1. Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev was an important figure in history because of his willingness to end the Cold War and Communism as it was known in the 1980s. The most famous line ever uttered by President Ronald Reagan was "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. He brought about massive economic, social, and political changes and helped bring an end to both the Soviet Union and the Cold War. One of Gorbachev's notable accomplishments was the breaking down of the Berlin Wall, a symbolic division between communism and freedom f...

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... Burma took the British sixty years to accomplish. Lockard points out that "the British had already developed a low opinion of Burma's leaders and came to despise the whole society".2 The British did not go into Burma accepting of their culture and traditions. The Burmese had ... Nu. Finally, in 1937, Britain separates Burma from India. Aung San would become one of Burma's first leaders after they gained independence. Aung San was involved with the nationalist movement started at Rangoon University. He started his career in national politics by joining the nationalist organization 'D...

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... as the term that needs to be defined, offering just the most basic and primary of details. Due to every person having different experiences with leaders in their own lives, a definition can only be drawn from personal diagnosis and justification. A definition such as this will be provided in ... To me a leader is a person of great power and authority. There is a certain charisma that is characterized by someone who is a leader. Leaders are dedicated to their goals and demonstrate this through commitment, hard work and self-sacrifice. A leader is not a person who has ideas and standards ...

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... communism to a contagious disease. If it took hold in one nation, U.S. policymakers expected contiguous nations to fall to communism, too, as if nations were dominoes lined up on end. The leaders of the U.S. feared that if we let communists have Korea, or Asia, they could gain momentum and take Europe. This "domino theory" played a big role in U.S. foreign policy. As the ... . This was the first military treaty between the United States and Europe since the American Revolution. This organization essentially banded nations together against communism to stop its spread. When the leaders of...

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... world war turned into a static war, particularly on the western front. That it was the innate conservatism of the military and naval leaders and their contempt of technology that led to the underestimation of the significance of the changes that technology was bringing that led to the ... firing artillery and machine guns.# The war was not immediately characterised by trench warfare and for the first few months was a classic war of movement. The Germans attacked through Belgium and France with France attacking eastwards into Alsace and Lorraine, almost like a 'Revolving door'.# The initi...

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... beauty named Inga Arvad, who worked as a columnist for the same paper as Kathleen. An exotic, well-traveled woman, Inga had connections to Nazi leaders, a circumstance which eventually got JFK in trouble with his superior officers. The young ensign was reassigned to a bureaucratic post in South Carolina, and ... loved Adlai Stevenson but mistrusted the less ideological JFK, and the southern wing, which was conservative and bitterly opposed to the ongoing Civil Rights Movement. In 1957, JFK was given membership on the powerful Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. There, he muted the str...

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A leader is someone who uses his or her intellect to guide others. Some leaders change the lives of people drastically and go down in history, whereas other leaders cause little change and fade into history and are forgotten forever. Adolf Hitler started out as an ordinary solider in ... then became the dictator of almost all of Europe starting in 1933. His power then continued to grow drastically making him one of the most memorable leaders in history. His usage of propaganda and the German Army assisted him in conquering numerous parts of Europe. Hitler used the ideas of fascism, propagand...

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... purchasing power, it would help get the economy going again. The elderly loved the plan and started circulating petitions and sending them to newspapers. Clubs sprang up. Townsend incorporated his movement as Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. A year and a half later, Townsend's supporters claimed there were 7,000 Townsend clubs in operation, and some 25 million Americans had signed petitions ... fairness, he was charged with an almost impossible task in unfamiliar terrain, under pressure from Churchill to give Stalin a second front. J. S. Cairo Conference, held in 1943, was a meeting of A...

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... out of the war casualties they made up 25 percent. Their rights were not very good and segregation was still riding high in America. Many black leaders spoke out against the war saying, "They weren't going to fight in a white man's war". They also saw the war as a thing to ... fight against. They weren't the only civil rights movement group to stand up against the war. Sections of the women's rights movements also dedicated themselves to the withdrawal of American troops in Vietnam. The war ... percent of all government spending by 1968 was on Vietnam. This denied funds to America oth...

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... when at Versailles the allies decided not to reward China, the people were outraged. Due to rejection of the reward, they developed a New Culture movement, which was pro democracy and education, but rejected Confucianism and "the old ways." Furthermore, they declined the democratic systems of Great Britain and ... France(1). Chinese Communist Party (CCP) A rebellion, called May 4th Movement took place, demanding a more Socialist system. At this stage, the Soviet regimes and their withdrawal from the war started to appear to the ... years after the Treaty of Versailles, in 1921, the Chin...

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... war, in a way that I find stupid and distressing; I no longer have any real contact with him" The fact that he does not wish to talk with his parent shows Paul's movement away from the past. (146). When Paul returns from leave he is soon caught in a shell hole during the attack. Here, he is forced to kill a Frenchman who jumps into ... the people who risk their lives to defend our country and the freedoms that many take for granted everyday. Without true leaders like we have our daily lives could have possibly been very different than they are today. Fortunately, we have leaders who are...

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... with Hitler in his home at Bertesgarden in the German Alps and again in Munich on September 29 and 30, 1938. The three leaders signed an agreement to allow Hitler to take over the Sudatenland. This agreement took place without Czechoslovakian representation. Hitler then marched into the ... growth of Germany's territory was looked at by Americans as Europe's problems. Groups such as the America First movement led by Charles Lindbergh promoted isolationism in foreign policy. President Roosevelt furiously tried to sway public opinion toward intervention, but the isolationist ... movemen...

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... information, creating key strategies and putting forth so much force in tactical battle the Allies won the war. In essence, if the United States was not involved in the Allied movement against Europe, the European Axis powers would have won the war. The European Axis powers, which consisted of Germany at this time, invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Poland was a weak ... would be decided in the Atlantic" and that "if Hitler cannot win there, he cannot win anywhere in the world at the end." President Roosevelt acknowledged Churchill and began another movement to aid Britain. Vessels kn...

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... Although there are many ways to interpret history and historical facts these authors are along the same lines when they write of Mussolini and the Fascist movement. It is obvious that no matter how objective a person tries to be when reporting something of a factual basis, they can never be totally ... obtained by a single party, because there were so many parties. Squabbling within the Government caused the Italian people to distrust and despise their own leaders. Day after day all they were fed was lies. Though in hindsight, the Fascist government was no better, they at least have a pr...

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... country about how loyalty to Adolph Hitler was the smartest way to go. They believed Hitler was sent by God to save them and preserve their race. But the German leaders demanded loyalty to Hitler long before the war began in 1939. In the year 1934, over one million Nazi party officials gathered in Germany to swear an oath to Adolph ... loyalty to a man who is their country, even though he never proves the point to be true. "Be ever a servant of the whole, within the movement as well, and never forget that only the whole movement, not a part of it, can guarantee victory and the conquest ...

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... first units of Marines went ashore at Danang, the first officially recognized U.S. troops had entered the fray. It is important to remember that the leaders at this time thought they were doing the right thing. After all they were stopping communism, preventing the dreaded "Domino Effect". The Vietnam War ... home front was being fought with rallies, sit-ins, and banquets. This continuing rise against government policies came to be known as the Vietnam antiwar movement. A large number of American men and women, mostly young, were opposed to the war for ethical and religious beliefs. The ...

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... . Some Chinese thought adapting these Western ideas to their lifestyle could benefit them but other Chinese citizens were bothered that the technology would introduce disappointing changes. The "Self-Strengthening Movement" occurred in the 1860's. They had used Western technology and ideas to create factories to produce weapons. The Chinese people were able to acquire railroads, shipyards, mining, and ... land that Germany had received, and began to refuse to buy Japanese goods. The Chinese protests that were occurring made a cultural ferment later known as the May Fourth Movement. This r...

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... all of its conquests from World War I. It was also required to reduce weapons, and pay the Associated Powers .3 Nationalism is defined by Hans Kohn, D.J., a writer for Microsoft Encarta, as movement in which the nation-state is regarded as paramount for the realization of social, economic, and cultural aspirations of a people.4 The Congress of Vienna left the Germans divided. The Congress ... its navy to be better than the Germans. The European nations not only armed themselves for purposes of "self-defense," but also, so they would be prepared for a war. Political leaders everywhere in...

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... 1929, Stalin was the absolute ruler of the USSR. He ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist for twenty-four years. Stalin was one of the most ruthless world leaders. Stalin hated people who were smarter than him. He systematically eliminated people and groups that did not agree with his views. In the mid-1930s Stalin launched a major campaign of ... defeated. Stalin turned the once-promising Russian "Socialist Paradise" into one more dictatorship. George Orwell and other supporters of the Russian Revolution were disillusioned. They wondered how this movement, which had promised to put ...

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... . Basically the intention of this plan was to show that the bomb could destroy an entire city. Many of the main people involved in the war including military and government leaders were very skeptical and against the dropping of the A-Bomb. One military leader, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief of Naval Operations said. " I didn't like ... unnecessary, he felt there were political implications in the decision and he did not feel it was the military's job to question it. Among some of the Air Force leaders, Major General Curtis E. LeMay said, "the atomic bomb had nothing to ...

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Latin America After world War II until the 1980's, many Latin American leaders installed reforms to deal with new demanding issues in their country. These new reforms were frequently viewed by the United States as alarming due to the recent rise of communism ... that Iran paid for the arms was redirected by the NSC and given to the Contras. The U.S. backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. The financial movement was undertaken by NSC staff member Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. These activities violated the Boland Amendment, a law passed by Congres...

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... 1911, he was imprisoned for his pacifist propaganda. Appointed editor of the official Socialist newspaper, he moved to Milan, where he established himself as the most forceful of all labor leaders of Italian socialism. Mussolini evidently hoped the war might lead to a collapse of society that would bring him to power. Called up for military service, Mussolini was wounded in training ... camp and returned to edit his paper. Fascism became an organized political movement through Mussolini's powerful writing and grasping articles, and because of this, Mussolini entered Parliament. Through ...

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... the United States might use it as a base to wage war against China to put the old government back in power. One of the Chinese leaders said, "If American troops crossed the 38th parallel, China would enter the Korean War (McGowen 7)." American officials ignored this warning. The North Korean army ... armies had crossed bridges over the Yalu River and now occupied the Mountainous regions of North Korea. General Peng Dehuai, one of China's most capable leaders of the civil war, commanded them; they called themselves "The Chinese People's Volunteers (McGowen 29)." The troops of American di...

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... . Basically the intention of this plan was to show that the bomb could destroy an entire city. Many of the main people involved in the war including military and government leaders were very skeptical and against the dropping of the A-Bomb. One military leader, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief of Naval Operations said. " I didn't like ... unnecessary, he felt there were political implications in the decision and he did not feel it was the military's job to question it. Among some of the Air Force leaders, Major General Curtis E. LeMay said, "the atomic bomb had nothing to ...

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... the United States might use it as a base to wage war against China to put the old government back in power. One of the Chinese leaders said, "If American troops crossed the 38th parallel, China would enter the Korean War (McGowen 7)." American officials ignored this warning. The North Korean army ... armies had crossed bridges over the Yalu River and now occupied the Mountainous regions of North Korea. General Peng Dehuai, one of China's most capable leaders of the civil war, commanded them; they called themselves "The Chinese People's Volunteers (McGowen 29)." The troops of American di...

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