... it would not only result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization." Einstein also commented that had he known then, that his discovery of the nuclear theories would lead to this, he would have become a locksmith instead (Lawton, pg 39). President Truman was silent for nearly 20 years regarding ... them a window of opportunity to use Japan's stubbornness and cruelty as an excuse to test the true abilities of the newly invented A-bombs. The nuclear bombs were the most important, and influential pr...

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... of Great Britain demonstrated their power by executing their King, Charles I. This showed the first major step to the deterioration of the Royal monarchy and to why Thomas Hobbes philosophized his philosophy, people are fearful and predatory, and submit their freedom to an absolute authority. The State of human nature is the characteristics or qualities that make human beings different from anything else. Hobbes believed ... Hobbes had three main philosophies that he studied throughout his life that revolved around this philosophy. The state of human nature, the state of human nature is...

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... of showing the public just how dark and horrifying the war was really like. The photojournalism throughout the Vietnam War was the main reason that people on the home front changed their opinion about the war. In a radio program, Goddard suggested that photography has the ability to influence people's emotion and opinion, especially war photography (Qerxin, 2010). War photography had the power to capture and reveal the actual situation of what the citizens in those ... war countries were going through, the fear, pain and suffering. The readers would be more engaged to the whole story if...

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... weapons are merely different instruments of power" (Betts, 62). While they are different instruments of power one without the support of the other is inert. The nature of humans attribute to the need for power and the ability of a powerful state to influence others. Thomas Hobbes indicates "the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition, secondly diffidence, third glory" (Betts, 48). Since mans ... true nature encompasses competition, diffidence, and glory it is only natural to assume without the presence of power on behalf of the state, outsiders would...

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... 's emergency shutdown (which should have halted a chain reaction) failed." The causes of this horrific nuclear explosion and the subsequent results to the explosion are said to be, politics, design errors, and human/crew errors during the reactors failure. The design and political causes go hand in hand and the political problems may have caused the design errors. The stemming effects from what happened at Chernobyl are, people being displaced from their ... . All of these requests were denied and met with silence, until the Government released this statement, "An accident has taken place...

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... in 1949: The Federal German Republic in the West and the German Democratic Republic in the East.6 In 1961, with the Berlin Wall, this separation became more visible than ever. It did not only make the two states visible but also the Cold War and the Iron Curtain, which separated Europe. This wall became the most symbolic statue for the Cold War. Nowhere else did the Cold War have a bigger impact on ... families and friends, who were ... suddenly separated, than in Berlin. Power and government seemed to act arbitrary in this city where two ... ...

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... liabilities than a military attack- [15]. JFK seemed even to hedge on the blockade. Regarding his directive to board vessels that might resist the blockade, JFK wrung his hands, "What would you do then, if we went through all of this effort and then find out that there's baby food on it?- [39].The humiliation of boarding a ship full of baby food would be miniscule compared ... that he thought Kennedy was a wimp. I'm glad that Kennedy made the decisions he did during the crisis. His delicate approach to the situation enabled me to be born in 1971. RFK's book is full of back-slapping and ...

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... As one paratrooper wrote, "The hearts and minds of all us soldiers...were consumed by Warsaw's tragedy...the privilege of fighting in the ranks of its defenders was our most heartfelt desire." The paratroopers were finally put into action for Operation Market Garden, an airborne assault intended to capture strategic bridges in Holland. The brigade was never involved in direct ... action in support of Poland  (PARA 192). Had it not been for the distraction of politicizing post-war Europe, the allied nations of France, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union might ... have been ...

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... soldiers were captured. His deference to the views of his Generals in 1942 allowed the development of the fighting retreat where Soviet soldiers withdrew to evade capture this submission "saved the Red army." The Stavka, Soviet High Command became the only place in Russia where one could have a heated debate with Stalin and not be purged. The relaxation of Stalin's grip over the army occasioned the tightening of Hitler's. Hitler suffered ... his "greatest loss of the war" in the summer of 1944 ... ...

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... politics as he shut down all anti-Bolshevik newspapers, and dissolved the freely elected Constituent Assembly with armed guards. His stance on democracy and opposition was obvious, along with the new concept of a one party state. In 1917 Lenin created the All-Russian Commission for Suppression of Counter-Revolution, or CHEKA (Russian acronym), to aid in the capture and execution of political opponents. In response to a letter in ... a newspaper by writer Maxim Gorky criticizing the Bolshevik actions, Lenin wrote: "As the State is only a transitional institution which we are obliged to u...

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... hours." Terrified of in-party opposition, Stalin empowered the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) to purge his government of any potential threats. By 1928, Stalin had eliminated his viable competition , yet he "proceeded to purge the party and terrorize the entire country with widespread arrests and executions." The Great Terror that lasted from 1934-39 had no rationale other than guaranteeing Stalin's complete dominance. He "placed ... the entire population of nearly two hundred million people wholly in the power of the police," who were in turn directly responsible to ...

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... most logical to attribute the ultimate effect to the shaking of the tree. So too, in the case of the Revolution is it important to find the immediate catalysts that tear the apples from the branch. Despite the conception of history that the Russian Revolution was caused by prevalent social and economic forces, it was truly effected by the state of anarchy in the Russian government and the ruthless opportunism and ideology of the Bolshevik Party enabling ... in history has ever attained mastery unless it has produced political leaders... capable of organizing the movement and leading it....

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... of Jews. Similar to Hitler's policy, Jews were removed from the government and were not allowed to marry any Italian person. Taking away their citizenship meant he rejected Individual Rights and Freedoms. Mussolini, just like Hitler and Stalin, was successful in achieving his goals. He was able to capture Abyssinia and bring the glorious times of Italy back. He eliminated chaos though ironically his ... Black Shirts brought the chaos. Mussolini was able to bring peace even at short a short amount ... of time to the Italians but again the lives of the people can never be brought back. Th...

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... nuclear arsenal) during numerous negotiations involving both nations' heads of state. China dismissed Moscow's aggressive posture and Mao was reluctant to respond to peace negotiations. According to Thomas Robinson, author of The Sino-Soviet Border Dispute: Background, Development, and the March 1969 Clashes, CIA Director Richard Helms told the Associated Press in late summer of 1969 that "Moscow had been approaching foreign governments to inquire ... about their reactions to a potential Soviet preemptive strike (p. 1187). Mao Zedong deemed this information as being credible and believe...

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... and workers from the Mensheviks' area, over to theirs, supplying Reds with an even bigger army. At the start of the Russian Civil War, the Red Army began investing into the formation of their army, and taking control of the citizens around them. The Bolsheviks had a stronger, well trained army, and they've claimed the cities- Moscow and Petrograd early on. These cities controlled the factories that produced goods and the railroad systems that went to and ... from resources. The "Red Guards," were ... ...

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... these efforts were to no avail as the Bolsheviks overthrew the government and established Communism . The West's attempt of stopping the revolution convinced Russia that the West was against their new regime. Russia's change of ideology to communism would prove to be one of the most provident causes of the Cold War because this led to a bigger severance between Western Europe and Russia. The West took it as an act of ... treachery which then convinced them that Russia was untrustworthy. Lenin had also established the Cheka, a secret force which brutally crushed out any opposition which ...

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... troops in reserve and there are 110 thousand active, and the headquarters are in Ashgabad. Turkmenistan's activity in WWI and WWII did not exist because Turkmenistan was not a county at the time. It was part of the soviet rule. Though Turkmenistan played no role the country that it was played one of the bigger roles in WWII and that lead to the fall of the USSR and the rise of the many countries ... that came from it. One part of the regional conflicts is the religious conflicts that come with it like the Shia Sunni clash. The other regional conflict is huge and could lead to the fall of...

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... history littered with civil wars, coups, and ever-present change. Starting at a point in early Russian history, princes throughout Russia, or Kievan Rus as it was called at the time, would consistently feud with one another over power. From about 1054, when the current ruler of Kievan Rus, Yaroslav passed away leaving the country in even bigger turmoil than before. This plunged Kievan Rus into ... almost 200 years of civil war, laying waste to most of Russia. There only lay a few periods of stability sprinkled throughout these 200 years. The civil wars in Russia ultimately led to their ...

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... missiles in Turkey and Greece. The United States and Russia each removed their missile positions near the other's borders. While trying to increase their spheres of influence, the United States and Russia inched closer to a nuclear confrontation, however, each were simply trying to be bigger and better than the other. The insecurity of both nations gave momentum to this competition. The Space Race was a competition in which the United States and the Soviet Union ... tried to display their superiority over the other through advancements in space technology and exploration. The Russians s...

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... Ronald Reagan that helped prepare him for his second career in politics. Reagan changed his political party affiliation in the 1950s because he "believed that the Democratic Party had been taken over by "tax-and-spend" liberals who had forgotten the warnings of Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson that government was a threat to liberty" (p. 48-9). Reagan turned toward conservatism, which offered a ... stable foundation with American ideas and values. Reagan preferred not to label himself, and believed in the need for both order and freedom for the American people. Some important Californ...

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... rebels that were financed and armed by the Soviet Union and the USA respectively. Throughout this era however, the phrase 'history repeats itself' comes to mind. Both the superpowers seemed to make recurring mistakes that, in one way or another, became interlinked and as a result have created serious consequences. The incessant need of both the Soviet Union and The United States to be the bigger better superpower of the Cold War has created ... serious repercussions such as defiance states, social movements, and backlashes; in the case of the United States, the Cold War foreign po...

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... revolutionaries, they would lead the party and make all the decisions. The Mensheviks believed that revolutionary should be run by a large group with worker class included, it would be run democratically. The Socialist Revolutionary Party was one of the first groups to rebel against the Tsar. They wanted all land of Russia to be given to the mirs, this would mean peasants would have a bigger share of land. To ... help achieve their goals they had a Fighting Organisation that organized terrorist campaigns, with these campaigns they killed three government ministers and dozens of governme...

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... one can answer that question. Initial interpretations of the foundation of the Cold War, known as Orthodoxy, became the norm for historians between the 1940's and the beginning the 1960's. During this period historians, such as Arthur Schlesinger, William H. McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern ... Europe and eventually the world. They pointed to evidence of the Soviets objective to support and s...

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... late. "What do the Chinese Communists want? They don't just want Quemoy and Matsu. They don't just want Formosa (Taiwan). They want the world" - Statement from Richard Nixon in 1960's Kennedy-Nixon President TV debates in Waugh,S., (2001), Essential Modern World History, Thomas Nelson: UK Yet if the US were to try and contain China, it would need the support of at least some ... South East Asian states. It is because of China's strive to be a hegemony in the world and because of the clashing of the capitalist vs. communist ideologies in their foreign policies, that caused hostility betw...

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... time before the countries of the East caught up economically with the countries of the West. So was the Cold War a turning point in the history of Europe? I think it was, and for more than one reason. The end of the Cold War saw the end of the antagonism between the Soviet Union and the USA, it saw the end of the division of Europe, the fall of the Iron Curtain, the end of ideological conflict and political ... , although Spain only got rid of dictatorship in 1975 when Franco died, but by the 1980's all Western European states were democratic. NATO, from the start, always was accepting n...

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