These groups are causing constant chaos, which makes it harder difficult for political parties to attempt to rebuild any infrastructure that remains after the ruling of Sadam Hussein. Thirdly, the Iraqi population has never experienced a truly democratic political system. ... Therefore, they have little expectation of a fair and successful democratic government. ... This will make the transition to a democratic government difficult because first the Iraqi people need to be educated on the workings of a democratic government. ... First, when the elections occurred in 2005 none of the parties ...

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Yet, while the allies shared ideals, they were defectively democratic as well. ... Still, despite all the democratic differences, there were still numerous differences between the allied coalition and the Axis. One difference was the remobilization of the French and British people to war by using democratic ideals to rally support for the war. ... Also, democratic leaders with democratic ideals ruled Britain, France, and the USA while Germany and Italy were led by military dictatorships that placed the constitutional leaders in the sidelines. ... At whatever time the Germans had a victory it ...

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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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This was another factor to the rise of the Nazi party. ... One of the parties was the Nazi party (National Socialists party); the leader of that party was Adolf Hitler, he blamed the politicians who signed the Treaty of Versalilles for betraying the country. ... Between 1930-1932, the Nazi party found money to finance three massive election campaigns. ... Unfortunately for them it was not to remain a democratic system for long. ... With no opposition parties, there were no opponents to the new order. ...

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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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Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. ... Architectural power was utilized as a form of propaganda by which "charismatic leadership, circumventing intermediary social and political institutions like parliaments, parties, and interest groups, gains direct hold upon the masses". ... The reclamation of the Pontine marshes was imperative to the fascist party in Italy because one of the central symbols of the regime was to convert wild nature into productive nature. ... Garraty begins by distinguishing the Nazi destruction of democ...

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His timing was excellent becasue the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had just been founded which for the first time created a political party that all Russian Marxists could belong to. ... After the Bolshevik and Mensheviks split was final lenin was able to choose new men to run his parties central commitee. ... In 1922, the Communist Party's Central Committee elected Stalin as its general secretary. ... In December 1929, the party praised Stalin on his 50th birthday. ...

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In April 1929, he felt his position as chief propagandist for the party. ... In July 1921, he became party chairman with dictorial powers. ... The Nazi Party's votes went down from two million votes in 1924 to 810,000 votes by 1928. This only gave the party twelve out of the 491 representatives seats. Although, Hitler succeeded in increasing his party membership and developed the organization of the party with the help of Gregor Strausser. ...

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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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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 to...

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Third, the National Assembly elections in May 1948 in South Korea that led to the establishment of a Republic of Korea and the election of Syngman Rhee as president; followed by a countermove in North Korea with the establishment of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and the appointment of Kim Il Sung as premier. ... It also was a period of political organization; Korean leftists emerged from the underground and began to rebuild their communist parties. ... Many North Koreans who did not agree with the party lines that formed during these years typically moved south and many South Korea...

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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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Hitler assembled the Nazi Party and became dictator of Germany. ... As a result, Germans joined and supported the Nazi party. ... Those countries had non-democratic governments, they were rearming, and they were not being peaceful. ...

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The Roots of Reformasi in Indonesia Indonesia, from Acheh to Irian Jaya, is equivalent in distance from London to Moscow. It has a population of more than 200 million, which is nearly twice the population of Japan. Its archipelago layout, rather than making communications more difficult, makes it more easier to link together, with sealanes, the economic wealth of the nation, into a single economic unit. Due to centuries of Dutch colonialism, the country, and people, were left backwards. After the independence war against the Dutch, led by Sukarno, the idea of using the military to adm...

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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 principle of self-determination according to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. ...

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The principle of self-determination according to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. ...

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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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Throughout the novel "Lord Of the Flies," author William Golding incorporates characters, objects, and events which represent concepts or ideas pertaining to the flaws of mankind. These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. Golding uses ...

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Especially the Liberal party of the time who were the most consistant critics of the policy. ... Alan Sharp had referred to the League of Nations as a compromise agreement, which pleased none of the parties involved. ... She was also forced to accept guilt for starting the war and had to agree to accept a democratic constitution. ...

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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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In 1910 Japan annexed Korea, installing a harsh rule over its people. During the 1930's an independence movement arose. Led from abroad by Syngman Rhee, who attended Harvard University at the time, it started a fire in a man that would continue to grow as time passed. With the principles of the ...

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In 1910 Japan annexed Korea, installing a harsh rule over its people. During the 1930's an independence movement arose. Led from abroad by Syngman Rhee, who attended Harvard University at the time, it started a fire in a man that would continue to grow as time passed. With the principles of the Atla...

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After they threw 90,000 pounds of English Tea into the Boston harbor in the famed Boston Tea Party, the king was furious because the waste of the tea had cost him a great deal of money (Conroy). ... Also, the Boston Tea Party caused the king to take overly drastic measures: he laid Boston under siege (Rosenfeld). ... During this time a surge of democratic reform swept the North and West. ...

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