After fighting to a stalemate along the original border of the 38th parallel, the American public grew weary of the war, resulting in the defeat of the Democratic Party in the election of 1952. ... Strongly influenced by his foreign policy advisor, John Foster Dulles, this philosophy meant that the United States would refuse to back down in a crisis even when brought to the brink of war#, a policy that was similarly used regardless of political party. ... "McCarthyism", as it was called, forced many government officials and Hollywood celebrities to go before McCarthy and the rest of the comm...

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Which at the time was the Democratic Party's campaign headquarters. This began with the wiretapping of Democratic headquarters. ... A burglary also took place on June 17, 1972 by five men who were caught in the offices of the Democratic Party's headquarters. ... President Nixon faced almost certain impeachment for his illegal acts against the Democratic Party. ...

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Stalin's revolutionary career began in 1899, when he joined the Social-Democratic party as a propagandist among Tbilisi railroad workers. ... Unlike the intellectual party members, his contribution to the cause was practical, not theoretical. These "practical contributions" were the reason of his expelling from the Georgian Social Democratic Party in 1907; when he took part in a series of bank robberies and other crimes (supposedly in order to raise funds for the "professional" revolutionaries like himself). ... Until Lenin arrived in April, Stalin and Lev Kamenev dominated all party d...

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This conference also made sure that any remnants of the Nazi party would be disbanded. ... Anyone that has taken an above average participation in the Nazi party had to be removed from office. ... Their judicial system would be set up in a democratic style. ... Then we look to the Western half of Germany, which was molded to follow the free and democratic ways of the United States, French, and Great Britain. ... This democratic government is going to be a very conservative one because of all the restrictions that were placed on the German people and German industries. ...

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Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front, a communist-led South Vietnamese guerrilla movement. ... In the spring of 1992, Najibullah's government collapsed and, after 14 years of rule by the People's Democratic Party, Kabul fell to a coalition of mujahidin under the military leadership of Ahmed Shah Massoud. ... On November 9, 1989 East Germany's Communist party leader Gunter Schabowski, said that the Berlin Wall's border would be opened for "private trips abroad". ...

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From March until November of that year, Russia was ruled by a Provisional Government, which made plans for a democratically elected assembly. ... After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... By 1930, he stood alone atop the Party and the Soviet Union. ... But while his rivals from the '20s had suffered defeat, they were still alive and in the Party. ... This was a turning point in Stalin's relationship with the rest of the Communist Party. ...

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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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Stalin agreed to the publication of the Declaration on Liberated Europe, which stipulated, among other things, that Poland was to have free, democratic elections. Additionally, changes were be made to the Polish provisional government in order to allow for a more democratic environment. ...

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Then in 1930, a Vietnamese man by the name of Ho Chi Minh and his followers organized the Indochinese Communist Party, which opposed to the French Rule. The Indochinese Communist Party, which was later called the Vietnamese Communist Party, began to grow stronger and by 1945 the group was ready to fight for the independence of Vietnam once more. ... The land of Vietnam was finalized on July 20, 1954 at the Geneva Conference on Indochina which declared North Vietnam under the communist rule of Ho Chi Minh, and South Vietnam under the democratic rule of Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem. ...

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Both Greece and Turkey had rapidly deteriorating economies, and perhaps more problematic was the rise of Communist led parties in each country. ... What this new doctrine put forth by Truman did was allow for the United States to publicly standout against Russia and stand up for any democratic or free country in the world. ... The blockade coincided with the democratic convention in July and Truman chose to put more emphasis into his domestic appearance as opposed to his foreign policy. ... This gave Truman the Democratic nomination and now all he had to do was worry about his presidential op...

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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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West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ... NATO's Article 6 states an armed attack occurs when "the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the parties, when in or over these territories or any area of Europe, which occupation of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the treaty entered into force"(James). ...

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"4 Some scholars such as Seymour Lipset state that exceptionalism refers only to America as a unique nation but not necessarily a better one.5 Whereas others such as Ceaser feel that packed into exceptionalism is the belief that the American people have a mission to better the world and spread their greater way of life.6 For my essay I went with the definition provided by Ian Tyrell ; "American exceptionalism refers to the special character of the United States as a uniquely free nation based on democratic ideals and personal liberty....

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