... insure that the USSR would not expand following WWII. For example, without Stalin even knowing that the US had atomic power, an atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. The US and England had and extreme lack of trust of Stalin. Neither Churchill nor FDR told Stalin about the atomic bomb ... . The American people were told that it was done in order to scare the USSR. If they were our allies, this would be unnecessary. We used the bomb in order to show them that they could not expand after WWII ... in Poland by Stalin following the war. At the Yalta conference, he promised that free elections wo...

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... of arms but Hitler insisted on a speedy build-up which in the long run, caused more economic problems. Hitler's next step was the German re-militarisation of the Rhineland. This was in direct defiance of the Treaty of Versailles. He defied this directive on the 7 March 1936 when he ordered his troops into the Rhineland. The British and French could have stopped the re ... -occupation but they were too disorganized, also the British public were sympathetic of the Germans position. They felt that the Germans were only reclaiming land, which was theirs. This move had killed the Locarno trea...

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... in part, to blame for instigating it. The Russian Tsar was a "nationality in itself" (Radzinsky 13). The Romanov blood had been so mingled with the other blue bloods of Europe, that not much of it was truly Russian anymore. This lack of Russian blood is not to say that the Romanovs were ... not Russian. They were very Russian. They loved their Empire and even more so, their rule over it. They were generally tall and ... robust, adventurous and outdoorsy, and powerful men with great thirst for even more power. They were the double-headed eagle of Romanov crest. Nicholas was ... state a...

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... would stop and the imperialist government would cease to exist. This thesis attacked the Provisional Government, however the Provisional government was going to be weak when it first started, this would be because the Russian people distrusted them. This showed the Russian people that Lenin was on their side and was in touch with them. This was one of the catalysts to revolution in November. Lenin wrote ... Support was growing for Lenin and his movement. Lenin ordered Strikes and mass rallies from the people. Lenin also had support from other political minority groups, they too wanted c...

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... -year period, and the human, economic, and environmental costs were devastating. In an attempt to prevent another world war, the United Nations was formed in 1945. Fifty-one countries joined this international organization in the hopes that the UN would be able to uphold certain rules among all its members and be able to help nations ... soon became apparent, however, that the United Nations alone would not be able to provide peace and stability throughout the world. One reason for this was that the UN did not have enough power. It could not force a nation to do something it did not want...

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... the end of the operation over twenty million gallons of herbicides and defoliants were sprayed over forests and fields. Destroying and affecting more than was originally intended. Agent Orange still ravages through certain areas of Vietnam til this day as The Vietnam Red Cross recorded over 4.8 million deaths and 400,000 children born with birth defects due to exposure to Agent Orange ... same hardships of oppression from Great Britain when we first came to be. In the end we had to fight and rebel to achieve the status of a free nation we so proudly claim today. Even the leader of our "...

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... by their aristocrat officers during the First World War. The industries at home, which were busy going on strike, supported them poorly and so they were short of arms and even boots. The consequences of this terrible situation was an enormous number of casualties which naturally depressed the soldiers and caused even further unrest at home, not to mention that the remains of ... mostly but the people and revolutionary leaders however since it was not backed by the army it failed. The 1917 revolution could be described as a coup d"etat mixed with a spontaneous uprising and so now, with t...

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... not want to surrender their crops, so burnt them rather than allow them to be taken. There was no incentive for the Kulaks to produce more, as they would not benefit. Lenin put all of the economy under a new body: Verenkha. This was the Supreme Council of National Economy ... Bolsheviks. With Russia's external enemies defeated, In March 1921, at the Tenth Party Congress, Lenin announced a New Economic Policy (N.E.P.). This was designed gradually to increase the country's agricultural, and thereby its industrial, strength and its ability to resist foreign enemies through private ownershi...

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... more Russian ships to enter Cuba. This would inevitably still leave missiles in Cuba, but the negotiations would continue in the background while publicly, Kennedy would be seen to be doing something specific. As Kennedy informed Khrushchev of these missiles, Khrushchev denied the existence of them, even though there was photographic evidence of them in Cuba. So Khrushchev was exposed as a liar. Both sides ... then changed his mind, an issued Dobrynin with another deal, but this one was unofficial. Kennedy said, that if Russia removed her missiles form Cuba, so would America remove her ...

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... called "specialists". The Bolsheviks also introduced the banning of private trade. However, this law was not enforced efficiently and, fotunately for many a huge black market developed. There was increaed labour discipline and fines were intriduced for lateness in addiiton to ration books. This system of rationing was class-based so the labourers received the largest rations, whereas porfessionals and middle classes were given ... the bare minimum for survival. Another important aspect of war communism was the red terror, carried out by the Cheka. This was used to enforce war communism a...

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... ambitious, and as they were put into action they were raised repeatedly to unrealistic heights. In addition to this, the goal became not only the fulfilling of a target, but the over fulfilling, and not doing so was a sign of apathy to the revolution. Because of this, targets were very rarely reached and it would be easy to assume that the five-year plans were ... a failure, when so few targets were met. However, the achievements of the five-year plans were incredibly huge in comparison ... the manpower problems in industry as peasants rushed to fill the better paid jobs in the cities....

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... the Truman Doctrine, which laid the foundation for American Cold war policy that would endure for much of the next 4 decades. Truman wanted to end the economic devastation in Europe so he comprised the Marshall Plan that would help the hungry and homeless in all European countries. ...

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... trend in these books is that they show the world from an apocolyptic stand point; possibley to show the negative outcomes from a war on Communism. After the apocalypse the world was run by a stringent set of rules that mirrored communism. These novels also tried to let the public escape to a sci-fi world where the fear of the Russians did not ... ...

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... entire book. The pigs betray there fellow animals on more than one occasion Animal Farm is a good quality book. One of the aspects of the book that I liked the most was the high degree of resemblance between the pigs and the political leaders. The books view and interpretation of these government systems is interesting. ...

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... quickly works to establish the lead in technology and science within the military system. The discovery of the Internet and email was designed for military use to communicate locations of defense teams and status of their work. By 1972 email was created allowing communication between the US and Europe faster and easier. 1983 every new computer became Internet capable. Domain names were ... ...

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... , the observed effects and dangers, and the military use throughout the years. The government has tried many times to abolish the use of biological and chemical weapons. The earliest try was after World War I. Sebastian Bulfour quotes, "European Powers agreed to reaffirm the principle that chemical and bacteriological weapons should be excluded from all future conflicts"(2). The next major push to ... of inhalation were reported of which sixty-eight were fatal. During a biological attack, anthrax would likely be distributed by means of aerosol-spray containers in the form of spores. Anth...

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... , the king of Thebes in Antigone, also disregarded the warnings of imminent catastrophe. He was told by many, including his own son and Teiresias the prophet, that refusing burial to Polyneices body was against the law of the gods and the will of the citizens of Thebes. Antigone was sentenced to death, and the suicides of Haemon, Creon's son, and Eurydice, Creon's wife ... ...

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... such words as `Communism' or `cl! ass struggle'. And Mikhail Gorbachev, who proclaimed the primacy of `values common to all mankind' over the `class struggle', was merely following in the footsteps of his predecessors, who had gradually rid themselves of the revolutionary features of Communist ideology. The weakening of that revolutionary appeal had led to ... for the sustainable economic and political restructuring of Central Eastern Europe. From a labor economics perspective communist labor relations contributed greatly to the failure of communist economies. Moreover, there was a wid...

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... were centrally planned and managed. The economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union were controlled by central bureaucracies, with little or no flexibility allowed at the local level. This controlled economy served the Soviets and their satellites rather well up to the nineteen eighties. They were able to control not only the means of production, but also people's thoughts ... ...

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... more outwardly aggressive in showing his dislike and distrust of the Soviets than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Truman believed Roosevelt was too soft with Stalin and that he did not stand up to the Soviets as much as Truman believed ... tensions between the Soviets and the Americans. Truman did not really want to deal with the Soviets diplomatically, which was one of the reasons the Cold War began. Truman was not looking to make any negotiations or compromises with the Soviets. American expectations for the postwar world certainly contributed to ... not fulfilling America's expectations),...

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... , unintentionally, has changed the state of Florida to the point where politically the Cuban population has dominated politics in the state of Florida. Sure enough, the election of President Bush was decided in the state of Florida and it could have been a result of Cuban immigration. The Cubans mostly vote republican. There is still a sense of socialism and communism as long ... as there is Fidel Castro. Personally, I believe that Fidel Castro was a very wise man. He was very well informed about politics before his regime, and was very idealistic about the future of Cuba. I believe that...

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... of the most important conflicts in Cold War history. It was the first time the United States and the Soviet Union had come close to a full-scale nuclear war. On October 14, 1962 US spy ... presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, which is 90 miles off the coast of Florida. The first sighting reported the presence of a ballistic missile launching site. It was later discovered that the Soviet Union began shipments in early 1962, and placed medium- (MRBM) and intermediate-range ballistic (IRBM) missiles in Cuba (as well as other ... the US, doing nothing would be foolish because it would almo...

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... the end of the communism. Persian Gulf War- a war in which Iran and Iraq had battered each other in a debilitating war. It was significant, because Iraq won a narrow victory over Iran's fundamentalism. Anita Hill- a law professor who polarized Senate hearings on the nomination of Clarence ... Thomas to the Supreme Court when she accused her former boss of sexual harassment. She was significant, because women's groups were disturbed that the all-made Judiciary Committee had at first kept her allegations private. Elections of 1992-As ... campaign of 1992 began, the incumbent President, G...

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... in Europe, and the desire of Italy, Germany, and Japan for territory. The policy of isolationism was broken in the United States when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, dragging America into the war. The war was fought on two fronts, Europe and the Pacific. The allies, which included the United States, England ... other war of the twentieth century. Despite Roosevelt's efforts to end the depression with the New Deal policies, it was not until World War II and conversion to a wartime economy that the United States emerged form its long economic downturn. World War II ... nuclear weapons ...

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... tried to escape but over a hundred people died at the Berlin Wall. Victor Ross is the American Soldier in the Western part of Berlin during the wall was being erected. He falls in love with an East Berliner, Ana Menz. Victor Ross Believes in Freedom and tries to do the right thing while in West ... everything in his power to keep Ana inside the Eastern part of Berlin. He can't stand seeing Ana with Victor Ross. The Berlin Wall in my mind was the last show of force by the Communists in Europe. It didn't just separate East Germany West Germany but also drew a line in the minds of ... Russi...

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