... an enormous "buffer" zone for defence. To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst fears. In 1946, Churchill described how Russia and the west were separated by an "Iron Curtain". This meant that anything to the east was highly secretive and that a great division did lie between them. ... three zones. Stalin was furious, his hatred of Germany was immense. He showed no sympathy for the plight of the Germans. He accused the West of re-erecting the Nazi State. When the allies proposed to help revive the German state, by announcing a new currency. Stalin angrily reacted by ... ...

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... an enormous "buffer" zone for defence. To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst fears. In 1946, Churchill described how Russia and the west were separated by an "Iron Curtain". This meant that anything to the east was highly secretive and that a great division did lie between them. ... three zones. Stalin was furious, his hatred of Germany was immense. He showed no sympathy for the plight of the Germans. He accused the West of re-erecting the Nazi State. When the allies proposed to help revive the German state, by announcing a new currency. Stalin angrily reacted by ... ...

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... revolution. Lenin created a new theory that imperialism was the highest stage of capitalism and took it one step further to say that Russia was the most important "colony" to the west. He believed that to destroy capitalism you must begin in the colonies and since he had convinced many in Russia to believe that they were a colony of the ... west, his revolution ensued. This revolution was however premature. Although Lenin began to implement sound communist reforms it came back to haunt him after his death when it was proved that the proper communist base had not been implemented ... ...

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... Europe. During the last years of the Second World War, the Red Army was moving forward and leaving behind pro- communist governments. The West saw this as one occupying force being replaced by another whereas the Soviets thought that they were merely securing the security of the USSR. Also ... Europe should become a sphere of influence but still there was notorious disagreement over the ruling of Poland. Stalin wanted the Russian border to move west into Europe. He argued that Poland's border could then move westwards into Germany. Churchill and Roosevelt both disapproved. Churchill Knew ...

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... that Stalin's motives were purely defensive. Stalin's wished to create a buffer zone of Communist states around him to protect Soviet Russia from the capitalist West. In this sense, his moves were not aggressive at all -- they were truly defensive moves to protect the Soviet system. His suspicions of Western ... failure to be included in the Western world's politics created an even deeper rift between the two superpowers. Clashes between Stalin and the West first appear at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences in February and July 1946, respectively. Though the mood at Yalta was more or less...

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... inside of the Soviet bloc were completely cut off from the Western ideals. When Khrushchev came to power, however, there as renewed hope in the West that there might be a "thaw- in relations between the two blocs. Relations between the two blocs did improve with Khrushchev attending a number of ... Eastern bloc became cut off once more, western ideas had already managed to penetrate the East. (14) The information that the capitalist West was thriving while the Communist Eastern bloc was stagnating and underdeveloped, made communism and Soviet control even more unpopular. In 1963 there ag...

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... inside of the Soviet bloc were completely cut off from the Western ideals. When Khrushchev came to power, however, there as renewed hope in the West that there might be a "thaw- in relations between the two blocs. Relations between the two blocs did improve with Khrushchev attending a number of ... Eastern bloc became cut off once more, western ideas had already managed to penetrate the East. (14) The information that the capitalist West was thriving while the Communist Eastern bloc was stagnating and underdeveloped, made communism and Soviet control even more unpopular. In 1963 there ag...

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... inside of the Soviet bloc were completely cut off from the Western ideals. When Khrushchev came to power, however, there as renewed hope in the West that there might be a "thaw- in relations between the two blocs. Relations between the two blocs did improve with Khrushchev attending a number of ... Eastern bloc became cut off once more, western ideas had already managed to penetrate the East. (14) The information that the capitalist West was thriving while the Communist Eastern bloc was stagnating and underdeveloped, made communism and Soviet control even more unpopular. In 1963 there ag...

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... affected the accelaration of the collapse.I will argue and show how poverty and economical problems ,lack of freedom and despotism affected the collapse as internal reasons and the location of west on this reasons as a destructive. In U.S.S.R because of communist regime there was no unemployment and also there was free education,health care and transportation.Maybe the majority of people think ... this economical problems,entering an armananent race with U.S.(S.D.I) made a big extra burden to economy and it bringed up the bankruptcy of U.S.S.R. . Starting this armanent race with S.D.I w...

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... europe, which inevitably forced them to resist to preserve its social and political culture. 1917 was the point where a clear difference between the "West" and Russia was established, Russia was mainly responsible for creating this division and was also, to an extent, to blame for the increase of ... from occurring, but these efforts were to no avail as the Bolsheviks overthrew the government and established Communism . The West's attempt of stopping the revolution convinced Russia that the West was against their new regime. Russia's change of ideology to communism would prove to be one ...

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The west was economically advanced because of the Industrial Revolution. This is due to two factors stated in the lecture notes. The two factors were the creation of a ... required a large scale integration of the economy. Due to these two factors the west's economy is more industrious than any non-industrial country, which allows the west to have more economic supremacy. The west is also more advanced in politics also. The main factor is the west was moving towards a more democratic government unlike the other's who had many different ... them not to advance in the political sense because the...

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... came in the Battle for the Kokoda trail, in which a seriously outnumbered Australian force took on the advancing Japanese forces from the north coast on their quest for taking over Port Moresby. The Australians advanced from the south coast and succeeded in stopping their advance and eventually driving them back and off the island of Papua New Guinea. This was the first ... ...

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... the Hungarian revolution of 1956. Hungary planned to leave the Warsaw Pact and declare themselves neutral in the Cold War conflict between East and West. But in October 1956 the Red Army entered Hungary and crushed the resistance in two weeks. Warsaw Pact forces were utilised at times, ... States) from East Germany, which completely surrounded it. Many East Germans risked death attempting to cross the defences surrounding the wall to reach freedom in West Berlin, and many were killed in the attempt. President Ronald Reagan's challenge " Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!". In 1988 seeme...

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... not have. When he met with Stalin in July at Potsdam, they confirmed that Germany would remain divided with Democratic zones in the West and communist zones in the East, and the country would remain that way until the fall of the Soviet empire. As Truman became ... Organization (NATO), formed on April 4, 1949. NATO formed after the French, British, and Americans merged their three Western zones of occupation into a west German republic. Stalin responded by "imposing a tight blockade around the western sectors of Berlin."" Truman refused to abandon the pro-Western zones in Berlin, ... air...

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... 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 as West Germany continued to march towards becoming a major economic power and effective democratic society. There seemed to be, at first, a tension between the Basic Law's explicit support of re-unification and ... its promise to transfer sovereignty to a supranational institution that would be created. The conflict between West Germany's goals of national unity and international integration remai...

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... enthusiasm Macarthur drove right back into North Korea rather than to the border, as had been his instructions. This made China re-arm and the first hot' war between east-west powers (USA and China). Eventually an armistice was reached between North and South Korea. From the traditionalist point-of-view the war had been a success of sorts as communism had ... of his pushing on. From the revisionist point-of-view the war was a disaster. They had failed to achieve its aims and the confrontation between East and West had only further militarized the West. They thought that America had been...

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... as the Opium Wars, Boxer Rebellion, and the Korean War. By 1898 China was completely imperialized. The Qing dynasty was slowly becoming weaker and weaker compared to the power the West had over China. Almost all countries that have been imperialized have rebelled, however China's response was not like all the others, it was a communist rebellion. During this rebellion China's main ... profitable trade, for that reason they went to war in order to impose the Chinese to allow Opium to be traded. This was one of the first confrontations with the West, and it was a complete failure. The Bri...

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... as the Opium Wars, Boxer Rebellion, and the Korean War. By 1898 China was completely imperialized. The Qing dynasty was slowly becoming weaker and weaker compared to the power the West had over China. Almost all countries that have been imperialized have rebelled, however China's response was not like all the others, it was a communist rebellion. During this rebellion China's main ... profitable trade, for that reason they went to war in order to impose the Chinese to allow Opium to be traded. This was one of the first confrontations with the West, and it was a complete failure. The Bri...

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... to spread communism and gain more power to dominate the entire world. First, they convinced Eastern European countries to switch to communism. Eventually, European countries were divided into East and West by the "Iron Curtain" (Doc A), the boundary that separates the Warsaw Pact countries from NATO countries; America was in charge of Western Europe and the Soviet Union was ... as following: food, clothes, medicines, fuel, and Christmas presents (Doc D). Finally in 1949, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was formed. It was an international military alliance between American ...

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... perfect as Western Europe rebuilt its prosperity and Communism did not spread to those region. After World War II, the Soviet Union controlled East Germany and West and East Berlin while the US controlled West Germany and West Berlin Which was in East Germany. The Soviet Union had a wonderful plan to starve the people in Berlin by blocking all the supplies going into ... ...

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... mid 1950's included East Germany, Albania, Hungary, Poland Romania, China, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Bulgaria. On the other side is the United States along with its democratic allies, including Canada, France, West Germany, the Philippines, Japan, Great Britain, and many other countries of Western Europe and Latin America. This group was usually referred to as the Western bloc. Such intense rivalry is ... expand Communism throughout the world. Meanwhile, the Soviets have charged the US with practicing imperialism and with attempting to sop revolutionary activity in other countries. An...

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... fostering of private businesses, 5 million people were employed. After 1 April 1989, all enterprises were allowed to trade with foreign partners. This triggered the development of joint ventured companies of the West, such as PepsiCo, Kodak, Time-Warner Despite these reformations though, the Russian economy was heading to crisis. The Union's industry was heavily dependent on military orders, which by 1989 were ... the citizens throughout Eastern Europe were protesting for mass reforms. The "Iron Curtain" crumbled and the most symbolic fact of this was the fall of the wall between East a...

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... States for the establishment and building of missiles capable of reaching each other's territory, the struggle for space exploration"; Stage III. 1972- 1985 years. "Achieving real parity between East and West in the development and use of arms in all aspects of geographical space"; Stage IV. The final, 1985-1991 years. "Delivery of the East, including the Soviet Union conquered positions ... with the beginning of détente Soviet Union is doing its open economic system. He becomes more and more dependent on the balance of the sale of hydrocarbons to the West and purchases abroad of grain...

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... result was an explosion of small- and medium-sized businesses that created an enormous rise in employment and wealth. Deng created his first "special economic zones" in places along the coast, such as Shenzhen, where there was relatively little established industry. So the new companies that sprang up there were almost entirely private. Foreign investors piled in, but mostly under conditions ... ...

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... along with the rest of the world. British traders discovered they could make money by trading opium for Chinese tea. In the 1830's, British merchant ships were arriving off the coast of China. Ready to sell to the Chinese the British came with ships full of opium. The Chinese population became fixated on opium, and silver began to vanish in China ... ...

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