Whether it was Russia or Ukraine that fired the missile, one thing is very clear "that the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine is adversely affecting not only the citizens of these two countries but also innocent people from other parts of the world. ... In fact, by the signing of the bill incorporating Crimea into Russia, the latter was doing the world a favor for correcting a historical injustice (Mullerson 136). The Birth of the Crimean Peninsula The Crimean Peninsula, or Crimea, is an important territory found in the northern coast of the Black Sea. ... Crimea is surrounde...

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World War II ranged from 1939 through 1945 and it involved every major world power. ... Partly responsible were the humiliating peace treaties forced on Germany after World War I. ... The Allies must control the air and sea and German troops would have to be dispersed through out Europe. ... German General Rommel believed that the Allies should be destroyed at sea. ... Germany's chance to push them back out to sea was gone. ...

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Crimea is a land mass on the northern coast of the Black Sea, lies on the west of Kuban (Russia) and on the south of Ukraine. ... In the Second World War it was occupied by Germany. ... As it was the only land which connects Russia to Black Sea through Sevastopol " a warm water port. ... The world countries are isolating the Russia by putting sanctions regarding trade. ... This increases the enmity between Russian Federation and world organizations and countries which is very alarming for world peace. ...

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Turkmenistan is said to have the most public holidays in the world. ... The Caspian Sea has many oil deposits throughout the area and Turkmenistan, Iran, and Azerbaijan. ... Turkmenistan has mild, dry winters and runs along the Caspian Sea for 1768 kilometers....

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The Cold War shortly followed the conference held between the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, which took place at the Black Sea resort of Yalta between the 4th and 11th of February 1945. ... The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration of principles to guide a post-World War II peace settlement. ... It resulted from a meeting at sea between Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941. ... They made calls to "halt at once the vicious red program of world enslavement."" ... In his view, he had created a forum in the world through which nation-states could handle...

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Once an empire stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea including parts of Georgia and Syria, Armenia was at its largest during the early 1st century BC under the rule of King Tigranes. ... During World War I, the Ottoman Empire deported or massacred nearly all of the Armenians living in Anatolia due to suspicion of pro-Russian sentiments. ...

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In the latter portion of the 20th century a group of English colonies in the New World felt that they were being taxed unfairly. ... The First World War actually began friendly British/American relations similar to that of today. ... In the fall of 1939, Adolf Hitler with his 3rd Reich and Blitzkrieg tactics once again brought the world into war. ... Yalta is located in the Crimea, a peninsula in the Black Sea. ... This was a collective security measure tying the majority of the western world together. ...

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The whole world was watching to see what was going to happen with the build up of the tension between the United States and The Soviet Union. ... Both countries wanted to have the most nuclear weapons in the world and spent most of their money focusing on this common goal. ... (McNamara, 1998) President Kennedy decided on a military sea blockade. This strategy proved to be very successful and could of possibly saved the world. ... Without nuclear weapons it is possible that the world could already be over by. ...

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There were many defections in history starting back in World War II when famous people like Albert Einstein defected to the use because the Germans discriminated again him being Jewish (pg. 124-5, Vol. 9 Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia). ... All the military weapons are used appropriately for the tasks assigned providing sea support to the characters. ...

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After the fall of communism new multipolar world create prospects for cooperation and integration on the basis of the whole world community without dividing into the blocks. ... In order to decrease the level of import government pay attention to the sea territories of 3 million square kilometers, on which also Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand are pretending. ... Nowadays China turned it policy into the way of leadership in world politics. ... Peace and development became main and important notions of the world community. ... Old world order was time for terrorists, local conflicts,...

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This bought the fear that another world war, again with Europe its main arena, a distinct possibility. ... The following two weeks the world was holding its breath in anticipation of a full-scale nuclear war. ... This led to a period of talks between the two powers, which by 1972 had culminated in the ABM treaty, setting out limits on anti- ballistic missile for an indefinite duration, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT1), which was an interim agreement for 5 years, setting limits on numbers of land and sea based missiles to those that were already in existence or under constructio...

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Robert Conquest wrote, "Stalin's war had a higher death toll than total deaths for all countries in World War I." ... He was deported by ship to the forbidding Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. ...

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D-Day and The Battle of Stalingrad were two battles in the Second World War II that changed the tides of the war towards the Allies both on the Eastern and Western Front. ... This newly developed fighting force rivaled any in the world and the Germans were about to find out how much more powerful the Soviets had just become. ... The operation worked like a charm and German forces concentrated behind Calais prepared to throw Patton's ghost army back into the sea. ...

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During the last years of the Second World War, the Red Army was moving forward and leaving behind pro- communist governments. ... Marshall suggested that America should provided $400 million dollars worth of aid to sixteen "free world" nations. ... West Berlin remained a capitalist island in a sea of communism (Winston Churchill 1948). ... Never before had the two superpowers of the world stood so close to destroying each other but they almost did and then more than ever the Cold War was getting hotter all the time! ... This time it was said in public, where all the people of the world could ...

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Outnumbered and outmaneuvered, the Russians suffered one humiliating defeat after another, both on land and sea. ... The mounting pressures of World War I, combined with years of injustice, toppled the rule of Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917. ... They viewed the empress as untrustworthy since she had come from Germany, Russia's enemy in World War I. During World War I Russian army lost many soldiers in their fight against the Germans. ... Lenin quickly pulled Russia out of World War I. ...

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