McCarthy accused high government officials and high standing military officers of being communist. ... When the Palmer Raids began, which will be discussed in more detail later, there were two main targets: the Communist Party, and the Communist Labor Party. These groups grew out of the IWW, the Socialist Party of America, and the Socialist Labor Party. ... The break in beliefs of the Socialist party hurt it, but did by no means destroy it. ... While all this was taking place, an American Communist Party was emerging from the ashes of the former Socialist strongholds which were all along the e...

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The letter is a warning that there " is a possibility of a civil war developing between the communist and nationalist factions in Korea (Lee 2001:6). ... "Worse still, in Hodge's eyes was the presence of Communists in some of the KPR's key positions" (Cumings 1983:107). ... It also was a period of political organization; Korean leftists emerged from the underground and began to rebuild their communist parties. ... "While internecine squabbling and conflict both with southern rightists and the American military government preoccupied communists in the South and the politics of the ...

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After fighting to a stalemate along the original border of the 38th parallel, the American public grew weary of the war, resulting in the defeat of the Democratic Party in the election of 1952. ... Few people were willing to challenge or defy societal norms, weary of being branded "un-American", and therefore, a communist. ... "McCarthyism", as it was called, forced many government officials and Hollywood celebrities to go before McCarthy and the rest of the committee, in order to deny their involvement with the Communist Party. ... Though McCarthy himself was revealed to be a fraud and bul...

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West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ... Thus in 1991, the -2- Communist Soviet Union was done. ... NATO's Article 6 states an armed attack occurs when "the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the parties, when in or over these territories or any area of Europe, which occupation of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the treaty entered into force"(James). ... Since the parallel became a boundary, the country was divided with the Communist North and the non-communist South. ... For the U.S., the Korean War increased fear of Communist...

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The French were losing and were not able to control the communist North Vietnamese from invading South Vietnam. ... "Participants in the Geneva Conference were the four parties that had called for the meeting, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States; also present were China, Cambodia, and Laos; and representing elements within Vietnam itself were spokesmen Bao Dai's government and for the Vietminh. ... This is who America decided was a threat that they wanted to stop before all of Indochina became communist. ... With the help of the United States, there would hope...

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The People's Republic of China has been a communist state since 1949, when Mao Zedong declared, after a bloody civil war, that all of China was to be combined under one banner, and that banner was Communism. ... Be it from the fact that China is still considered a Communist country or that almost every country in one way or another is currently in China's debt financially, some people do not put much faith into China. ... Accordingly, the Communist country should not have military action taken against it only due to mistrust by other nations. ... China made a similar claim to territo...

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S. anti-communist fervor as a backdrop, seemingly shared by both Republicans and Democrats framing an increasing distrust between the Russians and the Chinese, Kissinger saw an emerging third Superpower in a competitive communist China as an American advantage which needed to be exploited. ... Moreover, the opening of relations with the Chinese would put the United States in a uniquely advantageous position to play two antagonistic and disparate communist nations, one against the other. ... Balancing military power along with a willingness to use that power, challenging communist aggression wh...

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Truman This quote from Harry Truman gave life to the beginning of the Cold War, which from 1945-1991 pitted the U.S. against the Soviet Communist nations. ... Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front, a communist-led South Vietnamese guerrilla movement. ... Afghanistan The afghan war, which was from 1978-92, was a conflict between anti-Communist Muslim guerrillas and the Afghan government and Soviet Union. ... In the spring of 1992, Najibullah's government collapsed and, after 14...

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The United States has always prided itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy". However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all to...

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Truman was not diabolically opposed to the U.S.S.R. being communist, but at the same time he wanted to make sure that communism did not threaten the United States and its borders. ... This was a huge problem for the anti-communist government of the United States. Both Greece and Turkey had rapidly deteriorating economies, and perhaps more problematic was the rise of Communist led parties in each country. ... Russia as communist-evil and the United States as anti-communist-good are childish. ... Not long after the Berlin Crisis and the possible war that could have developed out of it came a...

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He centralized all power in himself as the leader of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitler's Germany. ... After becoming the leader of the Nazi party, he set his sights on overall power of Germany. ...

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Which at the time was the Democratic Party's campaign headquarters. ... A burglary also took place on June 17, 1972 by five men who were caught in the offices of the Democratic Party's headquarters. ... President Nixon faced almost certain impeachment for his illegal acts against the Democratic Party. ... The early 1980s was the final period of conflict between the United States and the USSR, which was mainly a result of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 to brace a Communist regime. ... That same year many communist nations in Eastern Europe began to fall and the Berlin wall...

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(Ford) In 1950 in Los Angeles, the first homophile political organization or special interest group, The Mattachine Society, was founded by English expat Harry Hay, a musicologist and member of the Communist party USA (CPUSA). ... The group took on a cell type organization, at the time popular with secret Communist groups, to avoid prosecution. ...

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Latin America was soon influenced by communist philosophy, which claimed communism was the only way and of course, it had its archenemy, capitalism. ... Again, the reason why there is such a clear-cut "hero" and "villain" is mostly from the influence of communist philosophy. ...

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The Roots of Reformasi in Indonesia Indonesia, from Acheh to Irian Jaya, is equivalent in distance from London to Moscow. It has a population of more than 200 million, which is nearly twice the population of Japan. Its archipelago layout, rather than making communications more difficult, ma...

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After they threw 90,000 pounds of English Tea into the Boston harbor in the famed Boston Tea Party, the king was furious because the waste of the tea had cost him a great deal of money (Conroy). ... Also, the Boston Tea Party caused the king to take overly drastic measures: he laid Boston under siege (Rosenfeld). ...

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Executive Summary Mission Statement Pandofandlejoie Breweries Inc. produces products of high quality and impeccable taste that nurtures a sense of community by bringing people together. Vision Statement Pandofandlejoie Breweries Inc. will produce only the highest quality ales and lagers that will help redefine the International beer culture, and reeducate the consumer about what beer is supposed be. Operate a profitable business whose annual growth is fueled by exceptional employees who are given opportunities for development, challenging work, candid communication, autonomy, and support. ...

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Thesis: The prior terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon, have many Americans searching to understand the source of such intense hatred. Extremist-suicide bombers committed a heinous act "unparallel, in recent history. Immediately, America must gain insight as to how terrori...

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There these individuals set out to establish an alternative to the two fixed parties, called the Libertarian party--champion of freedom and personal liberty. Nearly thirty years after its inception in a nation ruled by a praetorian two party system that Libertarian Party has become "America's third largest and fastest growing party." (12:3) What does this say about Americans? ... This proves good news to the Libertarian Party that has seen an astonishing growth of 165% in the past four years (16:1) from 9, 512 members in March of 1994 to a record 25,000 in 1998. The Libertarian pa...

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Francois Babeuf, the first modern communist, created a Society of Equals dedicated to the abolition of private property and the destruction of all those who held property. ... The desire for absolute equality resulted in everyone being addressed as citizen, much as the modern-day Communist is referred to as comrade." ... In the Boston Tea Party, no one was hurt and no property was damaged except for the tea. ...

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Castro and the Cuban government had become the first Communist country in the Western Hemisphere by December 1960 (Finkelstein 26). ... The premier of Russia and the head of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, felt that the United States was a threat to the Soviet Union and decided to place missiles in Cuba in retaliation for the missiles in Turkey (Finkelstein 13, 23). ...

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The principle of self-determination according to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. ...

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The principle of self-determination according to some scholars represents the obligation to an individual's autonomy "So long as any change is peaceful and orderly, consistent with standard liberals rights and does not involve any unjust taking of territory or unfair terms of separation. " On the other hand, collective force theory constitutes of a coalition of parties within one organization. ...

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In his farewell address, outgoing President George Washington famously stated that, "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordina...

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Immigration of various populations into the United States and other parts of the globe occurs as one of the topics that has and continues to be explored by various scholars. Worth noting is the fact that after the World War II, there are various factors that offered a comprehensive platform that enhanced entry of immigrants into the United States. One of the most comprehensive factors that enhanced entry into the United States is the policies that were set after that Second World War. The 1965 Immigration Act of the United States occurs as one of the most comprehensive policies enacted after t...

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