The people believed the change they sought could be accomplished by voting in the Labour Government. ... The Labour government started the groundwork for the release of their land outside the motherland starting with India. ... After long non-violent protests led by Mahatma Gandhi, an agreement was reached and India was set apart from the British Empire. ... "The United Nations didn't always accomplish what it set out to do." ... It helped set the nation on the path back to economic prominence as it began to influence the world in a more cultural fashion. ...

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Upon putting it into practice, the Soviet government stated that: "it was not until 1988, that it was admitted we were running a budget deficit, and as a result the government had no way to take remedial action,"6 and by the time of Gorbachev, it was too late. Few seemed to care when the government collapsed. ... "7 By introducing Perestroika (the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Gorbachev during the mid-1980s), and Glasnost (a Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information)8, Gorbac...

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An example of this would be the fact that any citizen could not even buy a good pair of leather boots, a good television set or a computer made in the Soviet Union, because all the boots and the electronics were swallowed up by military usage. ... Few seemed to care when the government collapsed. ... " By introducing Perestroika (the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Gorbachev during the mid-1980s), and Glasnost (a Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information), Gorbachev raised the expecta...

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In 1950 McCarthy made a speech accusing 205 government workers for being apart of the American communist party. ... The films shows viewers what could happen if these communist were not weeded out of the government and in a sense justifies McCarthy's fear. ... Iselin can be compared to Joe McCarthy, accuser of government officials as communism; his costume symbolizes his attempts to being like Lincoln. ... The story is well made; it sets the viewer up perfectly for a great, yet unexpected, climax. ... I believe that the set of actors scheduled to be in the movie along with added sound ...

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However, Pine Gap was and still is set up with a fairly definite intention which is 3CI, or to command, control, communication and intelligence. ... The report states: "Commitment of both the Australian and United States Governments to cooperation at the Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap. ... (Timeline of the History of Pine Gap, URL: http://roswell.fortunecity.com/callanish/129/pinegaphistory.htm ) Despite its unpopularity amongst the public, Pine Gap remained opened and still enjoys support from modern day Australian governments. ... The Liberal government hit back by enforcing that Pine...

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When Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba from 1959-present, declared the government Communist in 1961; President of the U.S. ... The economy was real bad, unemployment rate was high and the people were ready to try a different type of government that would benefit them. Nicaragua came to know a different type of government in the late 70's. ... "Once in power, the Sandinistas quickly set about building their armed forces and transforming their rag-tag guerrilla army into a well-equipped professional military."" ... Because of the lack of having a large militia, they began to forcedl...

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This war took place because the Vietnams couldn't agree on one government so they broke up into two major parts, North and the South. North Vietnam wanted to have Communism for a government under the influence of Ho Chi Minh, and the South wanted to have democracy, under the influence of the French rule. ... The North Vietnamese being that they knew the land so well, set booby traps all over the place. For example they dug up pits and placed sharp sticks tipped with poison, grenades that was set under water. ... The Government of America, noticed how people felt about this war, and starte...

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While Xiaoping's way was very similar to Gorbachevs, personal freedom was obviously part of his plan but especially not his main focus,instead he set certain limits when it came to people's freedom. ... Mikhail knew that when a community is less controlled by the government they become happier with their ruling system, and that gave him the idea of keeping business controlled by the population without the government managing every type of matter. ... He believed he could come up with a government that everyone could get along with, offering the opportunity of having commercial excha...

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On one side, Stalin sought to spread his influence in Eastern Europe by setting up pro-Russian governments in these states while America, feared for their power and domination over the world and attempted to "contain" communism. ... By 1948, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Yugoslavia all had Communist governments. The setting up of pro-communistic regimes in this region appeared to the West to be a direct outlash against them, because all the allies had agreed in Potsdam to allow democratic elections of governments in East Europe. ... In Yalta, it was agreed th...

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He felt that an iron curtain was being set up across the continent dividing East and West. Stalin's response was that his country needed loyal governments in nearby countries in order to ensure the Soviet Union's security. In contrast, the United States goals were for nations to get along in peace, based on the principles of equal rights and allowing the people to determine their own government. ... Because of the threat, Congress agreed to provide U.S. aid and military equipment to Greece which helped the Greek government defeat the communist rebels. ... This helped ensure peace a...

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However, the emergence of the Far Eastern economies shows that the world is slowly being divided into the lines that Orwell set. ... I think that instead of giving more power to these people, we should give government, which for all its failings is at least democratically elected, more regulatory control. ... It is all very well putting safety nets in place in stable democracies such as we have in the Western world, but how can we let so much economic power be given to the Far Eastern countries, such as Indonesia, which have very unstable governmental systems? The Indonesian ...

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These are the questions I posed to myself, and then set out to try and answer here, in this paper. ... The onslaught weakened the newly elected South Vietnamese government, set back efforts of pacification, and brought to the forefront American outcries for peace. With all that in mind, the American government had to re-think where this war was taking us. ... These actions set off major protests on American College campuses. ... In the beginning, I feel that the American people stood firmly behind the actions of our government officials. ...

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It was the winter of 1979, Afghanistan was engulfed by a civil war because the Prime Minister, Hafizullah Amin, wanted to lead the country away from its traditional Muslim way of life and set up a more western, modernized country. ... The Mujahedeen, consisting of a variety of Muslim guerrilla fighters, declared jihad, or holy war, on the Amin government and its supporters. ... Amin started to disagree with Russia on the idea of a total communist government, and began talks with the west. ... In his place, the Soviet Union put a man named Babrak Karmal in charge of the Afghan government. His j...

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North Korea has had nuclear capabilities since the early 1990's, and we helped them set up their first nuclear reactor. The government believes that in the ten years that North Korea had their reactor running that they were able to stockpile enough plutonium to build at least two nuclear bombs. ... Either a preemptive military strike to overthrow the leaders of their government or Diplomatic Measures such as U.N. inspectors or economic aid of some sort. ...

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Subsequently, nations with Anglo-Saxon cultural background was seen as the most developed and influential power in the world and set on first place whereas nations and cultures like Native Americans and African tribes were placed on a very low position. ... By believing that they were the fittest nations on the planet due to economic achievements and growth and set up of an functional civilisation, which included democracy within society, they wanted to fulfil their so-called duty to "Improve all people" by showing the appropriate way and level of how society functions. ... This would be by pr...

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The American government felt it was their duty as a democratic nation to stop the Soviet Union. ... At this time, North and South Korea were set to have an election that would eventually reunify them sometime after World War II. ... The events of The Cold War along with the fight against Communism were set in motion to preserve the liberties and freedoms of everyone in the world, which American's so highly value....

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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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During the late 1960's the U.S. got involved with the escalating threat in the country of Vietnam. Vietnam was an ocean away but people needed help and the U.S. was there to give it. Many people didn't agree with this plan of action because they thought this wasn't our war. Many people wanted the Am...

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Almost fourteen hours after Washington got word of the war there was a conference set up among certain members of the United Nations. ... Also, since South Korea had a dictatorship, we wanted to prevent it from becoming communist and remaining a dictatorial form of government. ... This upset the United States which wanted the region to have a democratic government, rather than the existing dictatorship. ... He also asked to set up a naval blockade off the entire Korean coast. ...

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Another form of aggression that angered the Americans was Stalins refusal to hold free elections in Eastern Europe, while he covertly set up their governments to act as puppet satellites, forming a protective barrier around the U.S.S.R. ...

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Such opposition made it difficult for them to set up an independent nation. ... Vietnam was decided to have a national election to determine the official government of Vietnam, which unfortunately led to the Vietnam War. ...

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Since the chaotic system that set the communist Soviet Union against the democratic United States, a new world order has emerged. ... Potential wartime governments have two options from which they can decide: either fight wars and risk losing international support, or make peace with adversaries and keep cash flow infiltrating steadily. ... Gone are the days that governments have the ability to isolate their people from the rest of the world and misinform them concerning life beyond their domestic borders. This "democratization of information- prevents leaders of already capitalist ...

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Although nationalism exists in all countries, the wrong policies of nationalism (Russification) done by the USSR governments caused the whole Soviet Union to collapse. ... This proved to be fundamentally false and Russian nationalism and beliefs of superiority set the stage for ethnic conflict within the USSR (www.historyorb.com). ... The main reason was the wrong nationalist policies done by the USSR governments. ... Also the way that USA governments had acted against the minorities was much more fair. ...

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Das Versprechen directed by Margarethe von Trotta is a love story set to the backdrop of the divided Germany beginning in 1961 up until the historic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. ... What makes the film original and fresh is the historical context in which it is set. ... This symbolizes the way the DDR government is represented throughout the film. ... It is first and foremost a character study of the two protagonists set in the context of the divided Germany and the Soviet occupation of Europe. ...

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In 1956, the Egyptian government nationalized the Suez canal, built by the French but part-owned by the British. ... The Hungarian government did appeal to the UN's assistance, but the Security Council's request to the withdrawal of soviet troops from Hungary was non surprisingly vetoed by the USSR. After the General Assembly passed the same resolution, a committee was set up to investigate the crisis. ...

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