Americans aimed for autonomy from the British and they achieved it – we know that. ... Because of the growing fad of communism and the USSR attempting to spread it across Europe to get closer to the US, America initiated their containment policy that was in the name of democracy in liberalist eyes but was really them just ensuring their hegemon. ... Promoting democracy in European countries is an idealistic form of liberalism but it also portrays offensive realism. ... Examples such as the Cuban Missile Crisis or the whole nuclear arms race between America and the USSR were demonstration...

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Contrary to the popular belief of the average American, Communism is not "evil". ... The Children of America were not taught that the Soviets were "evil", they were simply not told anything about Communism. ... Democracy, the greatest psychological war the human race has ever faced (almost bringing the species to extinction), and it gets less than 50 pages in a 900 page American History book. ... Had American Democracy been under the same strains I highly doubt we would be in such a system. ... Also, let's not forget the flaws of Democracy (and the Republics such as the U.S.). ...

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It deals with an American soldier whose girlfriend is stuck in the eastern side of Berlin. ... The American people were petrified with the threat of Nuclear War. ... The benefit of a democracy is freedom. Living in a democracy you have certain liberties that are prohibited in a communist country. ... Then you have to deal with the disadvantages of a democracy. ...

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This was especially true when it came to those Americans that were against the war and the U.S, involvement. But, the suspicion and distrust was also directed against German-Americans (Germany was the main enemy of the U.S. and its allies in World War), immigrants, and people who were considered to have "radical"" or extreme political beliefs that were thought to be "anti-American." ... Another factor that led to the Red scare was the formation of worker's unions that fought for better wages and working conditions for the millions of American workers (many of them immigrants or first gen...

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The American superpower was the dominant leading force of democracy between 1945-1962 and seemed absolutely unconquerable in its superior government. However, rising in the east were newly liberated governments as well as the menacing Soviet Union choosing to follow the path of communistic reign, the ultimate evil to democratic America, threatening the existence of the American way(or so they thought) in a variety of methods. ... To control this, America set out to establish the procedure for dealing with communism, a minimalist policy to destroy or control it in the long run; called containm...

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Though less recognized by history, the Young Americans for Freedom were an important part of the culture of protest in the 1960's. ... The Young Americans for Freedom were strongly anti-communist, as were most Americans at the time. ... One of the YAF's most successful examples of activism was their campaign to stop American companies from trading with the Soviet Bloc. ... Its supporters would destroy equality of opportunity and were enemies of democracy" (Andrew, 85). The 1960's were a time of great change for the American educational system, especially relating to the Sov...

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When large, multinational corporations such as Dell Computers, British Airways, and America Online are in search of quality labor at a low cost, workers can be found in developing third world countries. ... The amount made by the Filipino worker in a day is only a couple cents over the American minimum wage per hour; the job, however, opens doors to a previously unattainable lifestyle filled with technology, growth, and knowledge. ... Basic freedoms, like those held by Americans, are guaranteed unconditionally and cannot be abused without the entire world knowing. ... Globalization has shif...

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Ambassador in Moscow, understood and relayed the Russian Marxist way of thinking better then any American. ... Just six months after the USSR and America fought on the same side in World War II, the telegram contributed to the chilling of relations between the two countries and the onset of the Cold War. ... Kennan also highlighted that "real democracy" was the characteristic mark of the cold war. ...

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On the other side were the democratic, capitalist, Western countries, like The United Kingdom, France, and later the United States of America, who entered into the war after Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor. They fought to repress Hitler's ideology, preserving their own ideas of democracy, capitalism, and equality for all. ... After World War II was resolved, two countries had emerged as the world's dominant military powers: The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... The USA was a capitalist democracy, and had the support of other capitalists de...

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The Cold War A war that has created controversy amongst two of the greatest world leaders, United States of America and The Soviet Union, is known as The Cold War. ... America's policy was one that contained the spread of communism in Eastern Europe. ... Russia was trying to spread communism, abolish democracies, and spread poverty. Thus creating the Berlin Blockade, which forced America to create the Berlin Airlift. ... The Americans then questioned their own security. ...

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West Germany was under the control of United States of America, France and England, whereas East Germany was led by the Soviet Union. ... Reunifying Germany and placing it under the umbrella of capitalism and democracy was one huge step for Germany toward the western politics of the world. It closed the chapter of Hitler, and the Nazis by opening a new one based in the concepts of democracy. ...

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Democracy Contributed to the Collapse of S.C.,19).This type of pressures,violances and terror on people damaged the systems own foundation and it 'collapsed on its own'. Problems as described above made a basement for West to accelarete the collapse of Soviet Union.To answer the armanent of U.S.A,Soviet Union made big expendurties for buying and researching weapons.U.S.A politicans should see the bad economic conditions of S.U. and they improved the expendurties then S.U tried to follow this race but they could only follow U.S.A to own bankruptcy.West incite The ...

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The media plays a major role in our government because they show the American public what's going on in Washington. ... I believe the wealthiest 1% of America has the largest influence on the government. ... Even with myriad influences I still believe our government can be considered a democracy. Every American over 18 has the right to choose and influence his government. ...

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The Western democracies sought a form of security for international free market; free trade; opportunity and economic competitions. ... The U.S. government has continued a policy of convincing the American public of the great evil existing elsewhere to achieve their economic, technological and defensive objectives. ...

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In the West, the concepts of a market economy and a multi-party democracy were saw as necessity. ... On the other hand, in 1949 the proclamation of a communist government in China make the Americans fear of an advancing tide of communism. To prevent an expansion of Marx system, USA got involved in the Korean and Vietnam wars which show that wherever communism could beat capitalism the Americans would intervene. ...

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It didn't want to risk its economy or any more American lives after the losses of WW1. ... America also strongly disagreed with the Treaty of Versailles. Many Germans lived in America and Americans felt it was far too harsh. ... The U.S. feared that this communism would spread and limit democracy, freedom and liberal governments. 5) Kennan's idea of containment called for the U.S. to establish forms of defense around all major centers of industrial power in risk of soviet expansion. ... America felt that other nations problems, particularly their wars, were their own business and th...

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On the back of the experience gained after world war I, being aware of what went on during that period, European and North American countries formed a common basis of interaction in response to the Soviet threat. ... As a consequence, as long as NATO will be able to uphold its commitment, it will continue to play the leading role in safeguarding the principals and values of liberal democracies, thus consolidating its position in the international arena....

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We as Americans do not fully realize the liberties that are around us; and more often, we take them for granted. ... Under the leadership of Michael Gorbachev the Soviet Union went through major changes in most of its policies, making progressive steps towards democracy. ... American families, who have always lived in a free society and have been able to exercise their liberty to worship, often do not fully understand my family's appreciation of freedom....

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Back in 1951, Mohammed Mossadegh was elected by members of the Iranian parliament in order to pursue the dreams of the people of independence from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) and democracy, but taking away most of the Shah's powers in the process. ... The coup ended a few days later on August 19th, ending Mossadegh's government, but later it affected American foreign policy for many years to come. ... During this time, communism was the greatest known threat to America, and this definitely helped motivated American participation in this coup. ... The American hostages ta...

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But at the same time, the 1960s was significant, especially for the Americans, for another reason. ... Quite obviously, the launching of Sputnik was quite a shock to the Americans since their supremacy of technology over Soviet Union was disgruntled. ... In the views of the Americans, this war was extremely crucial for the Korean War as this war intensifies, there was a fair chance of this war becoming a bigger scale war between Russia-China (communism) and United States (democracy). ... Since the proximity of Cuba threatened Americans' sense of security, United States made an effort to...

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These protests that the students organized, showed America and its citizens how to stand up for what they believe in. This was a critical time in America were civil rights were being violated and a lot of people were not getting treated fairly. ... He made America recognize that sex is human nature and it isn't something we should be ashamed of. ... A) The invasion provoked anti-U.S. demonstrations in Latin America and Europe and further embittered U.S.... Democracy is what America prides it self on and if we lose that we would be in danger. 6) Martin Luther King started his early yea...

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The members of the alliance promised the "strengthening of their free institutions,"" meaning that they supported the principles of democracy, and opposed the forces of communism, which they believed posed a threat to Europe. ... The Americans had joined both world wars in order to prevent a hostile takeover of Europe. ...

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Russian Mafia Control the New Market The mafias in Russia greatly accelerated the transition from a command to a market economy, but in the process have created a larger problem than socialism could possibly deem. The concept of bribery and thievery has all came predominantly and originally from ...

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On one side those countries that supported democracy and capitalism, under the leadership of the United States. ... In 1964 it was becoming clearer that the war would worsen and that Australia would need to send more troops to support the American and South Vietnamese armies. ...

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The Americans supported Capitalism, which meant minimum interference of state in economy, competition and individual reward, and the right of voting, variety of political parties and freedom of speech and press among others (liberal democracy). ... In addition, he states that not only the cultural gap between Americans and Soviets contributed to the formation of the war, but also the strict adherence to their respective doctrines in the knowledge that the other abhorred it is further evidence that ideology caused the diplomatic tensions. ... They first confronted one another in the nineteent...

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