After Stalin came into power, his goal was to make Russia a powerful communist country. To achieve this goal, he felt that Russia needed to rapidly industrialize, since they were 100 years behind advanced countries. As heavy industry was being developed, agriculture was to be collectivized as a part of achieving Stalin's goal to make Russia a stronger state. ... In 1928, one of Stalin's goals was to rapidly develop heavy industry in Russia. ... This was to be achieved by creating command industrial goods, which had meant that the industry was being forced to industrialize. ...

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It is ironic how two people could fight for a common goal but have two completely opposite ways of achieving that goal. ... I think this is the, along with their common goal, most important similarity and also why they both ended up shot. Both had the voice to move an entire nation and that was feared by those who didn't want them to achieve their goal. When the two most powerful black men, could both achieve major success, while working on the opposite end of the spectrum. ...

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The goal of the Five Year Plan was to make USSR a modern agricultural and industrial country. To achieve this Stalin took control of the farms and industries. ... Factories and businesses were all given goals to meet every year for a five year period. The penalties for not reaching goal were extremely harsh. ... He had a strict vision of what he wanted to achieve and no one could stop him. ...

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God. The name alone inspires a multitude of emotions. Most people love, fear and praise God. Some people believe in a gentle god, while others believe in a vengeful god. In "The Sinners in the hands of an Angry God", Jonathon Edwards believes in the latter, a bitter and merciless god. His teaching ...

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His essential goal as president was to implement "a comprehensive, highly visible economic program" (p. 97). ... Reagan was effective in communicating his goals to the American people. ... Reagan's use of conservative ideology helped him to impose order and led him in achieving his goals and policies as president. ... Though there was some criticism, Reagan was able to accomplish goals, and most Americans felt he did the job well. ... Reagan's dream was to "become a world free of nuclear weapons," and to achieve this dream he knew he had to work with the Soviets. ...

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Hollan, and France. By June 14, France had surrendered and Hitler was making plans to invade Great Britain. Hitler played the role as a General in WWII all though he didn't know much about stratagies he knew alot about weapons and made sure his soldiers used them effectively. On June 22, 1941 ove...

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Both Russia and the United States wanted to avoid World War III in the process of tying to achieve their goals. ... In the end although, they both had maintained peace by not beginning World War III, which was one of the main goals of the Cold War. ... This quote pretty much sums up the goals of the Cold War, the only thing being accomplished was the avoidance of WWIII....

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Debt of Honor also brings about the idea that several enemies might unite in order to achieve a common goal. The goal happens to be the defeat of the United States by engineering a computer related crash of the entire economic system of the U.S. ...

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Nye and Welch define power as the ability to achieve one's purposes or goals (43). ... The "normalcy" that Americans in the 1900's were looking for by avoiding their hegemonic role might have actually been achieved by taking on that role and reforming the world the way America wanted....

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It kept on going, however, due to the American communists, communist sympathizers, and citizens trying to achieve social justice. ... In Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the aliens act like the communists in that they possess similar goals, which are to "take over the town's military, government, and other types of authority." ...

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As is defined in its charter, the UN aims to promote collective security throughout the world; advocate human rights and self-determination of peoples; achieve international co-operation in solving economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems; and function as a centre for co-ordination of all of these activities. ...

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Joseph Stalin held absolute authority in the Soviet Union for twenty nine years. During his time as dictator he moved the Soviet Union to a world power, while starving and arresting his own people. His brutal dictatorship was one of the bloodiest in history. He can be compared to such leaders like Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussein. The full extent of his ruthlessness may never be known, but the actions we do know about are truly appalling. ...

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The country could not exist under one administration since the occupying powers wanted to achieve their own political ideas. ... What America wanted to avoid was the Soviets goal: To apply communism on countries in Europe and to attach them to the Soviet Union. ...

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