... most people know it today. Life in America after World War II was immersed in social and political turmoil. The country was in the middle of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and many people were left with a false sense of security. The looming threat of the Reds left many people to cling even closer to their families and loved ones. Families, in result, became ... left with more and more time to themselves when timesaving inventions. Things like the washing machine, refrigerator, automobile, radio, and television - invented shortly after WWII - tremendously saved time in suburban fami...

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... . Germany is a country that was once divided into two, East Germany and West Germany. In 1934 Adolph Hitler came to power. He destroyed the parliament and other government things. He created this government called the Nazi Party. He began to blame many problems on the Jews and government. Hitler broke out war many times when he ruled Germany. He killed his wife and dog by ... a chancellor; the chancellor is designated by the president and is the country's official. The chancellor is responsible for the Bundestag. The chancellor since 1998 is Gerhard Schroeder. The Bundestag is able to el...

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... up in a very poor household. His father, Vissarion was a shoemaker, and a violent alcoholic, and he would beat Joseph and his wife constantly. Although neither of his parents spoke Russian Joseph was forced to learn it because it was the language spoke at the Gori church school that he attended from 1888-1894. He was known for his outstanding school work, and was later ... is where he developed his new last name Stalin, or "man of steel". When Stalin was not in jail he was very busy from 1902-1919. He married his first wife Yekaterina Svanidze, in 1904, but she unfortunately died in 191...

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... investigate the rest of the town. He returned with the doctor to his home were Helen his brothers wife nurses him back to health. As the town is being over run my miscreants the homeless and radiated, Randy's Neighbor Miss Wechek begins to receive the first post apocalyptical radio broad casts, they are prerecorded civil defense messages telling of the total destruction of nearly every major town in the country ... . As well as the indoctrination of the lower cabinet secretary as the President of the United States ... ...

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... nominee for president in Los Angeles. Winning against Richard Nixon with 118,574 votes, he became the first Roman Catholic president and also the youngest ever to take office. As a president he had a goal to set his campaign and get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II. He also took vigorous action in ... the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy came to Texas accompanied by his wife, and Johnson. After leaving the plane, he was driven in an open lim...

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... is about a period that is now some 40 years ago. But it teaches a lesson we are always in danger of forgetting: that the greatest service we can do our country is to be true to our conscience. I particularly enjoyed the careful and thorough case HUAC assembles against De Niro. We are shown he has friends like: An alcoholic woman judged "unfit" to raise ... her child, who kills herself because her husband told the Committee she is a Communist and she cannot take care of her child. As a result they take away her child. De Niro's wife, a communist "teacher", whose access to the pure minds ...

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... at every turn by a clearly embittered Chaplin. It is an indictment of the sort of tactics that the McCarthy commission was purported to have used. 8 Shahdov has already decided to abandon the United States to go back to his wife in Europe at this point, but not before going to visit the grief stricken child who feels ashamed of his actions. He informs him that ... in order to humiliate and anger Chaplin into wanting to leave. As an often outspoken, occasionally politically motivated comedian they recognized the threat that someone such as Chaplin posed – however, it was indicative of ...

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... were but an illusion. Canada, between all this, stood aside in isolationism. Consequently, Canada paid very little attention to the actions and involvement of the Soviet Union within the country. However, all this changed on September 5, 1945, when Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk revealed documents proving the existence of Russian espionage in Canada. Igor Gouzenko was born in January 13, 1919 in Moscow, Rogachov. With a father ... it difficult to believe what he was revealing. That night, Igor grew frightened of the Soviets who would soon find out what he had done. And so he gathered his...

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... Bill Cullen's bar and bought one and a half cases of his brand of bourbon and six fifths of scotch for Helen, who is Mark's wife. Stocking up on food is probably the best thing that Randy could have done with the money. He should have bought more can foods instead of steaks and other foods that need to be kept cold because if ... cities that Randy could see. Unfortunately this was the first time the United States had experienced anything like this and was very unprepared. Russia blew up major cities all over the country. The President had barely enough time to retaliate the attack befor...

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... introduce Perestroika and Glasnost in order to improve the living standard of the Soviets, also to restore the government and military. However, at the end Perestroika turned out to be a complete failure. The policy of Glasnost and Perestroika proposed in reducing the direct involvement of the Communist Party leadership in the country's governance and increasing the local government's authority. In another word, the Communist Party leader should stay out of business ... communistsÅf regime began to lose their power over these Eastern bloc countries. For example, The Bulgarian communist...

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