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Cambridge Harvard Opium War
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
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1,103 words... country. Many people were sent to prisons where they perished just because they were labeled a communist with no evidence of guilt, except maybe guilt by association, and sometimes even lacking that. Two of the most controversial trials were of Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Alger Hiss was former New Dealer that went with President Roosevelt to Yalta during the Peace conference. He was accused by a convicted communist Whittaker Chambers, to be operating a communist cell inside th...
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Kim Il Sung North Korea
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Threat To The United States Soviet Union
1,354 wordsIn 1938, the United States possessed the most productive economy in the world with one of the largest navies. However, to describe it as a fully active world power as we have shown already would be inaccurate. If it was America that sealed the fate of Germany in the First World War, its financial muscle during the twenties that brought a degree of stability to Europe, then it was its isolationist policy in the thirties compounded by the Depression that upset the international system. This encour...
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Pearl Harbor Attack Attack On Pearl Harbor
2,008 wordsThe Bombing of Pearl Harbor: Its Impact and Repercussions Abstract: A devastating incident occurred on Pearl Harbor raises historical question to citizens of US as well as the entire world. The tangled web of events leading up to the damage of the United States Pacific navy at its anchorage on December 7, 1941, is among the most fascinating sequences of historical drama ever enacted. All the great powers of the world at war but one that last one on the brink of war, in possession of the secret c...
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2,385 wordsBioterrorism Threat Bioterrorism has been given significant attention during the past 4 years by the laboratory industry press and has been the subject of numerous seminars at national meetings of laboratory organizations. The likely precursors to this coverage were the discovery of a huge biological weapons program in Iraq after the Gulf War of 1991, the discovery of a major biological weapons program in the former Soviet Union called "Biopreparat, " and the known recruitment of scientists from...
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Post Cold War Sphere Of Influence
1,747 words... terms about the long-range future of the security system. Note succeeded Kennan at the PPS and it was his NSC 68 written in 1949, which became the blueprint for American grand strategy in the cold war. Its analysis of Soviet intentions and capabilities set the tone and framework, at the highest levels, for US relations with the Soviet Union. The US reaction to the perceived Soviet threat was to be one of containment. The notion of rolling back the gains of communism however, was never actual...
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European Countries East Asia
622 wordsMany people will think of Caribbean Islands as a nice place for a getaway vacation. But historical background of Caribbean is somewhat different. Caribbean has a long history of colonization and slavery for many generations. As new colonization was established, new cultures and languages were introduced. People tends to only focus on the bright side of the Columbus s great discover of the new land and colonization of the European countries and can easily forget about the destruction and the dama...
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Tectonic Plates Fossil Fuels
2,872 wordsGEOGRAPHY ESSAY Thailand and Japan are two countries situated in the Australian, Asian and Pacific (A. A. P) region. There are many similarities and differences in their physical and human geographies. Japan is an archipelago of 3900 mountainous islands with a total land size of 377 835 km 2. Located in East Asia along the Pacific Ring of Fire Japan ranges from North 50 30 I to 210 and East 970 3 I to 1030 3 I. In contrast, Thailand is a larger country with a total landmass of 511 770 km 2. It i...
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Yin And Yang Daughter In Law
4,068 wordsWorld Religions Project: Confucianism FOUNDERS Confucius is the founder of Confucianism. The name Confucius is the Latin name for Kong Qiu-zi. Confucius was born in the village of Zou in the country of Lu in 551 BC. He was a poor descendant of a disposed noble family. As a child, he held fake temple rituals; as a young adult, quickly earned a reputation for fairness, politeness, and love of learning, and he was reputed to be quite tall. When he was 35 years old, Duke Zhao of Lu led his country t...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases South East Asia
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Martial Arts Tokugawa Period
1,258 wordsIn Japan, especially during the earlier periods of Japanese history such as the Tokugawa, physical adeptness was much revered and valued. This was mainly because of the fact that these strengths were the basis on which much of the population depended upon for survival during these fairly turbulent periods. Throughout time, Japan has been a very organized and scrupulous society, and even its style of physical combat has been sorted into specific categories according to what particular method is b...
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