... working partner due to its lower level of development , the GDR still chose to cooperate with them because they believed that their regime was in a far better position to bargain than the Vietnamese. The most urgent problem (and therefore the biggest motivation) the GDR had to solve at that time was the great labour deficit, which the government thought could only be solved by bringing foreign workers ... in a trade and return to their home country to build it up. For Vietnam at that time the GDR was seen as very ideal in its development.The government tried to get as close as possible to...

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... and would have been obliterated by the well equipped and extremely well trained German forces. Thus Stalin industrialising Russia years before "The Great Patriotic War", the Russians were better equipped with tanks, fighter planes and so forth to sustain a war against the Wehrmacht and in the end defeat them. In conclusion, at the end of World War 2 in 1945 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics captured ... Berlin and was victorious over Nazi Germany. "Yet the military victory over Germany could not ... and support structures that made it possible for their leaders to outfight and ou...

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... high level hostilities and removing emotional or ideological factors as much as possible. In the next paragraphs, I will explain the specific case in which I decided to exemplify the game theory. In the following paragraphs, I will explain the specific case in which I decided to exemplify the game theory. The international case I chose was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis is a very important historic crisis due to ... around Cuba, this was a blockade that consisted that the U.S navy had to block any missiles from arriving in Cuba because Kennedy wanted to prevent...

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... each war or revolution one problem is solved while another one is formed. The entire world was hurting in one-way or another from the war and the different ideas and policies of the U.S. and Russia did not help matters any. After the war the two great superpowers, U.S. and Russia, led the way help the world recover. The U.S. hoped to help establish democratic governments in foreign lands, while Russia wanted ... 1949 when Russia successfully exploded their first atomic bomb it was on. Both countries started to build up large amounts of weapons of mass destruction believing they were doing...

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... , but in what ways is China rising? Daniel M. Kliman compares China's economic rise to that of the United States in the early 1900's. China currently accounts for about 14.6 percent of world output, and its share of global commerce is at 14.3 percent which is higher than the United States' at the same stage of its rise (Kliman 2). He then compares China to Germany in ... ", so even if they have the means to be hegemon, they don't have the support they need from the rest of the world. Since the rise of China is inevitable and "U.S. dominance will eventually end" (Ikenberry 6), approaching ...

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... provoke a war with Britain and France. Some historians view it as a firm plan for war against Britain and France. Hitler's first move was rearmament. Germany was the only great power disarmed in the treaty. But Hitler went against the treaty and by 1935 the German army was 550,000 strong, he over-ruled the advice of his economic minister, Schacht, he had advised a slow build-up of ... on a wave of public feeling that led to expansion. Hitler cannot be held solely to blame for Germany's expansion in the late 1930's, as the feelings of the German nation must also be taken into account. Hi...

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... patterns, more than most other countries. Changes in the rates of immigration and the characteristics of immigrants are critical for understanding each of the major themes that guide the analysis of the population. So the multi-cultures that comprise the state of Israel finally had a chance to immigrate to Israel when in 1950 the Israeli parliament called the Knesset passed a law authorizing citizenship for anyone who settles in Israel. However, there were ... continuous conflicts on defining the criteria for citizenship and thus identifying the real Jew. There were ... ...

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... dictator. Political opponents fled into exile or were imprisoned" (942). And while Castro did help out with the anticolonial movements in Africa (particularly Angola), advanced public health and literacy issues, and generally improved life for the rural masses, it was his problems with the Cuban economy and his dictatorial regime that overshadowed all of his positive traits (942). Meanwhile, in America, ... English descent, it is a horrible form of groupthink, or conformity, especially heinous because of it's emphasis on devaluing the individual over the group. To a Republican, whose va...

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... the Great Purge of the party in the Soviet Union. Sergie Kirov, a member of the Politburo was mysteriously murdered by Nikolayev. This ignited the senseless arrest, deportation and execution of millions of citizens of the Soviet Union. Kirov was Russian who was very popular, a very well spoken and sociable person and a possible rival to Stalin's position. Nikolayev, the assassin was stopped by the police earlier in the ... for vague accusation such as links with Kirov's murder, political crimes and disloyal to the USSR. But still people thought of the Stalin as the great "Shining Sun of H...

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... accused of being soft on communism because he didn't send any troops in to tear down the wall. The Arms Race epitomized the Cold War. Both the United States and the Soviet Union spent huge amounts of money in militarization. The idea that the United States and the Soviet Union had the power to destroy each other in the event of an attack was known as mutually assured destruction ... of nuclear missiles being within striking distance of every one of its major cities. President Kennedy was faced with three possible options for the dilemma: a nuclear strike on the missile sites in Cuba, and...

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... of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin). In the years of the Cold War (1947-91) geopolitical anxieties led the world's great powers to maximize their economic strengths and military preparedness as quickly as possible. This outlook inspired such efforts as increasing agricultural modernization, road and railway-building, and the implementation of new nuclear weapons programs. However, there are ... the ineffectiveness of remaining in such a passive fashion. George Kennan, at the time the Ambassador to the Soviet Union, wrote what is called his "Long Telegram." Accord...

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... Cuba a military base, " the risk of retaliation from the United States would be too great to take the risk in this case- [p.6]. Although we held strategic and tactical superiority in the Caribbean, the Bay of Pigs was a disaster. Why would the Intelligence Community think it out of the question that the Soviets wouldn't use Cuba as a base? The culture of paranoia during the Cold War should have been ... Donnell, and Presidential Counsel Ted Sorensen wrote, "Neither side wanted war over Cuba, we agreed, but it was possible that either side could take a step that- for reasons of "security-...

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... quickly as possible. After two years of the NEP, Trotsky declared, the growth in industrial production was still lagging far behind the recovery in agriculture...so a change had to be made by lowering industrial goods" prices, through the planned modernization, concentration and expansion of industry. The Politburo members were also divided by their personal likes and dislikes. Zinoviev, the one who proposed Stalin for the post of ... to dictate without fear of consequences. In 1929 Trotsky was exiled from the USSR (he was assassinated by Stalin's secret police in 1940) while Stalin beca...

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... Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev enacted an aggressive diplomacy strategy formulated to reach a peaceful accord with Mao Zedong and the Chinese. The Russian's strategy involved provocative threats, which included intimidating Mao with nuclear force. They deliberately insinuated that they were discussing plans for a nuclear attack on the Chinese (focusing upon their nuclear arsenal) during numerous negotiations involving both nations' heads of state. China ... Chinese counterpart Mao Zedong both seemingly utilized Sun Tzu's tactics throughout the two state's tense relations. They both appear...

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... to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons" (Admiral William D.Leahy). Despite the oppositions, most Americans still saw the dropping of the bombs as a victorious act by Truman. The United States had started the developing the bombs in 1939, when Albert Einstein wrote a letter to F.D.Roosevelt, regarding the theory of special relativities, "It may become possible to set up a ... issued a public warning to Japan, to cease all hostilities. Though he did not hint on the possible use of atomic bombs, he did mention they would ris...

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... powerful government incarcerated cities not bases? Were these attacks on Japan in anyway good long-range decisions? Times do change, but the value of a human life should not.. Today our great nation takes pride defending it's people from harm, the same harm that the United States of America inflicted on Japan. Our Government had other options, and knew that we could use them. There ... they feared political criticism if they were to show any "softness" toward Japan and by letting the emperor decide to surrender this would happen. More so we are forced to look back to the Soviet Union fo...

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... station them as near as possible at the borders of enemy territory to their priority. The goal was to gain the capability (Fãhigkeit) of a nuclear premiere. For this, the USA stationed their nuclear weapons in Turkey and Germany. The Soviet Union which didn't own fewer nuclear weapons - because of the long lasting armament race got, concerning the geographical situation into compulsion ( ... day was the most critical in this time of the crisis. An US air reconnaissance plane, the U2, was discharged (abschießen) over Cuba. The senselessness of this soviet action was not understandable be...

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... and about 15 percent were without baths. Due to this lack of efficiency the Soviet Union never developed any substantial consumer industries or exports. Exports help countries develop economic stability and without them the Soviet economy struggled. By the 1980s there was no economic growth in the Soviet Economy. The black market flourished as a result of chronic shortages of domestic goods. This ... and technology. They were "fighting- for international prestige and for strategic or military advantage. The Russians appeared to be winning the race when they launched Sputnick, the first...

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... of many struggles between the United States and the Soviet Union. In short the true cause of the war can be specified in that 1) The creation of two Korean countries instead of the possible unification. 2) Failure of the U.S. to adequately provide the ROK army with weapons. 3) A few words missed by Dean Acheson in a speech and 4) Failure of the U.S. to warn North Korea adequately that any aggression on there part would be ... running high. What came next was the longest and bloodiest retreat in U.S. history. The 8th army started back to the 38th parallel while the X corps retreated back...

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... able to do this. They were the superpowers. The Western powers were alarmed by Stalin's takeover of Eastern Europe. They had agreed that Eastern Europe would be a Soviet "sphere of influence" and that Stalin would heavily influence this region. However, they had not expected such complete Communist domination. They felt it should have been possible to have governments in Eastern Europe ... that were both democratic and friendly to the USSR. Stalin saw his policy in Eastern Europe as making himself secure, but Truman could only see ... states going through a struggle for freedom against t...

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... and reinforced a political ideology of democracy (Staffort)." One of the campaigns that was presented by America was 'The Red Scare'. The motive images redefined national identity as a virtuous America who against a destructive social east (Staffort). Since then, more and more people realized that the USSR was not the absolute great power that they knew for years and hoped to disengage from it. Finally, struggle between ... the leaders triggered the collapse. On 4 April 1985, Yeltsin received a call from Gorbachev summoning him to take up position as Head of the Construction Depart...

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... and Romania respectively; Russia would have predominance in Bulgaria with 75%; and in Hungary and Yugoslavia the influence of the two great powers was balanced, each having 50% share equally. Stalin scrawled a big mark on the document with his customary blue pencil. Churchill was impressed, thinking that was a successful conference where ... possible in the Eastern Europe. However, to the nations of the West, particularly from the British and the Americans, Stalin's policy was recognised as substantiation of the expansionist characteristics of the communism, and Phillips et al. (2009) no...

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... which would not have been otherwise possible due to a lack of investment from the central government and poor natural endowment (Liu, 1992). Due to the intrinsic nature of the Soviet's centralised system, such development models did not emerge in Russia. The models played a significant role in the transition of the Chinese economy. The major factor that led to the success of the Chinese economy was the existence of a more interventionist state ... bang transition as many Chicago School economists had hoped nor did it bring any success. It turned the Russian economy into a mess before an...

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... as a country that needed help to recover from war destruction but as a source for reparations. Two years after the ending of the war the Soviet Union had a great army, certainly bigger than any other European army, and took over a few countries. Every country in Western Europe was afraid of a Soviet takeover.9 Not even the USA wanted to risk a war with them in 1948 and when it came ... blockade did not cut off West Berlin completely. The period of the Blockade was one of the most dangerous for Europe in the 20th century. A third world war would have been possible if the Soviets had reac...

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... European countries were greatly concerned. In response to Stalin's military movements, President Harry Truman issued the Truman Doctrine in 1947. President Truman asked that the United States aid any country that asked for help in resisting communism. This was known as the policy to keep communism from spreading to other countries. "Should we fail to aid Greece ... endanger the peace of the world -- and we shall surely endanger the welfare of our own nation. Great responsibilities have been placed upon us by the swift movement of events. I am confident that the Congress will face these ...

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