... in January of 1947 entered Congress as the "gentleman from Massachusetts." The political landscape was changing when JFK reached Washington. World War II was over, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was dead. President Harry Truman was doing his best to expand the liberal social programs of his predecessor, but he faced staunch opposition from a coalition of Southern Democrats and Republicans, who anticipated ... and the survivors taken prisoner, while American warships watched, helpless, from a few miles out to sea. This Bay of Pigs disaster (named for the ill-fated landing area) was a blac...

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... . In 1970 the exposition of 9 from 10 halls museum was reconstructed. During excavation work and building of the memorial was found more than 1,000 museum objects, the remains of the dead. On September 18, 1971 under the three-tiered granite slab memorial the remains of 823 people who died in the defense of the fortress in June-July 1941 were reburied ... significant events of 1961. The first meeting of Brest fortress defenders was held. More than 100 survived soldiers of the garrison of 1941, members of their families, relatives of the dead arrived at the meeting. On June, 25 the meetin...

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... advanced car but it would pave the way for the true performance and sports car. Concept cars also played a part in the 1950's. They were designed to attract the publics eye, introduce and gauge the publics reaction to new styling and engineering ideas, help attract the public to the auto dealerships where they were displayed at, and to drive car crazy ... . They attracted customers when there were low number of cars on the roads. But as the roadways expanded scenic gas stations eventually phased out because they no longer attracted the eye of the public. Also the majority of gas stations...

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... power than North Korea, 4 times the battle tanks and North Korea didnt really have an air force. But of the 20000 Americans who had fought at this point. 4280 were dead by September 15. By the end of September the US had regained control of Seoul. By early October US had pushed North Korea out. Having there country back did have ... a price for South Korea, 111000 dead and 57000 MIA. American casualties totaled 6,954 dead, 13,659 wounded, and 3,877 missing in action. After the US did what they came to do and take back South Korea, President Truman and his ... ...

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... testament, led the mourning and made a serious of speeches declaring eternal loyalty to Lenin's ideas: "Lenin commanded us to keep the unity of the Party as the apple of our eye". Meanwhile, Trotsky had contracted a malarial infection and his doctor insisted that he should leave for a cure at Sukhum, on the Black Sea. Trotsky set off on the long train journey ... in a Secretary General. That is why I suggest that comrades think about a way of removing Stalin from his post." Lenin's "Testament" signaled the end of Stalin's political career. According to an eye-witness: "Terrible embarras...

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... to the streets of Washington between 14th and 16th of November with 40,000 people carry candles past the White House each saying the name of a dead soldier. In May 1970, four students were shot dead by the National Guard at Kent state University after they had been in anti-war rallies. Nixon reacted to increased student rioting by saying he would ... ...

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... live in a country where communism doesn't exist and where I can make my own choices toward my future. Just like my professor taught me in class, " It is better to be dead than red" it is better to be dead than to live under a communism government....

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... among the erasure campaign of totalarianism are those who retain their memories. The heroine of Kunderas book is the tortued Tamina; who in yearning to keep her recollections of her dead husband alive within her mind hearkens to the situation of Czechloslovakian culture and identity as a whole. Tamina tries in vain to re enter Prague to regain her journals which entail ... same to the people of Czechloslovakia in order to make them forget who they were. Kundera comments on the campaign as follows: "200 Czech writers have been proscribed, including the dead Franz Kafka; 145 Czech histori...

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... also known as the biggest war of the modern era (Rees 2). By the end of the war 1.3 million South Koreans, 1 million Chinese, 500,000 Northern Korean's, 54,000 Americans were dead (Rees 4). Some of the out comes of the war were: Soviet forces surrendered to South Korea, North Korea became a "Soviet Client State," and South Korea was now backed up by ... area they were attacking. Since the North was doing so well, they decided to attack again. This time they attacked the city of Taegu. That battle ended in 4,280 Americans dead. At the end of the war, Soviet forces accepted to surrender t...

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... also a severe shortage of artillery shells. Transport could not cope - Russia's roads and railways were too poor. Casualties after first year - approaching 4mil soldiers dead, captured, missing Casualties at the end of war - 2.8mil wounded, 1.8mil dead, 2.4mil captured. Russia's Generals had been promoted on seniority and loyalty to the Tsar, and not by understanding of modern War Fare. Many were old ... ...

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... cyanide and a chemical agent, diatomite. The hydrogen cyanide, HCN, works by linking enzymes important to the cellular respiration, making the cells unable to function properly. Here is a testimony of an eye-witness of a mass-gassing that occured on March 13, 1943: That same night, 1,492 women, children, and old people, selected from a convoy of 2,000 Jews from the Krakow ghetto, were ... ...

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... own way. Though they shared ideas and techniques about film, each was able to create new styles that have had a lasting effect. These men were innovators, Vertov with the kino eye, Griffith with his ability to tell a story through editing, and Eisenstein's superb gift for filming emotion. Both students and lovers of cinema owe a lot to these men....

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... throw off the shackles of the old regime, and different groups raced to seize control of the country. The book is a primary source of history. The author had the journalist's eye for detail, he collected bits of newspapers and handbills, listened to the talk of the ordinary people on street and crossed lines to learn what was happening on the other ... ...

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... common. "In my department at the moment there are eight people with cancer of the mouth. These people are in terrible condition. We can't even look them straight in the eye. It's terrible. We didn't have cases like that before. And these are young people -- under 50. We, as doctors, find this horrifying-, explains Dr. Podovich, who works at one of ... ...

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... out a number of radical changes to that part of the world. The author has done an ample amount of research and has presented the details in a manner that are very eye catching and makes this book a prime one to read. The central issue of the Spanish Civil war rotates around a number of sequential and dramatic chain of events that led to ... ...

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... days in space (before oxygen supply ran out), proving that living beings could be sent into space. Laika captured the hearts of people the world over, and in the public eye the USSR had taken a seemingly unassailable lead in the "Space Race". More embarrassment was to follow for the USA: their first attempt to launch a satellite into orbit ended in dismal ... ...

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... . The farm is turned into what it originally wanted to rid itself of. On one level Animal Farm is a great and engrossing fairy tale. It is a real page-turner with eye opening concepts. On another level its an allegory of the Bolshevik Revolution with each animal representing the participants. On every level George Orwell's Animal Farm is as relevant today as ... ...

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... became stronger. Stalin made sure that he had a tight grip on Eastern Europe by introducing the Cominform, a body that coordinated all of the communist governments of Eastern Europe, keeping a close eye on each leader. The West could not simply allow this to happen they had to respond. Indeed the West did respond, the USA, the superpower of the West had traditionally ... ...

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... war arose between the Soviet Union and the United States. In reality there was no real fighting. Both superpowers were ready to go to war at the blink of an eye, yet never authorized nuclear war against each other. This was a war fought in the political ring and began at the end of World War II. The origin of the Cold ... ...

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Moving On Born to a prestigious Biologists and a mother who came from a well-known family, Aldous Leonard Huxley was born in July 26 1894. Because of an eye sickness, he gave up on the study of medicine, which was his first choice career. His literary work is appraised because of its legitimate satire, witticism, and even humor. His ... ...

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... to discredit him. For example Stalin lied to Trotsky about the date of Lenin's funeral, thus ensuring that Trotsky could not attend and thereby blackening his name in the public eye. This Stalin versus Trotsky conflict led to Trotsky being eventually exiled from Russia and, ten years later in 1940, being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition ... ...

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... to discredit him. For example Stalin lied to Trotsky about the date of Lenin's funeral, thus ensuring that Trotsky could not attend and thereby blackening his name in the public eye. This Stalin versus Trotsky conflict led to Trotsky being eventually exiled from Russia and, ten years later in 1940, being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition ... ...

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... to discredit him. For example Stalin lied to Trotsky about the date of Lenin's funeral, thus ensuring that Trotsky could not attend and thereby blackening his name in the public eye. This Stalin versus Trotsky conflict led to Trotsky being eventually exiled from Russia and, ten years later in 1940, being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition ... ...

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... locking in on Soviet Radio stations so the pilot had to navigate. The U-2 flew at a critical airspeed, too slow it would stall to fast it would become uncontrollable, so a close eye was kept on the speed. About 1500 miles inside Russia the U-2 Powers was flying started acting up, the autopilot had to be disengaged and Powers had to fly the plane ... ...

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... democracy versus dictatorship, conflicted. However, most fearfully, it was a war of intelligence. Each country was keen in discovering what their enemy was doing. With this, spies existed beneath the naked eye. The concepts of trust and loyalty were but an illusion. Canada, between all this, stood aside in isolationism. Consequently, Canada paid very little attention to the actions and involvement of ... ...

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