... they believed most Vietnamese were politically immature and lacking a sense of nationhood. As we can see from the beliefs of the American subcommittee, "the idea that indigenous political traditions or abilities might permit the Vietnamese to govern themselves in the postwar period was almost inconceivable," and this rested on "pervasive American assumptions of Vietnamese subservience and susceptibility to ... of [nationhood] was largely gone in the rural areas, much less of patriotism," (Mecklin 3). Nonetheless, Mecklin also observed "the Vietnamese peasant was intensely aware of ...

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... passed by the Congress in March 1948 in light of the Czechoslovakian Coup in February 1948. The Marshall Plan was to restore economic stability in Europe, and it elicited an immediate response from the Soviets, as seen from the action of sending a 100-men delegation headed by Molotov to participate in the discussion about the plan. However, the American insistence of economic coordination, which meant that the Soviets had to give up the control over their ... to Soviet reactions which greatly caused much unhappiness and mutual distrust between the superpowers. The US had been the one wh...

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... 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, to look at subjects ... from different perspectives . Conclusion The significance of the study on the backgrounds of the cooperation between the former GDR and Vietnam lies ...

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... greater even than that of many people of Western Europe who stand closer to, and a position far more vulnerable to, those things that are the main source of our concern. Now, much of that change may be, and doubtless is, subjective today we exaggerate our dangers and have ... to me dangerous and problematical in the extreme." I believe Kennan accurately points out the shortcomings in American attitudes towards Asia 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 ...

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... power, comes great responsibility." 4 As noted, the present economic, social and political system of the USSR is a product of development over a sixty-year span. The basic problems of the existing Soviet system have led to the present crisis, and have made a new reform-oriented policy crucially necessary, lie in the economic sphere. The Soviet system should be reformed if developments are leading to ... 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 syst...

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... as Alliances, have been the traditional form of security within regions over the last two centuries. The Oxford Dictionary defines "Collective Security" as a "policy or principle of the alliance of several countries to guarantee the security of each one" and "Defence" as "defending from or resistance against attack" . From these definitions we can safely state that Collective Defence in its literally meaning is the principle of several countries guaranteeing ... the security of each other, against ... ...

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