... separated from their family that night, and they were separated for years. The Berlin Wall was 96 miles long. It consisted of 67 miles of concrete segment wall which was four meters high, 42 miles of wire mesh fencing, 65 miles of anti-vehicle trenches, and 79 miles of contact or signal fence. There were 302 watchtowers, and 20 bunkers. Behind the wall was a trench ... family. He said he believes it is as bad as being in prison. He also told me that no one could trust anybody. He said best friends would be torn apart because they didn't know if the other could have been a spy. He told m...

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... beginning of the war, before the US's evolvement, North Korea was destroying South Korea. On June 26 the biggest battle of the war, at that point took place just 12 miles North of South Korea's capital of Seoul.. By June 28 the North had won and taken over South Korea's capital. Since South Korea was falling ... apart the US knew we had to enter the war. President Truman went to the UN. The UN entered in favor of helping South Korea. USSR could have vetoed the vote ... ...

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... to build the wall. It stunned people from both East and West Germany. The Berlin Wall was 96 miles long. It was 67 miles of concrete wall which was four meters high, 42 miles of wire mesh fencing, 65 miles of anti-vehicle trenches, and 79 miles of contact or signal fence. There were 302 watchtowers, and 20 bunkers. Behind the wall was a trench to ... ...

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... was pledged to the Federal-Aid Act in coming years. The Interstate Highways would eventually be made up of more than 33,900 miles plus an additional 5,000 miles of support city routes for a total of over 38,900 miles. Eisenhower wanted to develop the interstates because he knew that Hitler used the Audubons System in Germany to quickly move the Nazi troops ... ...

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... of Alaska, Norway, West Germany, Turkey, Pakistan and Japan cruised above Soviet bases and installations. Hundreds of U.S. airplanes had been flying into Soviet airspace but could only penetrate a few hundred miles. A Lockheed vice-president, Clarence (Kelly) Johnson was the designer of the U-2 and presented the idea to the Air Force . Johnson wanted to improve the performance of the F-104 but soon ... . 1 May 1960 Sortie Number 4154; Francis Gary Powers took off from Incirlik, Turkey on his 27th mission since arriving to the Middle East . This flight would take him over 2500 miles at a...

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... lines, 8 S-Bahn and 4 underground lines, 3 autobahns and several rivers and lakes. When the wall was finished the first time around, it was made up of seven and a half miles of concrete slabs, 86 miles of barbed wire and covered with 116 watch towers. Altogether, the wall was replaced four times. The second wall was built in June 1962 to prevent people from ... concrete blocks were crushed and used to make roads or sold. Today, the wall is barley visible, although it has been marked out in downtown Berlin over a distance of 12 miles with a red line or a double row of cobblestones. ...

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... and the Soviet Union had come close to a full-scale nuclear war. On October 14, 1962 US spy planes reported the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, which is 90 miles off the coast of Florida. The first sighting reported the presence of a ballistic missile launching site. It was later discovered that the Soviet Union began shipments in early 1962, and ... placed medium- (MRBM) and intermediate-range ballistic (IRBM) missiles in Cuba (as well as other weapons). Forty-two MRBMs (300-1200 miles) and twenty-four IRBMs (1200-3500 miles) were sent to Cuba. 22,000 Soviet soldiers and technicia...

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... was their proper boundary. The Mexican president, José Herrera, was newly in office and feared being overthrown if he complied with Polk. Slidell left Mexico City for a town a few miles away and Herrera sent troops to the Rio Grande to confront the Americans. Polk and his cabinet prepared a declaration of war. He only expected to fight a few battles on the ... England would seize it as a strong point on the Pacific. The United States dominated Mexico throughout the entire war. The war lasted almost 2 years. Although the U.S. gained about 1.2 million square miles of land as well as havi...

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... of border skirmishes, any one of which places us on the brink of nuclear war. For example, India is building a wide variety of new missiles with a range of 90 miles to 1,300 miles. (2) And Iraq refuses to let United Nations teams in to inspect its nuclear weapons stores. (1) In addition, the many of the countries in the former Soviet Union have set ... ...

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... . Such camps "show the full extent of the Nazi hatred of the Jews, and their determination to destroy them" (Rogasky 78). The largest Nazi concentration camp was located thirty-seven miles west of Krakow, and that camp was named "Auschwitz", Most Jews were held there. Three hundred Jews from Os"wiecim were forced to work on the construction of the camp ... was the head of the SS and German police ordered to a second section of the camp to be built, which was much larger than the first one, and were located 1.9 miles from the original camp. It was called "Auschwitz II- Birkenau, built on ...

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... came into nearer view.The destruction of the russian missile bases by an air attack was found out as too risky so the preferred alternative to build up an 800 miles big quarantine zone was taken. 22.10. JFK put an ultimate to the SU in front of the world public to take away their nuclear missiles from Cuba, if not ... marines. 23.10. The soviet prime minister sent a letter to JFK in which he told his readiness for peace - for this Kennedy reduced the quarantine zone from 800 to 500 miles. 24.10. By the US radar again merchant fleets with course to Cuba were discovered. 25.10. The EX - C...

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The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, which is located on the south coast of Cuba about 97 miles southeast of Havanna, was one of mismanagement, poor judgment, and stupidity (?Bay of Pigs? 378). The blame for the failed invasion falls directly on the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and a ... ). Things got off to a bad start. The coral reefs delayed several landing crafts and others experienced engine trouble. Some of the exiles chose a ground invasion. These troops penetrated about twenty miles into Cuba until they ran into Castro's militia. The militia had heavy rein...

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... the Germans believed to be the shortest and easiest area to cross from England to France. In actuality, the Allied soldiers of Dwight D. Eisenhower planned to thrust into Europe a few miles away from the shortest point. A huge armada had been assembled, including 1,200 fighting ships, 10,000 planes, 4,126 landing craft, 804 transport ships, and hundreds of amphibious and other special ... the south preventing the Germans from quickly reinforcing their beleaguered units at the beachheads. Another factor that posed a handicap to the Germans was the fact that they had over 3,000 miles of c...

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... . This is commonly suggested as the event which touched off the Berlin crisis of 1958-1962, potentially one of the most dangerous disputes of the Cold War era. Located 110 miles past the Iron Curtain, surrounded by Soviet satellites and close to supply lines, Berlin had been occupied by the Allied forces since the completion of World War II, and had ... they resist fiercely. ..."(Khrushchev's response to Kennedy speech, www.cnn.com) Khrushchev aptly sums up this dilemma. Should the U.S. and Soviet nations go to nuclear war over a city thousands of miles away, when no major threat to thei...

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... all rail, water, and highways from going to western Germany. 2,000 East German plants were entirely or partly dismantled and sent to Russia. 1,600 miles of railway line were completely torn out and an additional 7,300 miles of parallel tracks were ripped up. The western powers fed and supplied the 2 million persons in their sectors of Berlin solely by plane during this ... ...

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... a true underwater boat, faster beneath the surface than above and able to remain submerged indefinitely. Perhaps one of the most famous yet unknown Soviet submarines, called the K-19, came within miles of the American coastline. Many Americans were unaware of the sub being this close until the movie, K-19: The Widowmaker came out. This movie showed how close the Soviet's were ... society and destroy 120 million of them" (202). In Cuba, the Soviets placed nuclear missiles and pointed them right at the United States. These missiles could reach up to 2000 miles in US territory. Americans, ...

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... , Ensign Ross, made various forays through the coral islands, searching for help. It was days before they found a group of natives who carried a message to a British base, some thirty-eight miles away. Finally, on August 7, JFK and the other survivors were rescued by a party of British scouts and carried to safety. The ordeal made JFK a war hero. He received the Purple ... April of 1961, but tried to reduce U.S. involvement. The result was a fiasco, as the invasion force was slaughtered and the survivors taken prisoner, while American warships watched, helpless, from a few miles out to s...

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... in general play a huge part throughout the film in terms of Konrad and Sophie's relationship and lives. It is they, not the symbol of the wall, that keeps the couple apart and later on keeps Konrad from seeing his son Alexander after he has failed to convince his sister to join Harald in the West. In one scene after Konrads sister ... east and west Germans meet in the streets on that November night in 1989, Konrad and Sophie at last meet in a unified country. The one barrier that had kept them apart is now gone. The final frame of the film is a close up of Sophie, possibly contemplating...

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... had a domino effect and hastened events elsewhere. Far from Gorbachev's original hope that allowing the Eastern states more freedom would bring the union closer together, it was tearing the union apart. Kadar was ousted from Hungary and the communists were swept aside by the Hungarian Democratic Forum. On September 11th Hungary opened its borders with Austria and allowed thousands of East ... had undermined the morale and confidence of the party elite. It had become clear that the communist cause had exhausted itself and was a failure. Their utopian hopes had been torn apart one by one ...

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... had a domino effect and hastened events elsewhere. Far from Gorbachev's original hope that allowing the Eastern states more freedom would bring the union closer together, it was tearing the union apart. Kadar was ousted from Hungary and the communists were swept aside by the Hungarian Democratic Forum. On September 11th Hungary opened its borders with Austria and allowed thousands of East ... had undermined the morale and confidence of the party elite. It had become clear that the communist cause had exhausted itself and was a failure. Their utopian hopes had been torn apart one by one ...

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... had a domino effect and hastened events elsewhere. Far from Gorbachev's original hope that allowing the Eastern states more freedom would bring the union closer together, it was tearing the union apart. Kadar was ousted from Hungary and the communists were swept aside by the Hungarian Democratic Forum. On September 11th Hungary opened its borders with Austria and allowed thousands of East ... had undermined the morale and confidence of the party elite. It had become clear that the communist cause had exhausted itself and was a failure. Their utopian hopes had been torn apart one by one ...

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... to take on political objectives; such as the 8-hour work day, and greater wages. These goals are not the goals of a headless mob of workers wanting to tear the state apart. Right from the start the workers and soldiers were suspicious of the newly formed government. The provincial government was headed by 10 capitalist ministers, or so the workers and soldiers ... bring down the government from April to July. The Bolsheviks were unlike the other parties in that they carried out their programs, not only talked about them. They held themselves apart from the other parties promising the pe...

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... Kamikaze as their only defence. By 1945, the American marines had taken control of the Jima; a Japanese island. Later in April, they took control of Okinawa, which was only 350 miles from Japan. The bitter struggle ended in June with Japanese having incurred the heaviest loss in comparison to their counterpart; the US. Despite the heavy loss, Japan did not surrender ... ...

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... was split into 4 zones just like Berlin, its capital. Berlin was in the Soviet Union, so this caused a bit of a problem for Britain, France and USA. Berlin was situated 100 miles inside the Russian zone. For Britain, France and USA to get to Berlin they had to go through permitted routes, Corridors. Stalin felt threatened by the West. June 24th 1948 ... ...

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... that a concentration camp in Dachau, Germany had been established. This was later simply known as Dachau Concentration Camp. This camp was located in a small town called Dachau and about 10 miles from Munich, Germany. It was entitled to accommodate 5,000 political prisoners, although after the camp had opened the population rarely ever dropped below 12,000. Yet as the war progressed ... ...

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