... talk about communism, but he also presented a list of two hundred five suspects, compiled by a former F.B.I. agent, by the name of Robert E. Lee. The House of Representatives ignored the list several years earlier when first introduced due to lack of evidence. Later on McCarthy's original ... was not impressed with Joe McCarthy. Especially since he exaggerated the information obtained from Lee, and his allegations were based purely on rumors. Senator Robert Taft's regarded these actions as "a perfectly reckless performance" (Oshinsky 114). Despite the comment, the public was frightened...

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... Tet Offensive in January 1968 was a military failure for the VC, they gained a massive psychological edge. On the holiday of Tet, the VC simultaneously attacked dozens of South Vietnamese cities across the country. Although the majority were quickly repelled, the morale of the US was hampered. The US embassy in Saigon had been taken over for a short period of time, whilst ... started to diminish through the 60s and into the 70s. The majority of Congress supported US involvement in Vietnam at the start. A big worry for the US administration was when Robert McNamara's change of stance on ...

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... raise party membership from 10,000 to 200,000. This was partly due to Lenin's April thesis, great speeches and targeted slogans such as "Peace, Bread and Land!". Robert Service argues that Lenin made key decisions that shaped the development and formation of Russia, without which, the USSR may have never been formed. He states "Lenin did make ... support the Bolshevik seizure of power. Once Lenin had seized power, a new threat loomed, consolidating his newly gained power. Just after the revolution Lenin immediately began organising similar take-overs across Russia, by the end of October...

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... to Moscow 1951 confessed in 1964, was made public in 1979 ( ). The Culper Ring was Group that spied for George Washington during American Revolution, including Benjamin Tallmadge, Abraham Woodhull, and Robert Townsend. Spied for Washington throughout the war, mainly in New York-New England area, the British never learned of network, and few Americans knew of it ( ). Another important spy in ... , the Lockheed Corp., hired the Ivy League bagmen, Manchurian spies, and even Japanese assassins to help sell more planes ( ). What has happened is that private CIA's-for-hire have metastasized ac...

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... the countries, either America or Russia, of the face of this earth. This was the crisis, which was becoming a reality to Kennedy; as he tried to political get his views across to Russia without being destroyed! The points leading up to the brink of nuclear war will be talked upon. October 16th 1962, the world's fears were confirmed as a U2 spy ... once and for all. After this, a U2 spy plane was shot down out of the sky by Cuba, America could have easily have declared war right then, instead he sent Robert Kennedy to discuss a solution with the Russian ambassador, Anatoly Dobrynin. Kenn...

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... if it was longer than five years." Dmitry Likhachev a survivor of the purges said, "many had diarrhea with blood." This shows the extent of horror, which occurred during the purges. Robert Conquest wrote, "Stalin's war had a higher death toll than total deaths for all countries in World War I." Author and dramatist Edvard Radzinsky discards claims that Stalin was very fearful, and ... because a thief told him not to go down into the hold. Dmitry says, "the only fear that I have is a of a return to the past." The purges ignited panic and fear across the peoples of the Soviet Union. Stali...

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