The Cold War is a difficult term to define. ... The Bolsheviks (later communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. ... The century would be left to witness the rivalry between these opposing ideologies: Lenin's state communism and Wilson's liberal, free enterprise capitalism. ... 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. ...

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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 deny their involvement with the Communist Party. ... Though McCarthy himself was revealed to be a fraud and bully, revelations aided by the blooming technology of television, McCarthyism, or the communist witch hunt, did not end with him. The nation was forever fearful of communists in positions of governmen...

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"3 My first task was to define exceptionalism. ... As James Ceaser states "It is probably a truism of political speech that if one has trouble defining immediately what a term means, someone else is using it a different way.... I shall then move onto the Cold War itself, identifying the use of exceptionalism in three key areas; warfare (with specific focus on the Korean War), an ideological persuasion of weak nations (particularly the vulnerable west Germany) and finally in political negotiation and discourse between Khrushchev and Eisenhower. ... Contained within this unique do...

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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. ... Avi Shlaim wrote a book about the United States and the Berlin blockade where he defines why he thought Truman was cautious about Berlin. ... Not long after the Berlin Crisis and the possible war that could have developed out of it came another communist threat and possible World...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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It is therefore not attempt at solving the world refugee problems but it is first officially and widely recognized convention that not only legally defines who refugees are but also imposes obligation not return refugees to where they face danger on both signatories and no signatories of the convention. ... During this period, other countries received these refugees especially where there were religious affinity, ideological belief systems and sometimes for economic reasons. ...

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