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Axis Powers Electoral Votes
1,278 words... Under the AAA, production of basic crops and livestock was limited in order to raise prices and thus increase farmers' incomes. Farmers were rewarded by benefit payments for reducing production. The NRA, created by the president under the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, was meant to aid both business and labor. The NRA established codes of fair competition in major industries. In turn, businessmen were expected to pay at least minimum wages and to work their employees for no more t...
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Type Atomic Bomb J Robert Oppenheimer
3,057 words... of more than 90 %. " (Grolier 5) This Uranium was then transported to "the Los Alamos, N. Mex. , laboratory headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer. " (Grolier 5) "Oppenheimer was the major force behind the Manhattan Project. He literally ran the show and saw to it that all of the great minds working on this project made their brainstorms work. He oversaw the entire project from its conception to its completion. " (Outlaw 3) Once the purified Uranium reached New Mexico, it was made into the componen...
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Spheres Of Influence Sphere Of Influence
1,034 wordsMy first inclination would be to answer the first question with a clear "YES." But come to think of it, the causes of war really have not changed at all, or at least very little. Rather than changes, there has been a shift in the causes. The cause of war which has dominated the last 50 years was the cause of ideology. However, due to the recent end of the Cold War, this cause of war, has significantly declined and is almost trivial. The causes of war have shifted from mainly ideological ones to ...
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Chiang Kai Shek State Owned Enterprises
1,914 wordsFor most of its 3, 500 years of history, China led the world in agriculture, crafts and science, then fell behind in the 19 th century when the Industrial Revolution gave the West clear superiority in military and economic affairs. In the first half of the 20 th century, China continued to suffer from major famines, civil unrest, military defeat, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under MAO Zedong established a dictatorship that, while ensuring China's autonomy, imposed s...
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Post Cold War Second World War
2,205 words... latin was to launch the infamous Kamikaze anti shipping campaign. Though Japanese Army Air Force pilots occasionally flew on such one-way suicide missions, the overwhelming majority of Kamikazes were Japanese naval attackers. The threat of the Kamikaze was the greatest aerial anti shipping threat faced by Allied warfare forces in the war. Approximately 2, 800 Kamikaze attackers sunk 34 Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4, 900 sailors, and wounded over 4, 800. The Kamikaze anticipated th...
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International Monetary Fund Soviet Union
781 words. Today Russia is in a state of political and economic rebuilding in a capitalist system. When the Soviet Union officially split apart on December 26, 1991, one day after Gorbachev resigned from the leadership of the Communist party and the U. S. S. R. , Yeltsin took the role of president. During a meeting in July of 1990, leaders of the group of seven industrial Nations and the president of the European Community asked the International Monetary Fund and other United Nations economic agencies t...
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Nuclear Weapons Soviet Union
410 wordsThe Cold War was the elongated tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. It began in the mid 40 s after WWII. The Cold War was a conflict of political, military, and economic values and ideas. Though military build up was great on both sides neither one ever directly fought each other. Europe had a military and somewhat of an economy. In the late 40 s through early 50 s the Soviet Union started to spread. Russia was able to spread communism through many countries. Some o...
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Cuban Missile Crisis President John F Kennedy
1,589 wordsThe political world is much like a stew, methinks. It is a conglomeration of what has been, what is, and what is to become. Since the dawning of the atomic age with the World War II invention of atomic / nuclear war capability, however, this stew has taken on a whole new taste, a piquancy that perhaps none of us were -- or ever will be -- truly prepared for in all of its possible mishmash. No longer were the world wars to be merely strategies, complete with trenches, tanks, and troops. Since the...
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Sphere Of Influence Winston Churchill
1,180 wordsThe Truman Doctrines Impact in Cold War Strategy By the middle of the twentieth century's fifth decade, the world had been jolted by two catastrophic wars; a seven- year economic disaster and the recognition that weapons of mass destruction existed. Where blood had been spilled through hand to hand combat dating back to trench warfare, the realization that thirty years hence, blood bones and the complete human identity could be vaporized helped create a climate of distrust between former allies....
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Greece And Turkey Policy Of Containment
1,188 words... sacred. (Op. cit. P. 397) What the Allies could not agree on was the normalization of the rest of Europe, since Stalin had taken immediate steps to see that could not happen based on Russian security needs. The response to this new form of political aggression would trumpet the first salvos of the Cold War. The trigger, which prompted action, was the chaotic economic situation in Greece. As stated earlier, Churchill proposed and Stalin accepted the division of territory on the half sheet of ...
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Von Laue Bolshevik Revolution
1,174 words... had Trotsky murdered. Stalin also rid the Soviet regime of all Trotsky's followers. Stalin proceeded to remove Trotsky from all Soviet history records, referring to him only as "Judas" Trotsky. The irony is that a supposedly atheist leader used a biblical traitor as a reference to his rival. One of Stalin's main strategies to attain power was his allegiance to Lennon. He issued an address to the II All-Union Congress of Soviets. This became known as "The Vow to Lennon." He said, "We Communis...
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Boris Yeltsin Prime Minister
537 wordsNotes- Comparative Government- Class 12 / 6 / 00 Brezhnev corruption was rampant; elite members of the party lived quite well and there was a very active black market tries to deal with the alcohol problem suggests various reforms to get rid of some of the corruption only there two years so very few reforms glasnost- openness (independent newspapers could rise; criticism of the government was allowed) perestroika economic restructuring (to introduce capitalism) gross underestimation of the probl...
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Gas Stations Soviet Union
1,226 wordsAnother element that was present in the 1950 's was automobiles. Automobiles were something that everyone once dreamed of owning. Now after the war. they could finally own one. Automobiles of the 1940 's were dull and very plain. This was because designers were too busy designing tanks, planes, etc... for the ongoing war. The major event that took place that changed the way cars looked and how they performed happened on October 14, 1947. This was when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. From t...
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President Kennedy President Clinton
651 wordsbrought their own unique ideas on how to rule not only the citizens of the United States, but also the government. One of the first problems that more recent presidents have encountered is that many times the president and the executive bureaucracies may be natural enemies (American Foreign Policy, p. 485). The reason for this is because many of the high officials have held their position for years, even decades and are often stuck on past events or certain ways of thinking. For example, when Pr...
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Free Market Economy Members Of Parliament
1,086 wordsBoris Yeltsin's Economic Reforms and Political Struggles Russia's Move Towards a Free-Market Economy Chechnya's Struggle for Independence Presidential and Parliamentary Elections Questions About Yeltsin's Leadership In 1991, the Soviet Union was officially dismantled, and the communist regime there came to an end. Democracy has since been introduced in Russia and other former Soviet republics, and in 1992 the people of the Russian Republic elected Boris Yeltsin -- a pro democracy, pro capitalism...
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Free Market Economy Political And Economic
1,128 words... approved a new constitution that gave the president enormous powers. However, the Liberal Democratic Party, led by ultra nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, won more seats than the Reform Party in the new parliament, called the Federal Assembly. In the 1995 elections, the Communist Party prevailed, winning 157 of 355 seats -- enough to make them the strongest party in parliament and a thorn in the side of the reform-minded Yeltsin. The resurgence of this "new communism" and ultranationalism --...
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Collective Farms William Morrow
1,621 wordsThesis Statement: Stalin's plan of collectivization did not help but rather hurt Russia's chances of becoming an affluent nation, free of agricultural plights. A. Stalin's declaration of collectivism 1. Procedures within the system C. 'Dekulakization' (the disposing of the kulaks) 1. Clearing them away from collectivism D. Problems of collectivism after the Kulaks III. Stalin's feelings on occurrences during collectivism IV. Failure of the early years of collectivism A. Advantages of collectivis...
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Lyndon B Johnson U S Involvement
1,317 words... f U. S. involvement. Johnson limited the bombing, began peace talks with Hanoi and the NLF, and withdrew as a candidate for reelection. The antiwar movement against Vietnam in the US from 1965 - 1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history, this had a great impact on policy and practically forced the US out of Vietnam (Turner 91). Starting with teach-ins during the spring of 1965, the massive antiwar efforts centered on the colleges, with the students playing le...
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Decolonization In The Middle East And Africa
865 wordsAfrica dealt with gaining its independence and recovering from internal conflict. Since most of Africa was colonies of European, colonized Africa tried hard to gain its independence and organized together against Europe. Even though there were organized up rising against Europe, most of these organizations were independent tribes. These tribes were divided by religion (Muslims in the north and Christians and animists in the south) and by language. The division between the tribes was so wide spre...
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Britain And France Suez Canal
1,050 wordsThe Rabinnovich article titled 'Seven Wars and a Peace Treaty', gives a chronological background of wars made between Arabs and Israeli's after the birth of Israeli state. The Israeli's referred this war as the war of Independence. It had two distinct phases. It first begun in 1947 after UN resolution on the partition of Palestine. The resolution was accepted by the Jewish community, but Arabs rejected. The result was a civil war. Until May 15, 1948 th two feuding communities tried to predispose...
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