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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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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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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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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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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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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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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