... more than 10 times higher than the costs in 1938. The geographical position of the United States played an important role in the prosperity of America in the war years, in the new conditions created certain difficulties overcoming of which is associated with the implementation of the program of construction of military bases in other countries: in the Atlantic Ocean was supposed to build ... necessarily coincide with the indicated phase of the war in general. A systematic approach to the restructuring of the events is the scientific evidence-base to produce systemic findings of the Cold ...

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... overshadowed by the crucial Sino-Soviet-US triangle. Indeed the others owed much of their dynamic to the course of events in this main triangle." Through the 1960s, there were 4 main triangles in the Asian political arena: Soviet Union-China-North Vietnam, Soviet Union-Japan-US, Sino-Soviet-Indian- and Soviet Union-China-North Korea. In the 1970s, however this changed not only because ... more triangles were added, but because they included a new kind of triangle, the Sino-Soviet ... the other." Korea Another major strategic change involves the economic rise of South Korea and isolatio...

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... new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and ... Afghanistan wars. Nevertheless, although the vast majority of the historical facts are now known and have been studied carefully, it is still hard to decide what should be considered...

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... China in the late 1940s. In part, it was a reassertion of Russian nationalism that went back to the Tsars. But most importantly, the Cold War that emerged as the Soviets moved to expand their sphere of influence at the expense of the West was a reflection of what may have been the most important aspect of Stalin's peculiar personality: his unlimited will to power. He had ... February 1948 Stalinist forces seized power in Czechoslovakia. At the same time, Moscow supported Communist forces in the Greek Civil War, pressed Turkey to give up control of the Bosphorus, backed Communist parties ...

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... . The Slavophils, influenced by the German romantics, opposed westernization and idealized Russia's distinctiveness."[3] One of the brightest events of the dissident movement of the 19th century was the Decembrist revolt in December of 1825, when a group of Russian army men tried, without success, to abolish Tsarist rule by refusing the oath of allegiance to a new Tsar, Nicholas I, and forcing him to abdicate. "The Decembrist conspirators ... the Russian army."[4] That revolt can be seen as he first sign of the major revolution to follow and that is why it is important despite its failure...

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