He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted international leadership in building a new world order. ... Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902. ... In that campaign he asserted his independence of the conservatives and of the machine that had nominated him, endorsing a progressive platform, which he pursued as governor. ... Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to pronounce American war aims through a a series of ideas he had known as the Fourteen Points, this would establish a general as...

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• Grade Level: High School

The frequent center of stormy political activity; criticism and abuse were often showered upon him. ... The next year he resigned from the army to enter politics. ... Churchill joined the Liberal party in 1904, after other Conservatives pushed for a Tariff Reform, which he opposed. ... When given this position, Churchill began to urge the development of modern weapons such as tanks, machine guns, and airplanes to end the war quicker. Churchill loathed the Bolsheviks and used his political positi...

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There were many problems; both political and economic, facing the Soviet Union in 1928 and the decision to launch the five-year plans must have been influenced in part by these. ... However, the economic reasons were secondary to the political needs of the communism. ... Before and throughout the five-year plans Stalin's propaganda machine created an image of Stalin following the Leninist' path, ridiculing the rightists who were bringing back capitalism' whilst further damaging the leftist world-wide revolution' for being irresponsible and unpatriotic. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through much of history, the strength of a nation has been determined by the strength of its leader. Despite the appearance of holding power, leader's often are undermined by their own subjects as the case of Emperor Hirohito of Japan. It is true that during his reign Japan has seen a territorial...

• Word Count: 5382
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate