... of business between Russia and Japan on the basis of mutual interest. What is the potential strength of the Russian Far East? It consists in the point that the Russian Far East has a vast territory with abundant natural resources. The natural resources are roughly classified into forest resources, marine resources, mineral resources and energy resources, but these are not sufficiently utilized. As for mineral resources, many kinds of valuable ... mineral ore, for example, gold, diamond, etc. are under ... ...

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... , human, material and financial resources. The victory in the Cold War, as in "hot" wars, won one of those who had more resources and use them most effectively. Independent methodological interest to historians is the periodization of the Cold War. In the known sources, again, there are a variety of approaches to the solution of the issue, often without any argument. For example, many still with a light hand of some Soviet politicians did ... , in our opinion hasty statements, consider that the USSR has reached parity with the US in the early 70s. Detailed analysis shows - that's not true...

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... relations. During the Cold War "both Tokyo and Washington developed their China policies in part to thwart Moscow's designs towards China and Asia." The US and China no longer act together to balance Soviet power; the US-Japan alliance no longer serves as a weight against balancing the power of both China and the Soviet Union; and Japan and China do not architect their relationship in light of US ... South Korea as major players in the Asian political arena is emblematic of the transition from the Cold War to the post Cold War system of international relations in the region. "Korea was ...

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... of American troop position. Sometimes the little kids who would beg for rations from the soldiers were actually making booby traps, and one of those booby traps killed a buddy from the group (Mason, Wang & Wilson 1995). The rage that such conditions obviously generated was widespread among American troops. It resulted in some acts of violence and general mistrust toward the Vietnamese, toward the authorities and higher ranking military officials ... , and after the war toward the society that ... ...

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... says that, the post-war stalemate resulted in the division of Europe into two camps for the next forty-five years, and the temporary solution of the German Problem' with the division of Germany into two separate states. The global situation in the post-World War Two time period therefore established the necessary tension for the Cold War to begin. Other factors which contributed to the origins of the Cold War include that the United States had ... was certainly an anti-communist attitude in America, and it aided the American government to present the Cold War to the people in this light...

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... caused by the bombings were shown and every night on the news it gave the number of causalities. This hugely affected the Americans' opinion of the war in Vietnam. Along with that, the media itself changed. Before this war, the media mostly focused on the positive aspects of the war. It showed the United States' actions in a positive light and told and showed the people what they wanted to hear and see. For journalist, money ... wasn't the problem, they had no ... ...

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... isn't, at least, in any threatening light. But even though the United States is the only super power in the world, NATO is still a prevalent force in Europe. Why? What possible dangers could the US face now? The fact is that, since we live in a unipolar world, the only pole in this world is very intent on retaining that position. While, back in the 1950's NATO was a good way in keeping the Soviets at Bay, NATO ... "disorganized" enemy. Vietnam and Afghanistan were both costly for the super powers, and the Second World War proved a mighty cost for the entire world. This just proves that ...

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... battleships to wait off the coast. He also asked the UN to condemn the invasion. Truman eventually won back South Korea and the threat of actual violence between Russia and America, for the time being, faded. In the 1950's, the Arms Race became the focus of the Cold War. America tested the first Hydrogen (or thermo-nuclear) bomb in 1952, beating the Russians in the creation of the "Super bomb". The political climate of the cold war became more ... defined in January 1954, when US ... ...

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... perspective, a preoccupation with the Soviet Union would become ineffectual at best. The 1970's were a traumatic period for the United States. The fall of Saigon in 1975 underlined the fact that, for the first time in history, America had lost a war. The Watergate scandal had convulsed Americans and weakened the presidency relative to Congress. Combined with the incumbency of a weak president and the Iranian seizure of the American diplomats in Teheran, a crisis of confidence in Americans had developed ... . What emerged from the tumult was an atmosphere ... ...

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... that it was ideological factors that laid the groundwork for the new Iranian foreign policy in the early 1990's and then characterized their global interactions for the next decade. It was this policy that identified the United States as Iran's primary opposition. Tehran saw the Untied States as actively working to weaken and undermine Iran's position as the "natural" hegemony of the Gulf region. However, he United States and ... was to take this petroleum revenue and build a nuclear power grid before the petroleum runs out. However, due the change in ideology of the ruling regime, the ...

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... 's administration begun to launch new order in Europe. The main tool being used to extend its influence in Europe was NATO. In the 90s, just after the fall of communism, the countries of central and eastern Europe received the promise of their inclusion in the structure of NATO in exchange for full support of the US political aspirations. The common belief about the end of the Cold War was very strong in American political circles. Russia's weakness ... has been used largely by the US, which increased its manor in Europe to the greatest extent since the beginning of the Cold ... ...

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... to exit their homes and come into the United States. Precisely, unification of Italy was not favourable for the Southerners (Cole 529). The unification came with tax policies, which was disastrous for the Southern Italians. For this reason, immigration into the United States seemed to be the only feasible option for the Southern Italians. This explains the reason as to why a significant proportion of the Italian immigrants in the United States came from Southern Italy ... . Early immigration of Italians into America can be traced to the 1880s when Southern ... ...

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... , privatizing corporations and programs and slashing government spending like welfare, education and health service. SAPs was one among the programs that received most criticism, for its causing partial loss in national sovereignty for the debtor nations. Most of the changes that it imposed on developing nations hurt the poorest in the debtor nations. Its requirement on cutting social services dramatically effected those who rely on them to live; a currency ... . Its long-time raw-material-exporting relied economy, and the legacy of exploitive colonial regime, the undermined the social st...

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... for the United State's actual reason to drop the bombs. Critics against the bomb are mainly looking for reasons to blame the United States for the deaths of innocent civilians but fail to recognize that the two countries were at war with each other. The two options for the United States to win the war were to continue the naval blockade and invade the mainland, or to drop the new, highly destructive atomic bombs. In the long run, the ... of its cities had been destroyed by conventional bombing, the home islands were being blockaded by the American Navy, and the Soviet Union entered the ...

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... of them used them then it would probably lead to the end of mankind. There was also the Space race, which also involved competition between the two super powers. This time they were competing for people in space, for example, Russia had the first man in space but America had the first man on the moon. The main aim of the Space Race was to develop rocket Technology. By 1960 both ... at all seen as they had been trying to stop the spread of communism Communism. So the friendly relations between USA and Castro didn't last for long. Castro began a series of reforms, which included nationaliz...

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... alliance with Soviet Union, and their support for revolutionary forces in Latin America and Africa are some of the reasons given for the action taken by the United States. Now with the cold war over for ten years; the soviet union no longer in existence, "the U.S. has normal trade and diplomatic relations with all the countries of the former Eastern bloc, and in fact , has granted the largest communist country China, its Most Favored Nation ... , with a value of seven hundred million in 1999 alone. Also looking for a lift on the barrier with the Castro government is the U.S. Pharmaceutic...

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... not only then but forever. The U.S. and the Soviet Union has been in a race to try and create an atomic bomb before the other could. The U.S. won the race but the Soviets succeeded in creating their own atomic bomb. The U.S. feared the spread of communism and also the idea that the Soviets would use their atomic weapons on the U.S. President Harry Truman and his advisors decided to drop the bombs for two main reasons. First ... compared to that of South Korea's but decades of famine has left the country starving, weak, and desperate. The north has applied to the south for help but the s...

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... able to mask the unavoidable disagreements for the future. Roosevelt agreed that the "Soviet Union should receive some of the territory in the Pacific that Russia had lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War- in return for Stalin's promise to enter the Pacific war. One of the most significant negotiations they agreed upon was a plan for a new world organization known as the United Nations (UN) and the agreements at Yalta became "the basis of the United Nations charter ... ."" However, the essential disagreement remained with the ... ...

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... included a prim handbag and high-heels. An army nurse landing in Vietnam for the first time realized the impracticality of this regulation ""We were not far off the coast when the captain announced they were mortaring the airfield The plane made a steep landing We ran out and the troops going home ran in We were told to follow the person in front of us into a bunker Unfortunately, I had high heels on ... stationed throughout South Vietnam on various bases, camps, and even hospital ships off the coast. Eighty percent of military nurses were in the Army Nurse Corps, while the remainder we...

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... a critical base for intelligence and espionage. Deep within the cloak of communism, Berlin was the West's only window into the Soviet world. More so, Berlin was a test, a symbol of Western resolve and bravery. Berlin was the example that needed to be set in order for the world to understand the superiority of the U.S over the Soviet Union. Although not nearly as useful for intelligence to the Soviets, Berlin nevertheless ... , was crucial for ulterior reasons. After WWII, Stalin and his comrades had neatly mapped out an ideological empire with ... . With its unmitigated access to the "fre...

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... 's failure to help him gain election. He promised a quick, decisive end to the war. In his Republican nomination acceptance speech he declared, " When the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in a war in Vietnam with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world cannot manage its economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of war is plagued by unprecedented racial violence, when ... the President of the United States cannot travel abroad, or to any major city at home ... ...

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... War II when France was unable to maintain control . During World War II, the Viet Minh established itself as the organizational body for the resistance of French control, and went on to assist the U.S. in combat with the Japanese. On September 2, 1945, following the Japanese surrender, the leader of the Viet Minh, Ho Chi Minh, declared the creation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, France, however, refused to recognize any independence (Chant ... organizing and army to face a full-scale U.S. military intervention (Encarta "Vietnam War-). Just like in Korea, Vietnam became the newes...

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... of them used them then it would probably lead to the end of mankind. There was also the Space race, which also involved competition between the two super powers. This time they were competing for people in space, for example, Russia had the first man in space but America had the first man on the moon. The main aim of the Space Race was to develop rocket Technology. By 1960 both ... at all seen as they had been trying to stop the spread of communism Communism. So the friendly relations between USA and Castro didn't last for long. Castro began a series of reforms, which included nationaliz...

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... Soviet armored attacks. The Army stayed in Germany until 1994 when the Prince said during a speech on October 28th, 1994, concerning the disarmament of the army: "the momentous events in Russia, Central Europe and Germany have brought changes for us all in Western Europe, almost all for the better. Here today we draw together one of the consequences of these events in the disarmament of the British Army of the Rhine"(James). With the separation of -4- Germany ... . Korea would be a -5- divided country full of hostility for many years. In June of 1950, the North invaded the South. This al...

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... a plan for a general association of nations. The plan formed the basis of the Covenant of the League of Nations, the 26 articles that served as operating rules for the league. The covenant was formulated as part of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, in 1919. Although President Wilson was a member of the committee that drafted the covenant, it was never ratified by the U.S. Senate ... Guard troops. Ultimately, 500 campuses experienced student strikes and were closed for a considerable time. The police throughout the nation faced accusations of brutality; in the few cases in...

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