The southern based republic of Vietnam was in desperate need of help against the Viet Cong, which was the Communist funded North Vietnamese. ... During this second war the United States stepped in to take the place of France against the northern based Communists and the southern insurgents. The United States felt it had to get involved to stop this Communist attack, if it were to happen that the Communists won, we thought that the "Domino theory" would go into affect. Basically what this theory said was, that if one southeastern country were to fall to the Communists the rest would follow like...

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World War I and the Russian Civil War led to the establishment of a Communist government in Russia, which leveraged its tight control on the film industry in order to forge unity amongst all social classes. ... The Bolsheviks eventually defeated the White Army and became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ... A firm Communist believer, Vertov spread the ideas of everyone in society receiving the same benefits and being equally important to a functioning society. Vertov made Man with Movie Camera so Russia as a whole could apply the revolutionary communistic ideals and work together as on...

• Word Count: 2028
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many Germans liked the Nazis' anti-Communist views. ... Hindenburg feared the Communists growing power and was also scared of violence from the SA, so fell for Hitler's trickery along with both Von Schleicher and Von Papen. ... Many businessmen then looked to Hitler to defend them from the communists. ... Goebbels' intelligent propaganda then built on the anti-Communist and anti-Semitic views that already existed in Germany. ...

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To be communist during this period, however, meant that one had to identify with Russia and the radical working class who were striking throughout Stevens 5 Germany and, in the eyes of most Germans, causing even greater chaos. Communists were a borderline group just as the Jews. Neither of these groups "democrats and communists "appealed to most Germans. ... Fearful of the communist worker riots exploding all over Germany and anxious to rebuild from the economic disaster of the 1930's, capitalists saw Hitler as one politician who would not hold up business. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Communist and extreme-left parties also began to pick up votes. ... Clashes between the communists and Social Democrats with the Nazis became more commonplace. ... He was anti-communist but not entirely anti-capitalist because if he had gone "anti-business- he would not have had the essential support of big business. ... In the 1932 elections, the majority of people had voted for either the communists or the Nazis. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This upset many of the communists and socialists and in January 1919, many were rounded up and murdered in Berlin and Munich by German soldiers. ... Hitler gained even more support as membership increased to hundreds and eventually thousands of communist people. ...

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During his terms he mounted a major campaign to overthrow the Sandinistas, the communist party which ran Nicaragua, sent military equipment to Muslim guerrillas fighting the Communist government of Afghanistan, and joined with South Africa in aiding guerrillas fighting the Marxist government of Angola. ...

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For example the Sparticast uprising was due to communists who wanted to overthrow the Weimer regime and set up a communist state. ... By 1923 prices had become ridiculous, although people who had taken out large loans (such as industrialists who were mostly against the Weimar Republic and on the side of the right since they feared the communist and their anti-capitalism) benefited, and German goods were cheap for other countries to buy which did stimulate trade and employment. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One major concern of the Americans during World War I was the communist influence. ... This group consisted of writers and producers that were called to testify whether or not they were members of the growing Communist party. ...

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The rise of the Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler, during the 1920s was no coincidence. The world, especially Germany, was ripe for dictatorship following the Great War. The Treaty of Versailles crippled Germany and laid the foundation for another World War. Germany, ravaged by war, was fac...

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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 Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others woul...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Communist parties were pushing their labour movement on to the people that inevitably made a large portion of the middle classes shift further to the right. ... The DAP held many anti-socialist views as well as anti communist views. ...

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In March 1918, the new communist government in Russia signed a treaty with Germany, extricating the Russians from the conflict entirely. ... Germany was the most successful at this, empowering unrest in Russia by smuggling the exiled communist leader Vladimir I. ...

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The "happy time", many Germans called it. With Adolf Hitler they were partners in one of histories greatest success stories. From humiliating defeat in World War 1 they had risen to become masters of Europe. They considered themselves to be the super race. Later many would say that the people were t...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The 1929 Wall Street Market crash had a significant political, social and economic implications for all countries in the western world." To what extent do you agree with this statement? Argue your case with particular reference Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and USA. The crash...

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The setting was perfect because the people of Germany were itching for any leader that would tell them just what they wanted to hear. World War I was over and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelba...

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Several crises almost led to general European war in the decade before 1914. Two of these, in 1904-5, and 1911, involved the North African state of Morocco. France had been working to annex Morocco, which lay next to its territory of Algeria; Germany with no vital interests in Morocco, threatened wa...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Treaty of Versailles was proposed to be a peace settlement between the victorious Allies and the defeated Germans at the outcome of World War I. The post-war reparations imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the subsequent economic disaster tha...

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One could say that the General Strike of May 1926 lasting a lengthy nine days was the greatest show of union solidarity that Britain had ever seen. Others such as Beatrice Webb saw it merely as "little more than a nine days wonder". Sometimes it is hard to pinpoint the most significan...

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