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Soviet Communist Party Standard Of Living
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Fall Of The Soviet Soviet Union
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Cold War Disarmament Talks
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Why Did The Cold War End
1,251 wordsTauseef Ahmed United States History May 13 th 2004 Why did the Cold War End? One of the main events of the war-filled twentieth century was the Cold War a state of tension between the United States of America and the Soviet Union from nineteen forty five, at the beginning of the Soviet expansion of communism in newly formed countries after Word War II, opposed by the United States to nineteen eighty nine with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The main focus of this research will be to state the reaso...
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Mikhail Gorbachev Ronald Reagan
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Soviet Republics Soviet Union
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Ballistic Missiles Ronald Reagan
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2,264 wordsNationalism, Identity and Human Rights In one week in August of 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic became history. The forces of reform unleashed by President Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid 1980 s generated a democratic movement. Gorbachev's economic policies threw his country into even more turmoil and chaos, as the different nationalities used their new freedoms to move away from the union. Gorbachev sincerely wanted to reform the communist system, but he did not want to eliminate it. ...
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2,766 wordsCommunism From Marx to Zemin Communism has long been heralded in capitalist countries as the root of all evil. However, as with all phobias, this intrinsic fear of communism comes from a lack of knowledge rather than sound reasoning. It is that same fear that gave the world the Cold War and McCarthy? s Red Scare. The purpose of this paper is neither to support communism over capitalism nor the reverse of that. Rather, it is to inform the reader of communism? s migration through time and hopefull...
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