... on other nations to take the initiative in resisting communism."" Ideas such as these would lead to American involvement in the Korean and Vietnam War, and mass hysteria over the spread of communism. By the early 1950s, Americans had become utterly terrified as a result of the Cold War. There were three main reasons why Americans had become so alarmed by this time. These reasons consisted ... , and McCarthy's fall was the start of the declining hysteria. The Cold War originated because of Soviet expansionism and American fear of communism. This unusual war drastically changed American fo...

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... now began a drive to maintain control at all costs. His inner circle was shaken up: Lavrenti Beria remained in power as head of the secret police, but Molotov began to fade into the background, and Georgi Malenkov, who had enjoyed Stalin's trust since the beginning of the war, was replaced by Andrei Hanoi, who led a renewed ideological offensive. Soldiers who had seen too much ... of the prosperous West were interned in camps to keep them from "infecting" the population with subversive ideas; there was a new purge of the military, in which even the great Zhukov was reduced a minor ... ...

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... and Mao, and shaped them into the mainstream military headache known also as "Guerilla Warfare". Since World War II, the guidelines of Guerilla Warfare have been used by hundreds of countries and thousands of small revolts. It was represented through out the entire Vietnam War, and it is currently being used by fundamental Iraqis to battle the American occupation in Iraq. Because the Soviet ... partisans effectively used guerilla warfare against the Germans, its popularity has grown significantly. From the origination of Partisan Warfare, to the reasons ... Germans at Stalingrad, and w...

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... recent actions, based on their ideas, drawn from Slavophilism and Westernism. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the world changed dramatically. The Cold War ended and the threat of communism ended in Europe. Such Eastern European countries as Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia) and others stopped being Soviet satellites. "East and West ... Andrei Chernenko and at last Mikhail Gorbachev. Under these Soviet leaders the situation of domestic suppression vacillated from loosening up to tightening again, but fortunately none of them manag...

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