Attack on Cuba Would Mean Nuclear War, the Soviet government speaks to all governments during the Cold War in 1962. ... Cuba was affected socially by the cold war. ... " Guatemala was affected politically by the Cold War. ... Operation PBSUCCESS occurred when, In response to the expropriation of idle farmland assets, the United Fruit Company asked the US Governments of presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower to act diplomatically, economically, and militarily against Guatemalan President Árbenz Guzmán. ... Guatemala was economically affected by the Cold War. ...

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Is it really possible that the status quo from 80s and the revival of the Cold War is a fact? ... The common belief about the end of the Cold War was very strong in American political circles. ... Obama's administration would avoid to name that tensions as a Cold War. ... Many thought it started real Cold war in bilateral intercourse between Russia and USA. ... The first quarter after the end of the Civil War was more of mutual cooper...

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The Soviet Union would come to declared war on the capitalist nations of the West. ... This cold war rivalry, would soon emerge into a contest to obtain allies. The U.S. foreign policy following World War II confronted primarily in assisting the countries in Europe. ... Latin America countries wanted the U.S. to stress economic development in the post war era. ... Arbenz made land reform the central project of his presidency, this led to a conflict with the largest landowner in the country, the United Fruit Company. ...

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We (as did they) used the excuse of national defense to rationalize the arms build up of the Cold War. ... Democracy, the greatest psychological war the human race has ever faced (almost bringing the species to extinction), and it gets less than 50 pages in a 900 page American History book. ... Soviet Communism was in a constant state of war from the very beginning of it's existence. ... The private ownership of business allows for the formation of large companies which can impair the fair processes of the law (an example of this is lobbyists). ... These examples show that just because...

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The Cold War engulfed the entire world for nearly half a century. ... A country's policies and behavior must appeal to the international community, and war discourages this community from writing useful investment checks. Potential wartime governments have two options from which they can decide: either fight wars and risk losing international support, or make peace with adversaries and keep cash flow infiltrating steadily. ... When people begin to demand information and analyze trades, a separation between companies is created, forcing the good upwards and the bad downwards. ...

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But during the cold war the Russian-Americans were not accepted anymore. ... The prejudices that were published by the media as propaganda during the Cold War have manifested in the minds of the Americans. ... Also, the Russian-Americans represent a good share of the employees in High-Tech and science companies. ... During the Cold War American media was making propaganda. ... Instead of telling the whole truth they just translated "Jihad" as "the Holy War". ...

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Back in 1951, Mohammed Mossadegh was elected by members of the Iranian parliament in order to pursue the dreams of the people of independence from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) and democracy, but taking away most of the Shah's powers in the process. By nationalizing the company and claiming back the territory on the Persian Gulf, the British were outraged and decided to launch numerous campaigns against him in order to claim back was rightfully theirs. ... The United States was very anti-communist during this post World War II (Cold War) era, and with the Soviet Union bordering the...

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They control who opens a business, which stays in business, or closes a business (Waring). Many people and companies are afraid to advertise as this would be an invitation for the mafia to come in and take a piece of the pie. ... Waring, Elin 2.) ...

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She was the first female war correspondent and the first to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II. ... She wrote six books about her international travels and was the premiere female industrial photographer, getting her start in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Otis Steel Company about 1927. Margaret had many goals for her trips during the war. ... When the United States went to war in 1941, Margaret asked for another overseas assignment. ... The first uniform for a woman war correspondent was designed for her, and she loved it. ...

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Appearing in short films just as the Great War was getting started, he would be one of the world's biggest stars by the time it ended. ... Similarly, Chaplin had been vocal in calling for a second front to be opened in order to support the Soviet Union during World War II. ... It was in the context of these events – and the Cold War – that the film A King in New York was produced in London in 1956. ... It was born out of the troubles that Chaplin faced personally as well as the culture that the Cold War had created in the United States throughout the 1950s. In order to begin f...

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After the Bolsheviks or proletariat won the Marxist theory of class war, they did not know where to go with the country. The winning of this class war was Mark's utopian fantasy, so while Lenin and Trotsky tried to figure out what to do after winning the social war, Stalin was eventually allowed to rise to power. ... This agency determined how much product a company could produce, the wages for all workers, and the prices of all goods. ... After World War I, Germany was the country that was most heavily affected by the global economic collapse that followed the war. ... By 1933, Hitler ha...

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Hasbro Industries agreed to acquire the Milton Bradley Company in a two-step transaction valued at about three hundred and fifty million dollars. ... On May 8th, veterans of the Vietnam War whose lives or children and wives lives were affected by the use of Agent Orange during the war accepted a settlement in their class action suit. The suit was against seven chemical manufacturers of the herbicide, four of which are: The Monsanto Company, The Diamond Shamrock Corporation, Hercules Incorporated and The Thompson Chemical Company. ... It was filed by two law firms, one of which was that of Vict...

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One was banishment to a Russian gulag, which were the equivalent of the Nazi concentration camps of World War 2. ... His reign of terror played out on the world stage in the context of a world war. We and our allies (including Stalin's Russia) went to war to prevent Hitler from domi...

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Images of young people at Woodstock and at anti-war protests and civil rights sit-ins spring to mind when we speak of youth in the sixties. ... One of the YAF's most successful examples of activism was their campaign to stop American companies from trading with the Soviet Bloc. ... These were specifically targeted towards very large companies such as IBM, Mack Truck, and Firestone. ...

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Thesis: While the existing problems with the Tsarist regime and the incompetent leadership of Tsar Nicholas II were key factors of the February Revolution of 1917, the disastrous consequences of Russia's involvement in the First World War in 1914 were what made the uprising inevitable. ... However, Russia's humiliating loss to Britain and France in the Crimean War in 1856 signaled its relapse to a huge but weak nation. ... Source 3 - Goldston, Robert - "The Russian Revolution" (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1966. ...

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With Soviet development of nuclear technology arriving nearly three years ahead of schedule, American citizens were fearing an inevitable nuclear war and ensuing downfall of the United States (Schmidt 13). ... The economy thrived during this period due to the long term thinking of the everyday consumer, and domestic companies and American industries expanded due to foreign suspicion (Schmidt 108). ... In the end, the Red Scare died out as the cold war fizzled. ...

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Eventually the U.S.S.R. collapsed, resulting in the formation of 15 sovereign states, bringing about an end to the Cold War. ... As written by the European Bank at the time, "Under the 'shares-for-loans' scheme implemented in 1995, many of the key resource-based companies fell into the hands of a small group of financiers, the so called 'oligarchs.' These oligarchs are accused of stripping assets from the companies bought, which "depressed investment and economic growth. ...

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Castro made his pact with the devil and became a pawn in the Cold War, but out of economic necessity. ... In agriculture, many large US companies had investments in sugar, cattle, and tobacco. ... The Helms-Burton Act allows a US nation to sue any foreign company that benefits from the use of property that was exporritorial from them by the Cuban government. ... Europe eventually reached an agreement with the US to not prosecute multinational companies doing business in Cuba, in exchange for the EU refusing to provide government assistance to firms that profited from investing in confiscated p...

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Lenin's government would eventually end a long civil war and begin to censor and subordinate all political parties to itself. ... After World War II, miraculously national unity was strengthened, as well as the Soviet Army. ... These vouchers could be used to buy shares in enterprises, or to take part in an auction at which companies were being sold. ...

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Gorbachevs had differ types of reforms like perestroika and glasnost but his re-orientation of the soviet goals contributed to the end of the cold war and led to the ending of the Soviet Union. ... In the late 1900s, the reform included efforts to boost foreign trade through the establishment of about twelve different state companies that controlled imports and exports along China's southern coastlines. ...

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This triggered the development of joint ventured companies of the West, such as PepsiCo, Kodak, Time-Warner Despite these reformations though, the Russian economy was heading to crisis. ... "The collapse of communism in East Central Europe and in the Soviet Union marked the end of the cold war. ...

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Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... The states of Eastern Europe in the post-war period had been forced to adhere to the Moscow line. ... The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

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Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... The states of Eastern Europe in the post-war period had been forced to adhere to the Moscow line. ... The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

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Lenin came to power after a bloody Civil War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. ... After the war Stalin succeeded in establishing a communist buffer zone between Russia and Western Europe. ... The states of Eastern Europe in the post-war period had been forced to adhere to the Moscow line. ... The Eastern bloc was already aware of Western capitalist success as they were allies during the war. ... This conflict eventually led to the Cold War. ...

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After World War II, people increasingly sought for a much variety of goods which should not only fill their basic needs, but also satisfy their personal demands. ... To appease the dictators needs, Mikhail Gorbachev, in his economic reform, cut out the monitoring cost and enlarged the feasible space of economy by allowing people, especially dictators, to privately own the companies (Harrison). ... As elites were allowed to own private companies, they accumulated much of the country's wealth. ...

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