Furthermore, Americans needed someone to blame, and as early as 1946 began to question the loyalty of government employees, especially those in the State Department who negotiated treaties with the Soviets after World War II. As an effort to get rid of any disloyal Americans, President Harry Truman established loyalty boards in 1947 (Zeinert 27). ... Congress" response was to put limits on strikes that affected national security and requiring union leaders to sign statements declaring their loyalty to the United States (Zeinert 75). ... An army dentist named Irving Peress had not answered all ...

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Revolutions begin as a protest against tyranny, but end by creating a state far more powerful than the one that they replace. Discuss with reference to France and Russia. The French revolution was the catalyst that ended the system of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and brought about the...

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Although Rasputin maintained the posture of a humble and holy peasant in the presence of the royal family, the Russian people witnessed the true Rasputin; a drunk that spent his time seducing many women and claiming that it had a purifying and healing effect. ... What loyalty was left of the Tsar had now faded. ...

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The era from 1946 to 1990 is known as the Cold War, during which the U.S. and other N.A.T.O. countries attempted to contain the rapid spread of communism by the Warsaw Pact nations, including the Soviet Union. The Warsaw Pact played a major part in the Soviet Union's plan to spread communism throug...

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