... confront Truman. Even more surprisingly, Stalin remained silent without any questions the following days (Bohlen, pg 247-248). The reason behind Stalin's lack of interest in response to Truman, was since the Soviet Union had also begun their nuclear research Stalin felt that it would be improper to ask the US about theirs, since the Russians had also kept it a secret. Truman was provided with ... them a window of opportunity to use Japan's stubbornness and cruelty as an excuse to test the true abilities of the newly invented A-bombs. The nuclear bombs were the most important, and influe...

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... would challenge the foundation of the accepted traditional view of why the conflict existed; and the two schools would sharply differ from one another. As the 1950's ended and the world entered the bedlam of the 1960's, the traditional ideas of the Orthodox school historians had introduced about the Origins of the Cold War were put to the test by a new school that aimed to revise the story. In the middle of the 1960's, ... before. Newer works span multiple archives, including Soviet sources. Cold War History has blossomed and become a field in its own right. And the field has expanded t...

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... of what is important to our leaders. The decision to drop the atomic bomb was just that...Atomic. It coast millions of lives, lives across the globe. August 6th of 1945 the was day the first bomb was dropped on Japan, but in no way was it the first bomb to be dropped. Months of preparation, and numerous test bombs were dropped on your, mine, and our ... soil. The very same soil that we were fighting to defend. These war ... priority. Originally hid for the public, our leaders, the Interim committee, had decided that the dropping of the A-bomb would be a dramatic psychological blow to t...

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... a parliament in Russia at the time, it had few powers and the masses of the people had no voice. The war effort put a huge strain on the ordinary people of Russia. It was they who bore the costs of the war, the humanitarian effort (fighting at the front) and the economic hardships brought about by the war. Food supplies quickly ran short and the people began to starve. The people of Petrograd rose up ... and rioted in March 1917, the Tsar, Nicholas the 2nd ... ...

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... Greenpeace.org the events that led up to the failure of the 4th reactor at Chernobyl was: "The operating crew was planning to test whether the turbines could produce sufficient energy to keep the coolant pumps running in the event of a loss of power until the emergency diesel generator was activated. To prevent any interruptions to the power of the reactor, the safety systems were deliberately switched off. To conduct the test, the reactor had ... to be slowly increased. But 30 seconds after the start of the test, there was an unexpected power surge. The reactor's emergency shutdown (wh...

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... peace and hence the security of the United States."" This initiated the American policy of containment, which was reinforced by the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949; NATO provided for the collective security of the United States and Western Europe against any attack. American resolve to uphold this peacetime alliance faced a major test during the Truman administration, with the Soviet blockade of ... maintaining, if not superiority, then parity with the other. This concern manifested itself in the policies of several presidents. Kennedy accelerated the develop...

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... and relinquish all offensive ammunitions to the U.S.S.R. The message was the first of many in a chain of direct and indirect correspondence amid the White House and the Kremlin during the course of the conclusion of the contingency. Kennedy furthermore used national television that night in order to update the citizens of the unraveling intensification in Cuba, his judgment ... a solution that extraordinarily bore a resemblance to what Scali recounted earlier. On October 27, Khrushchev again communicated with Kennedy specifying that any offer required the inclusion of the elimination of U...

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... , Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Instead, communist governments were established in all those countries, noncommunist political parties were suppressed, and genuinely democratic elections were never held. At the time of the Yalta Conference, both Roosevelt and Churchill had trusted Stalin and believed that he would keep his word. Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments ... 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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... to lack of funding, the project had a slow start. The Vanguard's design consisted of a 3-stage rocket. It uses liquid propellant in its first two stages, then uses a slower burning solid propellant for its last stage. The rocket would be capable of traveling from the U.S. to the USSR, and also powerful enough to launch a satellite into space. Only one sized down test flight was made from ... December of 1956 till the Soviets launched Sputnik. After Sputnik was launched though, the government did put more money into the program. Several more tests were done, and then ... the first fully ...

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... our country, and if we work harder and longer, we should receive more of it, right? This is a western, individualistic way of thinking, but it makes sense. One of the replies to the article (which can be found at http://home.eol.ca/~smithda/exeden/communistemail.html, as there seems to be no startup page for this website), an e-mail by Chris ... them were captured. Castro then openly declared his ties with the Soviet Union. In 1961, in response to fleeing citizens, the Soviets constructed the Berlin Wall, physically splitting the democratic West Berlin and the Communist East Berlin. Any...

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... for change but also showed little desire to achieve it."" Tsar Nicholas II, supported by Alexandra, not only had poor advisers but a hugely corrupt system working for him to maintain the strength of his dynasty. What Nicholas failed see was that by suppressing his people he left them with an increased desire to rebel. Nicholas II favoured ministers who gave him ... , Stolypin, sent Nicholas a report outlining Rasputin's misdeeds, he was expelled. But not long later Rasputin was back, at the request of Alexandra. Public disapproval of Alexandra, due to Rasputin, also began to circulate. O...

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... base was described to have inter-mediate range missiles, which were capable of carrying a nuclear payload! Worse news was still to come, as on October 17th, the CIA reported that the sixteen to thirty two missiles could obliterate over eighty million Americans, as they had a range of two thousand miles with a flight time of just seventeen minutes. Whilst this was being ... was unofficial. Kennedy said, that if Russia removed her missiles form Cuba, so would America remove her missiles from Turkey. This deal was sent to Khrushchev, and on the 28th, Dobrynin informed Kennedy that the mis...

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... of change from past presidents. As Crockatt states, "For several months following Reagan's inauguration, there was little inclination within the administration to undertake new initiatives with the Soviet Union-(316). Reagan wanted to test out the waters, get the hang of everything and win over the public before he tried anything too radical. It was a smart move, though he was ready to attack Communism, which had ... been a longtime hatred of his. He had to start out slow and gradually work his way into defeating the "evil empire- (Busch ... , 196) as he called the Soviet Union. Reagan ...

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... embassies in 162 countries and they are the most populous country in the world. China's military is the largest, with 2.3 million active troops (Global Fire Power). All of this being said, it is understandable why China is one of the countries being talked about most in today's international society. The rise of China raises a lot of questions regarding the United States and its hegemonic cycle, with ... one being the seemingly most important- will China rise up to be the United States' challenger? But in order to discuss that question in its full ... complexity, it is essential to und...

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... ), he made no objections regarding the 'percentage agreements'. 5. Comment on the Usefulness of the Document According to this document, it appears that Churchill left a distinct impression that Stalin totally agreed with the 'percentages agreement'. However, after the publication of the document, the Soviet authorities bitterly denied and continued to deny. Consequently, the repudiation from the Soviets and Churchill's account prompted serious historical questions (Resis, 1978). For example, Resis ... (1978) questioned whether the agreement actually ended as Churchill portraye...

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... childcare if they had a child over the age of one, and a year of maternity leave of full pay (Vasager 2). After the wall came down this option was taken from them, and many German jobs began to disappear, leaving young people fleeing and starting new lives in West Germany. During this time some questions have also rose about the crime rate, and if it arose ... due to the economic standpoint. In Vasagar's article he stated "Children born to parents in former East Germany, between 1991 and 1993, are at least 50 percent ... within East Germany, they still manage to have downgrading number...

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... of life? This is one of the most frequently asked questions by all of humanity since the beginning of time. It is a question naturally asked by people because they have the ability to make choices about life. The question would appear to be difficult to answer and different for every individual depending on their circumstances. It is the ultimate search for truth and purpose in life ... , although the meaning of life is believed to ... and moral man, not all aspects of his purpose in life focuses on his moral but mainly on his optimistic attitude in excruciating situations. Ivan's optim...

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... 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 Israel. However, there were continuous conflicts on defining the criteria for citizenship and thus identifying the real Jew. There were a lot of debates and questions ... concerning this issue inside Israel: "Landmark court cases have narrowed the issue but have not resoled it. A 1970 amendment to the law of retur...

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... Kennedy's administration, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) came very close to a nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis, this was the most dangerous state of the Cold War. In this paper I will attempt to give a clear understanding of the Cold War. I will answer many questions, such as: What was the Cold War? What caused the tension between the U.S. and the USSR? And finally ... , how were these problems solved. The cold war is a term used to ... describe the approximate forty-year "battle". The war started when the U.S. and Soviet Union were both con...

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... a situation that was unique for the successor states of the Soviet Union. The penetration of the Communist regime into every facet of life left the Russian people with little democratic traditions. Russia faces that seemingly impracticable task of economic liberalization and democratization. This is combined with a necessity to answer nationalist and ethnic questions that have plagues Russia for centuries. The dilemma facing the Russian Federation is that it ... finds itself with a charge of establishing and following democratic institutions, while at the same time facing secessionary p...

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... was a reaction of radical economic changes, a wish of independence of Union States, and a struggle between political leaders and international pressure. Economy stagnation was one of the reasons that caused the collapse. In the 1980s, after several years of economy growth, USSR struggled in an economic stagnation which was considered as an inevitable result of a long-term command economy. First, an ... meaning closeness and openness, which introduced a profound exchange in internal affairs. It allowed Soviets to learn and exchange ideas with China and Western countries. Opening to the W...

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... to mobilize and gather enough troops, and supplies to fight back. After the brutal bloodshed of the Battle of Stalingrad, the German army was very much shaken up and was not able to resist the forces of the Allies in the latter of the war. The USSR's Defeat Over Germany Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941 with a prejudice that they could defeat and take Moscow by ... October that year. The German army were advancing extremely rapidly with the deadly Blitzkrieg attack, and one million Soviet troops were conscripted ... to mobilize and gather enough troops, and supplie...

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... a state of virtual civil war.  In early 1979 popular opposition forced the shah to leave the country. Hundreds of the shah's supporters were tried and executed, others fled the country, and the westernization of Iran was reversed. Khomeini came into power, the Shah fled to the U.S and immediate anger against the U.S. arose, as the new Iranian Islamist government demanded that Shah be sent back and tried for ... 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 So...

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... change in Russia, Nicholas' autocracy government became outdated. This was due to urbanisation and industrialisation. This caused the peasant to rebel against the government and in the long term cause the abdication of the Tsar. Tsar Nicholas II lack of leadership and poor decisions was an underlying cause of his abdication. Nicholas ... between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Stalin proved himself to be a more capable politician and won. Stalin had an obsession for industrialisation and the need expand industrially. He forced peasants into giving up their land, grain and agriculture. St...

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... bomb, which would eventually become the atomic bomb. The research, studying and testing of this atomic bomb received the code name the Manhattan project. President Truman was the one who made the decision to use the atomic bomb, and one of the most admirable things about president Truman was that despite the scrutiny of the use of the atomic bomb, he stood his ground in the decision he made, he didn ... not only saved many lives because Japan surrendered but it also saved lives by showing to the rest of the world the power the United States had and the horrific scene that atomic warfare ...

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