... by this state of affairs, and also noticed its similarity to an interest of his, that being the Salem witch trials. He wrote the crucible to demonstrate to the public just how ridiculous and potentially damaging the hunt for spy's could be. By placing the protagonist, who the audience feels for, at the brunt of the trouble, he shows the people watching just ... the House Committee of Un-American activities . True to his own protagonist, he refused to apologise, and was given a fine and prison sentence, helping the plays publicity by making him a personification of its values. He later ap...

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The Crucible Of the many plays Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible seems to be favored above the rest. The inspiration for this play came from an era during American history known as McCarthyism. In the late forties/early fifties, a senator named Joseph McCarthy began to fear the spread of communism from the expanding Soviet Union Empire to the United States. McCarthy, brash and irrational, began the "Red Hunt," a ... not quickly accept witchcraft. He is aware that the children, especially Abby, are fraud and Abby has personally told him that witchcraft played no part in the sickness. Towards th...

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... Canal. By deciding to destroy Soviet Russia in 1941, Hitler lost the war. As he defeated France and closed in on Paris in 1940, Hitler believed he could go after the rest of the continent after signing the Tripartite Pact with Italy and Japan. "His instrument was the Tripartite Pact, signed between Germany, Italy, and Japan on September 27, 1940, binding any two to come to ... the aid of a third if it was attacked." (Robert Cowley, What If, page 298). His pact was ... an ego. It was causing him to think illogically and go after a much-hated Communist Russia instead of looking east. The...

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... swung into full action. The employment of the millions of the American population enabled her to get back on track to prosperity. Additionally, independence came to the aid of the women and the oppressed minorities that were excluded from well-paying jobs. In short, employment opportunities expanded. The G.I Bill granted Americans from all walks of life access to higher education. A large number of students, including the returning officers, descended on the higher learning institution to ... acquire some education. After the war, the ... ...

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... it got money to improve situation. The US Nuclear Regulatory Agency devoted $160000 for a study of the radiological situation at the Semipalatinsk test site. Japan became the initiator of resolution for International Cooperation and Coordination for Rehabilitation of Population and Ecology, as well as for Economic Development of Semipalatinsk region. Another advantage which our country got with elimination of nuclear weapons is replacement of short-term military security for a long-term ... one, cause the possession of nuclear arsenal gives only short -term security. While treaties ... ...

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... political power is the pigs. The reign of the pigs first began when the cows needed to be milked. The milk was reserved for the pigs and was not shared with the other animals. The pigs took lead in everything except hard labor because they were deemed the smartest and others followed blindly. Now only the lives of the pigs have improved while others simply stay the same. While promises like "The three-day week ... . There is no doubt someone would seize that country and claim political power, and unless drastic changes were made the lives of the common man would stay about the same. It i...

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... 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 Moscow. Soviet General Georgi Zhukov counterattacked he had 100 fresh Siberian ... divisions and the cruel Soviet winter on his side. As temperatures fell the Germans in summer uniforms no food retreated. Their fuel for...

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... for the Russian Revolution of 1905 which can be split down in to three main categories; Long term causes which have been going on for a long time, Short term causes which develop shortly before an event and immediate causes or triggers that act as a spark to start things happening. 84% of the Russian population lived as peasants. They were by far the largest group in the country ... but they were also the poorest. These peasants were also very dissatisfied with their living conditions ... to a point where they could barely survive. Now they were also starving. The people blamed the Tsa...

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... or no support for the higher education, because they will look at the short run problems, they need money now, not four years from now. Secondly, the person will not be as motivated to go to school of higher education as the person who was born to a rich family. The surrounding of that person does not provide the proper environment for the logical thinking in terms of long term life goals ... , because most likely the family will live in ... takes to put their children through school, even if it takes working late nights. For the most part the immigrants do not go to the restaurants ver...

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... rioting against the Provisional Government, killing and wounding 400 of them. Alexander Kerensky then became prime minister of the Provisional Government. All of these leaders fighting for the prime spot of the head of Russia have been a major and immediate consequence from the abdication of The Tsar. A short term consequence of the Tsar's abdication on 15 March 1917 was the civil war between the Red and the White armies. This lead to the consolidation of the Bolsheviks rule throughout the war communism ... and the New Economic Policy. War communism was during civil ... ...

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... Union remained powerful. It is in this context that one should differentiate both the short and long-term consequences of the withdrawal from Vietnam. Initially there was a sense of relief, the antiwar protests and other related domestic strife had worn down the American public. But after the fall of Saigon, the concept of an honorable peace seemed hollow. The Soviet Union and its surrogates had won another victory. Even before this, there ... (445). Détente, as an American policy, met its demise partially due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the weakening, or at least the pe...

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... Kazakhstan, were ploughed and sown for the first time, starting in 1954, with a net gain of 30-40 million hectares to the total area sown to crops in the USSR" (Hanson 54). Khrushchev's formula was simple and would prove to effective in the short-run. These lands, with a little luck from the weather, flourished in the early years of the program but soon were plagued by droughts ... and high winds. Beginning in 1953 the agricultural sector experienced considerable growth ... and vast improvements were made. However, the rapid growth in the sector would not be without costs. As time past...

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... financially secure and being able to better themselves materialistically. This is the driving force behind the theory of capitalism. The society that we as Americans live in today perpetuates the need for greed through the voice of the media. Expensive clothes, overly-excessive accessories, and nice cars dominate television commercials and the pages of magazines. From the time we are born, these luxuries are presented to us as normalities, leading ... us to believe that these items are, in essence, necessities. This, in turn, leads to more greed and the jealousy of others. Without this ...

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... It may be said that bringing an organisation into existence in such turbulent times will lead to instability and can cut short its effective life span as it struggles to adapt to the changing world. One fundamental criticism of the United Nations has been simply that, that its birth into such an insecure international forum has lead to ambiguity surrounding ... marred to this day and has not adapted sufficiently: "The institutions of the UN embody the relationships of power and understandings of world order that governed post 1945 international politics, and this institutional expression...

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... the other by falling short by actual war. However, the Cold War beginning in 1947 was more of a verbal war, which was mainly fought through newspapers, magazines, radio and other propaganda methods. The causes and developments of it can be debatable as the Cold War doubles as a conflict between two countries – the USA and the USSR and between the two ideologies of ... 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', whi...

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... these problems were the following: the tensions between the Basic Law's simultaneous commitments to supranational integration and to the German nation state, the relationship between the nation and the constitution as two different modes of political integration and the issue of so-called "backward justice" (Preuss 48). The Federal Republic of Germany's Basic Law has been the longest-lived constitution in Germany's history. Intended to be a short-lived, temporary document, the Basic Law gained legitimacy ... will turn out. As Preuss writes, "The transition from an authoritarian politica...

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... 1951, over thirteen billion dollars had been distributed to sixteen European countries, and the European economy was saved. Without the Marshall Plan, Europe would have never been able to pull themselves out of debt. The Marshall Plan was a huge success, and beneficial to both Europe and America. Of the sixteen countries that received aid, the majority remains our staunchest allies today, over fifty years later. Without a stable ... European economy, America would have suffered as well, in both trade and support during times of war. George Marshall can be credited with one of the most s...

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... were confronted with the coldest winter in Russia for 50 years. The weather slowed the German advance to no more than a mile a day - no faster than Napoleon's foot troops. The siege of Moscow was meant to be Hitler's last victorious win in Russia. But like the other sieges, it lasted too long and was poorly prepared. Hitler, in trying to make it the short swift war he had ... dreamed of, out ran his supply roots. This meant his tanks had only a limited amount ... of fuel to advance and fight with. However it was not only fuel, which was in demand, there was no ammo, medical supplies, f...

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... , or ICBM for short. These ICBM's could travel between continents due to their huge range. What is even scarier is that these ICBM's can be fitted with a nuclear warhead. The Soviets developed these missiles far sooner than the USA and the fear was that these could be launched from Russian territory and land in the middle of Washington DC. The launch of Sputnik 1 destroyed the American belief that they ... troops did not number 10,000 yet quadruple that at 40,000 Soviet troops. The US also believed that all missiles in Cuba were all long range , how wrong they were. Some of the missiles ...

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... conflict did arise over the peace treaty with Germany, and split the party into two. As a result of Trotsky's failure to achieve a successful treaty, through his "no peace no war strategy" the part divided between the leftists and the rights, resolved as a result of Lenin's threat to resign as a leader. Whilst the effects of the treaty were only short term, as the terms were void by the treaty of Versailles, it had ... a minor impact on shaping the USSR. As a result, in the first 6 months leadership conflict and differing visions shaped Russian history only ... ...

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... lose public support at home and decline in power in regards to the Cold War. ("Causes") Not all the blame can be put on the USSR, however. The rapid escalation of the Cuban Missile Crisis was caused by Kennedy's short comings too. Not only did the poorly executed Invasion of the Bay of Pigs tip off Khrushchev that the US was uneasy over Cuba, but it made Kennedy, and by ... extension, the United States, appear weak. This, of course, made the Soviet Union appear superior, which for ... ...

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... horrific act in history. His complete disregard for human life was basically unmatched by any other dictator in history. He covered the entire country of Russia in a blanket of fear, the fear that their life could be taken at any moment for having the slightest connection to anything that Stalin disliked. Maybe it was a greed for power and control, maybe it was racism and bloodlust ... , but either way, its effects were devastating to the country. There could be various motivations for Stalin's use of terror. But perhaps the most obvious or most sensible is plainly his lust for power. He...

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... Germany. He was able to move quickly with his fast military tactics, but this lead to his downfall because he underestimated his enemies. The invasion of the Soviet Union failed and the US entered the war and was a major factor in the war. The allies invaded Italy in 1943 and France in 1944. Along Asia, Japan was able to invade northern China, but conflict arose between Japan ... the first one an invasion which soon lead to trench warfare ending in a stalemate, and in world war II it was fought over other lands and more people were more actively involved. When you look at the maps you c...

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... which we know it later did. The Russian soldiers were badly led and appallingly treated 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 the army which was loyal to Tsar was now mostly dead. It was not a surprise that ... by 1917 many soldiers were supporters ...

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... from peasants and factory workers abroad. The Bolshevik party quickly changed from a small, irrelevant party to a highly disciplined party that was successful in gaining support from these people which resulted in an eventual majority in the Petrograd Soviet in a few short months. Lenin knew that the majority of the Russian population was peasants and used their ... darkening situation as the Bolsheviks basis for revolution. The peasants had long been suffering from the effects of WWI, such as famine, low wages, and loss of land. Lenin cleverly used propaganda to convince the people to s...

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