... experience defeat for the first time, it did not take long for the two parties in China to revert to their old ways. The celebration over the defeat of Japan was short-lived as the two parties plunged back into civil war (1). This time, however, Mao Tse-tung gained the upper hand by rallying the support of the people. Untimately, the Guomindang were defeated in 1949 and ... buildups on each respective side of the river (3). For months, the world watched as both countries sat on the brink of nuclear war. Moscow did not help matters by repeatedly hinting at the possibility of a preemptive...

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... presided over an enormous change in American and the presidency of the United States. The war only helped to increase the size and power of the presidential office. The presidency would never be the same nor would the world. cold war History has proven that at the end of 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 ... to intervene in foreign affairs. In 1974 President Truman introduced the Marshall Plan. This plan set aside about $400 million in foreign aid to countries and wi...

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... us a result of a positive sum, win-win situation. In the foreign relations field most of the situations are more likely to be accordant with the variable sum-game. The first example I will portray about the game theory is the "chicken game". The chicken game consists in which two contenders drive their vehicles, one in front of the other, in a one way road. The point of the game is that they both drive rapidly towards ... secure and defend his country from potential U.S attacks. Due to the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 in which the U.S failed, he was certain that a second attack would co...

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... is nothing that can be done to stop the radiation that is stuck in Chernobyl. Political tension was probably the chief cause to the failure of the fourth reactor; it definitely was a direct cause of the adverse effect on the people of Chernobyl and the surrounding areas each were affected in similarly destructive ways. One of the biggest downfalls of the government was not informing the surrounding countries properly. Rather than telling other ... released this statement, "An accident has taken place at the Chernobyl power station, and one of the reactors was damaged. Measures are being...

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... on Hiroshima on the 9th of August 1945. Hiroshima was the only other city on the list that provided the U.S. carrier with a clear opening between the clouds, for the bombardier to drop the bomb. This resulted with approximately 150,000 people killed outright, and 125,000 injured, and within the next 5 months. Another 60,000 people had died from their injuries, and radiation. Over the following 5 years, ... fight 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 com...

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... 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 Stalin. Launched in 1928, Stalin's first Five-year Plan sought ... industry." Stalin asserted that "the final victory of socialism in Russia requires that she overtake the advanced technology of the developed ...

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... two U.S destroyers where attacked by the Northern Vietnamese in 1964. Within the first year the number of troops went from sixteen thousand to twenty-three thousand. The U.S. ordered sustained bombing on Northern Vietnam, when that did not work Johnson sent in enough troops to take over from the Southern Vietnamese. They finally had to pull out of South Vietnam after one million Vietnamese as well as ... both lose" the U.S set out to make sure that both regimes crumbled in the midst of war (Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Chapter 3). The animosity the U.S felt for Iran after the hostage crisis ...

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... security was difficult for the USA government where the Americans viewed that Soviet Union was more interested to spread communism in the Eastern Europe. 4. Comment on the Target Audience of the Document Literature suggests there are various target audiences in this document like the British, the Greek, the Polish, the Yugoslavians, and the Czechoslovakians. For instance, according to The Churchill Centre UK (2015), this agreement gave Britain dominant power over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece ... to ensure the route between Britain and her oil. Nachmani (1990 ... ...

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... ; society was also looking at Castro as a God. The Cuban people created him to be one. They compared him to Jesus Christ himself, creating a cult like mentality. (Quirk 254-255) The government would not allow independent student government. Many more than a 1/3 of unreliable "professors" were removed, Castro destroying democracy, and autonomy. Even officers and commanders of the revolution were not spared prison and even death ... , he became a familiar figure for not just Cuba, but for millions around the world. The Cuban revolution acted as an example to other developing countries Durin...

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... 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 to blowing up thousands of people in an air attack and subsequent invasion. Besides ... , RFK's surprise that the Organization of American States supported the quarantine leads me to believe that he would have thought it next to impossible ... he thought Kennedy was a wimp. I'm glad that Kennedy made the decisions...

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... that seem to require extra-democratic means to preserve the integrity of the nation. This paper will discuss the legacy of the "old regime- and the Yeltsin regime's efforts to achieve "democracy- and "capitalism."" Legacy of the Communist Regime In the early twentieth century, the Russian people viewed Communism as a utopian ideal, with the elimination of classes and promise of guaranteed employment. ... . After World War II, miraculously national unity was strengthened, as well as the Soviet Army. The Soviet Union became a superpower, with the United States being the only country in cont...

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... Harrison Salisbury's analysis of the pre-Revolutionary period: "From the years 1903 up until the 1917 Revolution, there was the looming presence of economic and social turmoil in the land. It teetered back and forth, sometimes violently, sometimes slowly, but never far enough to the edge. In retrospect the revolts in 1905 looked as if they may have pushed the country over the edge, but they ... on the subject, "No single class in history has ever attained mastery unless it has produced political leaders... capable of organizing the movement and leading it... It is necessary to prepare m...

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... were aimed at creating a pan-Arab world and a master race. David Brooks of The Review describes Saddam's position that "Someday there will be a great historical culmination [presumably between the Arab world and the United States]. Some nation, some people, will establish permanent dominance over the earth. It will realize all values, bring to culmination all hopes, and ascend to ... permanent glory." He further attributes to Saddam that "The ideology of Baathism calls for relentless struggle, ever-widening conflict, ... until some ideal culmination of history is achieved. The Baathist...

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... to give Russia parts of Germany over giving them other territories that would allow Russia access to the Mediterranean. Truman believed that Communism succeeded when people faced poverty and hardship. In June 1947, the Marshall Plan was put into effect in order to stop the Russians from influencing any of the weakened western powers. During the time the United States sent massive economic aid ... already under Soviet control, and Americans would resist Soviet expansion everywhere else. Under the Truman Doctrine, the USA was prepared to send money, equipment and advise to any country wh...

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... and are against Russia which is also not a good news. U.S. and Britain are also joining hands with Ukraine to deter Russia. (Shipman) The tension between West, EU, NATO on one side and Russia on other side can cause unrest in the world and can also initiate Third World War which mainly destabilize peace conditions of Europe and Eastern Front. If any destabilization occurs ... in the global peace, the Russian annexation of Crimea would be the cause. Therefore this annexation can't be justified as it can harm the peace conditions of the world. Referendum of ... 16th March, 2014 in Crimea...

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... during Stalin's regime and Armenian nationalism was stifled until the early 1990s when the Soviet Union fell apart. Armenia declared its independence in 1991 when the Armenian Supreme Soviet declared to secede from the USSR. Since its independence, Armenia has been in conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Although independence was declared in 1991, the Armenian constitution was adopted in 1995 by a nationwide referendum that guarantees basic human rights ... currency called the dram. The dram is printed exclusively by the Central Bank of Armenia. The Central Bank of...

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... to set foot in the Vatican. In a historic meeting with Pope John Paul II, Gorbachev promised to open diplomatic relations with the Vatican and pledged that the government soon would pass a law guaranteeing freedom of religion for all believers. In his speech in Rome, he stressed: "We need spiritual values; we need a revolution of the mind. No one should interfere in matters of the individual's conscience ... . Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and others live in the Soviet Union; all of them ... have a right to satisfy their spiritual needs- this is the only way toward a new culture ...

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... leader, he was often forced to delegate responsibilities to his staff members because of the large number of budgets and programs he was responsible for overseeing in his office. Many criticized Reagan's passiveness and lack of curiosity. Pemberton describes Nancy Reagan as " one of the most influential first ladies in history"(p. 124). Nancy was regarded as tough, and was responsible for bearing any ... bad news to the president. She often believed that Ronald was "too trusting of people around him", and it was part of his character "not ... launch a massive counterattack" (p. 130). Re...

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... enhance capitalist expansion often are antagonistic towards democratic goals (Jowitt 7). The Process of Creating A Nation-State The question of who is the playing the game and what makes the playing field was an important one for Russia. Ethnic and nationalist questions plagued the Soviet Union. The dynamics of center-periphery relations provides Moscow with some of the greatest challenges in establishing a stable democracy. "There is no simply democratic way of ... -Yakutia both have a wealth of natural resources, giving them a potential advantage in economic development and a desire to...

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... day for others. August 6th was the day the United States government chose to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and in one flash the world was introduced to the new atomic age. The United States and the Soviet Union were in an arms race to produce nuclear weapons and finally President Truman made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, resulting in countless causalities and serious injuries. With ... and American Soldiers dying every day and it is unimaginable how many civilian causalities would have been involved also, resulting in one the biggest blood bath in American histor...

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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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... were within 100 meters of their position, they opened fire with machine guns and small arms fire, killing seven Soviets during the initial volley. The battle would last upwards of two hours and resulted in thirty-one Soviet troops killed in action (KIA), fourteen wounded in action (WIA) and an unknown number of Chinese casualties. This battle on Zhenbao Island, and subsequent larger scale border clashes ... have diminished, but the determination to resist the advance of communism is undermined. At a later stage the communist strategists are left with the option of terminating the split ...

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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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... 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 ... of 200,000 to marc...

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... refers to more than 1,534 islands that once were spread among its waters. The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called "one of the planet's worst environmental disasters" (Micklin, 2007) This research was extremely necessary because of the vast environmental changes it was causing. The consequences of the Aral Sea shrinking were becoming extreme and experts were needed to do research on ... the various ways in which irrigation affected the sea. The climate, humidity and rainfall was calculated and researched. The data was analyzed and compared to the facts from the 1960's, which was when...

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