Not only did it affect the cold war buy stopping the spread of communism in the Middle East, but it affected the future as well by creating the Mujahedeen, known today as the Taliban. ... The overall goal for the Soviets was to turn Afghanistan into another satellite country, such as Cuba or East Berlin. They also wanted a foothold in the Middle East so the spread of communism had a greater reach than just Eastern Europe. ... The Russians took interest in the country because they believed if Amin was successful at modernizing the country, it would help the spread of communism in the Middle Eas...

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By the end of the war Germany was in the middle of a disaster waiting to happen. ... In East Germany there was almost nothing. ... The people of East Germany saw that they were trapped in East Germany, and if they wanted to get out they would have to risk their lives. ... The people were from East Berlin, and the government of East Germany knew that they couldn't loose all of these people. ... It stunned people from both East and West Germany. ...

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Berlin was a focal point for changes. the fall of the Berlin wall which will always be remember as the end of "The Cold War". this made west available to the middle east resulting in widespread chaos. ... In 1961 the east Germans decide to stop the flight go to the west. ... In the summer of 1989 the Berlin wall became irrelevant when Hungary allowed east Germans to pass through their country on their way to Austria . In the fall of that year the east Germans regime was on falling down. ... After a while east Germans started to tear down the wall and reunited with west Germany in 199...

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The consequences of the crisis acted to ensure the decline of Anglo-French dominance in both Egypt and throughout the Middle East. ... The dire consequences for France, and Britain domestically and internationally illustrate how the Suez crisis saw the end of dominant British imperialism in the Middle East and beyond. ... Nasser's stand against the imperialist powers emphasized Egypt's power within the Middle East, thus making the Cold War states far more eager to gain Nasser's Arab alliance in 1956. ... Despite Eisenhower not wanting to loose influence within the Middle East,...

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Iran thought that the United States was planning yet again another coup to place the Shah back in power in order to access more oil, since this is what occurred in the 1950s.6 Stephen Kinzer explains in his book how the U.S. handles business in the Middle East, especially secret operations. ... The Middle East has always had struggles for power and its foreign policy with the United States was only further damaged with the coup d'état. Tradition, history, and religion shape political life in the Middle East that many outsiders would not comprehend.7 Kinzer suggests that terror ...

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In the middle of it all lay Germany, divided and occupied by the four allies. ... The Western Allies occupied West Germany and the Soviet-Union occupied East Germany. ... The East German people elected Konrad Adenuer leader of the Christian Democratic Republic. ... On August 13, 1961, East Germany leader backed by the Soviets authorized the sudden construction of a wall between West and East Berlin; where hundreds of thousands of East Germans had continued to flee to the West. ... The new government had no intention of changing the Federal Republic Governments policy towards the East. ...

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Turkmenistan is a country located in the Middle East and somewhat in central Asia. ... The Shia Sunni clash consists of almost all of central Asia, the middle east, and northern Africa. ... Turkmenistan is located in the Middle East and central Asia. ...

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Twelve years later they finally meet again when Konrad arrives as part of an East German scientific delegation. ... For one Harald and Konrad's family are working class and in stark contrast to the middle-class Sophie and thus could possibly not make a transition to the west. ... Harald dies in what is the cruellest of ironies jumping the Berlin Wall to get to the east. The differences between the east and west culture and ideology is also displayed through the innocence of Konrad's son, who when he comes to visit in the east tells his new found sister about things he takes for grant...

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Should all countries disarm their nuclear arsenal? I personally think that they should only keep a restricted amount for use in the most extreme circumstances. To back this up I am going to raise some points about events that have happened in the past regarding nuclear products e.g. power stations...

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Germany had been divided into East and West. The Americans, the British and the French controlled West Germany and the Russians controlled East Germany. The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into east and West. ...

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Right after the begging of the war on 7 October 1939 Hitler issued a decree where he gave Himmel permission to deport all Jews from Greater Germany to the east and to resettle them together with 2 million Polish Jews under the German law. ... In the middle of August, mass-murder started including Jewish children and women. ... Under his approval Jews were transported and murdered in the east under the Wannsee Conference circumstances. ...

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Moreover China was very curious about its population which in the middle of 21 century will reach 1.5 billion of people. ... China expected to find additional territory in the Far East and on the North. In this perspective a deep cooperation with Soviet Union and later on with Russia will block any Chinese activities in the process of potential enlargement in Far East, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. ... If immigration policy of Russia towards Siberia wouldn't be changed, 10 millions of Chinese people will migrate till the middle of the 21 century. ...

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False alliances make it easier to achieve specific communist goals, such as the acquisition of advanced technology or the negotiation of arms control agreements or the spread of communism to the Middle East and Africa. ... Nyquist (2012) states "China and Russia continue to collaborate on issues relating to the Korean Peninsula, the Middle East, and Latin America when US interests are impaired....

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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. ... He argued that a Communist victory in the Greek Civil War would endanger the political stability of Turkey, which would undermine the political stability of the Middle East. ... Many of these plans, treaties, and doctrines were designed to help recover the European economy after being devastated so badly in World W...

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While twenty minutes to the west of this mountain range, you can be in the middle of a dense forrest or arctic tundra in Siberia. ... Russia is located east of Europe and west of North America, so close where some people living in Alaska or islands off of Alaska consider themselves citizens of Russia instead of the United States. ... And Russia was to advance through East Prussia to assist the French forces, yet was forced out of Eastern Prussia with a devastating defeat and loss of man power (Firstworldwar.com.). ... The first offensive Russia launched was in August 1914, against Germany i...

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Nation-states, city-states, empires and Kingdoms have interacted with each other in a similar way since the end of the thirty years war. An example could be China, Africa, India, and Ancient Greece; they got involved in economic relations, established embassies and helped each other or fought in war...

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The dividing line between the Free World and Communism was Germany, which was divided into East Germany controlled by the Soviets, and West Germany, which was part of the Free World. Germany was further slit down the middle by Berlin. ... As Communism neglected more and more citizens in East Berlin, they risked their lives trying to make it to the other side of the wall. ... Later that year the wall between East and West Berlin was torn down. ... The following year, in 1990, East and West Germany reunited and became the sovereign nation of Germany once again. ...

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Introduction Cold War refers to the condition of political hostility and military tensions between power blocks, involving threats, economic sanctions, subversion, and propaganda and other measures short of open warfare, for example, the one that existed between the Soviet power blocs and the United...

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For a western person Russia remains a somewhat strange East: sometimes attractive with its mystery and at times repulsive with its barbarism. ... Unfortunately, in the historical experience something in the middle and something relative have always been better. ... Like the legendary Ivan-tsareevich Russia is standing in the middle of three paths, trying to find the best way to go on. ... Hopefully, Russia, together with Russians will choose the correct "middle" way and finally will find happiness, keeping their soul and uniqueness with them. ...

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The purpose here has simply been to determine whether Russian and Western observers and officials are justified in arguing that the U.S. government, and perhaps some of the other NATO governments, made a ' 'pledge'' to Gorbachev in 1990 that if the USSR consented to Germany's full membership in NATO after unification, the alliance would not expand to include any other East European countries. ... Americans started preparation to take their part in the war in Near East with almost full support of most western countries including (at least formally) Russia. ... In numer...

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Winston Churchill warned that an "Iron Curtain" was descending the middle of Europe, the Cold War began. ... The East (capitalist) and the West (communist) made no direct military conflict for the most part because of the reciprocated fear of nuclear warfare. ... The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the reunification of East and West Germany. ...

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He stars from the ancient Rome where we have patricians, knights, plebeians and slaves; then in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs and we came in our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses which it has simplified the class antagonisms: Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletarian. ... Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi barbarian countries dependent on the civilized ones,...

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The Bolsheviks were mainly people of the middle class or workers. ... Communism had spread across Europe and the Far East; some countries may have not adopted Communism but had used many of its ideas. ...

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He stars from the ancient Rome where we have patricians, knights, plebeians and slaves; then in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs and we came in our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses which it has simplified the class antagonisms: Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletarian. ... Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi barbarian countries dependent on the civilized ones,...

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The leaders of the Soviet Union decided that the only way to prevent the total collapse of their economy and country was to seize the oil rich Middle East. ... Bob Toland was a middle-level analyst at the National Security Agency. ...

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