Political Party (two-party; one-party; multi-party): A group that shares the same core values regarding social and economic topics, which affect the constituents of the country. A two-party system has two groups with opposing views who run against each other for power, while a one-party system has complete control of policy, and a multi-party system is a country with 3 or more major political parties Private Enterprise: Business or industry not managed by the government or public as a whole, but by individuals and independent companies. ... Political change can be the cause of social change a...

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It is currently a communist state under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Un. The political system is originally modeled after the communist Soviet Union. ... According to cia.com, the communist Vietnamese government is also usually described as authoritarian. Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the only legal political party in the country. Decisions and laws are made solely by the Party, with the general public having absolutely no power in the decision-making process. ...

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Though President Eisenhower lobbied for equal rights for women and ethnic groups from 1953 to 1961, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy gained power and influence in the government by conducting investigations against suspected communists in the federal government which reclaimed the Republican Party for the conservatives (56-71). ... In sum, the Republican Party did not publicize themselves enough as being supportive of civil rights, nor were they as aggressive as the Democratic Party which contributed to the party's racial stigma (354-9). ... This caused minorities to distrust the Republ...

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Italy's political parties and leaders are put in three major groups: the Olive Tree, the House of Freedom, and those who are in neither. Olive Tree consists of the Democrats of the Left, the Greens, and the Italian Popular Party. ... The two most popular parties that aren't with the Olive Tree or the House of Freedom movement are the Northern League, and the Communist Refoundation. ...

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Mainstream media has demonized communism and socialism in recent history because of conflicts with nations who belong to those parties, is this justified? ... This could be for a number of reasons, the most likely being that most of the countries we've had conflicts with recently are communist nations. ... We do not have issues with them purely because they are communists, there have always been underlying conflicts. ... The U.S. government offers checks and balances to avoid these kinds of leaders, while previous communist governments have not. ... Many more countries could start seeing ...

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The letter is a warning that there " is a possibility of a civil war developing between the communist and nationalist factions in Korea (Lee 2001:6). ... "Worse still, in Hodge's eyes was the presence of Communists in some of the KPR's key positions" (Cumings 1983:107). ... It also was a period of political organization; Korean leftists emerged from the underground and began to rebuild their communist parties. ... "While internecine squabbling and conflict both with southern rightists and the American military government preoccupied communists in the South and the politics of the ...

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Most European countries accepted the aid, with the exception of communistic powers such as the Soviet Union, and certain Communist parties in Italy, France and Czechoslovakia all who declined American influence in any of their economy and due to this the Marshall plan created a containment effect in which now communist countries received no benefit, and their economies haltered as a result. On the other side, the assistance went to countries first like Greece and Turkey who were receiving fierce opposition from communist influences and generally had to be protected by countries like Britain i...

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What caused men like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to defy tradition and public perceptions against factions and build an opposition party? ... These issues as well as neutrality issues between France, England, and the United States were the catalyst for the forming of the Republican Party. ... The XYZ affair played right into the hands of the Federalist Party. ... Then a gem of a caveat was thrown into the Federalist hands when Monsieur Y boasted that "the Diplomatic skill of France and the means she possess in your country, are sufficient to enable her, with the French party in America,...

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After fighting to a stalemate along the original border of the 38th parallel, the American public grew weary of the war, resulting in the defeat of the Democratic Party in the election of 1952. ... Few people were willing to challenge or defy societal norms, weary of being branded "un-American", and therefore, a communist. ... "McCarthyism", as it was called, forced many government officials and Hollywood celebrities to go before McCarthy and the rest of the committee, in order to deny their involvement with the Communist Party. ... Though McCarthy himself was revealed to be a fraud and bul...

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For example, before Mao Tse-tung led his Peoples" Liberation Army to victory in China, his forces had been provided with military and technical support through Communist International (Comintern). This was a Soviet based organization which basically supported the action of Marxist parties. ... The countries allied with the United States were all democratic nations while those in the east were communist. ... It prevented the communist ideas of the east from coming into the democratic west. ...

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Like other Grand Old Party members, Reagan came into office promising to limit the power of government and to strengthen American military power overseas. ... (Grimm, 2013) Through his speeches he repeated his anti-Communist policy that Soviets and Communism, as a whole, would fail. ... The Soviet Union no longer standing the type of threat it once did Reagan and his anti-communist attitude and mentality still did not let up. ... Reagan was not a fan of communism, he was an anti-communist. He did not accept it, an always had his eyes on communist. ...

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Although Cuba was undergoing the process for revolutionary change the way that Cuba was heading was all held liable by Cuba's own hero, Fidel Castro who was responsible for the elimination of Sergeant Batista in 1959 to end the revolution, but Fidel Castro was taking an unexpected communist turn for his country. Fidel Castro continued slowly but surely to turn Cuba into the first communist state in its side of the world. ... Fidel Castro made Cuba a model country throughout Latin America, but artificially of course by establishing leftist parties exiling all students and intellectuals fr...

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To combat the threat of communism, Australia joined two anti-communist alliances. ... This was shown to be happening when at first China and the North Korea and then Vietnam became communist. ... Examples of this was the Korean War in 1950 during which the communist forces which occupied North Korea, which was run by communist Russia, crossed the border and invaded South Korea, which was run by the USA. Forces from Australia immediately moved into the country to help stop the communists. ... Since the end of the White Australia Policy, the only hiccups have been the One Nation party, led by Pa...

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Chaplain, who had been loosely watched by the FBI since the 1920s, came under increased scrutiny during this time due to the political nature of films such as The Great Dictator (1940).2 Chaplin was never officially accused of being a communist but the legal troubles and controversy he had endured during the 1940s as well as his connections with known Marxists meant that the ire of both the commission and the public had already been raised. ... One of the first big scenes in the film sees him at a dinner party, which is being filmed and broadcast on television without his knowledge. ... Ruper...

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With the rise of The Communist Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union developed awkward relations with the United States. ... America began a widespread hate to all Communists. Those who were believed to a "Communistic" were denied entry to Am! ... Khrushchev declined the offer, but did firmly agree that in any case a nuclear war would be a disaster for both parties and that the reward would be unprofitable. ... Then to America's dismay Cuba began to trade with other Communist countries like China and the Soviet Union. ...

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Americans were so fearful of a communist foothold in Latin America that a statement with echoes of the Monroe Doctrine was made asserting that any spread of communism in the Americas was a direct threat to the sovereignty and independence of the American people, endangering peace. ... Given the situation of the Cold War it could be inferred that the communist opposition in Moscow would attribute the same logic to the situation. ... Because of the propaganda created by men like Joseph McCarthy in Washington, Americans fear that even their close friends and neighbors could be secret communist pa...

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The collapse of socialism in Europe and dissolution of Soviet Union removed the threat from communist states. ... The parties will consult together whenever, in opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened. Article 5: The parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all; and consequently they agree that if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self - defiance recognized by ...

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According to democratic theory, elections, political parties, and representative legislatures are means of implementing popular sovereignty. ... Democracy also includes freedom of speech, press, and assembly; freedom to form opposition political parties and to run for office; commitment to individual dignity and to equal opportunities for people to develop their full potential. Some communist countries tend to call themselves democratic, and the mere fact that a government is elected by a majority of the popular vote does not of itself guarantee a democracy. ...

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In the news, the people of Hong Kong haven't been treated well by their so called democracy. According to Boston Globe, The people demand for more democracy, including the right to choose Hong Kong's political leaders without interference from Beijing. The Chinese government, for its part, wants to ...

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In the book "Labor Control and the Postwar Growth Model in Latin America," Ian Roxborough argues that the economic model known as import substitution industrialization (ISI) was employed amongst the Latin American countries after World War II as a compromise to meet the ever growing social and polit...

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The spy was Klaus Fucks, a German-born scientist who was a supporter of the communist party. In his confession in 1950, Fuchs explained the reasons behind his treasonous actions, explaining that he was convinced that the "Communists were the only political organization able to fight the increasing influence of the Nazis" (PBS). ...

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S. anti-communist fervor as a backdrop, seemingly shared by both Republicans and Democrats framing an increasing distrust between the Russians and the Chinese, Kissinger saw an emerging third Superpower in a competitive communist China as an American advantage which needed to be exploited. ... Moreover, the opening of relations with the Chinese would put the United States in a uniquely advantageous position to play two antagonistic and disparate communist nations, one against the other. ... Balancing military power along with a willingness to use that power, challenging communist aggression wh...

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But if an American nowadays had that much he is a communist" (In Foner ["Letter to Secretary" 159]). ... Some, like Herbert Hoover may say that nobody deserves help from the government; whether one believes that or not, with such large numbers of the American population seeing troubling financial times, communist revolution could have broken out if the government did not help it's citizens. ... Hoover gave the Republican party a bad reputation, whereas FDR gave citizens of America the rights they deserve. ...

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The United States has always prided itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy". However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all to...

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The same could be said for the communist party because again they only appeal to one type of social class who see there goal as the overthrow of the another class. ... In his first year, Allende's Popular Unity Party was to nationalise the US owned Gran Mineria del Cobre (copper mines). ...

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