... , trials were held for those guilty of any act during the war. The trials were known as the Nuremberg Trials. Twenty-three doctors each of whom participated in the Nazi program to kill those "unworthy of life" or conducted medical experiment were tried. 16 of them were found guilty. There were four counts of which the people could be sentenced: Count one- Common Design or Conspiracy, Count Two- War Crimes, which included ... murders, brutalities, cruelties, and atrocities, Count Three- Crimes Against Humanity, and Count Four- Membership in a Criminal Organization. One of the doctors char...

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... genuine and quickly accepted. After 14 days on the brink of destruction the world could now rest easy. It was not until the 21st November 1962 that Soviety missiles were actually removed from Cuba. The nuclear weapons being transported were loaded onto decks of the Soviety cargo ships so that pilots could count them from the air. The bombers were being dismantled in Cuba and shipped ... back to the Soviet Union. It was at this time that Kennedy lowered the national alert from Defcom 2 to Defcom 4. If Krushchev ... Surely these results and improved relations were due to the desire of both...

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... were made. Then after 318 days, from June 1948 to May 1949, the Russians backed down and opened up the route to the city." (Shlaim, University of California Press, 1984) German unity was now impossible. "Stalin, through his speeches, paid lip service to the old Marxist ideals of world revolution, including a belief in the ultimate victory of communism over capitalism, however, there is no hard evidence that Stalin ever ... threat to Russia. The threatening Truman Doctrine, the creation of NATO, Marshall Aid, the Berlin Airlift and Russia's first testing of the Atomic bomb, all added to ...

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... . They are supreme rulers of Russia, with more power than the government. They actually have people in the government working for them. The transition to capitalism was definitely hurried by involvement of mafia. But, the country is not better off. Russia is corrupt as anybody could imagine. They take what they want by force, and are feared by all. It is nearly impossible to make an honest ... living in Russia. Business in Russia boomed at first, but the mafia is ... now more of a hindrance in business than a help. The mafia terrorizes and extorts anything that can be perceived as profi...

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... hold my interest. My entire family was busy and productive. We had a vegetable garden and raised chickens and rabbits. We ate healthy from the fruit of our labor; eating homegrown vegetables and meat. My parents instilled in me a love for all living things, and I am grateful to them ... for that. At that young age, I started to have a great desire to work in the medical field and to help all living beings. My mother ... plan everything. I came to America almost five years ago. The first half of the year here, the transition seemed to me unbearably heavy. This was due to many factors: t...

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... was that many people from East Germany, who suffered under the totalitarian communist system, escaped and resettled in the democratic state of West Germany. East Germany threatened to bleed out' and to prevent further escapes the Wall was built. But even after its construction several attempts to escape took place. One of the most spectacular ones was the one from two DDR citizens in November 1986. They ... were called Dirk Deckert and Karsten Kluender. They both were unhappy to live under the totalitarian communist government. They lived near to the North Sea and came to the conclusion...

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... wasn't just a political revolution, it was social revolution. It remains the only occasion in modern day history when a whole people rejected their entire way of life and decided to replace it with a brave new world. It is this desire, the simple ornate desire to be free which shines forth from the book. The provisional government and the moderate socialists were afraid to embrace these changes. They did everything ... in their power to curtail the will of the people. In this regard, the book is an excellent account of one class trying to impose their will over another. Although ... ...

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... , and assured his future position as the leader of the Communist party. Stalin rose and became one of the most influential man in the Communist party. From that point on, it was simply a bit of propaganda, a bit of magic, and gallons of luck that combined to make Stalin the leader of the entire Communist world and one of the most powerful man in all of history. Some of the real reasons for Stalin's rise to ... foreign countries were declared a spy. Stalin also ordered the forced collectivization of agriculture. Peasants lost their land and became workers of the state. To make matters wors...

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... Missile Crisis "What nonsense this all is. We simply do not want to believe that it is the desire, the ambition of the United States to appear before the whole world as an aggressor. We would like to tell them to stop that noise with your weapons, stop the rattling, and wait until we have reasonable negotiations on equal terms.1 What reasonable human being wants war? For ... things with that money in West Berlin. Certainly, it was in the best interest of the future of the GDR to limit access to West Berlin. By the late 1950s it was clear that some resolution needed to be made concerning...

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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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... was unreachable for two hours. This action shows the political situation at the time. There was no direction connection between the President and the Premier, so it was almost impossible to talk to each other easily. Even with the threat of thermonuclear war, they had to communicate through means of the normal telephone lines. The second action is when Major T.J. "King" Kong, the commander of the B-52 bomber, says "Well, boys, I reckon this ... is it. Nuclear combat, toe-to-toe with the Rooskies." This statement makes fun of the common Air ... ...

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... lasted only 8 days, the time spent on the surface was less than one day, the entire time spent walking on the moon, a mere 2 1/2 hours - but they were surely historic hours" (Remembering Apollo 11). This mission opened up many more possibilities to space travel and showed the world that it is not impossible. The crew of Apollo 11 had been successful in completing the mission to the moon; this would ... not of been possible if not for the crew. "On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped out of an odd-looking spaceship and into the pages of history as the first man on the moon" (Armstrong ...

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... when their communism dissolved. I will discuss the process of their fall as well as their end and resolution with the United States. The fall of communism came because of the end of détente. There were attempts to keep the détente strong with treaties such as the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty of 1972 which had the US and USSR have the same long range missile capabilities. There was also ... the Helsinki "Final Act" of 1974 that recognized all borders for European countries and resolved any disputes. But all of this came to an end because of the Soviet Union. Their desire to increas...

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... notable as the beginning of the Cold War. Churchill called the "Iron Curtain" a separation of the European continent into competing political, military, and economic blocs and the area controlled by the Soviet Union. In his speech he speaks that war should not come to pass but it was near due to the tensions flaring between the two. Churchill also expressed that the Russians simply "desire the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power ... and doctrines." All in all Churchill feels that there is no need for war. Joseph Stalin was the ruler of the U.S.SR from 1929-1953 and...

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... notable as the beginning of the Cold War. Churchill called the "Iron Curtain" a separation of the European continent into competing political, military, and economic blocs and the area controlled by the Soviet Union. In his speech he speaks that war should not come to pass but it was near due to the tensions flaring between the two. Churchill also expressed that the Russians simply "desire the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power ... and doctrines." All in all Churchill feels that there is no need for war. Joseph Stalin was the ruler of the U.S.SR from 1929-1953 and...

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... the work when the other animals are watching the pigs, which are in a room walking on two legs and talking to humans. "(They) looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which."" (Des Chenes 147) In this book, Orwell presents recurring themes of personal freedom, the influence of language, and the ... abuse of power. Some of these themes have escalated from his childhood and the strict and sometimes power abusing schooling system he had to endure. (Encyclopaedia Britannica ... in a skillfully executed animal fab...

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... ), rather than that of the capitalist whom is raised very egocentrically." While a horrible writer, the man does have a point. Communism is a subjective ideal. To the capitalist person of American or English descent, it is a horrible form of groupthink, or conformity, especially heinous because of it's emphasis on devaluing the individual over the group. To a Republican, whose values lie almost entirely in individualistic themes, this would be impossible to grasp. However ... , to the person growing up in a third world country, or an eastern civilization, Communism ... ...

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... 's brain in all countries but this types of violance improved the nations,who lived under the despotism of S.U. , nationalist conceit and nations started to demand their autonomy.If you are living in a country like that and you can see and feel the freedom,wealth,non-pressured life from your neighbours,your desire of freedom wouldn't be stoped by any sort of weapon or any coercive persuasions.As told ... by George Urban,no one could wrote his truths to someone's brain with a power of an arm in U.S.S.R because all humans have had the soul of freedom in their body since their born ... .(U....

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... US president, Gerald Ford, eventually pardoned Richard Nixon believing the nation did not need to endure a long and messy trial. After his resignation, Richard Nixon authored many books and found himself traveling around in an attempt to restore his public image. "The former president had shown a desire to let the world know of his actions: why, otherwise, did he tape White House conversations, agree ... to freedom of information provisions, and write a much publicized autobiography?" (Heyden 1978). On April 22, 1994 Richard Nixon died from complications ... ...

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... "provoke a communist invasion and prompt U.S military intervention." (p. 107) Once the North Koreans attacked, they marched quickly across the southern part of the peninsula taking the capital Seoul along the way and pushed the US forces to the Pusan perimeter. The United States suffered a period of defeats. By July 20th, the KPA had "shattered five U.S battalions" (p. 109) Despite being pushed back ... would permit him to "compose and unite" Korea. (p.111) Doris M. Condit claims that the lack of clarity and direction given to General MacArthur greatly contributed to the mistakes that es...

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... would be done about nuclear warfare. "We (the United States) never have, and never will, propose or suggest that the Soviet Union surrender what rightly belongs to it. We will never say that the people of the USSR are an enemy with whom we have no desire to deal or mingle in friendly or fruitful relationship. On the contrary, we hope that this coming conference may ... initiate with the Soviet Union which will eventually bring about a freer mingling of the peoples of the East and the West." Eisenhower wanted to solve "fearful atomic ... dilemma" and waned to make sure that the horrors ...

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... became the scale model of Europe. The iron curtain around Eastern Europe also separated states with strong relations, a common history and relatives on every side. Hanhimaki and Westad stated the division of Germany was "both a symptom and a cause of the Cold War. "7 It perfectly demonstrates the suspicion the Western powers and the Soviets held from each other. The growing animosity and the resulting emergence of the Cold War made a unified Germany impossible. This kind of animosity ... and suspicion dominate the foreign politics until the late 1980's. In an excerpt in 1948 British for...

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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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... would be contingent upon, respectively. Put simply, the net effect of the extension of the Basic Law to all of Germany did not guarantee the implementation of a new joint governing policy or a new constitution for the country. It seemed, as a result of some esoteric articles of the Basic Law, that the GDR would cease to exist legally and the FRG would survive. It was impossible to draw the conclusion that both would die out and be ... replaced by a new political identity. Many of the Federal Republic ... ...

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... without any real victory. North Korea eventually withdrew from the southern state and America went home. The war was a fight for containment. The American government did not want to invade a Communist country for fear of retaliation by the Soviets or the Chinese (Healy 3). The American people wanted to destroy Communism and desire of the nation was to show a victory over Communism. However, the Korean War was unsuccessful at doing this. Some ... other major events on the Cold War were such as the crisis at Cuba in 1962 and the Vietnam War. During the Cuba crisis, it is said that ... ...

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