... beginning of the war, before the US's evolvement, North Korea was destroying South Korea. On June 26 the biggest battle of the war, at that point took place just 12 miles North of South Korea's capital of Seoul.. By June 28 the North had won and taken over South Korea's capital. Since South Korea was falling ... apart the US knew we had to enter the war. President Truman went to the UN. The UN entered in favor of helping South Korea. USSR could have vetoed the vote ... ...

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... to build the wall. It stunned people from both East and West Germany. The Berlin Wall was 96 miles long. It was 67 miles of concrete wall which was four meters high, 42 miles of wire mesh fencing, 65 miles of anti-vehicle trenches, and 79 miles of contact or signal fence. There were 302 watchtowers, and 20 bunkers. Behind the wall was a trench to ... ...

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... and the Soviet Union had come close to a full-scale nuclear war. On October 14, 1962 US spy planes reported the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, which is 90 miles off the coast of Florida. The first sighting reported the presence of a ballistic missile launching site. It was later discovered that the Soviet Union began shipments in early 1962, and ... placed medium- (MRBM) and intermediate-range ballistic (IRBM) missiles in Cuba (as well as other weapons). Forty-two MRBMs (300-1200 miles) and twenty-four IRBMs (1200-3500 miles) were sent to Cuba. 22,000 Soviet soldiers and technicia...

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... invasion in April of 1962, Khrushchev became nervous of the idea of actually losing Cuba as a communist ally. Cuba was a very strategically located allied country that was less than ninety miles south of Florida and Khrushchev was fully intent on using it as means to contain the US. It seemed obvious that the US would plan another attack on Cuba and ... Khrushchev took the evasive action that he believed was necessary to defend the Soviet ally, Cuba. This meant moving nuclear missiles a mere ninety miles from the beaches of Florida.[Brito] Not only did the Soviet Union wished to protect...

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... was their proper boundary. The Mexican president, José Herrera, was newly in office and feared being overthrown if he complied with Polk. Slidell left Mexico City for a town a few miles away and Herrera sent troops to the Rio Grande to confront the Americans. Polk and his cabinet prepared a declaration of war. He only expected to fight a few battles on the ... 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 havi...

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... the Germans believed to be the shortest and easiest area to cross from England to France. In actuality, the Allied soldiers of Dwight D. Eisenhower planned to thrust into Europe a few miles away from the shortest point. A huge armada had been assembled, including 1,200 fighting ships, 10,000 planes, 4,126 landing craft, 804 transport ships, and hundreds of amphibious and other special ... the south preventing the Germans from quickly reinforcing their beleaguered units at the beachheads. Another factor that posed a handicap to the Germans was the fact that they had over 3,000 miles of c...

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... in general play a huge part throughout the film in terms of Konrad and Sophie's relationship and lives. It is they, not the symbol of the wall, that keeps the couple apart and later on keeps Konrad from seeing his son Alexander after he has failed to convince his sister to join Harald in the West. In one scene after Konrads sister ... east and west Germans meet in the streets on that November night in 1989, Konrad and Sophie at last meet in a unified country. The one barrier that had kept them apart is now gone. The final frame of the film is a close up of Sophie, possibly contemplating...

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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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... that a concentration camp in Dachau, Germany had been established. This was later simply known as Dachau Concentration Camp. This camp was located in a small town called Dachau and about 10 miles from Munich, Germany. It was entitled to accommodate 5,000 political prisoners, although after the camp had opened the population rarely ever dropped below 12,000. Yet as the war progressed ... ...

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... , he commanded a PT (torpedo) boat in the Pacific. When the boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer in August 1943, Kennedy, despite serious injuries, led the surviving crew through miles of perilous waters to safety. After the war, Kennedy worked for several months in 1945 as a reporter for the Hearst newspapers, covering a conference in San Francisco that established the United ... ...

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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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... the upper hand if the U.S. decided to retaliate against the Soviet Union. They would be able to launch intermediate range nuclear missiles back at the U.S. Florida being only about 95 miles away from Cuba would mean that the U.S. wouldn't be able to respond to a Russian counter-attack. The next fourteen days are known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October 15 ... ...

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... the arms race. Acknowledged by the fact that the U.S. had more nuclear missiles than the Soviet arsenal, and, more importantly, that some of the American missiles were based a mere 150 miles from its boarders, in Turkey, the Soviet leadership grew increasingly desperate to somehow tip the balance of power in its favor. The crisis in Cuba may indeed have been 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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... wall was built in 1961. The wall was built to divide the eastside and the west communist. The Berlin wall was constructed as a heavily forted barrier that is about 26 miles long. Berlin was a focal point for changes. the fall of the Berlin wall which will always be remember as the end of "The Cold War". this made west available to ... ...

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... of war and a quarantine not. As this quarantine was put into place, twenty to thirty ships were discovered traveling towards Cuba. The U.S. Navy was to stop the ships eight hundred 4^miles off the coast of Cuba, and if they contained weapons, then they would just be sent away. All of the ships either stoped by the quaratine line or turned around ... ...

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... insulation that damaged the shuttle Columbia's skin and led to its crack up in the skies over Texas. (Kluger 37) Hundreds of pieces of debris rained down across 500 square miles of eastern Texas and part of Louisiana. There were no reports of injury. NASA declared an emergency and warned area residents to watch out for falling debris and to avoid ... ...

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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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Cuba is an island approximately 90 miles off the coast of America. It had been under US influence until Fidel Castro seized power in 1959. Fidel expelled many Americans from Cuba and took over the US companies ... ...

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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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... would only be lethal for a few kilometres but the isotopes formed in the explosion and will fall down to earth after a couple of hours. These can travel any number of miles depending on the winds. The 6th August 1945 saw the day when the first nuclear bomb was detonated on a living site. The uranium bomb destroyed 60% of the city and ... ...

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