... civilian Atomic Energy Commission, and placed authority to use the bomb exclusively with the president. He persuaded Congress to combine the armed forces under a civilian secretary of defense. And also ordered the armed forces of the United States to unite after Congress refused to do so. This decision ended most of the discrimination in the U.S. Army, and gave black men an ... of Berlin, which was surrounded by Soviet-controlled East Germany, but the western part of which was under Allied control. Truman ordered the Berlin Airlift, bringing essential products into the city until the bl...

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... summer 1945 the USA dropped two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The nuclear weapon raised the confidence of USA but president Truman did not ordered its mass production because at that time he saw no explicit political function for the bomb. USA even tried to internationalize control of the ... the Soviets detonated its own bomb in September 1949, the Truman administration abandoned its policy of natural deterrence and ordered the development of more powerful hydrogen thermonuclear bomb. Since Soviet nuclear bombs deterred US deterrence, Truman sought a way to restore deterrence. He ....

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... the resolution when no Soviet veto showed up because the Soviet delegate had walked out days before in protest for U.N. refusal to recognized the People's Republic of China. Macarthur was ordered to take charge of all U.N. forces in Korea and President Rhee put all ROK units under his command. These first U.S. units to show up in Korea however were far from ... 8th army linked up with the X Corps and the first major decision came. Should the U.N. cross the 38th parallel. ROK units already started crossing north and soon the U.N. forces were ordered north also. Unknown to the U.N. howeve...

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... camp. The enemy was fought off and in early November 3rd Brigade replaced the 1stBrigade. After three days of no contact during patrols, Hal Moore's 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry was ordered to make an assault in the Ia Drang Valley. His mission: "Find and kill the enemy" (www.lzxray.com 2002). The assault began at 0830 hours with helicopter reconnaissance and ... fire and air support really didn't make any impact on the NVA as they kept coming (www.nvo.org/vv98/other/010031.htm, 2001.). The evening came and A-B Companies were ordered to pull back to the LZ. C-D Companies were still fighti...

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... time. The armament of the Afghan rebels with AK-47 automatic rifles and the Stinger missiles used by them was very convincing (pg. 125, High-Tech Warfare). The realistic weapon combinations that were actually used by the rebels made the author's story many times more believable. Tom Clancy often used specific references to historical facts, characters' personality and references to real ... ...

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... honor, Nixon had been gradually withdrawing US troops from South Vietnam, at the same time increasing transportation and weapon supplies so that South Vietnam could continue the war. He also ordered a series of violent attacks; the most important attack was the invasion of Cambodia in 1970, in an attempt to cut off supply routes from North to South Vietnam through Cambodia ... universities and fanned the flames of anti-war among students. Protests continued after the Kent State Massacre. Some schools were closed until fall that year. New York major John Lindsey ordered flags at New York...

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... booby traps, while the weather killed our men with exhaustion. There are several incidents that I couldn't get out of my mind after I read them. The first was when Caputo was ordered to leave dead bodies in the middle of the road so everyone could get used to seeing them. " So the corpses were left lying in the sun. As the colonel ... had ordered, the headquarters troops marched past the trailer to look at the dead Viet Cong the sun burned down, and the bodies began to smell in the heat," (173-174). This ... ...

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... -in-law to remind the Russians the US was friendly and had not interfered with Hungary in 1956, this was an attempt to side with Russia. On February 3 1962 Kennedy ordered a complete ban on all trade with Cuba and State Department officials urged NATO to stop trade as well. In reply, Castro issued theSecond Declaration of Havana? the next day, which ... ships were in cooperance with the US. The next day the first of the Soviet ships approached just short of the quarantine line and stopped dead. If Khrushchev had not ordered the ships to obey the quarantine then the result would have been...

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... of their offensive weapons from Cuba. During the public phase of the Crisis, tensions began to build on both sides. Kennedy eventually ordered low-level reconnaissance missions once every two hours. On Wednesday, October 24th, the same day that Kennedy ordered the quarantine to begin, military alert was raised to DEFCON 2, the highest level ever in U.S. history. Then on the 26th EX ... ...

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... ."(2) When America joined the war under command of General MacArthur, they made a great push north. When they were close to the Yalu River they were ordered to stop and turn around. "United States forces were ordered to turn around when they were in visual distance of the Yalu River." (3) When China learned of the position of the Americans they joined the war ... ...

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... perish, and World War III would become virtually inevitable. Truman would have to move rapidly, too a resolute stand. He ordered the navy to neutralize Formosa by preventing attacks from Formosa on China or from Communist China on Formosa. Finally, Macarthur was ordered. Macarthur was one of the most important general in the war during the period of the time. When Communist North ... ...

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... administration reported that 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 ... ...

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... stern warnings to Cuba and the Soviet Union" (The Cuban Missile Crisis). The President pronounced a scheme that was a blend of the two advised plans. "On October 22, he ordered a naval "quarantine" of Cuba. The use of "quarantine" legally distinguished this action from a blockade, which assumed a state of war existed; the use of "quarantine" ... ...

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... history. Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage (millercenter.org). An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed (whitehouse.gov). It was possibly Truman's most controversial decision during his tenure ... ...

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... was a precursor to World War I; the two countries were competing with one another to see who could build the greatest warships. In an attempt to gain military superiority, Adolf Hitler ordered the development of surface-to-surface missiles among other things. With such a large number of weapons there is a higher chance that the given country would become involved in conflict because ... ...

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... of his power it only weakened it. De-stalinization opened the doors for more opposition. "His assault on ministries quickly backfired. They proved redoubtable opponents, they could no longer be ordered to do something they disagreed with" (McCauley 219). His main opponents were given the title of the "Anti-party" group. The three men associated with this group were Malenkov, Molotov ... ...

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... in great detail about all of the acts of violence and rampage that the veterans committed towards "Oriental Individuals." Kerry spoke of the uncertainties of fighting in Vietnam. "Men were ordered to charge up hills, because the U.S. could not "lose the war,"" (p.894). He complains that the soldiers in Vietnam were not certain as to what their goal was in Vietnam ... ...

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... to the bombing. They weighed a comparitive small amount of American military casualties to justify aproximatly 400 000 innocent Japanese deaths. By examing the following quote from Carl Spaatz, the man ordered to drop the first atomic bomb, it is clear that Japan was already defeated and their primary concern was surrendering terms rather than innocent woman and children's lives at steak ... ...

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... about the justification of using the bomb. The war would have gone forever, killing might be many times the number of people killed and injured in Japan had he not ordered for dropping the bomb....

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... an anti-missile space system in order to out-perform the Americans. Following Khrushchev's decision on the Berlin Wall, he received much criticism from the Russian people. In response, he ordered new nuclear tests that eventually led to the creation of the Hydrogen bomb. This advancement caused the Americans to soon follow with their own Hydrogen bomb as the arms race ... ...

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... Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia's chief of state, agreed on the bombings. When South Vietnam invaded Laos in February of 1971, the US gave air, artillery, and support.. Then in 1972, Nixon ordered the Navy to mine the Haiphong harbor and he increased the bombing of Hanoi to choke off lines of supplies for the Communist forces in the South. He took these ... ...

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... many of Dransfield's rebellious subjects. One such subject close to his heart was the Vietnam War. Prior to Vietnam wars were becoming less glamorized and so the conservative Liberal government ordered in compulsory conscription. The main reason for this although not official is that the liberal government feared the domino effect theory would become a reality if the war wasn't ended quick ... ...

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... . The U.N. had its hands tied, because there were 'free' elections (the candidates were all communist) and there was no proof of Russian involvement. While it cannot be proved that Stalin ordered the coup, the signals were clear: Stalin had likely encouraged the coup, and it was not coincidental that Russian troops in Austria were moved up to the Czech border. Czechoslovakia ... ...

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... of the artillery to provide rapid and devastating fire support at critical times often won the victory or loss in operation (Cameron 78). In early 1965 US air strikes were ordered against Vietnam, by late 1965 air strikes became part of everyday activities. Although the air strikes were lethal United States was still not permitted to strike some targets in fear ... ...

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... began collaboration to clarify systematically the theoretical principles of communism and to organize an international working-class movement dedicated to those principles. This man was Fredrich Englels. Marx was later ordered to leave Paris because of revolutionary activities and settled in Brussels. This collaboration leads to the writing on the Communist Manifesto (Rader, M. 134). This writing leads too many Marxist revolutions ... ...

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