... by external factors. In particular the Cold War (1945-1989) led to enormous spending on the arms race and the space race. This hastened the demise of the Soviet Union. A Command Economy The collapse of the USSR came from the poor performance of the country's economy. Unlike the western democratic nations with free markets, the Soviet Union operated an economy that was completely centralized. The State Planning Committee (GOSPLAN) ... and economic costs of alcoholism, attempted to reduce it. The Russian's also used humour to cope with the reality of a socialist existence. The following i...

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... and demonstration (Chu). China has a tight grip on the media of the country, forcing all published information be vetted through the state (Chu). Many assumed the government's ability to crack down on dissent would be destroyed by the increased prominence of a dynamic and nearly infinite internet space. However, China has adapted its censorship policies to the internet, and by many standards managed to stay ahead ... that God is always on the side of the people that believe in him, and that communism will fail and soon be forgotten. The finally movie viewed was the 2002 version of the Q...

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... countries, noncommunist political parties were suppressed, and genuinely democratic elections were never held. At the time of the Yalta Conference, both Roosevelt and Churchill had trusted Stalin and believed that he would keep his word. Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. Roosevelt and Churchill were further ... inclined to assent to the Yalta agreements because they assumed, mistakenly as it turned out, that Soviet assistance would be sorely needed to defeat ... other mistakes he had made. Roo...

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... deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons. The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example ... major mistrust and even hostility between the two states. Nevertheless, some would argue that the policies of the World War II have played the most significant role in ...

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... 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 ... . Well, assuming that they rattle each other they would get a medium sentence; if they both remain quiet they will gain the minimum sentence. But the nerve racking part is if one rattles and the othe...

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... also reflect on the spread of the seemingly all pervasive American culture with the Coca-Cola bottle as its figurehead. The evolution of the Coca-Cola bottle and the Coca-Cola brand is important to its cultural significance in the U.S.A. Perhaps the humble beginnings of the brand, leading to the status that it has held throughout much of the twentieth century, is the ultimate embodiment of the American dream. The beverage Coca ... a jolly, red and white clad Santa Claus who pauses for a Coke-break', holding the bottle high and near his lips. It is now viewed as a given in much of the wes...

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... the war. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers, the media once again covered and exploited it, creating patriotism and unity against anti-Americans before reversing its role. The media and the public viewpoint shifted once between these two attacks on America. The Vietnam War had very little support on the home front from the American public. What the press brought to the dinner table brought out the opposition to the war. "One of the ... key errors was the lack of a declaration of war which could have rallied the American public behind the military, and given the ...

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... prime minister Nikita Chruschtschow now could call JFK and the USA as aggressors and threaten with an intervention on Cuba. At the 2nd of september 1962 the SU announced in Moscow that they deliver weapons to Cuba. At the 4th of september Kennedy declared, that the USA would prevent violent actions of Cuba in the western world with all means. The SU countered warning that every aggression against Cuba would ... of advisors met to talk about the further going on. Hereby two possibilities came into nearer view.The destruction of the russian missile bases by an air attack was found out as ...

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... , so he agree to sign the treaty on February 11th, 1945 with USSR and Britain in Yalta. In return, the Soviet agreed to enter the war against Japan after the war in Europe ended. The Yalta Conference agreed to divide Germany into zones controlled by each of the three nations present. This treaty was the beginning of the cold war and a tension between Eastern and Western Europe. A famous speech by ... Winston Churchill in 1946 describes the situation as an "Iron Curtain", which separates the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the West. The West and United States had always been a great di...

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... , so he agree to sign the treaty on February 11th, 1945 with USSR and Britain in Yalta. In return, the Soviet agreed to enter the war against Japan after the war in Europe ended. The Yalta Conference agreed to divide Germany into zones controlled by each of the three nations present. This treaty was the beginning of the cold war and a tension between Eastern and Western Europe. A famous speech by ... Winston Churchill in 1946 describes the situation as an "Iron Curtain", which separates the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the West. The West and United States had always been a great di...

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... . He could do nothing about the reorganization of the Western zones, or the new currency, but he felt that he could stamp his authority on Berlin. It was deep in the Soviet zone and was linked to the Western zones of Germany by vital roads, railways and canals. In June 1948, Stalin blockaded all these supply lines, sealed off railroads and highways to the Western sector of Berlin, effectively cutting ... it off from the Western Allied sector of Germany., Stalin believed that this would ... force the Allies out of Berlin and make Berlin entirely dependant on the USSR. It was a clever pla...

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... was resisting, "armed minorities, or outside pressures", like the communists. However, Greece and Western Europe couldn't avoid the chaos of communism spreading. Many Western European countries were a mess of poverty and homeless, which led to the fear all around the world. Truman's Marshall Plan called for substantial financial assistance to rebuild Western Europe to reduce the threat of communist revolution. During the same year, June 24, 1948, Americans and British ... for America, and he found out that Hiss was a spy. Then, Chamber produced a microfilm of government documents which ...

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... problem they have undergone lately, such as civil war, poverty crime and this is all a result of the long term effects the cold war left on these two countries. Therefore again globalization has taken a negative effect on the nationhood of Ethiopia and Somalia as it has now given them a bad reputation throughout the world, due to how easy it is to influence and spread things such as ... making it even easier than it was then to spread influences and ideologies throughout the world. The increased spread of globalization has become more evident in the world as countries are becoming more ...

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... . France and Russia thought in short terms and did not participate in the rebuilding of the German economy. Also the political differences between the "Bizone (the merged zones of the USA and Britain) and the Russian and French zone were significant. The Soviets brought the Communist Party in control and the French did not allow the formation of parties at all in their zone. In contrast to that USA and Britain assisted ... connected to it. They wanted to prevent an American domination, which would have meant to lose the chance on the further expansion of the Soviet Union westwards.15 The...

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... declared that "totalitarian regimes imposed on free peoples, by direct or indirect aggression, undermine the foundations of international peace and hence the security of the United States."" This initiated the American policy of containment, which was reinforced by the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949; NATO provided for the collective security of the United States and Western Europe against any attack. American ... dealt more directly with individual threats to security. This approach did not limit itself only to an all out nuclear war in event of communist a...

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... cut all aid that would have been detrimental to the war-torn states economy. The American fear of losing Arab support and influence in the Cold War climate overpowered the Western alliance. Additionally, Eisenhower believed that the invasion illustrated Israel to be a product of western imperialism; a picture that would have inclined Arab states to further favour the Soviets. America was not the only one to condemn Britain on the international stage. The United ... Nations saw fit to deploy their first ever-armed peacekeepers to the canal in 1956 (The History of Peacekeeping ... ...

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... been, they have been largely over stated by the anti nuclear activists through the media. The record shows that over the past 30 years twenty-seven-hundred shipments have been made covering 1.6 million mile and no harmful release of radiation has occurred. (OCRWM, 2002) In addition, one of the men whose profession will likely be on the front lines in the event of an accident during transportation is John ... Eversole, chief of the Chicago Fire Department: he said "The international Associations of fire chiefs have taken the position that, yes you can safely move spent nuclear fuel and l...

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... offered to all European countries, but Stalin would not let the countries that his military was occupying participate. In April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed. The countries involved in this pact were the United States, Britain, France, Canada Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal. "On June 24, 1948 Stalin imposed around the western sector of Berlin He wanted the country's Western government to ... abandon its outpost in the Soviet-controlled eastern zone. Truman refused. However, he did not want to respond wi...

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... British troops fighting together. Such attacks, as those in Northern Africa, Italy and France were all conglomerated forces of British and Americans. In the end the victors concocted another alliance that the US did join: the United Nations. The Yalta Conference meeting in February of 1945 is when the "Big Three" (Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, English Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and American ... the conclusion of the war. After the fall of Germany and Japan in 1945, the United Nations has been the peacekeeping force that has policed the world ever since. The US and England both bei...

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... directly apposed to communism saying it was "based upon the will of the minority forcibly imposed on the majority. - it was promised that communism would be stopped and fought as an evil way of life. One of the first ways suggested to the congress by the USA President at the time Harry S. Truman was to support the democratic forces in the Greece and Turkey civil war. It was thought that ... demonstrated its desire to remove the Western powers from Berlin as the Soviet block was threatened by the defections of masses of people and also the new currency that the Western powers had introdu...

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... eye view". When he was out with a platoon of soldiers in patrol, he would stand fifth from the front, just behind the machine gunner. On his hip was a revolver; on his back, a typewriter and in his hand, a camera to capture the crude, startling truth of life on the front line (Hasham, 2011). He undertook army training in Sydney before he arrived in Vietnam in January 1966 at only ... of this his photos show his ability to report the truth to the people on the home front, and this truthfulness is one of the main reason why the people at home changed their minds about the war. (McPhedran, ...

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... ' were in no rush to help them contain Hitler and his new system of Nazism as no attempt was made by the Western governments of France and Britain to co-operate with Russia to stop it. On the 25th of August 1939 the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was initiated where the Soviet union and the Germans had agreed upon a non-aggression pact. It stated that both Germany and ... surrendered and reported the nations surrender on August 15 over the radio. He did this in light of the fact that he knew he would not win against another force known as the bomb. Yet, on the other hand this occasion could hav...

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... defined a historical China and established the mind set of the Chinese elite as they entered the modern setting. In fact, the groundwork of the modern army that was established in the latter half of the 19th century had a focus primarily on provincial armies dedicated to quelling peasant uprisings, rather than resisting imperialist aggressions by the militant western states. The military views would be one of the many facets of Chinese culture ... era as well as Japan's rearmament. In fact, to attempt to summarize the economics, I was forced to skip paragraph after paragraph looking for...

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... his country now; Cuba was the only Marxist nation in the Western Hemisphere (942, 956). Cubans were fleeing to the Miami coast as quickly as they could. Eisenhower knew he had to deal with the Communist threat. The CIA, in secret, trained a band of Cuban refugees for what we all know now as the Bay of Pigs invasion (956). Of course, the question that they, the opponents of this "Communist ... Movement" should've been asked at this point was, is it worth it? Since 1945, the United States and Western Europe had been fighting off Communism as if it were a plague. But is it really as bad as...

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... growing, government officials became highly corrupt and the populations living conditions didn't improve. When the arms race it didn't help matters any for Russia because they were spending 20- 25 percent of the nations income on the military, compared to us who was spending 5 percent (Browers). These all turned out to be huge factors in the fall of Russia. Cold War Open yet ... restricted rivalry and hostility that developed after World War II between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The U.S. and Britain, alarmed by the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe ... ...

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