Historians argue if the American Revolution was democratic in nature. Recent work suggests that the people who fought in it hoped that it would be, and many of the state constitutions that emerged in the aftermath of the conflict, especially in Pennsylvania, reflected highly democratic tendencies for the time allowing all white males, and a few free blacks to vote. ... Early in his introduction to The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Wood observes the differences between the American and other nations revolutions in terms of the conditions that existed and the objectives of the revolutio...

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The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole were very suspicious and sometimes paranoid about Russia as soon as it has overthrew its Tsar, made a revolution and became a Soviet Union. ... Therefore, the Bolsheviks sign a separate peace treaty with ...

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Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. ... (Berlin would be in the Russian zone). ... It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolshevik Russia in 1921). ... These terms recognized the government that Soviet occupants...

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It was at nine years of age that JQA experienced, first hand, the American Revolution. ... From age ten to seventeen, John's father was posted in Europe as a special envoy during the American Revolution. ... President James Madison then appointed him from 1809-1811 to be the first US minister to Russia where he formed an alliance with Czar Alexander. ... He also accepted the job on the terms that he would never solicit their votes and he would follow his conscience at all times (The American President, 2). Many people believed that during this term, JQA displayed the most awesome ab...

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Rogers, "Some people believe that women soldiers will not be deployed in the event of hostilities that they are only to be part-time soldier. ... Technically, women are barred by law/ policy from what is defined in narrow terms as direct combat. ... Russia was reported as using military women on the front lines. ... Polls and statistics have shown that there is a clear tendency toward liberalization in terms of women's roles. ... "Women in the Military" An Unfinished Revolution Schneider, Dorothy & Carol J. ...

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McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. ... His conclusion was that "the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. ... Given the innate hostility of the Soviet Union and settled upon a policy of "containing "Russian expansionism." ... The US Gov...

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Russia is in temporary decline. ... In just over two decades from its inception, the foreign policy of the Peoples Republic of China swung from formal alliance with the Soviet Union against the US, to de facto alliance with the US against the Soviet Union . ... The foreign policy objectives of a communist China however are not purely national in spirit, because Mao firmly believed in the ideological superiority of communism and claimed for China the role of leadership in the drive to world revolution. ... Mao and his followers set out to build a society that was to be organised for the benefit...

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The principle of self-determination according to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. ... The distinction between power over people and power over territory is a useful one to make, for it singles out two aspects of sovereignty that are best addressed separately: disputes involving...

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The principle of self-determination according to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. ... The distinction between power over people and power over territory is a useful one to make, for it singles out two aspects of sovereignty that are best addressed separately: disputes involving...

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Eventually the price of the dollar in terms of yen would fall, until on average, the value of goods that the Japanese could buy from the United States in terms of dollars euqled the dollar value of goods that the United states could buy from Japan. ... Hong Kong on the other hand has a population of more than 6 million people jammed into a miniscule area with an alarming population density of more than 255 times the United States, and has no natural resources other than a great harbor and skills of its people. ... "Legalizing drugs would reduce enormously the number of victims of drug use...

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Social Darwinism in the United States in the late nineteenth century seems to have been the logical path for social theorists after the industrial revolution. The country had just experienced an industrial revolution and business was booming. Of course, along with the industrial revolution came larger separation of the social classes and countless poor. ... Sumner's essay on the concentration of wealth shows his political economist side with a few technical terms of Darwin thrown in the mix. ... Mutual aid seemed to do something that no other theory has been able to do before, include Ame...

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The Boston Massacre, also known as The Bloody Massacre, occurred on March 5th 1770 where Boston's people showed their discontent about the British controlling ways by rioting. A group of about sixty people gathered together and took out their anger by throwing rocks and snowballs at the soldiers stationed in front of the Customs House. ... The paragraph above is the preamble which tells us the ideas behind the Declaration, people have certain rights that cannot be ignored. ... The people have the power that they can choose to hand it over for the creation of a legitimate government, howev...

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In the face of the aggressive West-oriented autocracy of the Shah's ministry, the people of Iran turned to conservative Religion, establishing a Theocratic Republic of Islam via Referendum through the 1979 Revolution. ... This act applied to any company investing over $20 million into the industry, with any US or non US company facing sanctions if they are in breach of the terms. ... Though these restrictions proved difficult to enforce due to fringe dealings with Russia and China and other trade through secret and non-sanctionable channels, the lack of Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruct...

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By 1979, however, Saddam Hussein had clawed his way to the top of the ruling junta of Iraq and took advantage of the chaos unleashed by the recent Iranian Revolution to shift the disputed border back in Iraq's favor, with the excuse being that the predominantly Arab population of this region would prefer being part of the predominantly Arab state of Iraq. ... Before the Iranian revolution, the distinction between the countries was less religious than ideological. ... The Iraqi leadership became more of an issue after the Iranian revolution, when Ayatollah Khomeini, who had spent part of h...

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Historically, Huntington describes the transition from "the Peace of Westphalia" (Huntington, 1993) to the French Revolution, quoting R. ... Palmer from 1793 along the way, when he said 'The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun', then quickly moved to how the Russian Revolution and World War I "yielded a conflict of ideologies" (Huntington, 1993). ... Religion 'sharply' divides people in ways citizenship does not. ... Whether the sweeping generalizations of Huntington's theory about civilizations are justified or not, when the f...

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Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, purchased Alaska from Russia. ... Their conviction that they were not equals with the United States in the Union was strengthened when the American government directly interfered with a revolution in Chile in 1891 and a trade dispute in Brazil in 1893. ... Bunau-Varilla engineered a revolution and U.S. warships prevented Colombia from stopping Panama's attempt to break away. (In 1921, the U.S. paid an indemnity to Colombia in recognition of the U.S. role in the Panamanian revolution). ... Years later, President Roosevelt said that the ...

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It is a movie about the Russian Revolution and involves love affairs between a character Lara and her mother's lover and then she marries a young man who abandons her and then she meets Doctor Zhivago who is married but is driven to the love affair by the war that they are involved in. ... Ed Norton, in jail, learns that he was wrong to "hate" anybody and comes to terms with his former hatred and comes out of jail as a new person. As much as Ed Norton has turned around his former thoughts, his younger brother has gone that much deeper into the hatred of black people. ...

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Woodrow Wilson President Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. ... In 1935, Adolf Hitler unilaterally abrogated most of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. ... The Treaty of 1814 was concluded between France on the one hand and Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia on the other after the first abdication of NApoleon I. ... Below his country, the Mexican Revolution was in full swing. ... Presidents don't win elections by telling the people what they don't want to hear. ...

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In the years after the revolution that gave the United States independence from England, the United States foreign policy reflected these views held by George Washington. ... We first see this stance illustrated during the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1792. ... As Kaufman notes, "if the United States became embroiled in the French Revolution, the young nation would become perilously vulnerable to France's British and Spanish enemies sitting athwart its vital flanks " (Kaufman 8). ... At the onset of the French Revolution, Washington negotiated two major treaties (Jay's Treaty...

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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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