... plates known as tectonic plates. These plates(the lithosphere) is floating on lava and when it heats up due to convection currents, the plates may collide against each other, move apart or rub against each other which causes a buildup of energy to occur causing a shake in the earth causing an earthquake. Tsunamis form when underwater earthquakes occur(most of the time ... collide causing the land to spike up creating mountains, mountain ranges, volcanoes- this occurs a lot as there are many volcanoes in Russia and are still active. Divergent plate boundaries move apart causing mid ocean...

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... to her. As with any story of a family, this one begins with a young couple falling in love. They would soon marry and have children. The one thing that sets them apart is that they lived at the apex of one of the last autocratic monarchies in the world with their triumphs and tragedies becoming the countries. In 1894, Nicholas's father, Tsar ... not being there, Alexandra ran the government with Rasputin as her advisor. Many ministers resigned or were fired and were soon replaced by followers of Rasputin. The government was falling apart. In 1916, Prince Yussoupov and his well-born frie...

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... called submarines. Radios were also used to communicate with biplanes that would either bomb or spy enemy lines. The End The Central slowly started falling apart. First Bulgaria got out, then Turkey, and after Austria-Hungary fell apart, which left Germany by itself. Woodrow Wilson came up with the idealistic fourteen points, but he didn't make the Allies accept it. The Big ... ...

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... . The June offensive was a failed attempt to boost morale and re-take land from the opposing forces, instead it resulted in a 300% price inflation and a loss of several million square miles of territory, which further enraged the grieving peasant class. It served as evidence of how Kerensky's leadership helped to deteriorate the army, and military disaster was immediately overshadowed by the ... ...

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... was split into 4 zones just like Berlin, its capital. Berlin was in the Soviet Union, so this caused a bit of a problem for Britain, France and USA. Berlin was situated 100 miles inside the Russian zone. For Britain, France and USA to get to Berlin they had to go through permitted routes, Corridors. Stalin felt threatened by the West. June 24th 1948 ... ...

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... tend break things. The effects of this disaster only killed 31 people, more people have died in plane crashes and coal mines collapsing. There is also only about twenty square miles that will be uninhabitable for a long period of time, which if you look at the size of a nation the size of Russia, isn't a whole lot. Now I mentioned "breeder reactors" before ... ...

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... missiles from Turkey, and we will remove ours from Cuba (Doc P). For, as the Soviets complained, nothing separated American munitions from Soviet land; they shared a border. But with Cuba, 90 miles of ocean separated the Communist weapons from American land. Still, Kennedy did not see the American forces in Turkey as being any relevant threat to the Soviets. Completely missing the ... ...

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... flights but could do basically nothing to stop them for a long time. Another deterrent from agreeing to the Open Skies policy was the fact that; "Taken from an altitude of 6 miles, the first showed the overall plan of a city; in the next you could distinguish houses, and in the next you could make out the murky figure of a man reclining on ... ...

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... the Soviets have said - to stop the ERP - and what they have not said - to drive us out of Europe. If the soviets want war they can start it 500 miles to the west just as well as here." Basically this meant that no threats made by Russia would push the U.S. out of Berlin. So you can see much of what ... ...

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... 's monarchy being overthrown. Catherine instead, went onto expanding her Russia, something Peter I had not strove to achieve. Catherine was considered "great," also because she expanded her territory some 200,000 miles. Both Catherine and Peter were "great" rulers, largely due to the fact that they modernized Russia so successfully, making it a European state and its own triumphant nation. While there were ... ...

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... opposing forces attack and counterattack from a relatively permanent system of trenches protected by barbed-wire entanglements. For three years the Germans and the allied did not advance more than a few miles along the line that became known as the western front. Germany was not able to successfully execute the Schlieffen Plan to invade France, but they were able to push Russia ... ...

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... able to create their first ICBM which was almost 100 feet high and created over 880,000 pounds of thrust during liftoff. This new weapon had a range of about 4000 miles, which gave it the true title of being an intercontinental rocket. This new rocket was given the name Semyorka ("number seven"). When they tested Semyorka with a dummy warhead, it was ... ...

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In October of 1962 American spy planes discovered that the Soviets were secretly installing nuclear-armed missiles ninety-miles off the Florida coast, in Cuba. Secret meetings were held by John F. Kennedy to decide what to do. Kennedy flatly refused the air-force proposals for bombing strikes on the ... ...

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... separating Russia and European section of Asia. The Kara Kum is one of central Asia's largest deserts. The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland lake, covers 143,630 square miles. Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, lies in one of the world's major oil-producing areas. Russia is the world' s largest country. Russia along with the 11 countries is ranges from 8 million sq ... ...

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... their affairs together, to organise unions, to publish statements" The different ethnic groups also caused problems for Tsarist Authority in the late nineteenth century. Russia covered over eight million square miles of the world in 1881, it covered a large part of two continents. The size of Russia gave an impression of great strength which was misleading. The population was made of ... ...

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... come in multiple varieties, but where is the actual birthplace of the apple and the orange? Surprisingly they are practically neighbors, with only the Caspian Sea and roughly one thousand miles of desert between them. The mainspring of the apple is in the Caucasus Mountains which lie in the vicinity of the Caspian Sea, Russia, and the country of Azerbaijan ("Apples ... ...

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... ,000 Russiand lost their lives and another 200,000 were captured. The German casualties numbered around 20,000. The Germans headed toward Moscow on November 25th. They came within 20 miles of the capital but were stopped in their tracks by Russian resistance and the harsh cold of a brutal winter. Hitler stopped operations for the winter. The Germans were ill equipped ... ...

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... 's monarchy being overthrown. Catherine instead, went onto expanding her Russia, something Peter I had not strove to achieve. Catherine was considered "great," also because she expanded her territory some 200,000 miles. Both Catherine and Peter were "great" rulers, largely due to the fact that they modernized Russia so successfully, making it a European state and its own triumphant nation. While there were ... ...

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... Smolensk and Army Group South which was ordered to push towards Ukraine. These initial German advances were a success. By early July, the panzers from the North divisions were within 80 miles of Leningrad and the central forces had taken Smolensk. In mid-July leadership debates over strategy arose. Hitler favored a concentrated attack on Leningrad and Ukraine but with the fall of ... ...

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... ,000 Russians lost their lives and another 200,000 were captured. The German casualties numbered around 20,000. The Germans headed toward Moscow on November 25th. They came within 20 miles of the capital but were stopped in their tracks by Russian resistance and the harsh cold of a brutal winter. Hitler stopped operations for the winter. The Germans were ill equipped ... ...

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... his soldiers used them effectively. On June 22, 1941 over a million German soldiers launched an attack on the Soviet Union, for weeks they were successful and by November they were miles from the Gates of Moscow. Later Russia's weather would give Germany trouble and give Russian time to reorganize. But Germany had other Units that hadd followed the army into Russia ... ...

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... of Poland. The bountiful lands of the Ukraine were also opened for settlement and soon became the granary of Europe. Catherine expanded the Russian empire by some 200,00 square miles, bringing a large part of that area under Russian rule. By the time of Catherine's death on November 17, 1796, Russian society had been pushed into the modern era. Russia was ... ...

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... power so the Soviet Union also increased their military spending. Brezhnev reasoning was "A lag in this [arm] struggle is inadmissible." Eventually, this is what led to their demise. Apart from struggling in the arms race the Soviet Union also had a lack of technology. They were unable to generate computer, electronic, and telecommunications technology. Technology was advancing in a fast pace ... ...

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Women in Combat Today there are many women who serve their county by participating in the armed forces. Women have always been apart of the military, whether they were working as nurses caring for the wounded or secretaries for the war department. After the woman's movement in the sixties many women have decided ... ...

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... differences the underlying principles of the systems remains the same. Russia is a political system that does not resemble other European systems. The nations "persistent tradition of Absolutism" has set it apart from other nations(365 Mahler). Under most of Russia's dictators, the political ideology has been based on Karl Marx's form of Marxism. For example, leaders like Lenin, Khrushchev and Stalin ... ...

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