and prompted a hunt for spies on whom to blame Communist gain. ...

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After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments in Eastern Europe and further his country's interests around the world. ... This was a turning point in Stalin's relationship with the rest of the Communist Party. ...

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He was also a founder member and the first secretary-general of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) in August 1939. ... Many of the ethnic minorities still fearful of ethnic Burman domination "as well as several communist groups declared their secession and organized armies".6 The next forty years for Burma would result in a compl...

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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 a policy of containment against the Soviet Union in order to keep it in check and from spreading any further than it had already spread. However, as the world enters 1992, the superpower Soviet Union lies in utter destruction and chaos due to the collapse of its political infrastructure. This colla...

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The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World War II. ... The communistic ideology appeared desirable to outside inhabitants. ... 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. ... Some members of the exile government in London to be integrated into the communist Lublin government Stalin promised to hold free elections at the end of hostilities The main issue surrounding this provisiona...

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Officially known as a United Nations police action, this battle between the communist North Koreans, supported by the Sino-Soviet Bloc, and the capitalist South Koreans, backed by the US and its allies, revealed the extent to which the Cold War would affect US foreign policy, as well as, domestic issues. ... Few people were willing to challenge or defy societal norms, weary of being branded "un-American", and therefore, a communist. ... "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 ...

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Truman was not diabolically opposed to the U.S.S.R. being communist, but at the same time he wanted to make sure that communism did not threaten the United States and its borders. ... This was a huge problem for the anti-communist government of the United States. Both Greece and Turkey had rapidly deteriorating economies, and perhaps more problematic was the rise of Communist led parties in each country. ... Russia as communist-evil and the United States as anti-communist-good are childish. ... Not long after the Berlin Crisis and the possible war that could have developed out of it came a...

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Ironically, it was not the godless, evil communists that had used a nuclear weapon, rather the Democratic peace- loving nation that bombed the two civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using atomic bombs. ... One aim was to build up strong anti- Communist countries and it helped American industry by creating markets for American goods. ... The Russians and their Communist ideals were ruffling the Americans and their capitalistic feathers. The Americans assumed that as soon as one country became Communist, the neighboring countries would soon fall prey to Communism like dominoes. ... Thi...

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With the current environment and situation of Italy and Europe of this time, help could be found within Communists and slowly people began to support Communism and it's popular ideals. ... Mussolini was using the idea of national rebirth to rally his countrymen behind him and promoted racial superiority & ethnic persecution where as the Italian communists believed in equality of all people. ... In comparison to the Communists in Russia, the Blackshirts resembled the Soviets used as the arm behind the meaning. ... Just like the communists, Mussolini used organized violence to spread opp...

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The United States has always prided itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy". However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all too often acted in its own interests and has allied itself with some very unsavory characters to promote such interests. The 1800s Even in 1820, when America was a fledgling nation still insignificant in the eyes of world-class powers such as Britain and France, it still dreamed of an overseas e...

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Rumors of revolution and a government take over by the communist shattered Hitler. " I lay there broken with great pains, although I did not let on how I felt; for it was repugnant of me to cry out at a time when you could feel that a collapse was coming." ...

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As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing coul...

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Hitler turned to still wealthy and powerful German industrialists for money to fund his rallies and campaigns and in return promised a disciplined work force ( trade unions would be abolished) and protection against communists. ... It has always been thought that the fire was deliberately burnt by the Nazi party, but Hitler blamed the communists. ...

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After a century of friendship, Americans and Russians quarreled over Asian questions in the 1890s, and became enemies in 1917 when the Communists seized power, established the Soviet Union, and declared ideological war on the capitalist nations of the West. ...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ...

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From 1965 until 1973, the United States of America was at war with the communist nation of North Vietnam. ... The final terms are known as the Geneva Accords.5 In fear of another communist leader, President John F. ... After the election proved to be unsuccessful, the South Vietnamese communists developed the National Liberation Front, commonly known as the Viet Cong. ...

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