In the early morning hours of June 6, the American 82nd and 101st and British 6th Airborne divisions were dropped behind enemy lines to take out any threats inland from the beaches, and to cut off communications and transportation between German troops. ... Not until almost seven hours later, at 1230 hours, did the men on Omaha finally break through and start to move inland. ... Whether it was at 0700 hours or at 1230 the Allied forces advance inland to link up with the Airborne forces and created a sturdy beachhead in which to launch a breakout operation. ...

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In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. ... The battle would last upwards of two hours and resulted in thirty-one Soviet troops killed in action (KIA), fourteen wounded in action (WIA) and an unknown number of Chinese casualties. ...

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In considering the influence of Lenin's leadership on the Bolshevik seizure of power and their subsequent retention of power, it is better to separate the two events. Lenin was an inspirational revolutionary, contributing greatly to the Bolshevik seizure of power. However, he held less influence and...

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The hard working and living conditions these peasants had to suffer though while trying to make a living was horrific, Father Georgei Gapon wrote "They receive miserable wages and generally live in an overcrowded state...The normal working day is eleven and a half hours of work, exclusive of meal times..I often watched the crowds of poor clad and emaciated figures of men and girls returning from the mills". ... These parties gained more interest from people like the peasants who were tired of living in poverty and working long hours, these groups kept gaining support until they overt...

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Stalin Josef Stalin was the communist leader of Russia from about 1929 to his death in 1953. He is considered one of the greatest villains in history. He killed many millions of people, most of whom were guilty of no crime other than being of a certain religion or social class. Stalin greatly ref...

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Stalin Josef Stalin was the communist leader of Russia from about 1929 to his death in 1953. He is considered one of the greatest villains in history. He killed many millions of people, most of whom were guilty of no crime other than being of a certain religion or social class. Stalin greatly ref...

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THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION The main reason for the decline, and ultimate collapse, of the Soviet Union was the failure of the economic system. The need to improve economic performance led to wide-ranging changes in the economy and politics. The failure of the economic system was due to i...

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Was Russia a Prosperous Country During the Rule of Nicholas II? For centuries Tsars ruled Russia. This period came to an end during the Russian revolution of 1917. The events changed Russia completely and brought the people a new form of government. The age of the Romanov's abruptly ended with the ...

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His childhood was ended working twelve-hour days and sleeping on the factory floor. ... His battalion and squadron commanders were not made aware that an offensive action was planned until three hours before the units moved out. ...

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On December 1st 1934 an event took place, which triggered the Great Purge of the party in the Soviet Union. Sergie Kirov, a member of the Politburo was mysteriously murdered by Nikolayev. This ignited the senseless arrest, deportation and execution of millions of citizens of the Soviet Union. Ki...

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Power, Pressure, and Persuasion "Power is the ability to get another actor to do what it would not otherwise have done" (Goldstein, 73), this declaration is a accurate. To prove the accuracy of this definition this paper will define power, examine the natural state of man, and draw on the cold ...

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HOLOCAUST During World War II, Nazi Germany, under the rule of Adolf Hitler, rule almost every part of Europe. From the Atlantic Ocean deep into the Soviet Union, and from Norway to North Africa . That bring out Hitler's plane to have people in Europe serve the German. The ideal of Nazi was Ger...

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In the late 19th century, Russia was plagued by an immense amount of problems linking economic, political, and social stigmas. The evidence supporting economic problems as the primary cause of the 1881 dilemma is deeply rooted within a mixture of geographical and monetary problems, such as the high ...

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In Britain there was a general strike as a result of British coal miners being threatened with longer hours and lower wages however it was soon called off due to their lack of support from the Communist Party. ...

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As the vacillating Soviet dictator, Stalin revealed his extremely paranoid temperament; he housed "a fear so absolute and omnipresent that one can safely claim that it governed his waking and sleeping hours." ...

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Sociologists Candace West and Don Zimmerman argued that gender was less a component of identity -fixed, static- that we take with us into our interactions, but rather the product of those interactions. In our societies, there is the dimension of masculinity versus femininity. Historically, differe...

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The Russian revolution is the fundamental political and social upheaval that erupted in the Russian empire in 1917. The roots of the Russian Revolution are to be sought in the arbitrary, autocratic, and repressive czarist political and social system that evolved in the 16th - 18th century. It bega...

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As the vacillating Soviet dictator, Stalin revealed his extremely paranoid temperament; he housed "a fear so absolute and omnipresent that one can safely claim that it governed his waking and sleeping hours." ...

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Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra, had firm beliefs in the autocracy and their right to rule that derived from God. However, with growing industrialisation, a corrupt system had to be put in place to prevent any downfall of their dynasty. With the added problems of peasantry, the tsarist regi...

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To do this Gorbachev "closed down two-thirds of all liquor stores, cut the hours of those that remained, reduced the production of alcoholic beverages, and increased the fine for public drunkenness tenfold," not only leaving many of the citizens angered but increasing the number of underground stills producing toxic brew. ...

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Poland stands apart from other nations who fell prey to the wrath of Axis aggression during WWII in that it was the flashpoint of the war in Europe; not as a match that lit a powder keg but rather a foot that stepped on a landmine. In 1939 Poland found itself consumed by Hitler's sweeping blitzkrieg...

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Communism is a political theory about leading a society to equality. The term "communism" is ambiguous because the world can argue whether it is good or evil. At one point, communism was vastly powerful and advocated by many people in poverty. However, America feared this political view because thei...

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Fidel Castro led his country through rebellion and chaos, he is the grandfather of a dictatorship that he created and controlled. Fidel Alefjandro Castro was born in Galicia, Cuba on August 13, 1926. He claims he was a "destined to become a guerrilla fighter since the day he was born." Fidel is very superstitious about these things and "attaches great importance to the number twenty-six, which is not only the name of his birth, but is also his age when he launched his first antigovernment conspiracy, known as the "26th of July Movement," and still uses this day to make important speeches. (...

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Margaret Bourke-White was born on June 14, 1904 in The Bronx, New York. As A child, she had dreamt of becoming a great biologist. She studied Herpetology (the study of reptiles) in high school and had hopes to become good enough to go on an expedition. She attended many universities where she began...

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Introduction No conflict, neither in size nor in scope, is comparable to the Eastern Front, 1941-45. It was the deadliest theatre of war in history causing the death of over 30 million people. This colossal conflict played a decisive role in destroying the Nazi regime: the German armed forces suffer...

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