... was crucial in enhancing the spread of their ethnic cultures. With time, a wider array of cultures within the American contexts were closely aligned with the Italian culture. As an example, club and saloon buildings in various American urban centres had traditional aspect of the Italian tradition such as marionettes and puppets. Overall, the cultural patterns established by Italian immigrants in their ... ...

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... had been established in the USSR under Stalin. Since the spring of 1956 the turmoil had began in these countries, especially in Poland and Hungary. In Budapest, in the literary club Petofi, the calls for a change of government had sounded. The requirements for change led to disorders in Poznan, accompanied with clashes with police in June 28, 1956. Khrushchev's speech undermined ... ...

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... to the West. And if Western powers needed Germany's help and wanted Germany to form part of the Western bloc, they had to make the FRG a full member of the club. This proposal led to the signature, in May 1952, of the Treaty setting up a European Defense Community (EDC) in which Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the Federal Republic ... ...

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... this time. Joseph McCarthy, an undistinguished politician, became a national icon and "leader of the crusade against domestic subversion."" He had intended to give a Lincoln Day Speech for the Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, in February of 1950, when in the midst of the speech he "lifted up a sheet of paper and claimed to hold in my hand' a list of ... ...

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