The freedom of the press let the people speak out against Gorbachev and leaders were born to lead their countries in the revolution of 1989. Leaders such as Poland's Lech Walensa with the "Solidarnosc" movement took advantage of Gorbachev's reforms and his political stupidity. ... The workers uprising in Berlin in 1953, the independence movement in Hungary in 1956, as well as the Czech spring in 1968 were all met with direct Soviet military intervention. ... The Pope himself was a big supporter of the Solidarity movement in Poland. ... Gorbachev had also problems speaking to the ...

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The reform movement that ended communism in East Central Europe began in Poland. Solidarity, an anti-Communist trade union and social movement, had forced Poland's Communist government to recognize it in 1980 through a wave of strikes that gained international attention. ... The movement simply went underground, and the rebellious Poles organized their own civil society, separate from the Communist government and its edicts. ... Instead, he encouraged the local Communist leaders to seek new ways of gaining popular support for their rule. ... It underwent an inflation of terms, as t...

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In the late sixties there was a huge movement among the young generation known as the hippie movement. ... Many black leaders spoke out against the war saying, "They weren't going to fight in a white man's war". ... They weren't the only civil rights movement group to stand up against the war. ... Black leaders such as Martin Luther King challenged the American spending, saying that they were neglecting the more pressing social issues, such as racism, social security and many other internal affairs that were bothering America at the time. ... The sickened public were appalled at...

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And while Castro was at first regarded as a "progressive leader favorably disposed to democracy," as Palmer so ironically puts it (955), people soon learned, with Cuba's increasing lean towards the Communist movement, that Cuba was a force to be reckoned with. ... Of course, the question that they, the opponents of this "Communist Movement" should've been asked at this point was, is it worth it? ... In mid-1962 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced his plan to defend Cuba against another American invasion. ...

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Forty years of Japanese rulings in South Korea resulted in major difficulties in finding a leader. ... Unfortunately, the lack of troop support from the Americans and lack of morale and leadership from the Nationalist leaders resulted in the Nationalists to lose countless battles against the Communists during their civil war (Ferrell 113). ...

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The huge movement for women's right in the late 1960s was attributed to the growing number of women to the genre of rock music. Before such a movement happened, life for women was not at all like how most people know it today. ... Songs like "Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall- - written about the Cuban Missile Crisis - and "Masters of War- - condemning political leader's pugnacious tactics - brought to the forefront the political and social issues occurring (Szatmary). ... (Hirshey: 73-4) The movement for women's liberation also brought openness to the public. ... There was also a...

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Roosevelt threw himself into the role of wartime leader with determination and enthusiasm. ... A whole subculture, the hippy movement, had developed among teens opposed to the war. ... Reagan's insistence on the Star Wars program brought strategic arms control talks to a standstill and provoked strong protests from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, during his summit meetings with Reagan in 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988. In 1987 the two leaders did agree to scrap land-based nuclear missiles of intermediate and shorter range, a small fraction of their nuclear arsenals. ...

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Latin America After world War II until the 1980's, many Latin American leaders installed reforms to deal with new demanding issues in their country. ... The financial movement was undertaken by NSC staff member Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. ... Even though the U.S. failed to aid its southern neighbor, when Latin American leaders such as Arbenz, Castro, and the Sandanistas, took a different road then the U.S. desired it came at these leaders with a vengeance. ...

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In protest of such regulations the Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California at Berkeley, the first of the 1960s campus student movements to make headlines all over the world, was born.  ... Berkeley protesters became national leaders as the protests spread nationwide; more than 50,000 students, faculties and other activists from different universities traveled to Washington D.C to protest the war (Von Eschen lecture, Global Protest and Détente) From this atmosphere, two Berkeley residents formed the Black Panther, an African American revolutionary leftist party that ...

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We Were Soldiers Once and Young was co-authored by Lt. General Harold G Moore and Joseph L Galloway. Lt General Moore was in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Calvary division during the November 1965 battle, which took place in the Ia Drang valley in Vietnam. Joseph L Galloway was a reporter that a...

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It was condemned because the leaders misused it. ... It was the movement that meant to overthrow the capitalist order by revolution (The Columbia Encyclopedia). ... This time he took away Mátyás Rákosi and put Nagy, the leader of the moderate communist, to his position. ... With Lenin and Stalin as example, we could see that the communist leaders did not obtain their position with legal ways; instead, they obtained their position through coercive tactics in order eliminated all their opposition. ...

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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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Nixon thought that calmness had to be restored in America and ending the war with his "secret plan," and encouraging the civil rights movement. ... McCarthy at times would be seven points ahead of Nixon, the leader most of the time in the race. ... Secondly, the race would bring out the yearning of the American people for a leader who would guide them into the next decade and try to make sense of all that had happened in the last one. ...

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Abstract The American dream comes to mind to most of us when overlooking some of the greatest accomplishments that some of our most inspiring American icons have achieved. Ronald Reagan is just one of the many hundreds of role models that our society is appreciative of. As the fortieth president of ...

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In December 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union at the time, announced the Sinatra Doctrine which stated that the Braznev Doctrine would be abandoned and that the Eastern European countries could do what the liked. ...

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The United States society is portrayed in a negative way according to Paul Potter, a young student leader, John F. ... When addressing all of these issues, Potter believes that we must create a movement or system that works not just in Washington, but in communities and with the problems that face people throughout society. This movement would also understand the nation of Vietnam rather than allow the State Department and the Pentagon to use it as a "laboratory of experimentation". ...

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Congress's movement of termination slowed and ceased because of many Native Americans crossed tribal lines to protest termination legislation. ... Leaders of these Native American tribes saw themselves as leaders of nations, domestic and dependent but still a nation. ...

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The continent had seen the leaders of Germany, in the span of less than thirty years, twice embark on a conquest that brought the world into war. ... They pointed to evidence of the Soviets objective to support and set up governments in Eastern European countries that reflected not only their communist views, but also the Soviet way of running those governments through a " return to doctrinal belligerence by Russian leaders. ... The interpretations that came from this newer movement were an amalgamation of both Orthodoxy and Revisionism, called Post-Revisionism. ...

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His addiction to drugs, in particular heroin, saw many of the alternative life stylers who felt alienated from society looking to Dransfield as a leader of their kind and someone from whom they could gain an identity. ... The Labor government immediately started an anti-war movement and soon enough had the Australian troops removed from Vietnam. ...

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Ignorance is one of several things in life that is very damaging. Many people have heard the saying "ignorance is bliss;" this is the same as saying "boys are stronger than girls." Both sayings are said on a regular basis, but are misleading. Ignorance is the farthest thing from being bliss. It is a...

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"Meredith attempted to register four times without success" (Civil Rights Movement). ... "Long telephone conversations between the president, the attorney general, and Governor Ross Barnett failed to produce a solution" (Civil Rights Movement). ...

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