... there today, that mark is the American flag. After re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, parachutes opened to securely bring down Columbia into the Pacific Ocean. The team were recovered by a helicopter and taken to the recuperation dispatch, the "USS Hornet." The symbol of the American flag still sits somewhere on the expansive surface of our moon today which represents the patriotism and powerful nation of the United States of America and the great accomplishment we have made ... as mankind. "A race was on to put a man on the moon. President Kennedy had challenged the nation. It was the...

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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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... "imposing a tight blockade around the western sectors of Berlin."" Truman refused to abandon the pro-Western zones in Berlin, which lay in the Communist East, as Stalin had hoped. Instead of appeasing the tyrant, Truman "ordered a massive airlift to supply the city with food, fuel, and other needed goods."" These airlifts continued for more than ten months, and "transformed West Berlin into a symbol of the West's resolve to resist communist ... expansion."" Later that year, twelve nations, including three of the great powers, signed an agreement establishing NATO, stating that an attack...

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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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... , entrepreneurs using new technologies flooded the market with consumer goods and developed new entertainments. The new consumer market led to the creation or expansion of new industries, in particular automobiles, household products, and domestic appliances. Radio reached its peak in the years after 1935. The spread of mass culture heightened the prestige of the Untied States. The 1920s was the golden age of Broadway's musical comedies. America's outstanding symbol of dominance in mass culture and entertainment ... was Mickey Mouse. By 1945, mass culture had been introduced and was thri...

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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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... 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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... 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 ... and the US after the attack on Pearl Harbor and they fought over territorial lands in the Pacific. Each of these two wars was fought differently. In the first one an invasion which soon lead to trench warfare e...

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On December 17, 1999 my entire family immigrated to the United States. We did so mainly for religious reasons since the people of Uzbekistan, a former part of the Soviet Republic and my country of origin, are much less tolerant of Jews than Americans are. One of the key rationales for our emigration from the relatively new-born "democratic" state was the fact that not that many Jews were able to receive higher ... a foreign language spoken only by a small minority of the population. Therefore, unlike many countries that encompass the melting pot of America, within the Republic of Uzbekistan, ...

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... 1987, they signed an agreement to get rid of intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Reagan spoke at the Berlin Wall saying that it was a symbol of communism; a few years later it was torn down. Under Reagan the country prospered longer than under any other president. It was the longest time to that point without a recession or depression. In Reagan's office the economy hit a high and foreign affairs were relatively ... good. Reagan was the most popular president since FDR; he ... ...

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... succeed Lenin. But By 1929 Joseph Stalin was in complete control of Russia. Here are the reasons why. Firstly, Stalin's leading rival Leon Trotsky was very arrogant. This made members of the Bolshevist Party and the public dislike him because of his self-importance. Trotsky underestimated Stalin, which led to Stalin winning the leadership of the Bolshevist Party. Secondly, Stalin believed in Socialism in Russia, which ... was a very popular idea with the people. Trotsky believed in a Bolshevist World Revolution, which would make the Soviet people very unhappy because it ... he did not...

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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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... purposes, and it was limited by Russian superstitions. Prior to Catherine, the curriculum was as useless as the textbooks since it laid emphasis on only a few practical subjects, and was, for the most part, without "rhyme or reason" (Dukes 31). The Russians of the first half of the eighteenth century tended to view education as "general, separate pieces of information, and that to learn these and become an educated man ... school with two grades. " almost two centuries after her death she still enjoys immense recognition as celebrity, superstar and sex symbol-reputations that show no si...

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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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... must be a trail or a military strike against Cuba and with this against the SU, because the quarantine zone didn't show the exspected effect. A letter from N. Chruschtschow to Kennedy valuated the will of Chruschtschow to take away his m issiles from Cuba. 27.10. This day was the most critical in this time of the crisis. An US air reconnaissance plane, the U2, was discharged (abschießen) over Cuba. The senselessness of this soviet action ... , 1902 it formally became independent (till 1934, USA had the right to intervention). The since 1933 ruling dictator F. Batista was upset in 1959 b...

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... Wall, training soldiers, and stopping riot. The Russians, or known as The Soviet Union in that time, got East Germany and many other countries at the end of World War II. The Berlin Wall was a symbol for the Cold War Era. The Americans could not intervene directly because of the threat of Nuclear War. The American people were petrified with the threat of Nuclear War. During the parting of East and Western Germany I would have not tried ... to escape to the western part of Germany. I would ... ...

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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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... for twenty eight years before crumbling in the face of mass protests in November 1989. That is how the story of the wall ends. But it began in stealth and secrecy 40 years ago. In the early mornigh hours of August 13, 1961, the top secret top-secret operationwas carried out by the military and police, under the direction of the future head of the German Democratic Republic, Erich Honecker. It ... was made to stop theflight of GDR citizens, espically skilled workers, ... to West Berlin. Berliners called the Wall "das Unding"-the Monstrosity. Before it was raised ... ...

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... risked war to protect its ideology. Berlin was divided into four separate occupation zones, though its was a resenting symbol for Stalin as it lied in the middle of East Germany, like an Island of Democracy with in Communism. The USA wanted a prosperous and wealthy Germany as a barrier against Russia, Stalin wanted the to control Berlin as he still feared German invasion. Thus, America negotiated to introduce ... were expected to maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack. The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) aimed at strengthening the ...

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... "Animal Farm", George Orwell gives us insights into our society that we would not generally notice, by creating a fictional world. Utilizing the form of an animal fable, "Animal Farm" tells the story of a group of barnyard animals that revolt against their human master in an attempt to create a utopian state. However, power and greed caused their society's tragic ... him. However, this is not the only event that corresponded between the novel and Russian history. Another example of the parallel between "Animal Farm" and the Russian Revolution is when the animals start to rebuild the wind...

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... them from falling into the Soviet sphere of influence. Therefore the U.S involvement in the Korean War was justified as a way to prevent the spread of Communism throughout the world. 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. The United States and the Soviet Union were equal ... in power and were on the brink of a nuclear war. Most conflicts were felt ... The United Sates were the ones who convinced the United Nations to fight back. While the U.S and the Sov...

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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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... many crops. The farmers grow wheat, corn, rye, potatoes and flax. Most of the Ukraine is made up of fertile plains called steppes. The 3 rivers in the Ukraine are the Dniester, the Dnieper and the Donetsk. These rivers help the people to generate electric power. The language in the Ukraine is Ukrainian. The capital of the Ukraine is called Kiev. This is a large city in the central part of the country. Ukrainian money is called the hryvnia. The Ukraine is ... a democracy, and the people get to vote to ... ...

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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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