... 1941 set the stage for a bloody repression in Serbia. As early as June 22, 1941, the chief of the military administrative staff ordered the arrest of all leading communists and veterans of the Spanish Civil War. In addition, Belgrade's Jewish community was required to supply 40 ... on the grounds that the police and the SD were more urgently needed for those tasks in the East; therefore, the Wehrmacht was ordered to take up the struggle against the partisans in their place. Each Wehrmacht unit formed a thirty to forty men mobile strike unit, which ... usual three, regiments. Each divis...

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... 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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... ally to trade arms and other military supplies with her. While escorting loaded British ships across the Atlantic, the two fleet came under surprise attack from the German. Hitler had ordered sinking of any cargo ship the Germans met at sea. This prompted the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, and President Roosevelt to hold a secret meeting. Their meeting gave rise to ... free trade among nations. This, however, was not enough to cool down the German. On the September 4th, 1941, the German forces fired on an American ship. In response, Roosevelt ordered the Navy to shoot back a...

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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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... mover in the field of foreign policy, and that he was responsible for all the critical decisions "It was he who decided on the alliance with the Soviets and who ordered the attacks upon Poland and France. He did so often in the teeth of opposition from his diplomats and generals and his successes increased his authority over them. His role ... . According to the Versailles Treaty, Germany was forbidden to maintain or construct any fortification or to conduct military maneuvers of any kind in the Rhineland. On March 7th 1936, Hitler ordered German forces to reoccupy the Rhineland, an oper...

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... Caucasus - their capture would deprive the Russians of their fuel supply. An army was to advance down the Volga to Astrakhan and ultimately Baku. Simultaneously the German Sixth Army was ordered to take Stalingrad - 'smash the enemy forces concentrated there, occupy the town and block land communications between the Don and the Volga'. Stalingrad was a long urban strip strung out along ... every Soviet soldier - 'Not a step backwards!' Hence the clash of the titans. By July 1942 the oil fields seemed to be at Hitler's mercy. Then he changed his mind and ordered part of the forces that w...

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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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... allowed to own land, it had all to be collectivized. There was also no room for competition since the government controlled everything and everyone had to follow what the government ordered to meet the planned production increase, which is 20% per year. There was also forced labor camps, and everyone had to work to achieve industrialization. The Rule of Law was ... just like Hitler, wanted complete control over the nation-state that led to the Great Purge of 1936-38. Stalin felt that he needed to secure his leadership so he ordered to execute those who tried to oppose him. He also made ...

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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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... officers who had served in Fulgencio Batista's army. These officers were said to be 'thugs? who had been part of the former dictator's brutal government (Goode, Stephen 79). President Kennedy ordered that there be none of Batista's men in the Liberation Army, which was the army making the invasion, but these orders seemed to be ignored. About 200 of the exiles ... air force, and he constantly patrolled possible invasion sites he heard were going to be targeted, including the Bay of Pigs. The morning before the invasion, April 15, 1961, he ordered a nationwide alert (Goode, Stephen 80). ...

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... men the entire planning. Rommel decided to begin his attacks at Tobruk. The Germans lay siege to the city and after suffering some minor losses, eventually routed the British. He ordered the pursuing of the retreating British and took nearly 5,000 prisoners. After the retreat of the British, newly appointed Montgomery decided to pull his troops back to the Suez canal ... Americans were not under American command, they did not put up much of a fight and became a joke to the Germans. It was after the disaster at Kasserine Pass that Eisenhower ordered the lunching of Operation Torch. Ameri...

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... 's next step was the German re-militarisation of the Rhineland. This was in direct defiance of the Treaty of Versailles. He defied this directive on the 7 March 1936 when he ordered his troops into the Rhineland. The British and French could have stopped the re-occupation but they were too disorganized, also the British public were sympathetic of the Germans position ... Anschluss, German dominance over central Europe was a fact of life and by this stage Czechoslovakia was under grave threat. After invading the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia in March 1938, Hitler ordered the invasion...

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... . In one example a girl had shared a dormitory with three male seasonal labourers and slept with all three. She named one as the father who contested his responsibility so the judge ordered all three to pay her 3 rubles each a month until the child was 18 . Thus it seems that the 1918 Code had positive effects in many ways for women. They could ... as seeing the two holding hands; this was enough to prove paternity and require a monthly payment to mother and child. For most men it was impossible to pay the court-ordered sums so they would simply disappear resulting in chaos in the countr...

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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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... theory said that it was the time to start another revolution but Bolsheviks disagreed with the timing, and were later to be proved right. In June 1917 the Provisional Government ordered Russian armies to make an attack on Austria, this failed and turned into a retreat. This prompted soldiers to desert their armies and go back to Petrograd to join forces with ... ...

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... were attacked and pinned as superstitions most religions were actually banned. Since 1990 efforts have been made to regain some of cultural heritage lost while under soviet rule. Former president ordered that Islamic teachings be taught in public school and that is only one way they were getting the culture back. Another way the government have helped is they have got ... ...

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... communist political power beyond any shadow of doubt"[4]. The Kronstadt sailors were hardened veterans of the Revolution and supported the Bolsheviks seizure of power. When trouble arose Lenin personally ordered the uprising be crushed completely, half of the remaining mutineers were executed (2,168) after surrendering, the rest were sent to Solovki prison camp which was described as the "Mother ... ...

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... industrial and military equipment. However, externally, forces worked against the USSR in destroying the peace. The Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy and Japan in September 1940 and Hitler ordered the highly secret ˜Operation Barbarossa'. On 22 June German forces invaded the Soviet Union. Half a million Russians were killed and 1 million imprisoned in the first fortnight of war. However ... ...

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... ," was a boon to Russian morale. Soviet innovation was also significant, the huge IS-2 tank was described as "the most effective tank of WWII." On August 3 1941 the "Council of Evacuation" ordered the exodus of 16 million workers and 2,593 factories to the east so they did not fall into the Germans hands, whilst allowing Russia to rapidly rebuild its armaments economy ... ...

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... he was replaced by a Provisional Government committed to continuing the war. In March 1917, 200,000 protesters converged in the capital city of Petrograd to protest the Tsar's policies. Nicholas ordered the army to subdue the crowd. There were still a few commanders loyal to the Tsar who forced their soldiers to shoot into the crowd, killing several people. With Petrograd in ... ...

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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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... of it. Thousands of people were slaughtered because they did not follow Stalin's plan for reforming Russia. Many of Stalin's changes were not welcome or were not well implemented. Stalin ordered all of Russia's farmland to be collectivized, or turned into huge, organized farms. This was not done very efficiently or effectively, and for the first few years after Russia was ... ...

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... in the spring of 1945. The Allies were now able to turn their attention to the Pacific. In August 1945 while the U.S. were preparing to invade Japan U.S. President Harry S. Truman ordered the dropping of the Atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 14, 1945 Japan surrendered. Thus bringing an end to World War II....

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