... on both sides. Some of the troops, which were called to help the police, were not so wild about breaking up up of the demonstration. The workers captured several police stations, took the weapons inside, and then burned the stations; the police went into hiding. On February 26 the troops of the Petrograd were called out to stop the uprising. When the workers and soldiers came face to face in the streets, the workers tried to mix ... with the soldiers and try not to show that there had been ... ...

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... by some unknown person, became the infamous Berlin Wall. Winston Churchill named this barrier the Iron Curtain. Walter Ulbricht, who was a German Communist leader under the command of Stalin, organized the construction of a large wall to be built in order to keep illegal emigration from the East to the West. They tore up the streets to use the paving stones to build the wall. It stunned people from ... both East and West Germany. The Berlin Wall was 96 ... cut off one hundred-ninety two streets. Checkpoint Charley was the main crossing point for the American sector of West Berlin. It was...

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... stories extra emphasis and flair. This helped to create the classic Hollywood style of editing for story. In his film Birth of a Nation, Griffith utilizes cross cutting near the final scene. As the town becomes riotous and Stoneman and his daughter are under siege, Griffith repeatedly flashes from the town to the gathering of the clan. The more intense the situation in the town becomes; the swifter the clan begins to ride. As a viewer, emotions begin ... the soldiers fill the streets, the rapidity of the editing forces the feeling of uneasiness and disorder. He also focuses only on the ...

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... turn back as snow started to fall in the beginning of November Russian raiders attacked Napoleon's ragged retreating army many of Napoleon's surviving soldiers were walking barefoot using pieces of wood as their cane many soldiers died from wounds, exhaustion, hunger and cold finally in the middle of December the last survivors straggled out of Russia. In September 8 Germans had surrounded Leningrad ... . Seeing that Leningrad would not surrender Hitler went to Moscow the capital of the Soviet Union, Hitler entered Moscow on October 2, 1941by December Germans had advanced to the border of...

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... divided into four zones, but Berlin itself remained deep inside of the Soviet zone. The Allies had many reasons for partitioning Germany. Overall, the purpose of dividing land up was to control Germany until a new government could be instated. West Germany became a surprisingly stable western democracy. However, East Germany was established as a Stalin-style communist state. The East German government was formed into a centralized and dictatorial regime ... . Free speech and opinions against the regime were not tolerated, and artistic and intellectual programs were strongly controlled. S...

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... but encouraged all Americans to support them in their dark days. Europe's reaction was immediate- twenty-two days later, the Foreign Ministers from Britain, France, and the Soviet Union met to discuss Europe's future. Not surprisingly, the Soviet Union rejected the Marshall Plan because they did not want a free flow of East-West trade. This helped many Americans to get over their doubt concerning ... both feared and detested communism. In 1947, sixteen European countries met with George Kennan to form a proposal acceptable to all parties. In September, the nations agreed to a proposal of...

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... Jane Wyman with whom he had two children, Maureen and Michael. They divorced during World War II while Reagan made training films. He met Nancy Davis, while he was president of the Screen Actors' Guild. He married Nancy Davis in 1952 and had two children, Patricia and Ronald. He began hosting General Electric Theater, which allowed him travel ... %. He sought to stop inflation, decrease unemployment rates, and strengthen national defense. Sandra Day O'Connor was the first women appointed to the Supreme Court, and she was appointed by Reagan. In the fall of 1982, the nation went into rece...

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... France, ordering a general mobilization of the German mobility. 2. Was the war inevitable prior to June 1914? Support your reasoning? No. Before June of 1914, there was no definitive reason for war. But the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was motivation enough to go to war. 3. How did the war affect the role of women in the involved countries? Women on both sides of the war pledged themselves to peace and ... transnational solidarity. During the war, the major feminist groups were committing themselves to supporting ... , hunger played a role in Germany's surrender. 5. Why did the peace...

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... , mistrust had developed between the Soviet Union and the western Powers. They could not agree on such problems as the post-war treatment of Germany and the future of occupied Soviet territories on the Baltic and in Eastern Europe. The Soviets also hoped for the opening of a second front in Western Europe to relieve German pressure on Russia. The decision to postpone the invasion of France increased Soviet-Western mistrust. The Teheran Conference, November ... 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met at the Teheran Conference in Persia (Iran). This was the first meeting of the Big Three ...

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... it publicly, he demanded that Khrushchev give them up and that his first step was putting Cuba under quarantine. The United States was by far more advanced than the Soviet Union. The missiles were very expensive and the Soviet Union didn't have a lot of money. Putting the missiles in Cuba would be much cheaper than in Russia. Khrushchev thought that Kennedy wouldn't do anything about building ... . Later, Khrushchev said that he was going to withdraw the missiles from Cuba only if the United States promised not to invade the island. During the blockade, the United States had a difficult t...

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... a private train to ride on to get back. For they knew that if he succeeded in coming to power in Russia he would take Russia out of the war. When Lenin was building up the Bolsheviks lots of people started to look at them more seriously. he exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky, who arrived in Petrograd in May from America, agreed with Lenin's policy and ... them some thing Trotsky would deliver it to the people. With the both of them working together the Bolshevik were a well oiled machine. Now that Lenin had the help of Trotsky he brought out the three words that would seal the control of...

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... , as stated in document A, would result from invading on foot instead of using the bomb. Revenge also played a role in the decision to bomb Japan. The Japanese were not following the Geneva convention in regards to treatment of prisoners of war. Which says that the prisoners are not to be put through torture of the psychological or physical nature. The Japanese did these things anyway, they would decapitate American prisoners, or ... H, all of the countries involved were trying to create the atomic bomb to use for their efforts. Fortunately the Americans won the "race of discovery". If t...

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... bomb had been of great importance. Though the Allies were the first to develop the bombs, they were not put into use against Hitler, mainly because the unconditional surrender of Germany was accepted more than two months before the bomb was completed. But on June 30th of 1945, President Truman approved the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb struck the city on August 6th of 1945, and it ... resulted in 200,000 deaths. The reasons for the attack and the one upon Nagasaki, Japan that followed ... ...

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... social development. There was no parliament, and no middle class. The Church, officers, and other important people and institutions were firmly against social progress. The terrible defeat of Russia in the Crimean War in 1855 and 1856 exposed weaknesses of Russia's various organizations. The road to the Russian Revolution began with the end of the Crimean War in 1855. The government's continued half-hearted attempts to reform Russian society, combined with ... could barely hold. This situation was made worse by the onset of World War I. Russia's backward position relative to the West, i...

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... wherever the preponderance of blame may lie, both the United States and the Soviet Union contributed to the atmosphere of hostility and suspicion that quickly clouded the peace" (Brinkley 963). The US and USSR had very different belief systems. This may have contributed to the cold war tensions. Communism versus Capitalism, Dictatorship versus Democracy. Each economic system calls for the destruction of the other. The US was desperate to end the spread of communism and ... dictatorship. We provided much legislation in an attempt at containment. We used tools such as the Marshall Plan an...

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... to Bolshevik Revolution and also the outcomes of the revolution. The Bolsheviks continued to prostest against the current government in Russia and over time the political, social and economic discontent and the famous event know as 'Bloody Sunday', where the imperial guards shot and killed the protesting people of St Petersburg eventually pulled more followers over to the Bolsheviks. Lenin returned to Russia ... and more support. Later on Trotsky, a Menshevik, who helped him organise the movement and revolution. Lenin thought his chance had come in July. There was an uprising against the...

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... " which was an imaginary line that separated the East and the West. The East was the Soviet Union and its countries of influence. The West was the United States and their major allies being Canada, France, Britain, and Japan. The War involved the use of expensive resources on both of these sides. In 1949, the United States and other eleven Western nations created the North Atlantic Treaty organization which was a military alliance ... disagreements, they did come to some agreement. They agreed to separate Germany. Sections of Germany under the control of the United States, France, and Br...

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... impose communism on its nations. Each side could not tolerate their ideologies therefore, resulting in the incapability of trusting each during the Cold War. This split in ideology drove to the development of the 'two camps theory', which was that the world split along the lines of the two ideologies. The Tehran War Conference where the 'Big Three' – Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met to discuss issues focusing on military ... Front leading up to more tensions arising. The Potsdam Conference, the Tehran Conference and the ideological differences that continued throughout th...

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... would refuse to give it up. He feared that England would seize it as a strong point on the Pacific. The United States dominated Mexico throughout the entire war. The war lasted almost 2 years. Although the U.S. gained about 1.2 million square miles of land as well as having the Wilmot Proviso outlaw slavery other than where it already was, nearly 13,000 Americans lost their lives ... and the country invested around $100 billion into the war. Slavery was becoming more of an issue. Southerners wanted to get rid of the Wilmot Proviso while many northerners wanted the abolishment of slavery....

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... plan as well as show Soviet domination in the east (Doc. 10). The two conflicting plans divided Europe into two spheres of influence, the east and west. The west formed an alliance in 1949 called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the east became known as the Warsaw Pact. The USSR's neglect and rejection of the Marshall Plan, and development of COMECON furthered the competition between superpowers to spread their influences throughout Europe ... . This shows how the Soviets actions increased and led to the escalation of the cold war. Overall the Soviet Union was to blame for the...

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... Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan saved Western European from the recession after World War II. Marshall Plan was the derivation and evolution of Truman Doctrine. It not only avoided the challenging argument of Truman Doctrine but also blended the traditional humanism of America. It encouraged the idea of domestic production and had the motive of stopping the spread of the Soviet Union. Truman Doctrine was a rapid conversion in the American diplomatic history. It declared war to ... the communism and swear to protect those countries from being ... ...

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... not told that nuclear weapons were included in several of the suspicious crates that were photographed in some of the weekly reconnaissance runs over Cuba. Because of this, foreign policy with the Russians would never be the same. On Oct. 16,when President Kennedy was alerted about the situation in Cuba he called together a meeting of several of the highest-ranking advisors of the NSC(National Security Council). This group became know as ... . All boats that were headed for Cuba would be boarded and searched for weapons and weapon parts. The Executive Committee came to no conclusions unt...

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... - within it he explained the Marxist doctrine of the need to completely dismember the bourgeois state before a proletarian could be constructed, however this book was not published until after the revolution in 1918, as with many other pieces of his work. Lenin had created the foundations to begin a revolution, however Lenin had created the slogan "Peace Bread Land", which nearly everyone was saying in the streets in Russia. Although his ... cannot be guided by the mood of the masses that is changeable and unaccountable The masses have given their confidence to the Bolsheviks and ask fr...

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... signed in Paris with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland. The defeated nations were to pay war reparations to the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Greece and Czechoslovakia. Each of the five treaties contained terms concerning arms limitations. The five nations also lost some territories. The Settlement of Germany After the war, the decisions made in various wartime conferences concerning Germany were put into effect. ... occupied zones. Unlike Germany, however, it was allowed its own central government. The Soviet Union refused to sign a peace treaty with Austria until 1955, when the...

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... taxes, and were not allowed to own land or have certain occupations. Kristallnacht, or night of the broken glass, occurred November 9th, 1938. This massive attack on Jews happened due to the assassination of a member of the German Embassy who was killed by a young Jew by the name of Herschel Grynszpan. During the attack synagogues, shops, and other Jewish buildings were burned, destroyed, or robbed. Over ... in charge of the twin experiments, was known as the " Angel of Death." Mengele examined the twins from head to toe. After all of the information was obtained they were given an inje...

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