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Animal Farm Book Report
885 words
Many authors write about topics that they know and
about historical events that are going on while
they write their story. In the book Animal Farm by
George Orwell this is definitely true. Orwell
modeled many of his characters after Russian
leaders. He ingeniously depicts the troubles of
Russia in a book about farm animals. The story
begins with a prize winning boar named Old Major,
he gathers all of the farm animals around to tell
them of a dream that he has. He tells them about a
society of on...
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Funk Wagnalls Soviet Socialist
1,398 words
Joseph Stalin (1927 - 1953) led the Soviet State
through the challenges of World War II. Although
the war was a terrible drain on the already
impoverished and exhausted society, it resulted,
paradoxically in strengthening the Soviet
dictatorship. The war distracted the Soviet people
from Stalin's excesses in previous years and
generated patriotism and national unity. It also
greatly strengthened the Soviet military. The
Soviet Union emerged from the war as second in
power only to the United Stat...
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Chinese Communist Party Prime Minister
1,055 words
Leader and leading theorist of the Chinese
communist revolution, born in the village of
Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China, the son of a
farmer. He graduated from Changsha teachers'
training college, then worked at Beijing
University, where he was influenced by Chen Duxiu
and Li Dazhao. He took a leading part in the May
Fourth Movement, becoming a Marxist and a founding
member of the Chinese Communist Party (1921).
During the first united front with the Guomindang
(Nationalist Party), he concentrat...
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House Un American Activities Committee World War Ii
1,855 words
While the United States was fighting the Cold War
to preserve its freedoms, the fears and
anti-Communism the Cold War helped cause at home
undermined some of those freedoms. One of the most
notorious examples of this is Senator Joseph
McCarthy. In his search for Communists in the U.
S. government he infringed upon civil rights and
freedoms, such as freedom of speech, provided to
all Americans by Constitution. His actions caused
a lot of innocent people, mostly government
employees, to loose thei...
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Atomic Bomb Los Alamos
472 words
Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904, in
New York City. Robert Oppenheimer's family was
wealthy when he was a child, but they did not
spend their money foolishly. Roberts family were
Jews, but did not worship regularly. Oppenheimer
was a smart boy all through school, but he lacked
physical activity. Oppenheimer studied at Harvard
after he graduated he took a position in the
physics department at University of California at
Berkeley. The government then started to make the
Atom Bomb so t...
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The Collapse Of Soviet Union
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union The Soviet
totalitarian regime held the many nations of the
USSR together for almost three quarters of a
century; the disintegration of this political
system brought with it economic and political
instability as well as civil wars in the separated
states. Why did the collapse of the communist
regime in the Soviet Union have such a negative
impact? The states struggled to coordinate market
mechanisms and private ownerships into their
economies. Rebellions and radi...
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Put An End 20 Th Century
2,463 words
Many people all over the world look for an outlet
for which they can improve their quality of life.
They strive to find the means of transforming
their dreams into reality. Communism, to people
everywhere, has offered the means for transforming
the dream of economic equality into reality,
throughout history. Communism, however, like
various other political and economic movements in
the history of man, has become a distant
realization. Communism is a political and economic
movement brought out to...
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Consequences Of His Actions One Of The First
2,558 words
Richard Wright marked the beginning of a new era
in black fiction. He was one of the first American
writers of his time to confront his readers with
the effects of racism. Wright had a way of telling
his reader about his own life through his writing.
He is best known for his novel, Native Son, which
is deeply rooted in his personal life and the
times in which he lived. This paper will discuss
this outstanding American writer, his highly
acclaimed novel, Native Son, and how his life
influenced hi...
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Foreign Direct Investment Wall Street Journal
4,145 words
Cuba: On the Road to Reform by Timothy Ashby
Timothy Ashby served as Director of the Office of
Mexico and the Caribbean Basin of the US
Department of Commerce. He is now an independent
consultant based in Washington. Today Cuba is an
anachronism, a small island of socialism in a
hemisphere that has largely abandoned
state-dominated economics, adopting market-based
democracy as its path to prosperity, and is
beginning to enjoy the fruits of investment and
growth stemming from this transition. Sti...
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U S Government U S Embargo
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History of Cuba Christopher Columbus landed on the
island of Cuba on October 28, 1492, during his
initial westward voyage. In honor of the daughter
of Ferdinand V and Isabella I of Spain, his
benefactors, Columbus named it Juana, the first of
several names he successively applied to the
island. It eventually became known as Cuba, from
its aboriginal name, Cubanascnan. Colonization by
Spain When Columbus first landed on Cuba it was
inhabited by the Ciboney, a friendly tribe related
to the Arawak....
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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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Central And Eastern Europe Soviet Troops
2,886 words
History teaches us that dictatorships can only be
defeated by the very people it is imposed upon.
During the Cold-War foreign relations experts,
journalists and politicians of both the Soviet
Union and the United States, had agreed on one
thing: the democratization of Central and Eastern
Europe as well as the re-unification of Germany
could only be achieved by US military action which
would ultimately lead to World War III. Non of the
so called experts even considered the possibility
that the na...
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Marx And Engels Karl Marx
1,717 words
The government, whether we think about it or not,
plays a very significant role in all of our lives
regardless of our ethnic background. Though there
are many differing forms of government, they
affect our lives in the same way. Changes in how
the government works slowly begin to effect how we
carry out our daily actions and over time an
entire culture can be changed. For this reason, I
chose to take a critical look at how the change of
government in Poland from Communism to Democracy
affected t...
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Political And Economic Soviet Union
805 words
The collapse of the Soviet Union created 15 new
states. These states over the last 5 years have
all struggled with economic, ethnic, political and
territorial problems left to them by the Soviet
empire. Kyrgyzstan, is a former Soviet Republic
(FSR) located in the Central Asia. This paper will
give a statistical representation of the state,
Kyrgyzstan. The statistical data will reflect the
basic geography of the subject country containing
population, size and location. This miniature
report will ...
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World War Ii Communist Parties
743 words
Philosophy of Fascism Fascism, Philosophy of
government that glorifies the nation-state at the
expense of the individual. Major concepts of
fascism include opposition to democratic and
socialist movements; racist ideologies, such as
anti-Semitism; aggressive military policy; and
belief in an authoritarian leader who embodies the
ideals of the nation. Fascism generally gains
support by promising social justice to
discontented elements of the working and middle
classes, and social order to powerfu...
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Declared War On Serbia 19 Th Century
3,080 words
: The Former Yugoslavia 79 this is 72. 72 A has
just exploded... They just disappeared. They must
have hit a mine. I think theyre all dead On the 15
th of the September 1992 Sgt. James Davis armoured
personel carrier struck a TMA- 3 anti-tank mine,
although his comrades had thought them dead, they
both survived the ordeal with little or no injury.
The next day a Combat Engineer by the name of Sgt.
Mike Ralph was killed on the same road while
clearing the road for mines by another anti-tank
mine,...
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Incl Briar House Un American Activities Committee
2,398 words
The Alger Hiss Spy Case During the late nineteen
forties, a new anti-Communistic chase was in full
holler, this being the one of the most active Cold
War fronts at home. Many panic-stricken citizens
feared that Communist spies were undermining the
government and treacherously misdirecting foreign
policy. The attorney general planned a list of
ninety supposedly disloyal organizations, none of
which was given the right to prove its loyalty to
the United States. The Loyalty Review Board
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Chinese Communist Party Prime Minister
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Sex: Important People Mao Zedong Sex: Male
Pronunciation: [mow dzuhdoong] History: also
spelled Mao Tse-tung Life: (1893 - 1976) Leader
and leading theorist of the Chinese communist
revolution, born in the village of Shaoshan, Hunan
Province, China, the son of a farmer. He graduated
from Changsha teachers training college, then
worked at Beijing University, where he was
influenced by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. He took a
leading part in the May Fourth Movement, becoming
a Marxist and a founding me...
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J Edgar Hoover Martin Luther King
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John Edgar Hoovers Abuse of Power John Edgar
Hoover, an American criminologist and government
official, directed the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) for 48 years. Hoover was born
on January 1, 1895 in Washington, D. C. After
standing out among his peers, Hoover went on to
study law at George Washington University. After
receiving a law degree from George Washington in
1917, Hoover joined the staff of the U. S.
Department of Justice where he earned $ 1200 a
year. Two years later, Hoover was...
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Russian Social Democratic Communist Party
684 words
Rise to Power Stalin first became interested in
politics when as a theology student; he began
reading illegal the works of political philosopher
Karl Marx. He eventually gave up his religious
education to devote his time to the revolutionary
movement against the Russian monarchy. After
becoming involved in the movement, Stalin joined
the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. When
the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split
into the Menshevik and Bolshevik factions, Stalin
was drawn to the m...
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