... qualified to lead the world," the president began by observing: "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."2 His words were a far cry from a "Lincolnian" rhetoric depicting America as "the last best hope of man on earth."3 ... Finally the Truman Doctrine completed the transition. John Fousek believes the doctrine "tapped into the existing fusion of universalist and nationalist values that already shaped much public discourse concerning America's role in the post-war world It in...

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... , both East and West, worked around the clock to uncover what the other side was plotting. The cold war was not only fought in European country's. The NATO and Warsaw Pact countries especially the USA and the Soviets supported wars and revolutions across the world playing the victor would become their ally. In 1959 when the communist leader Fedel Castro came to power in Cuba, supported by the Soviets, the USA saw this ... three unsuccessful rebellions against USA rule. In 1953 a new war for independence began led by a man named Fidel Castro. Castro was a 24 year old law graduate with a h...

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... he. As the car drives along the shore, the Captain remains motionless and focused on the road ahead. In the background, the lieutenant seems uneasy, he itches his nose and looks back out the window. The shot then cuts back to the shot of the road as the camera travels along it. Eventually in the distance we approach a man, who approaches the car from the shore. The car has to swerve to avoid hitting the man. The obviously drunken man mumbles what ... of Captain, with Thomsen hunched over the bar in the near background. After identifying with the sedated the Lieutenant, and the common sa...

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... one writer put it, between the Blue Bloods (the New England aristocracy) and the Green Bloods (the rising, and largely Irish, immigrant class). Again, Joseph Kennedy, Sr.'s money and connections had tremendous impact. It was a Republican year, nationwide, as the popular general Dwight Eisenhower won the presidential election over the Democratic candidate, Adlai Stevenson; Eisenhower's Vice-President was former Congressman Richard Nixon. To the dismay of old Yankee society, however, JFK won ... in 1969. More recently, JFK's son, the handsome and much-beloved John F. Kennedy, Jr., crashed...

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... she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. After leaving the Seminary in 1899, he joined the Social Democrats, Russia's Marxist political party, and became a professional revolutionary. He worked in Tiflis, and then in the Black Sea port of Batumi, organizing worker protests, which led to his ... and the government. In an amazing scene that was broadcast around the world--and which played a large role in exposing the true nature of the Soviet regime--every one of the accused Bolsheviks confessed their supposed...

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... the world, when the U.N. was a year old. Since then, it has helped supply food in 275 emergency situations in ninety-four countries."" Some of the key accomplishments of the U.N. in the past include the creation of the first international principles and standards of criminal justice in 1955, the conception of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), which outlines environmental issues, in 1972, and the mapping-out of the ... important. Some possible examples are the U.N Conference on the Law of the Sea, the U.N Conference on the Protection of the Ozone Layer, and the United Nation...

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... be back on United States soil by Christmas, which was just five months later. Two decisions would make the possibility of the troops coming home impossible. Truman ordered the 7th Fleet to prevent any attack on Formosa; he said he would put a stop to all air and sea operations. Truman's actions allowed Zedong to feel secure that Chiang Kai-shek would not be able to ... because he did not want disrupt the good old boys in the Deep South . Many opponents of Truman see no reason for this reluctance since he had already won reelection. Truman was a man of his word by most people's accounts ...

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... "third-in-command", second only to Trotsky and Lenin himself. Apparently Lenin had great trust in Stalin's force of character and personal initiative; Stalin was among the very few who never fled Russia and more over many of the old-order Bolsheviks had proved to be somewhat weak-willed and unimaginative during both the Revolution itself and the Civil War which followed. Just a month later ... to the program and purposes of the Atlantic Charter and pledging their cooperation in the war against the Axis powers. Stalin motivated all the Soviet people to fight "The Great Patriotic War". The...

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... Graveyard. Mourners brought flowers to a grave and then dropped out of sight. More than half of the emigrants between 1949 and 1961 were under the age of 24. For people under 60 years old, lawful emigration was not easy. Legal processes were lengthy and difficult, and they were eventually successful in discouraging the young people from leaving the country. However, emigration for the elderly was no problem since they had ... Sea southward through the center of Germany all the way to Hildburghausen. From there it went east toward the border of Czechoslovakia. While the Wall was being bu...

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... -command", second only to Trotsky and Lenin himself. Apparently Lenin had great trust in Stalin's force of character and personal initiative; Stalin was among the very few who never fled Russia and more over many of the old-order Bolsheviks had proved to be somewhat weak-willed and unimaginative during both the Revolution itself and the Civil War which followed. Just ... the principles of the Atlantic Charter, the Soviet government and 25 other Allied governments signed a declaration formally subscribing to the program and purposes of the Atlantic Charter and pledging their cooperation i...

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... pretended to be dead. It was 35 degrees below zero and the soldier ended up crawling on hands and knees to escape the other Chinese soldiers who came. Other Korean veterans remember the insects during the summer that were the size of a man's fist. Korea is a country made up of lots of mountainous terrain, and the fighting was bloody and difficult. The United States soldiers in Korea had a saying that for every ... , (3) that it contain the names of all who died or remain missing, and (4) that it make no political statement about the war. The largest national design competition ever held i...

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• Grade Level: High School