Even during the crisis itself, some of us in the U.S. government, and I presume in the Soviet government as well, were thinking ahead to the future. ... Thus in another memorandum to Alexis Johnson, on October 29, on the "Significance of the Soviet Backdown for Future U.S. ... President Kennedy included in his key letter of October 27, as an incentive to Khrushchev, a statement that once the crisis was settled, the effect on easing tensions would make possible broader STAGE 6 The Afterlife THE MISSILE crisis not only had an a...

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Once assuming control, Stalin planned for five years into the future using these legislative acts. ... Once in office, he took the title of Fuhrer and assumed absolute control of the government and absolute sovereignty over all Germans in Europe. ... While the country industrialized, hard work increased while wages did not, but Stalin kept the Russia people committed to his plan because of his promises of better housing, more leisure time, better food, and better clothing once the plans worked. In the 1930s, his promises actualized when the Russian living standards were up to those of 1927, wi...

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The Soviets also began to test their nuclear arms once again (956). Tensions were rising once again, and the infamous thirteen days hadn't even arrived. ... Hopefully this time in history will help prevent future nuclear problems in the times to come. ...

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On the third of April 1917, with Lenin's return to Russia, he announced a republic for Soviet of Workers, Poor Peasants and Peasants" Deputies, and his "April Theses" - his plans for the future. ... The sailors, once staunch supporters of the Bolsheviks, felt it was time to speak up against them. ... With the subsequent introduction of the NEP, Lenin's leadership role in the retention of power was once again questioned. ...

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Four President's effects on American Isolationism during the 20th Century On September 6, 1904 Teddy Roosevelt made the most future altering decision of the twentieth century. ... first were spoken by a president who was once convinced that staying out of foreign affairs was the only way to insure stability. ... With the end of the Cold War struggle between the United States and Soviet Union in the early 1990s, some Americans are once again calling for the United States to retreat into isolationism. ...

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The Russian provisional government was put into place after the long Tsarist regime in 1917, but was ousted after only eight months, once the Bolsheviks took power after the October Revolution. ... As the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin was one of the leaders of this new party and was viewed by many as a tyrant who would significantly influence future Russian political parties. ... Once the viewers left the theatre, Vertov hoped the audience would start to take action to improve themselves and their surroundings. ...

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He was a Siberian peasant who gained a reputation as a starets with the ability to heal the sick and predict the future. ... And as he once said, "The Tsarina has a wise, strong mind and I can get anything and everything from her."" ... The people of Russia soon began to doubt their future with a Tsar who took advice from an uneducated and immoral peasant. ...

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The newspapers thusly disposed of by that argument, Hitler applies it once again to his greatest adversary of all; Socialism, and the German Socialist Party, with whom he was jockeying for power. ... In response, Hitler stated that "the anti-Semitism which formerly animated the Party must once again become the focal point of our spiritual struggle" (Bullock 703). ...

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He once stated, "We have spilt an ocean of blood for fraternity and unity of our nations- and we shall not allow anyone to touch this or destroy it from inside, to break this fraternity and unity- Here Tito shows his determination to keep his country united. ... Tito's work with the YCP most likely created a more promising future for his country. ... He once stated, " If we work together actively on different issues, economic, cultural and other ones, and if we, well, throw the phrase "block division- out of the international vocabulary, and start toward a united viewpoint in the world ...

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Once an empire stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea including parts of Georgia and Syria, Armenia was at its largest during the early 1st century BC under the rule of King Tigranes. ... Once Armenia was dependent upon Azerbaijan for oil and natural gas, but economic blockades by Azerbaijan and sympathizing nations forced Armenia to reopen a nuclear power plant, overuse old hydroelectric plants, and import natural gas from Iran. ... The future looks promising for the small nation of Armenia. ...

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Once Germany had been defeated in 1945 the war time allies between the USA, UK and the USSR began to break up. ... Joseph Stalin once stated: "One cannot forget the following fact: the Germans carried out an invasion of the U.S.S.R. through Finland, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary....One can ask, therefore, what can be surprising in the fact that the Soviet Union, in a desire to ensure its security for the future, tries to achieve that these countries should have governments whose relations to the Soviet Union are loyal?". ...

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In American eyes, only China looms as a likely future rival. ... Once USA became deeply involved in Vietnam, the American commitment stemmed from a genuine belief that unless communism was halted, as it had been in Korea, the nations of south-east Asia would fall, like dominoes, one by one to communist insurgency. 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. ...

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The Russian Revolution of October 1917 can be seen as the first great surge of the future USSR. ... Once Lenin had seized power, a new threat loomed, consolidating his newly gained power. ... Russia the once gain basket of the world was reduced to importing grain to feed its starving population. ...

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Once a village was built up enough, they would again move further into the unsettled areas of Kievan Russia trying to, and mostly succeeding, spread the Christian religion. ... The combination of these two events ultimately sealed Moscow's fate as the future capital of modern Russia. ...

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The wall delivered a devastating blow because it presented itself as the model for Germany's future. ... Shortly after these words, millions of East Germans began pouring over the border, while the once feared border police looked at them all helplessly. ...

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Once this education had gone far enough there would be an inevitable consensus of opinion. ... It was this that gave generations of Soviets confidence in the future, a developed education system and reasonable mass healthcare, a very high level of culture and the emergence of a broad stratum of the intelligentsia. ...

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Once accepting our role as hegemon, the United States joined the United Nations and eventually established the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council in order to help us adjust and adapt to our new place in international policy. ... John Ikenberry suggests one way in his article, "The Rise of China and the Future of the West". ...

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Introduction No conflict, neither in size nor in scope, is comparable to the Eastern Front, 1941-45. It was the deadliest theatre of war in history causing the death of over 30 million people. This colossal conflict played a decisive role in destroying the Nazi regime: the German armed forces suffer...

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They made calls to "halt at once the vicious red program of world enslavement."" ... Winston Churchill was, like Roosevelt, "distressed-, on the eve of the Yalta meeting because of the deadlock in the negotiations that was going on at the same time over the future of Polish g...

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