... by some unknown person, became the infamous Berlin Wall. Winston Churchill named this barrier the Iron Curtain. Walter Ulbricht, who was a German Communist leader under the command of Stalin, organized the construction of a large wall to be built in order to keep illegal emigration from the East to the West. They tore up the streets to use the paving stones to build the wall. It stunned people from ... both East and West Germany. The Berlin Wall was 96 ... cut off one hundred-ninety two streets. Checkpoint Charley was the main crossing point for the American sector of West Berlin. It was...

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... was that many people from East Germany, who suffered under the totalitarian communist system, escaped and resettled in the democratic state of West Germany. East Germany threatened to bleed out' and to prevent further escapes the Wall was built. But even after its construction several attempts to escape took place. One of the most spectacular ones was the one from two DDR citizens in November 1986. They ... were called Dirk Deckert and Karsten Kluender. They both were unhappy to live under the totalitarian communist government. They lived near to the North Sea and came to the conclusion...

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... obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have the Japanese have above ground in a city" ,said President Truman. He also said that if the Japanese leaders did not accept the allied terms of surrender, "they could expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth." The Soviet Union realized that the war against Japan would not end soon, so ... the Soviets declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945, but only to gain ... territory. The next day on August ninth, the united stated dropped a second bomb on the city of N...

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... American troops went to war in Vietnam, Americans went to war at home. Hawks, people in support of the war, believe that our support of non-Communist South Vietnam was necessary to prevent the expansion of Communisim in Southeast Asia. They thought that if North Vietnam took over South Vietnam and other southeast Asian countries, they would "all fall over like dominoes" with communism. Opponenets ... of the war, Doves, steadily protested. They thought the United States should have never been fighting a war in Asia, a war that made troops travel halfway across the world. They believed Am...

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... but encouraged all Americans to support them in their dark days. Europe's reaction was immediate- twenty-two days later, the Foreign Ministers from Britain, France, and the Soviet Union met to discuss Europe's future. Not surprisingly, the Soviet Union rejected the Marshall Plan because they did not want a free flow of East-West trade. This helped many Americans to get over their doubt concerning ... both feared and detested communism. In 1947, sixteen European countries met with George Kennan to form a proposal acceptable to all parties. In September, the nations agreed to a proposal of...

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... Jane Wyman with whom he had two children, Maureen and Michael. They divorced during World War II while Reagan made training films. He met Nancy Davis, while he was president of the Screen Actors' Guild. He married Nancy Davis in 1952 and had two children, Patricia and Ronald. He began hosting General Electric Theater, which allowed him travel ... %. He sought to stop inflation, decrease unemployment rates, and strengthen national defense. Sandra Day O'Connor was the first women appointed to the Supreme Court, and she was appointed by Reagan. In the fall of 1982, the nation went into rece...

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... battle. To honor these new veterans, Emporia, Kansas, on November 11, 1953, decided to hold a Veteran's Day observance rather than an Armistice Day program. Congressman Ed Rees of Emporia introduced a bill into the House of Representatives to change the name to Veteran's Day and Congress officially did so on May 2, 1954. In1954 President Eisenhower signed a bill saying that NOv. 11th as Veterans day instead ... of Arminance day but, in 1968 congres changed Veterans day to the fourth Monday in October. Then not many americans where fond of the changing of the date si ub 1978 they changed ...

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... , mistrust had developed between the Soviet Union and the western Powers. They could not agree on such problems as the post-war treatment of Germany and the future of occupied Soviet territories on the Baltic and in Eastern Europe. The Soviets also hoped for the opening of a second front in Western Europe to relieve German pressure on Russia. The decision to postpone the invasion of France increased Soviet-Western mistrust. The Teheran Conference, November ... 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met at the Teheran Conference in Persia (Iran). This was the first meeting of the Big Three ...

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... this had to stop and stop now! It seemed the more the media showed the more the Australian public wanted the war to stop and their soldier's home. In 1970: Anti-Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Begun In May the first of three moratoriums was held to protest against Australia's continuing participation in the Vietnam War and against conscription. The May moratorium was followed by one in September 1970 ... and old, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and children (people who would normally never challenge the government) all came to these moratoriums holding their signs and wearing their cost...

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... passed the blockade line, the United States would have shot down the Soviet ships and start a war with the Soviet Union. Many other countries around the war would then have been involved in this war because of the alliances the United States had with NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and alliances the Soviets had with the Warsaw Pact. Secondly, after the Cuban Missile Crisis, tension between the Soviets ... and United States was slightly nullified. There were changes made by the United States and Soviet Union after the incident to ensure a nearly tragic event ... countries to c...

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... it publicly, he demanded that Khrushchev give them up and that his first step was putting Cuba under quarantine. The United States was by far more advanced than the Soviet Union. The missiles were very expensive and the Soviet Union didn't have a lot of money. Putting the missiles in Cuba would be much cheaper than in Russia. Khrushchev thought that Kennedy wouldn't do anything about building ... . Later, Khrushchev said that he was going to withdraw the missiles from Cuba only if the United States promised not to invade the island. During the blockade, the United States had a difficult t...

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... , as stated in document A, would result from invading on foot instead of using the bomb. Revenge also played a role in the decision to bomb Japan. The Japanese were not following the Geneva convention in regards to treatment of prisoners of war. Which says that the prisoners are not to be put through torture of the psychological or physical nature. The Japanese did these things anyway, they would decapitate American prisoners, or ... H, all of the countries involved were trying to create the atomic bomb to use for their efforts. Fortunately the Americans won the "race of discovery". If t...

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... bomb had been of great importance. Though the Allies were the first to develop the bombs, they were not put into use against Hitler, mainly because the unconditional surrender of Germany was accepted more than two months before the bomb was completed. But on June 30th of 1945, President Truman approved the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb struck the city on August 6th of 1945, and it ... resulted in 200,000 deaths. The reasons for the attack and the one upon Nagasaki, Japan that followed ... ...

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... wherever the preponderance of blame may lie, both the United States and the Soviet Union contributed to the atmosphere of hostility and suspicion that quickly clouded the peace" (Brinkley 963). The US and USSR had very different belief systems. This may have contributed to the cold war tensions. Communism versus Capitalism, Dictatorship versus Democracy. Each economic system calls for the destruction of the other. The US was desperate to end the spread of communism and ... dictatorship. We provided much legislation in an attempt at containment. We used tools such as the Marshall Plan an...

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... " which was an imaginary line that separated the East and the West. The East was the Soviet Union and its countries of influence. The West was the United States and their major allies being Canada, France, Britain, and Japan. The War involved the use of expensive resources on both of these sides. In 1949, the United States and other eleven Western nations created the North Atlantic Treaty organization which was a military alliance ... disagreements, they did come to some agreement. They agreed to separate Germany. Sections of Germany under the control of the United States, France, and Br...

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... Luther King, a major influential figure in civil rights. The Civil Rights movement of the 1960's looked for the disestablishment of racism and segregation. It included the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, both being huge achievements for blacks. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 desegregated public places and banned employment discrimination while the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allowed African-Americans to legally vote without literacy ... tests or other prerequisites that weren't needed by whites. Not only did the movement push for acceptance of othe...

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... impose communism on its nations. Each side could not tolerate their ideologies therefore, resulting in the incapability of trusting each during the Cold War. This split in ideology drove to the development of the 'two camps theory', which was that the world split along the lines of the two ideologies. The Tehran War Conference where the 'Big Three' – Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met to discuss issues focusing on military ... Front leading up to more tensions arising. The Potsdam Conference, the Tehran Conference and the ideological differences that continued throughout th...

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... would refuse to give it up. He feared that England would seize it as a strong point on the Pacific. The United States dominated Mexico throughout the entire war. The war lasted almost 2 years. Although the U.S. gained about 1.2 million square miles of land as well as having the Wilmot Proviso outlaw slavery other than where it already was, nearly 13,000 Americans lost their lives ... and the country invested around $100 billion into the war. Slavery was becoming more of an issue. Southerners wanted to get rid of the Wilmot Proviso while many northerners wanted the abolishment of slavery....

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... plan as well as show Soviet domination in the east (Doc. 10). The two conflicting plans divided Europe into two spheres of influence, the east and west. The west formed an alliance in 1949 called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the east became known as the Warsaw Pact. The USSR's neglect and rejection of the Marshall Plan, and development of COMECON furthered the competition between superpowers to spread their influences throughout Europe ... . This shows how the Soviets actions increased and led to the escalation of the cold war. Overall the Soviet Union was to blame for the...

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... Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan saved Western European from the recession after World War II. Marshall Plan was the derivation and evolution of Truman Doctrine. It not only avoided the challenging argument of Truman Doctrine but also blended the traditional humanism of America. It encouraged the idea of domestic production and had the motive of stopping the spread of the Soviet Union. Truman Doctrine was a rapid conversion in the American diplomatic history. It declared war to ... the communism and swear to protect those countries from being ... ...

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... and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who were brave enough to prevent the war. The center of the conflict started when the Soviet Union established a base of military operations and the heart of oxidant. This step generated the conflicts between super potential. One side was the United States and the other side was the Soviet Union and China. The crisis almost became World War 3 and the 1st nuclear War. This would have produced a catastrophe that would ... not to invade Cuba. Conclusion The end of the crisis established an advance to the end of the Cold War. However, the Cuban government was ...

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... not told that nuclear weapons were included in several of the suspicious crates that were photographed in some of the weekly reconnaissance runs over Cuba. Because of this, foreign policy with the Russians would never be the same. On Oct. 16,when President Kennedy was alerted about the situation in Cuba he called together a meeting of several of the highest-ranking advisors of the NSC(National Security Council). This group became know as ... . All boats that were headed for Cuba would be boarded and searched for weapons and weapon parts. The Executive Committee came to no conclusions unt...

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The Similiarities Between The 1690's Salem Witch Hunts and the 1950's Communist Scare. In the 1690's the community of Salem Mass. was swept up in the controversy of the Salem Witch Hunts. About 160 years later the country experiences similar events in the 1950's Communist Scare. The religious, political, and social climates of these two times are very similar when compared. The motives of the accusers from each period in time are almost the same. The trials and hearings ... of these times are ... ...

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... nations monetary aid under the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. Finally, paranoia also fueled the vicious arms race that brought the advent of the H-bomb, the development of ICBMs with nuclear capability, and the escalation of the space program race. In addition, the fear that the United States was possessed by gave way to the U2 crisis as well as the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Although some of the United States fears ... had some foundation, the Cold War can easily be ... ...

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... signed in Paris with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland. The defeated nations were to pay war reparations to the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Greece and Czechoslovakia. Each of the five treaties contained terms concerning arms limitations. The five nations also lost some territories. The Settlement of Germany After the war, the decisions made in various wartime conferences concerning Germany were put into effect. ... occupied zones. Unlike Germany, however, it was allowed its own central government. The Soviet Union refused to sign a peace treaty with Austria until 1955, when the...

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