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38 Th Parallel Republic Of Korea
1,712 words
Begun as a war between South Korea (Republic of
Korea) and North Korea (Democratic People's
Republic of Korea), after the North's invasion of
the South, the conflict swiftly developed into a
limited international war involving the U. S. and
19 other nations. From a general viewpoint, the
Korean War was one of the by-products of the cold
war, the global political and diplomatic struggle
between the Communist and non-Communist systems
following World War II. The motives behind North
Korea's decisi...
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Divided Into Four U S Air
1,623 words
On June 26, 1948 the largest airlift began as the
American and British forces began the Berlin
Airlift. To understand how the airlift came to be,
we have to look all the way back to the Yalta
Conference. The Yalta Conference began in February
1945 in which the three superpowers, America,
Russia and Britain, met to discuss the future of
post war Europe. America and Russia were emerging
as the two superpowers, and their deteriorating
relationship would soon lead to many problems that
would develop...
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Second World War Bomb Was Dropped
3,349 words
At 11: 02 a. m. , August 9, 1945 an atomic bomb
exploded 500 meters above this spot. The black
stone monolith marks the hypocenter. The fierce
blast wind, heat rays reaching several thousand
degrees, and deadly radiation generated by the
explosion crushed, burned and killed everything in
sight and reduced this entire area to a barren
field of rubble. About one-third of Nagasaki City
was destroyed and 150, 000 people killed or
injured, and it was said at the time that this
area would be devoid of...
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Harry Truman Economic Cooperation
332 words
President Harry Truman was determined to avoid
what he regarded as the errors of the American
past: military weakness and a reluctance to get
involved in international problems. Thus, Truman
could be expected to protest Soviet expansion in
Eastern Europe. He did so adopting a policy of
"toughness" in his dealings with Moscow. He was
however not eager to provoke another war. The
Truman Doctrine was the beginning of the United
States' effort to contain Communism from expanding
(the containment pol...
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Atomic Bomb Was Dropped Hundreds Of Thousands
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It began in the desert of New Mexico on July 16,
1945, with the first U. S. atomic test called
Trinity. The device was comprised of 19, 300 tons
of TNT explosive. There was an intense light that
brightened the distant mountains, a sudden wave of
heat, and then a tremendous roar as the shock wave
echoed in the valley (Bolt 1). This was the first
atomic test recorded in the history of the world.
The man who invented the atomic bomb was physicist
Albert Einstein. Two months after Einstein's
incredi...
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Society At Large Bruce Dawe
1,168 words
Consumerism has been unfairly portrayed as an evil
that is destroying our society. People often
neglect its positive features. Do you agree or
disagree? The rise of consumerism has brought upon
many satirical responses, however, people often
attempt to neglect its positive features which is
disseminated in every aspect of modern existence.
The reality for most is determined by the impact
of mass media and the influences of
commercialization. Dawes poetry does not purely
focus on consumerism, the...
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York New York War In Europe
1,045 words
... he Manhattan Project. Keeping the project's
work a secret was an obsession with him. A small
army of security guards stood watch over all the
plants and laboratories. Although more than a
hundred thousand men and women took part in the
project, only a handful of them knew they were
making an atomic bomb. The few who did know the
goal of the project were careful to call the bomb
a "gadget" or a "gizmo" in casual conversation.
The war in Europe took a dramatic turn in June
1944, when allied ar...
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Hiroshima Nagasaki And The World
653 words
Einstein first told president Roosevelt about the
tremendous power of fused uranium in the late 1930
s. Soon after this news from Einstein the atom
bomb was built and tested. With bombs ready,
Truman is faced with a decision. America is in the
middle of World War II with no end in sight. He
decides to deploy two atomic bombs on two Japanese
cities. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two
fateful cities. The atomic bombs give relief to
America because it ends the war. Even though
America wins the war...
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Martin Luther King Civil Rights Movement
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... hts Movement, he was often privately
infuriated by it and by the means that many of the
more prominent advocates of the movement were
using in an attempt to achieve their goal of
acceptance and equality. In a major televised
address on civil rights, made just after the
incident in Little Rock, Arkansas, Kennedy stated
it ought to be possible... for every American to
enjoy the privileges of being American without
regard to his race or color (web). In retrospect
of history, this statement was ...
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World War Ii Billions Of Dollars
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The Cold War was a time of East-West competition,
tension, and conflict short of full-scale war.
There were real wars, sometimes called "proxy
wars" because they were fought by Soviet allies
rather than the USSR itself - along with
competition for influence in the Third World, and
a major superpower arms race. With the defeat of
the Axis powers in World War II, international
politics and conditions affecting postwar American
strategy changed radically. The cold war was a
competition between the ...
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First Atomic Bomb August 6 1945
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On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. The
United States had sent a B- 29 bomber plane named
"Enola Gay" to fly over the industrial city of
Hiroshima, Japan and drop the first atomic bomb
ever - "Little Boy. " The world had never
experienced anything like it. One hundred thousand
died almost instantly -- most of them were
civilians. Three days later, in Nagasaki, another
bomb -- "Fat Man" - was dropped. This time roughly
forty thousand died. The people of the world were
glad to see that t...
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Second World War East And West
2,396 words
Cold War The Cold War was the result of Stalin
adopting a policy contrary to the Yalta Agreement.
Certainly to many supporters of the Orthodox view,
this statement will appear rather obvious. In
their view, the origins of the Cold War, however,
do not essentially lie in the aftermath of Yalta,
but in the inevitable clash of capitalism and
communism. The fact that Stalin adopted a, in
their opinion aggressive, policy was not so much
the result of security, but the expansionist
nature of Lenin-Mar...
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Soviet Union Anti Communist
804 words
At the conclusion of the WWII Germany was divided
into 4 zones of occupation controlled by Great
Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United
States. Berlin, the capital of Germany, was
located in the Soviet controlled section of
Germany. Lack of agreement and compromise with the
Soviet Union concerning the unity of Germany led
to the beginning of the Cold War. The term Cold
War was first used by an American Financier
Bernard Baruch in a congressional debate in 1947.
A cold war can be defin...
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Spread Of Communism Soviet Union
1,134 words
Containment Policies America s approach to contain
the threat of communism As it became increasingly
clear that there would be a competition for power
in the new world order, the United States and
Russia formulated foreign polices designed to
limit the expansion of the other. In the case of
the United States the policy was known as
containment. Simply put it was the goal of the US
to contain the spread of Communism. Containment of
the Soviet Union became American policy in the
postwar years. Geo...
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Cuban Missile Crisis President John F Kennedy
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During the administration of United States
President John F. Kennedy, the Cold War reached
its most dangerous state, and the United States
and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
came to the edge of nuclear war in what was known
as the Cuban Missile Crisis. What was the Cold
War? What started the tensions between the United
States and the USSR? What actions were taken and
how were the problems resolved? All of these
questions and more shall be answered in this
paper. The Cold War was ...
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North Koreans South Korea
1,341 words
On July 1, part of the U. S. Army 24 th Infantry
Division flew from Japan to Pusan, a city located
at the southern tip of Korea. They were the first
American troops to reach Korea and other troops
from other UN nations began arriving in Korea
shortly after the Americans. On July 8, with the
approval of the UN Security Council, Truman named
General MacArthur commander in chief of the United
Nations Command. The command had authority over
all the Allies- South Koreans, Americans and the
troops fro...
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Harry S Truman World War Ii
841 words
I. Introduction Roosevelt, Franklin Fdr FDR I.
Introduction Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882 -
1945), 32 nd president of the United States (1933
- 1945). Roosevelt served longer than any other
president a total of four terms. No other
president will ever have a chance be in office
that long ever again; the 22 nd Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, passed after
his death, denies the right of any person to be
elected president more than twice. Roosevelt held
office during two of th...
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Type Atomic Bomb First Atomic Bomb
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On Little Boy Little Boy On the morning of August
6, 1945, a B- 29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over
the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and
dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in war.
The city went up in flames caused by the immense
power equal to about 20, 000 tons of TNT. The
project was a success. Hundreds of thousands died
and still more were wounded. This was the final
triumph that finally brought Japan to surrender.
The effects of the bomb are still being seen but
there is no doubt...
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Atomic Bomb Nuclear Fission
780 words
Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was the
name for the United States program to develop an
atomic bomb during the second world war. It was
the largest scientific effort undertaken at that
time. It involved thirty-seven laboratories
throughout the country. One-hundred thousand
people worked on this project. Some of these
people include the Nobel prize-winning physicists
Arthur Holly Compton, Enrico Fermi, Richard
Feynman, Ernest Lawrence, and Harold Urey. In the
following, I will briefly di...
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Dwight D Eisenhower Joseph Mccarthy
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The Rise and Fall of McCarthyism: An Explanation
Of How the Media Created and Then Destroyed Joseph
McCarthy. INTRODUCTION The U. S. Senator Joseph
Raymond McCarthy, was born in Grand Chute,
Wisconsin, Nov. 14, 1908, and died May 2, 1957,
(Grolier, 1996) was best known for his attacks on
alleged Communist subversion most notably within
the administrations of the Presidents Harry S.
Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The activities of
McCarthy and his followers gave birth to the term
McCarthyism. T...
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