This was to become known as the League of Nations that, ironically, the US Congress never ratified and thus never actually joined. ... Britain, being included in the League of Nations, not to mention being geographically close in proximity to the European continent, as well as being allied with France and Belgium (both of whom were invaded) were unfortunately sucked into the vacuum of conflict that had swept the globe into turmoil. ... The treaty was a major response by the west in order to combar the cold war against the aggressive threat of a continued mobilized Soviet military presence in...

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Archie Brown notes that "Gorbachev has the political will to make significant innovations in both Soviet domestic and foreign policy"1, and German biographer Christian Shmidt-Hauer states that "the new leader is ambitious for power- not power for its own sake, but power to improve his own society"2.3 Anyhow, his personal attractive qualities and his remarkable profile of a Young Communist League member and a Law graduate from the Moscow State University, presented him as the most suitable Party Leader the USSR needs in order to optimize the unstable economic situation he i...

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For instance, a good example of attraction was in the 1960s when Japan played a major role in affecting the neighboring countries found in Southeast Asia. ... In 1938, as the League of Nations fell apart the prime minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, used a new form of foreign policy in order to keep peace with Hitler. ... Almost all the news sources of major Russian television networks broadcast the exact same stories about the Crimean Crisis (Weir, 2014). ...

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December 9, 1958, Robert Welch and eleven other men gathered in a meeting hall. They came from Oregon, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Massachusetts. He called upon these self proclaimed patriots to help him found a society of pro-American's known as the John Birch Society. "The ultimate reason that brought each man here,"" Welch said, "was a sense of patriotic duty, and deep concern for the future of his family and his country- (4). He felt America was at great risk to succumbing to outside forces. ...

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