The present is based on the past. ... Each pole viewed the other as hostile, and based its foreign and sometimes domestic policy on self- preservation. ... A more direct method of gaining allies was the Truman Doctrine of 1946 which was used to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2 It was the beginning of American policy for the cold war. ... The American government after the war, realized it was in a very profitable position, with many of the smaller countries having to choose whether to side with the...

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The American government was created on righteous morals created out of the ashes of governments of the past that had failed such as, Romans, the Greeks, and the Egyptians. Many great and brilliant minds were put together to come up with a government based around, liberty, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. ... Since humans created this supposedly perfect government, and run it, then how can those just morals be applied? ... He lives in a world that fascism rules only it has a facade of an equality based governmental system. The government is constantly at war with many other countries, an...

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The government confiscated all the agricultural products. ... Once again, we can see how weak was the communist government in the Eastern bloc. ... If a government were based on these factors, it would be sure that it would not last long. ... He was the head of the Soviet Communist party and the Russian Government in 1929. ... With the tactics coercion and force and the military, the citizen of Russia were like a puppet that were controlled by the Communist government; they know nothing about the politics or about the government. ...

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The Republicans believe in a small government that should only interfere when necessary. ... Both Democrats and Republicans have played major roles in our government. ... A lot of the public will vote on politicians or political issues based on what they"re told by the media. ... Interest groups also play a role in our government. ... Every American over 18 has the right to choose and influence his government. ...

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For example, Stalin already had a dominating influence over several countries because of setting up Soviet-controlled governments in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. ... Stalin's response was that his country needed loyal governments in nearby countries in order to ensure the Soviet Union's security. In contrast, the United States goals were for nations to get along in peace, based on the principles of equal rights and allowing the people to determine their own government. ... Because of the threat, Congress agreed to provide U.S. aid and military equipment to ...

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In 1950 McCarthy made a speech accusing 205 government workers for being apart of the American communist party. ... The films shows viewers what could happen if these communist were not weeded out of the government and in a sense justifies McCarthy's fear. ... Iselin can be compared to Joe McCarthy, accuser of government officials as communism; his costume symbolizes his attempts to being like Lincoln. ... Today's viewers wont feel the same way as those who saw it during the controversy but instead they will be intrigued by an interesting story based on the feelings and facts of th...

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MDS has two categories, ground based and sea based. ... The sea based will intercept incoming ICBMs in the same fashion as the ground based system. ... If the government decides to install a system on both Airforce one and Marine One, that is $6 million of taxpayer money. ... What is going to happen in Afghanistan when the U.S "helps" to set up a temporary government? ... The U.S did help to set up the new Israeli government and now it is on thin ice. ...

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Based solely on the fact that the USSR and the United States had different forms of governments many tensions arose. ... The United States wanted a world of independent nations based on democratic principles. ... The U.S. government has continued a policy of convincing the American public of the great evil existing elsewhere to achieve their economic, technological and defensive objectives. ...

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History 202 At the World's Fair Types and Development of Man, 1904 This picture depicts the different stages of human progress based on the Social Darwinist Theory - The Survival of the Fittest. ... This would be by progressing through industry power and by putting in place governments that are functioning on the same level than the western society one's. ... The duty of bringing legal heritage, which included additional religious and cultural heritage, was an obligation that had to be fulfilled when progressing the world based on Darwin's Theory. ... The fact that the U...

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A group of conservatives then seized control of the government and placed Gorbachev under house arrest on August 18, 1991. ... More local governments within the USSR headed towards independence. ... The communist government soon grew into oppressive dictatorships, and economic times were not as promised. ... Nationalism and political corruption contributed to the deterioration of this system of government. ... The first and mightiest society based on the ideas of Karl Marx had passed into history.?...

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Even during the crisis itself, some of us in the U.S. government, and I presume in the Soviet government as well, were thinking ahead to the future. ... In the memoranda of October 25 and 27, I suggested that the United States should, "while solving the Cuban base question with determination, forcefully reaffirm its readiness to reach agreements on arms control and disarmament" and other broader diplomatic arrangements (Appendix documents B and C). ... This studied silence on a U.S. commitment was a considered position maintained throughout the K...

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The Senator continued on his crusade to rid the government of all who had "anti-American" views. ... As the American government advanced further into a phase of turmoil, economic effects began rendering themselves within the nation. ... Apart from government spending, the Red Scare had an effect on consumer spending as well. ... This blatant infringement upon the rights of every American citizen had now taken away the lives of many purely based on circumstantial evidence and accusations. ... It was a time where people were so overly concerned with "being American" than they completely disre...

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As uprisings sprung up all over the country, the government had to increase taxes to suppress these rebellions. But because of corruption on a grand scale within the government, half the money never reached anywhere other than that of the official's pockets. The exhausting corruption which soured the lower levels of government and the top positions in the government were monopolized ruthlessly which added to the people's general tiredness of the way things were run. ... Many had the idea that change in the old way of government was a good thing. ... The basis of this new strategy inc...

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The fear of conspiracy to overthrow the government led to an attack that persecuted the people who had ties to the communist party and people who had left sided views. ... His main reason for doing this was to keep communism out of the government. ... The Cold War also made the government spend more money on defense then it ever has. The government was also spending more on defense than on programs (D8). ... Obviously, most of the affects were based on communism and war, but that didn't mean that the Cold War was another terrible hardship the American citizens had to endure....

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Accurate answers have not been provided, and if there are – they are strongly subjective and opinion-based. What are the reasons of the collapse of an established political system - the base of the Soviet "Empire", which has managed to stay at the top for more than five decades, outlived the Second World War, and has been the Motherland to more than half of Europe? ... 6 According to a study performed by David Kotz and Fred Weir, the party-state elite, or in other words the people who hold the governmental power have contributed the most for the collapse of the regime. A group...

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Truman wanted to put what Churchill call an "Iron Curtain" around the USSR and which again meant each eastern European country that was near to the Soviet border had to have a loyal communist government in power with leaders who would do what "Stalin" wished. ... Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania all ended up with communist governments and had leaders who looked to Moscow for advice as opposed to the people of the country they governed. ... Greece was in a highly sensitive militarily and Truman, did not want to involve America in any military action wanted to give the ...

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The main issues discussed were the frontiers of a postwar Poland and its future government. ... Some members of the exile government in London to be integrated into the communist Lublin government Stalin promised to hold free elections at the end of hostilities The main issue surrounding this provisional Polish government at the Yalta Conference was its status in determining the country's political future The Soviet Union had occupied parts of Poland ever since 1944. As the Russians pushed the Germans out of Poland they backed the establishment of a communist government in Lublin, ...

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The Yalta agreements were based on several broad principles upon which the peace of Europe was supposed to rest. ... Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. ... Churchill and Roosevelt had both agreed that they would work for the establishment of a new Polish government that represented the Polish people. ... He insisted on the communist dominated Polish Committee of National Liberation that had proclaimed itself the "provisional government of National Unity. ... It proved to be the ideological base f...

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However, this deal was not endorsed by the Americans.3 The two sides quarreled over this issue for some time, with Roosevelt showing no signs of openly committing himself to accepting Soviet territorial claims.4 Stalin, who was growing impatient, began to act unilaterally to enforce his viewpoint.5 He broke off all relations with the Polish government, which had been in exile in London.6 Following this, the Soviet leader recognized the Lublin committee, a Soviet puppet government, as the official provisional government of Poland.7 Though Stalin was unquestionably out of line in his actions, o...

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Unlike America, North Korea, which is a communist country, is ranked 197 on the list of countries based on growth domestic product. ... The theory of democratic peace is proven through the government and actions of North Korea. ... Any opposition to the government is prohibited. Several people are routinely arrested and imprisoned, with the government frequently charging them for "subverting the State", "endangering State security" or attempting to "overthrow the "People's socialist government". ... The Internet is heavily censored, most sites that show anti-communist content, critical or...

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Without a hard currency and a strong economic base the Soviet Union stood to be suffocated in this new world order. ... Gorbachev's vision was to see the Soviet Union enter into the world economy with a hard currency, a strong economic base, and a limited market economy. ... Gorbachev introduced his new policies at the United Nations in December of 1988: . . . . human interests take precedence over the interests of any particular class; the world is becoming increasingly interdependent; there can be no victors in a nuclear war; security has to based on increasingly on political rather t...

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Once the bombers were on their way, he sealed off his base and refused any type of communication, including telephone calls from the Air Force as well as from the President of the United States. From there, the government's efforts are shown to call the planes back. ...

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Moreover, he was called to face a population that had learned to live in fear of the government and that didn't trust the government's promises and actions. ... Farmers could now lease land from the government and keep the profits made from selling products grown in their land. ... Due to the previous experiences they had from the previous governments, people showed different character to the state and different inside their homes. ... (Available: http://www.russianet.ru/~oldrn/history/gorbachev.html) Again based on his reform policies, Gorbachev at the 1986 Iceland Summit, propose...

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The Soviets were found to have built a nuclear missile base in Cuba, just under the belly of America. ... The firm US stance eventually led the Russians to concede and dismantle their missile base. ... This led to a period of talks between the two powers, which by 1972 had culminated in the ABM treaty, setting out limits on anti- ballistic missile for an indefinite duration, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT1), which was an interim agreement for 5 years, setting limits on numbers of land and sea based missiles to those that were already in existence or under construction. ... T...

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"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. ... The nation was forever fearful of communists in positions of governmental, academic, and media power. ... The appellant Roth ran a business, based in New York, which published and sold books, photographs and magazines. ... Similarly, the appellant Alberts, ran a mail-order business based in Los Angeles and was charged with "lewdly keeping for sale obscene and indecent books, and with ...

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