... is also a vehicle for closer political, economic, and security cooperation in the North Atlantic community. It is a fundamental part of our foreign policy, and will become the foundation of our security system. It is of the utmost importance because while it is technically limited to the North Atlantic area, the treaty countries exercise control over a humungous bulk of the strength of the free world, and what happens in Western Europe has direct and ... immediate political and economic repercussions in Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, and Latin America ... ...

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... traits are shown by the use of propaganda to make the Russians think they have already lost and the bribery used by Major KÖnig to find the whereabouts of Vassili. This film showed me the importance of the Battle of Stalingrad and exactly how the Red Army worked. Before this film, I could not have imagined the brutality used by the Communists on their own soldiers. This film also illustrates the importance of propaganda during a war. Keeping ... spirits high is vital to success, shown by the use of heroic stories of Vassili to keep soldiers fighting when ... ...

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... ;peaceful coexistence" attitude. Conclusion Exceptionalism played a huge role across all areas of political discourse in the early years of the Cold War. Crucially, the importance of freedom, stemming from the exceptional constitution, proved to be one of the biggest aspects of exceptionalism as noted by Ian Tyrell. The importance of this in regards to the start of the Cold War was proven by the way in which Truman's administration would call on exceptionalism to sway opinion away ... from isolationism. The soviet system was an attack on the American way of life, and their most passionat...

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... to restrain Japan all serve China's interests. The disappearance of the Soviet threat has undermined the stability of the US-Japanese partnership, hence the distance between Japan and US has meant that China has become all the more important to Washington. A closer security relationship between US and China would further diminish the strategic importance of Japan to the US. At the same time "China looms all the more important for Japan as US interest ... its Japan centered extended deterrence in the region." Korea was symbolic of America's cold war resolve to draw the containment line i...

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... to 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 would cause w...

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... to which innumerable referential names of dubiously nominal importance are bestowed a more than appropriate level of intense execution that can probe the sub-conscious towards a level so deep it has the capability of leaving the reader unconscious. Despite these oblivious detours, The Rebel's true relevance and overall importance to man, more than make up for these occasional deviations into the stupefying expanse of near encyclopedic history. The Rebel's decisive factor is its ... evenhanded examination of Man's story, chronicling this perpetual struggle of Revolution and of his inevit...

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... achieve. This is demonstrated when Jefferson had his realist instinct of knowing the strategic importance of New Orleans that led to the Louisiana purchase. Other examples include: carrying out the manifest destiny, admitting Texas into the union in 1845, the war of 1812, and the US-Mexican war; all for the aim of continental expansion and a rapid expansion of industrial and regional power. The US now had secure borders and a great geographical advantage compared ... to other countries that help put them in the hegemonic position they ... ...

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... -Yalta Conference period in April 1945 when even Roosevelt, a perennial optimist, expressed his doubts about cooperating with Stalin. Hence, the Truman Doctrine was merely an articulation of the American policy and intentions expressed and declared in the open. The importance of the Truman Doctrine is further limited when considering the fact that this public declaration was presented in such a way that indicated Truman's reluctance to directly confront or provoke ... in history whereby Truman was still not willing to break ties with the Soviet Union and get involved in a direct confront...

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... war Russia also seems to be more friendly toward all countries. It also seems to be more humbled because of its economic state and turmoil within the country. The world has changed because of the cold war. One major effect is that the importance of economic benefits in conflicts and in political decisions has increased tremondously. Also economics now play a bigger part in war than they did before ... the cold war. Economics can also devert countries from war because they might not be able to afford it and they ... could solve their problems through diplomacy instead of with a full-out...

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... and religious opposition groups, whose perception of the Shah as an American puppet was strenghtened by the use of American money and expertise to mould the Shah's formidable security apparatus, the SAVAK. Furthermore, the military occupation of WW II and the near loss of control to Mussadiq, had taught the Shah two lessons that shaped his attitudes and behaviour in the decades to follow. The first was the vital importance of a strong, well-equipped military force ... to deter foreign, especially Soviet, intervention. The other was the political danger of permitting an ... ...

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... the war, the race between the Allies and Germany to create an atomic 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 ... ...

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... , and when democracy and ethnicity are balanced, political stability is possible. As a result of a lack of democratic institutions and channels for dialogue, Russia's inhabitants are now increasingly identifying themselves as members of ethnic groups rather than as citizens of the Russia. (Drobizheva). An important development in center-periphery relations is the growing importance of "economic nationalism," an effort to create an economic basis for political independence. Economic nationalism ... is a protective defense against the Russian federal government's economic dominance. Altern...

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Freedom is a very important aspect of our country. We as Americans do not fully realize the liberties that are around us; and more often, we take them for granted. More so, we will never fully comprehend the importance of freedom until it is threatened or taken away from us. I personally understand these liberties more than other teenagers in this country since I am originally from ... Eastern Europe. While Ukraine was under the Communist rule, our civil rights were severely limited. We didn't have freedom ... had to do was to go along with the ideology of those in power. Unlike the people of...

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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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... reduced the defense capabilities of the Soviet Union both along the European and Chinese borders. Through the signing and implementation of the Conventional Forces Treaty, Soviet conventional forces in Europe were cut dramatically. The Soviets had long held a ground forces advantage, and agreed to reduce the levels of their troops and tanks to an equal number with the NATO countries at a level even lower than the current NATO levels. This denial of the importance of military ... prowess by 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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... for a military buildup. On July 25th, 1961 he addressed the nation to express his views and policies for Berlin and other dealings with the Soviet Union. Kennedy certainly did not want to go to war, but he was fully aware of the importance of the public and worldwide perception of the crisis. If the United States succumbed to the Soviets threats and bullying, then Communism and its nation allies would triumph ... over the free world. On a less magnanimous level, the U.S could simply not afford to lose face and by result, its standing as a superpower. Thus, Kennedy ... ...

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... essay is to evaluate the importance of the ideological differences in the outbreak of the Cold War. The Cold War begins with the end of the Second World War (WWII) in 1945, when the world was left crippled and needed to be reconstructed in some manner. For this, it depended on the two great post-war superpowers: the USA and the USSR. The opposing ideologies that both countries supported made it very difficult to make agreements ... it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets justify their expansionism in acc...

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... not result in the destruction of civil liberties and the values in our Constitution. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, with its basic freedoms of speech, the press, religion, the right to assembly and petition the government must be maintained if we are to remain a democracy and a free society. The Red Scare undermined these all important principals and all in he name of protecting the country or as some put it, the importance of national security ... ". If some people and groups, even radical ones like communists, cannot exercise these principals and freedoms, then we are in...

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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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... ). NATO is an alliance with all the western powers. Throughout this chapter he makes sure that we all know his main point is about the Cold War. Roberts puts a lot of emphasis on the importance of the Cold War in history. He goes into depth with the fact that the Cold War involved many and probably the majority of the countries around the world such as Korea, China, India ... , Pakistan, Cuba, Indonesia, "Indo-China," and of course United States, Russia, and Germany. Much of this chapter is based on the Cold War ... happening in Asia. He ends the chapter stating how Asia rejects the domi...

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... individual's life to Stalin's eyes was so low that during the Second World War, his generals sent their own troops without weapons to act as meat shields or detonate hidden mines. The key aspect of the comparison between behavior of the prisoners in Solzhenitsyn's book and the state of mind of normal citizens outside of the Gulag is the importance of family and love. Family and love are what brings people, especially Soviet people ... a sense of value within life, otherwise there is no point to it. This is how Solzhenitsyn ... ...

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... Arms Limitation Treaty, which was designed to ease tensions by reporting the number of weapons each side had. However, the development of MIRVs, missiles with multiple warheads, threatened to raise tensions because of their destructive power. During the Carter administration Americans initially saw a relaxation of Cold War tensions and a diminished importance of nuclear weapons. After Soviet aggression in Afghanistan, Carter increased defense spending. This continued into Reagan's presidency, which ... saw a significant military buildup and the modernization of nuclear forces. Reagan's ...

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... the Bolshevik seizure of power. However, he held less influence and importance in the dealing with the problems that made the retention of power such a difficult task, his governmental policies making him unpopular. Yet ultimately he was able to consolidate power through repressive measures and terror, though the means were questionable. Many factors resulted in the Bolshevik seizure of power, though by far the influence of Lenin's leadership was the greatest factor. On the ... third of April 1917, with Lenin ... ...

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... to any plan for an invasion fleet to successfully cross the Channel, to prevent British sea or air forces from interfering with the operation Starting on 10 July 1940, the Luftwaffe attacked shipping convoys in the Channel and Channel Ports. They also suspected the importance of the British radar masts and attacked the stations on the South coast, damaging some of them very badly. However one major influence which should not ... be forgotten, is the German failings themselves. One major error was at Dunkirk ... ...

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