They affected many people emotionally and physically. ... A quarter of the working force or 13 million people were unemployed in 1932, and this was only the beginning (Encarta Encyclopedia). ... It opened many doors for other people to follow. ... Although Lewis and Clark did not find this route, the expedition succeeded in making peaceful contact with Native Americans and uncovering a wealth of knowledge about the peoples, geography, plants, and animals of the western United States (Encarta Encyclopedia). ... Truman opposed Stalin's policy and moved to unite Europe under American...

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Once the audience separates the Hitler loyalists from the people whose positions are products of their situation, sympathy is created. ... Suddenly, the camera stops and the lieutenant moves out of the frame. ... The camera slowly begins to move inward. ...

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This collapse came as a direct result of Mikhail Gorbachev's attempt to integrate a Marxist-Leninist society into the world economy without the full knowledge of the consequences of such a move. ... Instead, the unity of all peoples for peace was stressed. ...

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Differences between the former Allies after it was generally uniting them during the war aim, moved to another plane. ... Limited participation in direct hostilities (during the war years the number of American troops did not exceed one million, and the population at that time was approximately 110 million people), and also the most active and significant maintenance of industrial and financial basis of the fight against fascism contributed to the extraordinary growth of economic power of America. ... Even more significant were the casualties of the Soviet Union - over 27 million people. ... ...

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In the late 1950's approximately 8,000 to 10,000 people from East Germany left and each day they would move further and further west. Many of these people were from East Berlin, and the government of East Germany knew that they couldn't afford to loose all of these people. ... For people under 60 years old, lawful emigration was not easy. ... It stunned people from both East and West Germany. ... The people of East Germany were trapped in East Germany. ...

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The principle of socialism was that of a party of the proletariat or the working classes and in 1928 Russia did not have a very large proletariat because most people worked in agriculture. ... Stalin used industrialisation to appeal to the nationalistic tendencies of the Soviet people, which had been largely ignored and discouraged beforehand, and through this he glorified himself as a dictator of the people and a true proletariat fighting back the bourgeois academics polluting the communist party. ... As Lenin had made clear, the N.E.P was a step backwards so that we can make two steps fo...

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Therefore, Hollywood directors used myths to create dramatic constructions of the realities of the Vietnam War that moved audiences" emotions. ... Cimino offers the people no sympathy or history. By stereotyping the Vietnamese characters as merely savage anti-American enemies and removing the story of the Vietnamese struggle, Cimino, in effect, de-contextualizes the history of the Vietnamese people. ...

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In other words, they are talking about victors" justice and trying to demoralize the people. ... To many people that lived in the Eastern half of Germany nothing changed. ... Some people would argue that Stalin was worse than Hitler, but that is a completely different story. ... In Western Germany, a new style of government was introduced to the people. ... The German people began to come restless to see what was going to happen to them. ...

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"4 Some scholars such as Seymour Lipset state that exceptionalism refers only to America as a unique nation but not necessarily a better one.5 Whereas others such as Ceaser feel that packed into exceptionalism is the belief that the American people have a mission to better the world and spread their greater way of life.6 For my essay I went with the definition provided by Ian Tyrell ; "American exceptionalism refers to the special character of the United States as a uniquely free nation based on democratic ideals and personal liberty.... ", not only shows Uncle Sam as a heroic...

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During the 1960's America was ripped apart by a war in a far off country in Asia. Seeing an enemy that was hoping to gain power and eventually rule the world and the nation stared war against communism in the face. The US was faced with the decision, to watch as its friends in other countries fade...

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Truman was overtly aware that the people of the United States rallied behind his doctrine, and wanted any and every nation to have a choice in their political happenings; however, he was also aware that the people of the United States were tired of war, and especially war for European benefit. ... Truman did by avoiding military action, using airlifts, while still aiding in some manner the people of Berlin was create a nice balance that would win him reelection. ... The decision on the part of Truman to stay in Berlin and airlift the supplies to the people of Berlin was a significant point i...

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It was from here, the first bipolar world, that people began to place more and more importance on the power of individual countries in a world spectrum. ... In the words of Dean Acheson "The great thing which creates purchasing power is people if the people can develop their own countries, they will become an increasing market for all goods including our own"2 Also Western Europe appeared open to influence by the USSR. ... "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed majorities or by outside pressures. ...

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The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ...

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These terms recognized the government that Soviet occupants had imposed upon Poland, as legitimate and left no basis for how any voice from the Polish people regarding their political future would be heard. ... The subsequent proposal read: It was agreed in principle that the hearth of the Polish state and people must be situated between the so-called Curzon Line (a demarcation line that pushed the eastern boundary westward) and the line of the Oder River, including Eastern Prussia and the Oppeln Province as part of Poland. (22) Stalin moved the frontier of the USSR westwards and handed o...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's...

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Arms control is arguably one of the most prominent issues every nation of the world has to deal with, this is because every man woman and child on the planet may potentially be affected by the arms another country posses. In today's society more than ever the worry over the nuclear capability of countries is at the foreground of debate, some countries possess weapons of mass destruction a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the most notorious of which are the USA and the Soviet Union. These two countries became the s...

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World peace through international government and law is an ancient idea that has mightily fastened itself on the minds of people throughout the ages. ... The United Nations is creating new patterns of interaction among people and states, promising unprecedented opportunities for material progress in larger freedom, but also threatening to compound many existing challenges before the international community. ... For many people, the U.N. is simply a large building in New York City. ... It is a rather interesting organization that represents the more than six billion people on Earth. ... Some 20...

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A bogy of the Cold War revival or its complete comeback is commonly a matter of a public discourse, triggering many different experts to take part in this issue. Is it really possible that the status quo from 80s and the revival of the Cold War is a fact? Or maybe the political reality, nowadays, ha...

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Both Great Britain and the United States agreed that such a move would be advisable for a multitude of reasons. ... They looted and destroyed 40,000 hospitals and medical centers, 84,000 schools and colleges, 43,000 public libraries (which contained approximately 110,000,000 volumes), 44,000 theaters, 2,800 churches and 427 museums.8 Additionally, the Soviet Union desired to maintain its Eastern and South-Eastern European territory in order to create a united Slavic people. ... The Nazi government had bankrupted Germany in an attempt to exterminate the Slavic people, and seize their lands. .....

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