... uprisings resulting in two people dead, hundreds of people injured and countless other people detained, when the Kennedy administration summoned 31,000 National Guardsmen and supplementary federal forces to impose command. As the most treacherous incident in the history of the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis has inescapably enticed the observation of numerous diplomatic historians. With the dual superpowers wavering on the edge of nuclear war, the dispute of how to eliminate Russian arsenals ... president to support civil rights, took office in January 1961; and the Brown ruling was ...

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... agreed in principle that the hearth of the Polish state and people must be situated between the so-called Curzon Line (a demarcation line that pushed the eastern boundary westward) and the line of the Oder River, including Eastern Prussia and the Oppeln Province as part of Poland. (22) Stalin moved the frontier of the USSR westwards and handed over to Poland a large area of the Soviet zone of Germany, including land to which the Allies had not agreed ... WWII - human and material losses were enormous (20 million dead). Many of the agreements led to post-war differences. In Germany the d...

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... times. The government contained him only once; his last exile in 1913 lasted until 1917. After his first escape from Sibiria in 1904, Stalin returned to Georgia. There he married his first wife, Yekaterina Svanidze. She died in 1907, just after she gave birth to Stalin's first son: Yakov. Stalin later said: "This creature softened my stony heart. She is dead and ... with her have died my last warm feelings for all human beings." In December 1905 Stalin and Lenin met for the first time, at a Bolshevik conference in Finland. Stalin was highly unimpressed by Lenin at their first meeting. H...

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... times. The government contained him only once; his last exile in 1913 lasted until 1917. After his first escape from Sibiria in 1904, Stalin returned to Georgia. There he married his first wife, Yekaterina Svanidze. She died in 1907, just after she gave birth to Stalin's first son: Yakov. Stalin later said: "This creature softened my stony heart. She is dead and ... with her have died my last warm feelings for all human beings." In December 1905 Stalin and Lenin met for the first time, at a Bolshevik conference in Finland. Stalin was highly unimpressed by Lenin at their first meeting. H...

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