... , where these skilled workers could create new jobs and push the Vietnamese economy forward. An additional benefit was that most workers sent their income back home to their families and the government. Although in its historical context this issue has lost its currentness for the public since German reunification, in the context of the historical investigation of the GDR the subject still is important because to understand foreign things one ... has to question the conditions and backgrounds of historical themes and most important ... ...

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... that by being the formidably stronger opponent, the Americans confronted the strategy of the weak, or, in other words, made the Vietnamese more fervent underdogs. Because of this, there was no way the Americans could ever win the war without eventually committing genocide, thereby contradicting the purpose of their efforts to begin with. The efforts of the Vietnamese people against the United States demonstrated how misguided American perceptions were about the strength of ideological ... resolve and the social organization ... ...

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... was responsible for the start of the Cold War as despite the other factors contributing to the start of the Cold War, Soviet aggression still holds a degree of responsibility in the start of the Cold War through the actions taken which greatly heightened the tensions between the superpowers. Soviet aggression was responsible for the start of the Cold War as the actions taken by the Soviet Union were offensive, based off their own economic interests ... of communism could effectively be spread further in Europe and threaten the security and democratic ideology of the US. Hence, seeing ho...

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... officials of senior rank, has claimed itself as the authentic voice of the Soviet elite. The group has published a manifesto, which according to Martin Walker7, Gorbachev has read and implemented many of the reforms it proposes. However, the party-state elite, or the intelligentsia, were people of high rank, who have "betrayed" the Socialist system and shifted their beliefs and commitment from one socio-economic formation ... market, however despite its weaknesses the system managed to consolidate the power for more than a half century, and we may argue that the sudden "death" of the So...

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... and how that carried over to World War I, World War II and the Cold War. He points out that the American feeling at the time was that the problems that eventually lead to the World Wars were silly "jealousies" and at times "were not worthy of our attention." The United States underestimated the drive and power of Russia, Japan and other nations who were trying to expand their influence ... . Kennan continues to accurately dissect things when he says that Americans were and remain to be very narcissistic and felt they were above everyone else and how that ... helped fuel the situation wi...

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... Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Informal agreements comprise of a much less unofficial understanding between states on their security arrangements. These agreements may only rely on the word of the other states and may only involve the respective states conducting such operations as joint military exercises, the communication of security information or the assurance of military assistance whilst in a military predicament. A contemporary example of an informal Collective Defence ... Security. Realists also argue that Collective defence is state-centric based and are formed in the na...

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