... ). Lenin's government would eventually end a long civil war and begin to censor and subordinate all political parties to itself. After Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin came to power and effectively he ruled as a totalitarian dictator. Stalin controlled most of the political power in Russia and began a series of purges to remove all non-Communists from office. These purges would later spread all throughout ... would produce home appliances. However, Khrushchev's plans didn't amount to much and he was blamed for the Russian "defeat- in the Cuban Missile Crisis. After Khrushchev came Brezhnev. ...

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... assured destruction (appropriately know as MAD) was the philosophy that both nations had the power to destroy each other completely in the event of an attack. The theory was based on three ideas. One: both nations have enough weapons do destroy the other, two: both nations can detect a ... missile. The pilot was taken prisoner and the plane was dismantled for help in developing Soviet technology. Replacing the U-2 in the late 1960s was the SR-71, a spy plane that flew higher and faster than any missile. Officially, the plane was used to fly extremely high along (but not inside) ... The...

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... casualties were running high. What came next was the longest and bloodiest retreat in U.S. history. The 8th army started back to the 38th parallel while the X corps retreated back to Hungnam. Constantly the Chinese's attacked, cutoff and destroyed U.N. units while the retreat was going on. When the X corps reached Hungnam the Navy sent a wall of steel to the outskirts of the city while the troops loaded the transports for the voyage to Pusan. Everything ... was still about to enter it's two bloodiest years.2 7 Talks at Panmunjom constantly broke down between the delegates from both side...

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... month after Truman took office. Finally, the U.S. could focus its energies and power to quickly defeat the Japanese with minimal loss of American lives. The Japanese had refused to sign the Geneva Convention of 1929. The United States and the world were aware of the inhumane treatment inflicted upon Prisoners of War by the Japanese Military. There was a 39% death rate of Prisoners of War ... It wasn't until April 25, 1945, that Henry Stimson, Secretary of War, gave Truman his first full briefing on the atomic bomb. In May of 1945, at Stimson's request, Truman authorized the creation of Th...

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... another one is formed. The entire world was hurting in one-way or another from the war and the different ideas and policies of the U.S. and Russia did not help matters any. After the war the two great superpowers, U.S. and Russia, led the way help the world recover. The U.S. hoped to help establish democratic governments in foreign lands, while Russia wanted to extend there so called "sphere of influence- over the world (Browers). The lack ... 1974 President Truman introduced the Marshall Plan. This plan set aside about $400 million in foreign aid to countries and with this money came t...

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... medium sentence; if they both remain quiet they will gain the minimum sentence. But the nerve racking part is if one rattles and the other one remains silent, one will go away with nothing and the other prisoner will get the whole sentence. To get a fuller understanding of this game you ... the game theory. In the following paragraphs, I will explain the specific case in which I decided to exemplify the game theory. The international case I chose was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis is a very important historic crisis due to the fact that it was the closest even...

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... be alluring to a man like Truman; after all he loved roads and came from a background in road construction. "In 1922, Truman made road improvements the central theme of his first campaign for Jackson County judge. He won, and oversaw the most ambitious road-building program ever undertaken in the county" (Pg 49). " One thing you had to know about Truman was that he was very ... I guess it could be a matter of perspective but I would like to believe that it was a long thought out process that was painstaking to make. The book also shows some people's infatuation with UFO's and Truman was...

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... of 1954. Following that battle, an international conference at Geneva, Switzerland, arranged a cease-fire and provided for a North-South partition of Vietnam until elections could be held. The United States was not a party to the Geneva Agreements and began to foster the creation of a Vietnamese regime in South Vietnam's autocratic president Ngo Dinh Diem, who deposed Bao Dai in October 1955, resisted holding an election ... a cease-fire. The American troops and POWs came home, but the war continued. Nixon termed it "peace with honor," since a separate government remained in Saigon, but...

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... role in Cuba was for humanitarian purposes. On Tuesday October 23rd, the day after President Kennedy made his speech to the American people explaining the crisis, CIA Director John McCone reported that the Russians were beginning to camouflage the missile sites [p.36]. The fact that they waited until their deception was discovered underscores their miscalculation of our intelligence. At 10 ... involved in the Caribbean, not just the U.S. and Soviet Union. Cuba was petrified that the U.S. would invade. Discussions during the U.S-Russian-Cuban Research Project in the late 1980's and early ...

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... free enterprise, antethesis of America's economic system; the encouragement of free enterprise and the privatization of industry. Thus, the divergent economic structures of the superpowers painted different perspectives, which inevitably sowed the seeds for further conflict between the USA and USSR. The conferences between the USA and USSR up until 1945 showed the various disagreements between the USA and USSR. These conferences were held in ... by many eastern Europeans, he actually did not intend to conquer the world. This was the basic misunderstanding which fueled the Cold War: the U...

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... the men need a release or the boredom would drive them crazy. An example of this is "Kiowa teaching a rain dance to Rat Kiley and Dave Jensen, the three of them leaping around barefoot while a bunch of villagers looked on with a mixture of fascination and giggly horror- (O'Brien, 39). ... This pact helps these two in that they know that if it came down to living their entire life in a wheel chair that the other would end it there in Vietnam. The men trusted each other to make no mistakes because one mistake could cause someone to lose their life. He pictured Kiowa's ... felt - like a civ...

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... the men need a release or the boredom would drive them crazy. An example of this is "Kiowa teaching a rain dance to Rat Kiley and Dave Jensen, the three of them leaping around barefoot while a bunch of villagers looked on with a mixture of fascination and giggly horror- (O'Brien, 39). ... This pact helps these two in that they know that if it came down to living their entire life in a wheel chair that the other would end it there in Vietnam. The men trusted each other to make no mistakes because one mistake could cause someone to lose their life. He pictured Kiowa's ... felt - like a civ...

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... of a system of voluntary guidelines that respected the willingness of reporters to avoid relasting information of value to the enemy. The medias job in the Vietnam war was to report the Vietnam war and bring it to the public's living rooms. The media provided an alternative critical view of the Vietnam War. This view came from the streets of America and jungles of Vietnam and ... military conflict was also to provide coverage of conflicts in the cold war and send pro American, anti communist messages (because if wasn't anti communist no one would watch it) Other forms of the media playe...

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... dropped on Hiroshima on the 9th of August 1945. Hiroshima was the only other city on the list that provided the U.S. carrier with a clear opening between the clouds, for the bombardier to drop the bomb. This resulted with approximately 150,000 people killed outright, and 125,000 injured, and within the next 5 months. Another 60,000 people had died from their injuries, and radiation. Over the following 5 years, 275,000 ... extinction of human civilization." Einstein also commented that had he known then, that his discovery of the nuclear theories would lead to this, he would have become ...

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... Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill- they agreed on some important matters. The old capital of Berlin was also divided into four zones, but Berlin itself remained deep inside of the Soviet zone. The Allies had many reasons for partitioning Germany. Overall, the purpose of dividing land up was to control Germany until a new government could be instated. West Germany became a surprisingly ... stable western democracy. However, East Germany was established as a Stalin-style communist state. The East German government was formed into a ... Soviet control, and Americans would resist Soviet expa...

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... Contra scandal. Who knows why he did it, but it seemed to have worked though, in November of 1989, the Berlin Wall came crashing down in pieces. Reagan was a popular president not only with Americans, but also with other leaders as well. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev remarked if someone else had been in his place, I don't know if what happened would have ... of there."" (History). Reagan proved to be a hard charger that stayed with it until the end. He was a man that stuck to his core values and committed himself to what he believed in. After Reagan left office and Bush took over, ev...

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... . From there it became fairly easy to go from being a nationalist to being a communist. The Afghans were finally united as one, a single working class. The Afghan leader Dau'd Tarraki was assassinated by Soviet invaders in late 1979 (Westdad, Islamist defiance: Iran and Afghanistan). The Soviet-Afghan War that dragged on for a decade was between anti-Communist Muslim Afghan Mujahidin guerrillas ... profit from its imperialist exploitation of other countries, while socialism could only lose economically in that competition. Though the U.S did not suffer such loses as the Soviet Union at ...

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... , Germany and many surrounding European Countries. "World events were dominated by a great struggle between the democratic and capitalist countries of the west, led by the United States, and the Communist nations, led by the Soviet Union " (Kort). It was a time where two of the greatest military powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, came to battle, but also a moment where they faced a struggle between opposing ideologies and ways ... decrease until 1994, when it slowly recovered (Vasager 2). A lot of women did not have a clear idea of how much it would cost to raise a child, or...

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... The developement of the Cold War until the Cuba Crisis (1945 - 1962) After the unconditional (bedingungslos) capitulation of Germany on may 8th 1945 the Cold War between the two power blocks USA and UdSSR started. The base of this argument was the different behaviour of dictatorship and democracy. Out of these two different ideologies problems came into existance which lead to mutual (gegenseitig) mistrust and caused higher animosity (Feindseligkeit). In the ... following time the beginning crisis won more seriousness - the mistrust of the two countries grew higher. It seemed, as if one ...

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... costs of alcoholism, attempted to reduce it. The Russian's also used humour to cope with the reality of a socialist existence. The following is an example of typical (black) Russian humour: Two men joined a queue in front of a bakery after a hard days work. After waiting several hours one man declares to the other, "I'm sick of this! I'm going ... the political system. Censorship was relaxed and the media became more open. As a consequence the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster of 1986 was publicised, embarrassing the government with claims of Soviet technological incompetence. Criticism of Gor...

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... reduced as well. The sector of the agriculture could not restore despite its privatization. The crisis in the economy was evident from the fact that all the desirable commodities were disappearing from the state stores" shelves and then were reappearing at inflated prices in the private enterprises that Gorbachev had encouraged. He also encouraged the Russian population to express themselves. When he came to power, people ... John Paul II, Gorbachev promised to open diplomatic relations with the Vatican and pledged that the government soon would pass a law guaranteeing freedom of religi...

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... he had it lifted. This result in the division of Germany into two nations. The Federal Republic in the west and the Democratic Republic in the East. As a result, in April 1949, twelve nations signed an agreement establishing the NATO and declared that any armed attack against one member would be considered an attack aganst all. This caused the Soviet Union to create an alliance of ... Krushchev took over the Communist Party. Khrushchev made things different. He said that the Soviet Union would follow a policy of "peaceful coexistence" with the West. This "peace" was to continue until the...

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... was attacked by Great Britain and France in 1855. During the years the Orthodoxy spread in Alaska. After the Russian revolution in 1917 a lot of people came to the US. With those refugees a lot of smart people came to America. One invented the TV and another one the helicopter. But during the cold war the Russian-Americans were not accepted anymore. The US government thought that the Russians were spies or a sort of comintern member ... . The prejudices that were published by the media as propaganda during the Cold War have manifested in the minds of the Americans. Unfortunately those pr...

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... and pursue other joint ventures in space. A contest that began in fear has become a partnership. The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialists Republic) and the United States had been disagreeing on things since 1917. When World War II ended in 1945, the Cold War began. The Cold War was not actually a real war; it was mainly a big competition for military leadership. It was more ... of a political battle than anything else. One of the main disagreements between the two countries was on the other's type of government. (The USSR was communist, while the U.S. had a democratic government.) During the...

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... their arsenal and first tested their nuclear weapons only five years prior to the Zhenbao Island incident. The Soviets, however, had amassed a massive and diverse stockpile of nuclear weapons. Not only did they hold many more nuclear warheads, their weapons delivery systems were much more developed compared to the Chinese. Immediately after the initial armed conflict on Zhenbao Island, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Soviet ... of arms control agreements or the spread of communism to the Middle East and Africa. To Western powers, the threat from communism seems to have diminished, but...

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