While the end of World War II brought peace and prosperity to most Americans, it also created a heightened state of tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. ... At this time, North and South Korea were set to have an election that would eventually reunify them sometime after World War II. ... War broke out along the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950. ... The Korean war was a tremendous part of The Cold War. This war would eventually lead to a stalemate and reach a cease fire. ...

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"The cold war was the inevitable global conflict between capitalism and communism" Since 1945 to 1991 the world faced a non-violent war know as the Cold War. ... To begin with, The Cold War was a struggle between conflicting universal values. ... Conflict between the two opposing victors of World War II was inevitable. However, the war could be avoided at some time. ... If both sides had accepted these new spheres of influence, a cold war might never have occurred. ...

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The Vietnam war was fought in 1955 to 1975, and the Australian military fought in it from 1962 to 1973, and at the time, it was the longest that Australia had participated in all-out war. ... There are many contributing factors for the beginning of the Vietnam War which was all linked to the Cold War. The term ˜Cold War' refers to the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) which began after World War II through suspicions and hate between the two superpowers. ... Before World War II Vietnam was part of the French Empire and after the war were given con...

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Following the economic whiplash World War II had on all European countries, leaving many with an a completely taxed economy and slow progress for return; An American man by the name of George Marshall penned the Marshall Plan in 1947, otherwise known as ERP (European Recovery Program) which was instated to lend American money to European countries in order to speed along the recovery for many. ... After the war, the countryside was battered and broken looking for a reliable government to run them, and economic aid to help the post-war rebuild; which the soviet union was quick to provide as man...

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They have no sense of why they are even in this war; this is not their war to fight. ... The men understand that this war is real, people will die. ... The Vietnam War is unlike any war the United States of America has ever participated in. ... To them there is no great purpose in this war as in The Revolutionary War or World War II. ... Both show the war to be largely pointless, at least in the end. ...

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Those three events were World War I, World War II and the Cold War. ... World War II also boosted the popularity of existentialism. ... Therefore, popularizing the theory of existentialism, through its relevance to World War II. After World War II, the Cold War emerged; it too popularized the theory of existentialism. ... So, existentialism is popularized by the Cold War, in addition to World War II and World War I. ...

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Both of these wars were expensive, the Korean War cost the US $67 billion and Vietnam cost $140 billion . ... The Americans took this act as a sign that Kim II Sung was utilising a communist take-over, thus in October of the same year America, with UN sanction, invaded North Korea. The Korean War became the first American war ever waged solely as an ideological war. ... The Korean War was extremely popular domestically because it was part of the Cold War. The Cold War was a result of World War Two, it caused the two ideologies, capitalism and communism to each struggle for control over ...

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This feud led to the Cold War which didn't really consist of official battles, but more of disagreements and uncompromisable disputes. ... At the end of World War II, Germany was split into 4 zones controlled by the British in the northwest, French in the west, America in the south, and Soviet Union in the east. ... Luckily, the conflict was ended with no war and compromise was achieved quickly. During the Cold War, Americans were terrified of the Soviet Union and left with no knowledge of whether or not the Soviets would attack the US. ... If the Soviets tried to force communist views o...

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Past historic events from World War II with Adolf Hitler, at Munich in 1938, displayed that if aggression is not immediately handled the aggressors become more encouraged. ... Former Vietnam veterans even supported to end the war. ... This war was not traditional fighting. ... This war was guerrilla war. ... This war should have never involved the United States. ...

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The Red Scare was a political and social phenomenon that overcame the United States shortly after the First World War, which ended in late 1918. During World War I, an extreme patriotism took hold in the United States. Anyone who did not demonstrate the strong patriotic beliefs and attitudes that pushed the country into the war were looked on with suspicion and dislike. This was especially true when it came to those Americans that were against the war and the U.S, involvement. ... Another event that occurred during World War I, and continued in the immediate years following the war, was the Ru...

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The Stop of the Iron Curtain After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union certainly had different goals and aims. ... All of these things did in fact lead to the end of the Cold War. If the United States did not show how serious they were about stopping communism, the movement could have gone too far, just like Hitler's movement did during World War II. If Hitler had been challenged early, they were convinced, the carnage of World War II might have been avoided. ... "The devotion to Marxism, the attack against capitalism, and the often repeated desire to provoke Com...

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By the end of World War II, most had withdrawn, though some were still communist party members. The cold war had affected the United States because the fear of communist conspiracy took over the nation and many citizens didn't want to go back to war. ... As the threat of a nuclear war was in place, some built bomb shelters to protect themselves when the war started (D5). ... For four decades, American citizens have been faced with numerous hardships like World War I, the Depression, World War II, and the Korean War. After World War II, many people were glad to be home with their ev...

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The Communist Party was formed in 1920, but had very small membership and limited influence in the trade unions until World War II. ... At the occurrence of World War II, communists were instructed to oppose the war effort. ... At the end of World War II, the CPA was in a position to influence unions and workers" movements. ... This was a war of words and therefore was called Cold War. ... Conflict to the war grew in 1967 and a strong anti-Vietnam War movement began to develop in 1968. ...

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Through the main character of the novel, Orwell was able to predict World War II through the "humming of the aeroplanes and the crash of bombs squadron after squadron darkening the sky like gnats"( ). ... The novel "Coming Up for Air" was full of disgust and despair at the failure of the European intelligentsia to realize the dangers that he saw looming desperately close, which was again a prediction of World War II(13). ... For example, Orwell lived through both world wars and experienced great patriotism as a boy toward WWI and as WWII approached, he warned people about the upcoming w...

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Russia's backward position relative to the West, its lack of arms, poor training, and corruption in the high levels of government and the army finally translated into unparalleled unrest with the Tsar Nicholas II. Demonstrators took the opportunity to set up their own Provisional Government, forcing Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate his thrown and ending centuries of Romanov rule. ... Idealism was thrown away by realism in Russia as Lenin failed to convince the whole of Russia of his policies, meeting much resistance in a country already exhausted from World War I. ... Realism called for, or...

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After World War II many Third World countries in Latin America seemed to have some interest in the political system of the Soviets. ... This was the beginning of what is known as the Nicaraguan War in which 1,580 Americans lost their lives in a period of 3-4 years. ... Due to the lack of support of the U.S. citizens towards the war, President Reagan decides to "rule it out- the sending of troops over to El Salvador. ... The war continued on until 1992, when both sides agreed to sign a peace treaty ending the war. ... The United States did something that the Soviets did not do to Nicarag...

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In Judge Kaufman's statement upon sentencing the Rosenberg's, he sternly stated, "Citizens of this country who betray their fellow countrymen can be under none of the delusions about the benignity of Soviet power that they might have been prior to World War II. ...

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My name is Walt Disney. I was born on December 5, 1901 in Hermosa, Illinois. But I lived most of my life in Marceline, Missouri. I am an American motion-picture and television producer and showman. I am famous for being a pioneer of cartoon films and as the creator of Disneyland. Communism is not a ...

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Wanting nothing more than to live life on their own terms, the Indian people found themselves at the mercy of large land-owners who was them as nothing but cheap tools to use for their own enrichment, yet to engage the government in efforts for reform would involve them in the Cold War struggle between U.S.-backed ruthless dictatorships and the communist backed guerilla insurgencies prevalent throughout Latin America after World War II. ...

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The dystopian novel "Animal Farm," published in August 1945, is an allegory of the Russian Revolution. The animals and the events in George Orwell's novel parallel the characters and incidents of the Russian Revolution. Orwell laments that the 1917 Russian Revolution resulted in a government more t...

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Khrushchev marked four problems with this phenomenon: - Violations of law and mass repression; - Failures and subjective decisions of Stalin during World War II; - Breach of the principle of collective leadership in the Party; - Stalin's actions aimed to exalt his role in the history of the Party and the state. ...

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In the start of the story, the oppressor is Farmer Jones, which is the equivalent of Tsar Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov of Russia (Nicolas II) in the real world. ... This is similar to the cause of the Russian Revolution as Russia had lost the most amount of men during World War 1. ...

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The Casino Victoria was converted from a stately mansion to a casino during the 1940's and then to a government building during the cold war, but in the early 1990's the mansion was once again transformed into a upper-class house of ill-repute. ... The twenty years superseding World War II, brought along a massive new influence spreading regime in Eastern Europe. ...

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The goal of the Bolshevik party was to overthrow the Provisional Government after Czar Nicholas II was dethroned and create a proletariat government. ... In trying to do this; a so-called, Bread war broke out with several kulaks, wealthy, rural landowners who were against the communist party during the revolution, revolts throughout Russia. After the Civil war, Russia was hit with a devastating famine. ...

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