Without Ronald Reagan's achievements during his presidential term, society could have possibly crashed and crumbled. ... Eight days later Reagan had survived the operation and was back in office finishing his two presidential terms from 1981-1989. ... Like other Grand Old Party members, Reagan came into office promising to limit the power of government and to strengthen American military power overseas. ... Instead of letting the cancer have an effect on his presidential term, Reagan defeated the cancer and continued as president. ... Mikhail Gorbachev came into power determined to cha...

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With no actual military action during his presidency, President Reagan urged the Russian Dictator Mikhail Gorbachev to start giving up power, asking him to "tear down this wall", referring to the wall in Berlin" (Mann 37). ...

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On December 27th, 1979, a group of Spetsnaz, or Russian Special Forces, assaulted the presidential palace where Amin was located and assassinated him, and his guards[Chr08]. ... By 1989, with their supplies cut and limited air power, the Soviet Union retreated from Afghanistan. ... It also left the Afghan government toppled, leaving the Mujahedeen, who later became the Taliban, in power until the war on terror began, and America overthrew them in 2001....

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In it, he described Soviet power as scattered and dangerous, and claimed that it must be contained. ... Through Truman's use of economic aid to suffering european countries, establishing military links with pro-democratic nations, and his firmness when responding to threatening soviet acts, Truman handled the soviet threat to the best of any presidential ability. ... This firmness towards Stalin had begun years before in 1945 when the U.S demonstrated its nuclear power upon Japan. ...

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In 1955 he was the only New England senator to support renewal of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act which gave the President the power to lower U. ... Kennedy wanted the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, and almost as soon as the 1956 election was over, he began working toward it. ... Less than two hours after the shooting, aboard the presidential plane at the Dallas airport, Lyndon B. ...

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This apprehension, an overestimation of American power, and an underestimation of Vietnamese communist strength locked all administrations from 1950 through the 1960s into a firm anticommunist stand in Vietnam. ... With a presidential election approaching, Lyndon B. ... He chose a middle course that vastly escalated U.S. involvement but that stopped short of an all-out application of American power. ...

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Americans exercised their new purchase power by investing in new chrome-laden automobiles, purchasing colorful home furnishings and appliances, and keeping current with the latest fashions. ... When presidential first ladies and fashion are spoken of in the same sentence, the first image that comes to mind is the infamous Jackie Kennedy. ...

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The United States is fully recognized as the most powerful nation on the planet earth, and with that power comes a definitive sense of responsibility. ... Not only does taking the initiative of world leader show the fact that we have power but also other things. ... By involving ourselves as world police if you will, we also gain power in the process of doing our share of helping others. ... In fact, recently Clinton has began an expansion of his presidential power concerning foreign policy, and many historians say that the only other president to rival this power was Nixon. ... He showed the ...

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The United States emerged from World War II as the most powerful country in the world only to have a constant enemy competing for power and domination "Russia. ... Presidential campaigns were televised which educated the people on the candidates. ...

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Lynn Boyd Hinds and Theodore Otto Windt Jr. in their book the Cold War as Rhetoric viewed the Truman Doctrine as neatly thought out and very necessary to increase both Truman and the United State's authority as a world power. ... This gave Truman the Democratic nomination and now all he had to do was worry about his presidential opposition. ... Regardless once again to what side you agree with regarding the actions of Truman during the first years of the Cold War, it is the actions and decisions of Truman and his presidential advisors that will lead the United States into its next gre...

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Not only was he effective in his presidential position, but he was also a good military chief, politician, and leader. ... " The Soviet Union was willing to have a Four-Power meeting between themselves, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. ...

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This view announced that instead of citizens supporting presidential and parliamentary government and free enterprise, American corporations controlled foreign policy.14 As with other social and political movements of the era, it would make sense that the provocative stance taken by the revisionists tested the US ethical and moralistic appearance it was trying to establish and maintain in the eyes of the world. ... "Post-revisionist historians, to varying degrees, praised the wisdom of postwar U.S officials in restoring a global balance of power and forestalling the possibility of Moscow'...

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Early elections held in June 1997 led to the victory of a socialist-led coalition of parties, which remains in power today. ... Fears that the shift of power from centralized one-party system system to multi-party democracy might turn into bloody revolution proved unfounded owing to the presence on both sides, the Communist Party and the democratic opposition, of peacefully-minded reformists committed to a peaceful solution, while the Catholic Church managed to cool down some militant opposition fractions. ...

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They were so far ahead of all the other countries in power and influence that they were called "superpowers". ... They now realised that they now had the power and resources to play a large part of world affairs. ... He knew in future disagreements; Russia would have little room to argue due to the overwhelming power of the US. ...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. ... Many Black leaders had sided with Kennedy in the presidential race because Kenne...

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RFK, referring to a meeting between himself, JFK, Special Assistant to the President Ken O'Donnell, and Presidential Counsel Ted Sorensen wrote, "Neither side wanted war over Cuba, we agreed, but it was possible that either side could take a step that- for reasons of "security- or "pride- or "face-- would require a response by the other side, which, in turn, for the same reason of security, pride, or face, would bring about a counterresponse [sic] and eventually an escalation into armed conflict-[p.40]. ...

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Safer added the following commentary at the end of the piece: "There is little doubt that American fire power can win a military victory here. But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of backbreaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side" (Hammond 59). ...

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The Kennedy White House Administration played a tremendous role in the integration of The University of Mississippi and the Cuban Missile Crisis that happened between September 28, 1962 and October 28, 1962. In September 1962, James Meredith, an African American man, tried enrolling at the University of Mississippi. Mayhem immediately arose on the Ole Miss campus, with uprisings resulting in two people dead, hundreds of people injured and countless other people detained, when the Kennedy administration summoned 31,000 National Guardsmen and supplementary federal forces to impose command. As th...

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Carter was a very able negotiator; in 1978 he met at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland with the Israeli prime minister and the Egyptian president to discuss the framework for peace between Egypt and Israel. ... During the mid 1980s Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR. ...

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