... set up a puppet Communist clique and trained a Communist army, Deter minded to prevent the formation of a free South Korean government, the Russians fought against its establishment. On June 25 1950, A North Korean army - Russian-trained, Russian equipped, and presumably Russian-inspired- suddenly lunged southward across the borderline 38th parallel with the object of engulfing UN-sponsored South Korea. Beginning of Korean War ... General of his duties. President Truman had concluded that General of the Army Douglas Macarthur is unable to give his wholehearted support to the policies of t...

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... in a short time most of the major cities in the United States Are little more than Mushroom clouds in the mourning sky and the entire Russian mainland has been obliterated. Leaving many of the small towns like Fort Repose completely isolated from the outside world. Without power, communication and the ability ... in America. Many critics say that the Department of Defense, namely the CIA influenced his writing of this book at the very height of the Russian American arms race. Though it was never proven and Frank never admitted such, he never fully denied it either. After the two day war ....

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... Soviets were going to beat the Americans in the "Space Race" and reap all of the benefits from it as well: Reconnaissance, surveillance, communication, and delivery platforms for weapons. The Russian's philosophy was built on the teachings of Clausewitz in that they maintained that war was a political means, peace was only a step towards war, and that conflict is inevitable. The Soviet ... weapons. The United States overall sided with the arms controller in order to eventually rid the world of its nuclear threat. The bomber gap and the missile gap were both Russian propaganda plots that...

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... ". This attitude was in place because the Japanese had shown themselves to have a much stronger military than had been previously thought when they defeated the Russian forces in a territory dispute. The Russians had a quite mighty army at the time. The reason this attitude was enforced during World War 2 was ... for the countries in them to protect any country that was also in them from a direct threat from communism. Another policy that the Australian government implemented was the "Forward Defence Policy" which was implemented so defence forces could move forward into Asia to stop any ...

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... - which it probably was. But as the weeks wore on and tons of supplies continued to pour daily into Berlin, it became an act of defiance and of calling the Russian bluff (Phillips, 1966, p. 250). Truman supported the U.N. plan to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, and recognized the State of Israel on May 14,1948. Truman decided to ... , and handed them over to be sent to the Soviet Union, after he had denied doing so. The United States supported Chinese Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, could not withstand the advance of Communist forces under Mao Zedong....

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... fighting, or a "hot"war. The tensions between the USSR and the USA originated well before the end of the Second World War. It had all begun in 1917 when the Russian Revolution took place and Soviet Communism was born. The USA alongside its allies sent troops to try and destroy the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and try to crush communism altogether ... Korean war brought nothing but destruction, starvation and homelessness. About 4 million people were killed and the North still remained Communist while the South still had the western type system of government. The Korean war had a major i...

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... the West. Therefore, even the sinister Mundt is not clearly part of any political or ideological party. Dr. Strangelove also makes a point in showing that those who work in the government may be doing more harm than good. Director Stanley Kubrick seems to be simply saying that the entire war is foolish business. Kubrick portrays both sides within the War as ... of the world at the end of the film is a situation where everyone loses, as opposed to in The Manchurian Candidate, where the "good guys- triumph in the end. The Russian Ambassador in Dr. Strangelove is the one character who coul...

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