Such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area. ... Article 6: For the purpose of Article 5 an armed attack on one or more of the parties is deemed to include an armed attack on the territory of any of the parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France, on the occupation forces of any party in Europe, on the islands under the jurisdiction of any party in the North Atlantic area north of the tropic of cancer or on the vessels or aircraft in this area of any of the parties. ... The I...

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America's foundation is capitalism where Communism's foundation is equality. ... Kennan an American diplomat in Moscow proposed a policy of containment. ... Finally in 1949, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was formed. ... As South Korea being the capitalist country, and North Korea being the Communist country. ... This caused the fear of Communism in America to grow.  ...

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Truman was smart in sticking to his guns in the public eye because he needed Americans to know that his actions were justified. The American people would not of been able to trust a man who regretted or second-guessed his actions in a time of crisis. If Truman could live with the decisions he made, then America would undoubtedly support him in the future. ... The Truman administration later concluded the possibility that Communist China pushed North Korea into attacking out of sheer hatred for the Americans (Ferrell 113/114). ... The rising tensions of the Cold War could have been yet anoth...

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In American eyes, only China looms as a likely future rival. ... Map showing who were supporting South Korea and North Korea in the Korean War, in June 1950), where the CCP recognised the importance of relations with their powerful communist neighbour; USSR. ... Map showing who were supporting North Vietnam and South Vietnam in the Vietnam War, 1954). ... Once USA became deeply involved in Vietnam, it became a matter of national pride to the Americans that they should win, and to pull out without victory would be a national humiliation. In the late 1960's the US got out of the Vietnam War...

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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 concentration of aid to Europe was a immense concern to the countries of Latin America. Latin America countries wanted the U.S. to stress economic development in the post war era. ... The financial movement was undertaken by NSC staff member Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. ... North lost their jobs and was prosecuted, President Ronald public image was tarnished, and the United States suffered a serious though temporary loss of cred...

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It was a dispute between North and South Korea (Forty 1). ... By the end of the war 1.3 million South Koreans, 1 million Chinese, 500,000 Northern Korean's, 54,000 Americans were dead (Rees 4). ... (The Soviet Union had also joined North Korea.) ... That battle ended in 4,280 Americans dead. ... America did however; claim this to be their first defeat in a major battle (Berkeley. 1 edu.). ...

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It happened when China and Soviet aided Communist North Korea in its attack against South Korea. American quickly responded to the threat against a democratic South Korea. ... North Korea eventually withdrew from the southern state and America went home. ... North Vietnam's invasion of South Vietnam was a relatively small conflict in South Asia. ... "It was the longest conflict in American history and had a vast political importance for many American politicians" (Healy 3). ...

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Comparisons of the revolutions in Czechoslovakia and in America enable us to look in some detail at their attempts to vanquish two of the strictest regimes in Eastern Europe and in Northern America . ... Not all of the first American settlers were loyal to the British crown. ... With France removed from North America, the vast interior of the continent lay open for the Americans to colonize. ... It can be demonstrated also in the case of situation in Northern America. ... They sent British troops to "protect Americans" they said. ...

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Comparisons of the revolutions in Czechoslovakia and in America enable us to look in some detail at their attempts to vanquish two of the strictest regimes in Eastern Europe and in Northern America . ... Not all of the first American settlers were loyal to the British crown. ... With France removed from North America, the vast interior of the continent lay open for the Americans to colonize. ... It can be demonstrated also in the case of situation in Northern America. ... They sent British troops to "protect Americans" they said. ...

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During the 1950's McCarthyism consumed the daily lives of Americans. ... The answer is simple: the increasing threat of communism perceived in America at the time. ... When the North passed the 38th parallel, which was the division of North and South Korea after World War II, the United States sent support to defend South Korea from the communist North Korea. General MacArthur and troops had managed to push North Koreans across the 38th parallel, which was the original goal (Monk 219). ... After World War II there was a wave of supposedly communist influenced strikes in America, and Amer...

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It was on this day that America, a long time domestic animal, went into the ocean and discovered salt. ... in the affairs of America. ... With those words a century of American internationalism was born; a century whose people, politics, and overall advancement was shaped by America's entanglements with the rest of the world. ... In 1972 Nixon was forced to send America back into the war when he bombed North Vietnam. ... Virtually paralyzed, North Vietnam retreated; the war ended, but has left an immense scar on this nation and the others involved. ...

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The First World War actually began friendly British/American relations similar to that of today. ... The British were deeply indebted to the United States in the form of loans, so American initiative came into play. ... Nearly all invasions during the war in the European theater occurred with Americans and British troops fighting together. Such attacks, as those in Northern Africa, Italy and France were all conglomerated forces of British and Americans. ... Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States...

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One of the main photojournalists in the Vietnam War was the American, Larry Burrows. ... The causes of the Vietnam War revolve around the simple belief held by America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia and America wanted to stop its spread. ... The Americans backed the capitalists, South Vietnam, but because they put troops on the ground the Soviets could only back North Vietnam through China, supplying them with weapons so that the Vietcong could fight the Americans. ... One other factor could have been television, which showed the conflict to Americans on a ni...

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I live at 210 North Mountain Avenue. ... Also, they wrote North of Danube after returning from Czechoslovakia. When they returned to America after this trip, they were married, on February 27, 1939. ... Margaret ended up convincing America of the concentration camps in Germany with her photographs of the horrible truth of the war. ... She saw many doctors when she arrived back in America and when she went to a neurologist who realized what was wrong, her refused to name it, thinking it would discourage her. ...

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They also realized that the countries that make up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in particular the United States would not stand for this hostile action. ... This is very intriguing to examine the possibilities which include all the new technological weapons in the American and Soviet arsenals. ... It takes place mostly on American soil with other parts in Japan and the Pacific Ocean. ... This is illustrated by an American diplomat and a Japanese diplomat discuss an upcoming treaty. ?... Viruses effect Americans almost everyday in ways they might not even recognize....

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Vietnam had been divided into two, in the midst of a communist administration in the North under Ho Chi Minh and an egalitarian government in the South under Ngo Dinh Diem. ... Despite their rivalry for leadership of the communist bloc of nations, the Soviet Union and China collaborated to support North Vietnam's effort to destroy South Vietnam. ... They finally had to pull out of South Vietnam after one million Vietnamese as well as nearly 60, 000 Americans lost lives and the administration incurred severe backlash at home (Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, chapter 3). ... The war had shown tha...

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Axis's land operations continued in North Africa and in the Balkans, where Greece and Yugoslavia were occupied. ... In North Africa, British General Montgomery's rout of Rommel at Alamein in October of 1942 and the landing of U.S. troops in Algeria resulted in an Allied victory in Africa. ... Eisenhower began working with a group of high-level British and American leaders to execute Operation Overlord. ... During the night American and British paratroopers dropped from the sky. ...

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Reagan turned toward conservatism, which offered a stable foundation with American ideas and values. ... Reagan was effective in communicating his goals to the American people. He outlined his goals in his speech to Americans on February 18, and brought economic awareness to the American people during the televised political debate on October 28, 1980 between himself and Jimmy Carter, where he asked the American people to consider if they were presently any better off than they were four years earlier when Carter became president. ... He was able to start government programs to deal with socia...

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Taxes have always been a major part in American history. America has had taxation dating back to the colonial era. ... Reaganomics changed America. ... Meanwhile, America and its allies formed the North Atlantic Trade Organization (NATO), and promised collective defense of any country within NATO. ... And we all know how well that turned out for America. ...

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Germany, and especially Berlin, had to be the battlefield of the ideologies and became "both a symptom and a cause of the Cold War. "1 After the war Germany was sectioned into four occupation zones: The Russian zone in the East, the American Zone in the South, the British zone in the North-West and the French zone in the South-East. ... One important point is the presence of Americans in Berlin and its relevance. ... What America wanted to avoid was the Soviets goal: To apply communism on countries in Europe and to attach them to the Soviet Union. ... A third world war would have been possible...

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Russia has sold many of its nuclear weapons to North Korea to help regain economic stability. (5) The worldwide proliferation of nuclear warheads has made containment increasingly difficult. ... The amounts of material are usually small, less than a kilogram. (6) Many smugglers are caught every year. (5) We do not know what is missing, where it might be heading, or the whereabouts of the material that we do have. (7) When the Soviet Union fell lots of nuclear material was left with out protection. (1) In many incidents, the breakdown in the legal and police systems has led to such incidents ...

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Some months later in 1949 the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was founded. ... The discovery of russian missiles in october by an US - american reconnaissance plane (Aufklãrungsflugzeuge) lead to the Cuba Crisis. ... US - american reconnaissance planes took aerial photos of soviet medium range missiles 16.10. ...

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In 1961 the North Vietnamese began developing a supply line through Laos into South Vietnam. ... On Tuesday October 23rd, the day after President Kennedy made his speech to the American people explaining the crisis, CIA Director John McCone reported that the Russians were beginning to camouflage the missile sites [p.36]. ... Besides, RFK's surprise that the Organization of American States supported the quarantine leads me to believe that he would have thought it next to impossible that they would support an all-out attack. ...

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Preuss notes that when the constitutional state gained favor in North America, it was founded on the principle of the unitary state; it was not designed to address the lack of national identity which is found throughout Europe - and which is counter to the concept of the constitutional state (48). ...

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