Study Guide: Cold War Exam #2 Algeria - the largest of France's North African colonies. In 1954, radical nationalist groups merged to create the National Liberation Front, and launched an uprising in cities all around Algeria. France, having just lost Indochina, sent a bunch of troops and fought a war that lasted 7 years. Large number of atrocities led to it being labeled the "dirty war". Charles de Gaulle helped get France ... of. Berlin Crisis(1958) - Khrushchev planned on turning control of Berlin over to the East German gov't, and the West would have to negotiate access and control over t...

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... authority over the animals. The relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed in the farm rests upon the dichotomy of visibility of the animals and the invisibility of Napoleon, that is of the power of the latter and the powerlessness of the former. In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective to study the relationship, in the modern context, between the governed and the governor. The latter, for ... that stipulates his superiority and irrevocab...

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... freely displayed. Wartime crimes such as rape, pillage and the killing of innocent people often go unpunished during wartime, yet are usually completely unacceptable in peace time society. In the novel, the boys in the tribe give bloodcurdling chants and join in killing Simon. E.g. "Kill the beast!" "Cut his throat!" "Spill his blood!" (Golding, W. 1988. "Lord of the Flies", pg. 168). "Truly, to tell ... lies is not honourable, But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonourably is pardonable."- Sophocles (496 ... ?- 406 B.C.), Creusa. Fragment 323 In the novel, Simon neve...

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... as when Squealer announces that Napoleon is dying, the audience already knows that really, he is just hung over from drinking the night before. The main ironic theme, which takes place throughout the entire novel, is the transition of the pigs into "human beings". At the beginning of the story, we have Old Major's clear vision of the future that outlaws humans and all their features. It goes against his ideals ... to copy human behavior, but one by one the fundamental rules, the Seven Commandments, are revised and then disregarded. Consequently ... ...

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... . Solzhenitsyn describes Shukhov as an inmate of a Stalinist labor camp somewhere in Siberia in 1951. He is the novel's protagonist and the story follows him and all his actions. Shukhov is a somewhat uneducated man from a working class. He was captured by the Germans during World War II, but escaped and arrived back to the Red Army hoping to be accepted as a hero, but instead was accused of treason ... is sentenced for providing milk to nationalist rebels hiding in the forest. Gopchik is fresh and innocent, and at the time of the novel, has not yet been hardened by life in the camp. The...

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... : "What is to be Done." This particular book dealt with the notion that the Russian peasantry was a viable revolutionary force, but lacked the capability of developing on its own. Lenin believed that an outside force was needed to guide the working class into revolution. His solution was a revolutionary party that would come from the bourgeoisie and be composed mainly of middle class intellectuals. Digging farther he describes ... the party as being a small, highly centralized, highly disciplined, conspiratorial band of professional revolutionaries. The usage of violence would be at the ...

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... "Beasts of England", which becomes their national anthem and it is sung throughout the book, playing an important role later on in the book. There are many other things which occur in the exposition that become important symbolisms as the book progresses. The exposition in Animal Farm the movie is the same as the books in terms of plot, but it is different in many other ways. One must remember ... that the movie is merely and adaptation of the book into film, so almost all the events that take place ... in the book will take place in the movie. This is the case with the exposition, yet...

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... and the police, joined the revolution by February 27, and by the following day, Petrograd fell into the hands of the revolutionaries. The February revolution was the spontaneous outbreak of a large number of workers and peasants. By February 27, two organizations came into existence namely the Provisional Committee of the Duma and the Provisional Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies. The latter which represented factory workers, social revolutionaries, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was to guide the revolution. The ... Czarist ministers were arrested on February 2...

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... to find. These committees grew in their depth and breadth and started to take on political objectives; such as the 8-hour work day, and greater wages. These goals are not the goals of a headless mob of workers wanting to tear the state apart. Right from the start the workers and soldiers were suspicious of the newly formed government. The provincial government was headed by 10 capitalist ministers, ... or so the workers and soldiers thought. They felt that the revolution had not brought them what they wanted, and they felt cheated. The ministers were not about to give the land to the pe...

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... consumer products--at higher prices. "I paid 120 pesos (U.S. $140) for a pair of shoes," says one Cuban. "That's tough because my husband and I each earn only 130 pesos a month." A senior Cuban official claims that the purchasing power of the people is "high and rising." He reports that 2.9 million Cubans, 40 percent of them women, have jobs. In some families where several persons work, pesos are ... uniformed men and women vowed--each on a bended knee--never to surrender to American imperialism. Schoolchildren, at a ceremony attended by Castro, recited a prepared chant to the memory of...

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... influence. This would be an opportune time, since the United States was heavily invested, both economically and politically, in the Vietnam conflict in 1969. Ten years prior to the skirmish on Zhenbao Island, KGB defector Major Anatoli Golitsyn provided disturbing evidence stating that the Chinese-Russian rift was a deceptive plot to allow the Soviets to further advance their long-range nuclear missile ... program, while allowing China to seek increased Western economic ais and to improve trade relations. KGB Chairman Alexander Shelepin briefed his fellow KGB officers about this purport...

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... colleges had been made between the two states, so that many young students from the SRV were sent to East Germany. In most cases, the state and the citizens of the GDR financed the stay and study of the foreigners through so-called solidarity funds with the goal of putting down a marker against the imperialistic Western States. Unlike the 'brain drain' common in the the USA and other western industrial countries, the fundamental reason that young students ... from socialist countries attended college in foreign socialist countries was the endeavour the be trained in highly qualified job...

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... foresee consequences led to confusion and eventually failure. "The average Kolkhoznik benefited little from the post-1958 innovations so he reverted to his private plot. This in turn forced the first secretary to put more restrictions on it. It was a vicious circle" (McCauley 251). The old problems, which haunted the agriculture sector, came back to life. The peasants were not happy and in regards to the farms, there was an ... absence of control from the top. Consequently, Khrushchev's combated the problems with more reforms. Thus the "vicious circle" continued. In ... ...

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... their desire to survive as one people preserving common racial features and culture. Israeli society has been shaped by immigration patterns, more than most other countries. Changes in the rates of immigration and the characteristics of immigrants are critical for understanding each of the major themes that guide the analysis of the population. So the multi-cultures that comprise the state of Israel finally had a chance to immigrate to Israel ... when in 1950 the Israeli parliament called the Knesset passed a law authorizing citizenship for anyone who settles in ... ...

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... to the American and British public soon after the war's end, there was sharp reaction. All actions went against the Atlantic Charter, which was the ideal of the public, and the renouncement of this caused a mixture of fear and hostility toward those nations that seemed to "participate willingly- in the march to communism. The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration of principles to guide a post-World War II peace settlement. The charter supported the general ... principles of national self-determination and non-aggression. It resulted from ... ...

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... foresee consequences led to confusion and eventually failure. "The average Kolkhoznik benefited little from the post-1958 innovations so he reverted to his private plot. This in turn forced the first secretary to put more restrictions on it. It was a vicious circle" (McCauley 251). The old problems, which haunted the agriculture sector, came back to life. The peasants were not happy and in regards to the farms, there was an ... absence of control from the top. Consequently, Khrushchev's combated the problems with more reforms. Thus the "vicious circle" continued. In ... ...

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... study some of the events happen during in the early Cold War can give some contrast between the early Cold War and post Cold War world. In the early events of the Cold War, it clearly shown that the Cold War was a formation of a bipolar world from two opposing sides. For the Soviet there was a socialist camp and the imperialist camp, to the Americans there was the Soviet bloc and the free world (Robertson 129). The ... are often located within the Core State or states of the civilization. However, the number and the role of core states from civilization to civilization may change over t...

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... study some of the events happen during in the early Cold War can give some contrast between the early Cold War and post Cold War world. In the early events of the Cold War, it clearly shown that the Cold War was a formation of a bipolar world from two opposing sides. For the Soviet there was a socialist camp and the imperialist camp, to the Americans there was the Soviet bloc and the free world (Robertson 129). The ... are often located within the Core State or states of the civilization. However, the number and the role of core states from civilization to civilization may change over t...

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... required coercion of the people in charge and simply doing and saying anything to get support for their endeavors. Anarchy and chaos in the Russian government allowed the Bolshevik party, to be, by the ultimate means they resorted to, thieves in the night, steal the control of the country with everyone unawares. This was the revolution. Not a popular uprising because of social turmoil that forced the rising of leaders to guide the people into ... safe harbor, but calculated and devious political actions made possible by the whirlwind of forces that had collapsed Russia from the top down...

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... -cold War Europe, where conflict has been reduced by growing trade between the continent's democratic states. In conclusion, perhaps the two most influential of international relations theorists had the most radically opposed opinions on their subject of study. Hans Morgenthau's realism is built entirely around self-interest and power politics in a world where states eternally struggle to outdo each other. Kant's liberalism envisions a world where ... international conflict is resolved by the spread of liberal democracy, commerce, and the growth of international organizations in influenc...

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... 's failure to provide a liveable wage from collectivised farming, Stalin issued the Kolhoz Charter in February 1935. This charter made it legal to re-grant to peasants a small private plot on which they could keep a small number of livestock and trade surplus produce grown on their private plots. The result was that yields from these small plots were much higher than ... yields from collectivised farms as the peasants spent entirely disproportionate amounts of time and energy on their own private plots compared to ... eight million employed. Russian production increased by 250% between 1...

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... Chiefs of Staff, who argued that the naval blockade would be like, "closing the door after the horse had left the barn- [p.12]. The JCOS felt that the quarantine would bring about a confrontation with the Soviets and their ships; they thought we should concentrate on Castro and Cuba. Although it is true that the blockade wouldn't remove the weapons, or the work being done on the missile sites, as RFK wrote, "This was ... done in Berlin or Turkey? Even JFK agreed that if he done nothing, " I would have been impeached- [45]. RFK, referring to a meeting between himself, JFK, Special Assist...

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... Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin). In the years of the Cold War (1947-91) geopolitical anxieties led the world's great powers to maximize their economic strengths and military preparedness as quickly as possible. This outlook inspired such efforts as increasing agricultural modernization, road and railway-building, and the implementation of new nuclear weapons programs. However, there are factors which present issues that internationalized the study of the Cold War. As ... a result, a research timeline which began with one-dimensional and pro-west interpretations, shows and i...

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... involvement in World War II. It has also captured the consequences that the whole world had to endure because of WWII. Lastly, it prudently examined the United States of America policies that resulted in creation and maintenance of the Japanese Relocation Camps and horrific repercussions. These are the reasons why I took Cold War and decolonization period as my topic of study (McMahon, 1981). Under U.S. foreign policies with Europe between ... WWI-WWII. By that time, United States emerged as the richest nation in the whole world. This status dove the foreign goals of the country to the ...

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... (which should have halted a chain reaction) failed." The causes of this horrific nuclear explosion and the subsequent results to the explosion are said to be, politics, design errors, and human/crew errors during the reactors failure. The design and political causes go hand in hand and the political problems may have caused the design errors. The stemming effects from what happened at Chernobyl are, people being ... people and can still be felt to this day. The most important and obvious effect would be the health of the people. Many studies have been done to see whether the explosion ca...

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