Invigorated audiences defined their ideas of combat by watching films that glorified heroic soldiers. ... Watching the noble-grunt films, the audience relates with misunderstood, confused, idealistic, and betrayed characters. ... Over the last the forty years, far more Americans have reached their comprehension of the Vietnam War from watching noble-grunt films, such as The Green Berets, The Deer Hunter, First Blood, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, and Born on the Fourth of July, rather than reading historical books. ... First, the hunting scenes were shot, not in the smaller and older Alleghenies o...

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In either case, for those who assume that all or at least most of those sailors were devout followers of Hitler, there is very little sympathy. ... The audience identifies quickly with the war correspondent as he and the audience tries to figure out where they are going, and what is going on. ... The positioning of the camera makes it easy for the audience to assume that the Captain is watching his crew. ... The weathered Thomsen replies: "Cheeks together, balls in their hand...and the belief in the Fuhrer in their eyes." ... The audience can see the honesty in Thomsen's eyes. ...

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If one were to discuss life after the Second World War, if they were not a historian would perhaps not talk much about Harry S. ... The war ended and the world was thrown into new territory, there were essentially two superpowers left in the world. ... Even before the Truman Doctrine was introduced to the joint congress, some of Truman's memoirs indicate that he saw Russia as a force to contain and be watched at all times . ... The U.S. had been monitoring the situation in the two countries before Great Britain sent word of their inability to aide Greece and Turkey. ... Truman was over...

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At first, the Red Army suffered catastrophic defeats, but they rallied, and after crushing the Nazis at Stalingrad in 1942-43, they were on their way to winning the war. ... He gave Kim Il Sung of North Korea the go-ahead to start the Korean War in 1950, and launched a new series of persecutions at home, this time against the Jews. ... It was the end of any trace of "normal" family life for Stalin, and witnesses saw tears in his eyes at her funeral--the only report that we have of the great dictator crying. ... Meanwhile, members of Stalin's loyal, personally appointed Politburo were...

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The atomic bombing of Japanese cities were, in fact, the act of deterrence aimed primarily against the Soviet Union. ... Even more significant were the casualties of the Soviet Union - over 27 million people. ... In addition, the Soviet troops were pushed forward away from its immediate borders of a possible theater of hostilities. ... In the next few years, each side attempted to change the situation in their favor. ... Fearing a possible destabilization of the Soviet Union did not go to a sharp decline in the armed forces, and used them to strengthen their domination in Eastern Europe. ...

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