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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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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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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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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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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By now technology had had a major effect on the nature of states not least in Nazi Germany under Hitler who employed the method of Blitzkrieg in Poland with amazing efficiency. ... Even in Britain, Japanese car and electronic firms are attracted here by our government. ... A virtual world that has no boundaries between countries, where even language barriers are diffused and where governments may strive for censorship but find it impossible to achieve. ...

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The Manhattan Project eventually skyrocketed into a two billion dollar program that was always funded by the United States government. It was pushed forward extremely quickly; due to the fear that the Germans, had, at the time, also been researching atomic weapons, and the American government felt that they were very far behind. ... Spurned by the knowledge that Germany was also researching into isotopes for warfare, the Americans succeeded remarkably efficiently. ...

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On May 8th, Germany surrendered to the Allied forces less than a month after Truman took office. ... There was a 39% death rate of Prisoners of War in Japan compared to 1% in Germany. ... On August 10, 1945, the Japanese government offered to accept the terms of the Postdam Declaration as long as it did not comprise any demand, which prejudices the prerogatives of His Majesty as a Sovereign Ruler. ...

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The decision that was made to bomb the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was very irresponsible and immoral of the United States government. ... The use of the atom bomb on the Japanese people was undoubtedly a devastating mistake made by the United States government. ... "Not only were the Japanese defenses overwhelmed, but Japan's will and capacity for reconstruction, dispersal, and passive defense were less than Germany's" (Spennemman). ... The United States government tried to defend their use of the atomic bomb on Japan, though some such as Rear Admiral L. ...

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When she got a home from the government Mrs. ... A German priest, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge was in his house reading a magazine at the time Hiroshima was struck. ... Along with many other doctors he was outraged that the government had not provided Hiroshima with medical supplies or doctors after the bombing. ...

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When she got a home from the government Mrs. ... A German priest, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge was in his house reading a magazine at the time Hiroshima was struck. ... Along with many other doctors he was outraged that the government had not provided Hiroshima with medical supplies or doctors after the bombing. ...

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Hollywood had become a viable power of communication "one that certain members of the government had begun to fear. ... Just months after Germany surrendered, ending the war in Europe, the top-secret "Manhattan Project-, with the goal to develop an incredibly powerful "nuclear bomb- was finally complete. ... Ironically, the end of the war left our country in many respects better off than it had been at the start of it "the economic boom sparked by the conflict would continue for many years to come, and the creation of a new, more effective collaboration of world governments, the ...

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Urged by Hungarian-born physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Wingner, and Edward Teller, Einstein told Roosevelt about Nazi German efforts to purify Uranium-235 which might be used to build an atomic bomb. Shortly after that the United States Government began work on the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the United States effort to develop the atomic bomb before the Germans did. ...

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In hope to gain more land in Southeast Asia and in the Pacific, Japan become allied with Italy and Germany. ... But the Japanese government lived in a world of reality where an attack by the US was very possible. ...

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