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Cold War Foreign Policy
1,021 words... to communism were hostile. (New York Times, par 4) NSC 68. In April of 1950, a top secret document was given to Truman by the National Security Council (NSC). It was declassified in 1975. The document was called NSC 68 written under direction of National Security Advisor Paul Note and it had was a amalgamation of all three proposals and both competing ideologies. Before Truman's presidency, Eisenhower had adopted the idea of a rollback to deal with communism. Roll back was the idea that the ...
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World Trade Center September 11 2001
1,020 wordsOn the morning of September 11 2001 the United States awoke to find itself under attack. In the city of New York hijacked commercial airliners smashed into the World Trade Center with enough intensity to topple them to the ground killing thousands of innocent men, women, and children plus hundreds of rescue workers trying to save the endangered. This is undoubtedly the deadliest day on American soil in American history, costing more lives than Pearl Harbor. The attack was meant to break our spir...
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Dictator For Life Ides Of March
1,027 words... pompey and Crassus at Luca. The opiates in control of the senate, now awake to the immense increase in Caesar's personal power, wealth, and prestige, kept Pompey in Italy, allowing him to govern his Spanish provinces by deputies. Pompey's own attachment to Caesar was broken when Caesar's daughter Julia to whom Pompey had been happily married since 59 BC died in 54 BC Crassus was killed by the Parthians at Carrhae in Mesopotamia. In planning Caesar's return to civil life in Rome he could assu...
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President Of The United States Watergate Scandal
1,562 words... g progress at home. ' 4 Part of McGovern's economic plan included defense spending cut backs. 'What I offer is not simply a set of promises, but a specific plan to pay for those promises. First, I would reduce by approximately 10 billion dollars in each of the next three years the rapidly escalating, lavish Nixon military budget. Current spending wastes billions of dollars on planes that do not fly, and missiles that will not work. I will never permit America to become a second-rate power in...
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Woodrow Wilson Military Force
735 wordsTRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA FORM MILITARILIZED INDUSTRIAL NATION TO POWERFUL MILITARY FORCE. (1898 1941) Before 1898, Americans perspective seems to be procrastinating to foreign wars, even though world suffered from tyranny. In 1898, Americans fate was altered by one major decision. The nation experienced a historic turn from being republic to becoming a monarchy. In this year the government decided to host a war against Spanish to free Cuba and Philippines from the Spanish despotism. American pr...
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Dictator For Life Pompey And Crassus
2,041 wordsJulius Caesar, Life of Julius Caesar was a strong leader for the Romans who changed the course of the history of the Greco Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his courage and strength he created a strong empire. What happened during his early political career? How did he become such a strong dictator of the Roman Empire? What events led up to the making of the first triumvirate? How did he rise over the other two in the triumvirate and why did he choose to take over? What happened duri...
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Political Forces Strong Military
580 wordsThe new imperialism was caused by a variety of factors, including the onset of industrialization, nationalist feelings and unification movements. Economic, social and political forces accelerated the drive to take over all parts of the globe as well. The race for new colonies came from national pride, patriotism and economic competition. People thought that if a country had a large territory then it was more powerful and other countries of smaller size, were inferior. All great nations in the fu...
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Sign Of Weakness Machiavelli
1,167 wordsMachiavellian Politics in The Prince The Prince, written by Niccolo Machiavelli, is one of the first examinations of politics and science from a purely scientific and rational perspective. Machiavelli theorizes that the state is only created if the people cooperate and work to maintain it. The state is also one of man? s greatest endeavors, and the state takes precedence over everything else. The state should be one? s primary focus, and maintaining the sovereignty of the state one? s most vital...
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Sign Of Weakness Strong Military
1,156 wordsMachiavellian Politics in The Prince The Prince, written by Niccolo Machiavelli, is one of the first examinations of politics and science from a purely scientific and rational perspective. Machiavelli theorizes that the state is only created if the people cooperate and work to maintain it. The state is also one of mans greatest endeavors, and the state takes precedence over everything else. The state should be ones primary focus, and maintaining the sovereignty of the state ones most vital conce...
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Dictator For Life One Of The Greatest
1,681 wordsNapoleon Bonaparte's success as a military leader and conqueror can also be seen in another great leader, Julius Caesar. Both Napoleon and Caesar achieved great glory by bringing their countries out of turmoil. It was Caesar, that Napoleon modeled himself after, he wanted to be as great, if not greater than Caesar. Looking to the past, Napoleon knew what steps to take in order to achieve success Napoleon devoured books on the art of war. Volume after volume of military theory was read, analyzed ...
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20 Th Century Understanding Of Human Nature
1,228 words? All the states, all the dominions, under whose authority men have lived in the past and live now have been and are either republics or principalities. ? In Machiavelli? s, The Prince, timeless keys to a successful principality are examined. The keys are understanding human nature, respecting that nature, and reaffirming that successful leadership can exist in the same fashion yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Machiavelli? s perspective of human nature is founded on the principle that people in g...
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