Backing Austria was Germany, who was also opponents with France who had joined sides with Russia. ... Italy eventually backed Germany, and the U.S. joined late into the war against Germany. ... World War One left Germany to pay huge financial reparations in addition to the Great Depression which left everyone broke. ... The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. ... What also arose from the end of the wars was democracy, which now is the type of g...

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Backing Austria was Germany, who was also opponents with France who had joined sides with Russia. ... Italy eventually backed Germany, and the U.S. joined late into the war against Germany. ... World War One left Germany to pay huge financial reparations in addition to the Great Depression which left everyone broke. ... The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. ... What also arose from the end of the wars was democracy, which now is the type of g...

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On July 18, 1941, Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin requested that the allies create a second front by invading German-occupied France. ... The Germans demolished 31,850 industrial enterprises. ... The Soviet power industry was also severely wounded, as the Germans destroyed 10,000 power stations and ruined 1,135 coal mines and 3,000 oil wells, carrying back to Germany 14,000 steam boilers, 1,400 turbines and 11,300 electric generators. ... The Germans were no kinder to Soviet cultural institutions. ... The Nazi government had bankrupted Germany in an attempt to exterminate the Slavic people...

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The search for peace also bought several agreements on arms limitation, and some much needed stability to the post war boundaries of Europe with the settling of the Oder-Neisse line and West Germany recognising the East German state. ... West Germany also made a major contribution to the relaxation of Soviet America relations through its Ostpolitik (Eastern policy). ... This meant that West Germany refused to recognise East Germany, and undertook to break off all diplomatic relations with any states that did so. The first departure from this policy occurred in 1967 when Willie Brandt, the th...

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Oppenheimer became interested in politics with the rise of Hitlerism in Germany. ... In 1939, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard cautioned the U.S. government against the danger of Nazis making nuclear bombs. ... When German armies invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, it became apparent that Germany was rapidly becoming a threat to democratic countries, including America. ... Their goal was to finish the bomb before the Germans could. ... Oppenheimer soon began to show distaste toward the government. ...

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After Germany and Italy were defeated, only Japan stood standing. ... We committed and atrocity not unlike Germany. ... The following were tow agreement of the governments :The two Governments mutually undertake to render each other assistance and support of all kinds in the present war against Hitlerite Germany, They further undertake that during this war they will neither negotiate nor conclude an armistice or treaty of peace except by mutual agreement. ...

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The threat of Russian progression in Europe and in Asia was enough to worry the top officials in the United States and British governments. ... The American government also wanted revenge for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. ... If the Germans had won that race they probably would have used it constantly in Russia and Britain until Hitler got what he wanted which was world control and the elimination of the Jews and others and the ascent of his "superior race" of Germans. ...

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Einstein renounced German citizenship in 1896. ... In 1914, the German government gave Einstein a senior research appointment in Berlin, along with a membership in the prestigious Prussian Academy of Sciences. When Einstein had left his native land as a youth, he had renounced German citizenship and all of the militarist German society. ... In 1939 World War II began, with Germany invading Poland. ... In 1945, the Germans were defeated and the atomic bomb was perfected. ...

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He was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany, to Herman and Pauline Einstein. ... His fleeing from Germany, his letter to President Roosevelt and his anti-fascisms made a deep impact on politics in the 20th century. After being branded an exile with a prize on his head by Adolf Hitler, who became dictator of Germany, he had to flee to America in 1933 (Candee 180). ... Pressed by the events Einstein became an active anti-fascist, against a governmental system led by a dictator. During World War 2, Einstein became a leading figure in the world government with other prominent scientists. ...

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They insisted that Albert Einstein inform President Roosevelt about the possibility of the Germans making an atomic bomb. In late 1939, President Roosevelt ordered an American effort to make an atomic bomb before Germany. ... On May 7, 1945 Germany surrendered. ... The citizens of Nagasaki were very surprised because the Japanese government tried to minimize knowledge of the extent of damage to Hiroshima. The Japanese government told the people of Japan that it was a "special-type bomb." ...

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Lawrence, Robert Oppenheimer, Arthur Compton, and John Dunning in the United States, Frederic Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot in France, and Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Franz Strassman in Germany. (1) Each of these scientists raced to explain the conflicting results compiled from ingenious experimentation. ... His new law brutally expunged a quarter of the physicists in Germany, including eleven who had earned or would earn Nobel Prizes. ... The goal of this project was to produce an atomic bomb before Germany did. ... This project by the U.S. government produced the first atomic bomb. ...

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August 6th was the day the United States government chose to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and in one flash the world was introduced to the new atomic age. ... Many were against the use of the bomb and many protested it, but this might actually have be the best decision the United States government could have made and has saved many lives from the very second it was first dropped. ... In 1941, just a short time after Albert Einstein had warned the current president Theodore Roosevelt, that the Germans were looking to produce an extremely destructive bomb. ... Even before the first...

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There was an arms race between Germany and Great Britain that lead to World War I. ... For example, the war against terrorism in Afghanistan, the Afghan government used artillery against the United States that the United States sold to them when they were fighting the war against Russia; this is referred to as deadly returns. ... Landis in Introducing Global Issues, "when the Indian government detonated its first nuclear explosion in 1974, it symbolically ended the monopoly on nuclear systems held by the great powers. ... Through the G-8 Summit held each year, eight key countries; Canada,...

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In August 1939, German American physicist Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. president Franklin D. ... The U.S. government established the top secret Manhattan Project in 1942 to develop an atomic device. ... In fact, the Germans had a head start because two Germans discovered the underlying scientific fact, the fission of uranium. ... In August 1939, German American physicist Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. president Franklin D. ... The U.S. government established the top secret Manhattan Project in 1942 to develop an atomic device. ...

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At the Potsdam Conference, there was already a division between the partners where Truman and Churchill were determined to secure political freedom and democratic governments throughout post-war Europe whilst Stalin was determined to dominate all of Europe and impose communism on its nations. ... One of the main outcomes was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany by the Western Allies. ... This had frustrated Stalin as he was hoping the German troops to be withdrawn from the Russian Front leading up to more tensions arising. ... The development of various bombs pa...

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"As in his articles, in Alonso Goldsmith asserted that the German nuclear power project had tried very hard to create and supply the National Socialist government with nuclear weapons, but had failed because of gross scientific errors"" (Walker 187). ... The Apologetics on the other hand came up with their defense "according to the article Die Naturwissenschaften, after 1942 the German scientists worked only on the "peaceful uranium machine"" (Walker 185), by stating that they did not want to build the bomb although they had all the information and material to do so. ... Another possibility wa...

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The Cold War began after the collapse of Germany in May 1945(http://www.coldwar.org/indexrus.html). ... Also the Russian government was seeking revenge on the United States because the United States did not enter the war effort soon enough and that caused for more Russian casualties. After WWII, Germany was divided into four zones and occupied by Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union. ... The west decided to create a separate government in their zones. ... Another way to prevent the Cold War from happening was when Hitler broke the treaty between Russia and Germany. ...

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At end of WWII, the allies had officially defeated Nazi Germany when General Alfred Jodi signed the unconditional surrender for all troops on the ninth of May, 1945. ... Hiroshima was such a pivotal moment in history because the United States of America did in fact decide to drop the first nuclear bomb upon a defiant Japan, on a City named Hiroshima Even before the war commenced in 1939 American scientists became increasingly concerned with Nazi Germany and their efforts on nuclear weapon research. Then in 1940, the U.S. government initiated its own development program on atomic weapons. ......

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Germany had already succumbed, with the help of several unexpected Red Army victories on the eastern battlegrounds. ... America had been motivated to build a nuclear weapon to use in case Germany built their own. The Americans believed that Germany had the resources and ability to build a nuclear weapon. ... When Germany surrendered, many political detractors presumed that there was no purpose in furthering attempts to create an atom bomb. ... To the U.S. government (Truman) and military, successfully creating a nuclear bomb an important objective. ...

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Eliminating the Threat: Why Saddam had to be removed from Power It must be understood that United States is now engaged in a Great War, a world war, the third world war since the defeat of the Germans in World War I. The Germans came back for a second round in 1939, and the Allied victory in 1945 seemed to seal a great peace upon the world. ... He decided to take out the governments that were sponsoring terrorism and terrorist organizations. ... To control Iraq, Saddam used fear as a means to keep his government in check, the same type of terror he imposed on Iraq's populace. ... ...

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One of the first conflicts was over Germany. After WWII, Germany, as well as Berlin, was divided among the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. The Soviets had all of East Germany while West Germany was divided among the rest. ... Germany was divided into East and West Germany and Berlin was divided the same way. ... To create a new government, the United Nations setup nation wide elections but North Korea would not let them into the north. ...

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The Japanese government was also looking to surrender very soon, making the dropping of the atomic bombs unnecessary and cruel. ... By the time the United States conducted the first successful test of the atomic bomb, Germany had been defeated. ... Although Truman was warned about the awful and cataclysmic effects this would have on the country of Japan by scientists and government officials, he ordered the bombs to be dropped. ...

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France does not want the U.S to have more power and Germany does not want a confrontation between the U.S and Russia. ... If the government decides to install a system on both Airforce one and Marine One, that is $6 million of taxpayer money. ... The U.S was created to be the anti-thesis of an imperialistic government, but when the U.S fought in the Spanish-American war, instead for freeing Cuba from Spain, they took it over as well as Guam and the Philippians. ... What is going to happen in Afghanistan when the U.S "helps" to set up a temporary government? ... The U.S did help to set up th...

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The Cuba Crisis (1962) The developement of the Cold War until the Cuba Crisis (1945 - 1962) After the unconditional (bedingungslos) capitulation of Germany on may 8th 1945 the Cold War between the two power blocks USA and UdSSR started. ... At the latest point of time, the Soviet Union recognized that there wouldn't be a neutral Germany, so the DDR was founded. ... For this, the USA stationed their nuclear weapons in Turkey and Germany. ... This plan, supported by the US government got a lot of critisism from the russian states and even from western states. ... -In the years 1963...

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The Cold War is a difficult term to define. It is a term used to describe the conflict between the U.S and Russia during the post-war period. However, there was no actual fighting between the two, just threats and anti-opposition propaganda. Another problem with the Cold war is that because it ...

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