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Biological Warfare Soviet Union
484 words
Why has the threat of smallpox recently come up in
the media? With the occurrences of anthrax in the
United States the subject of biological warfare
has been ignited. Adding to the threat of
smallpox, secretary of Health and Human Services
Tommy Tompson proposed a contract to congress that
would equip the defense department with three
million vaccines to the smallpox virus. In this
contract four large pharmaceutical companies would
receive 500 million dollars to have these vaccines
prepared befo...
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Berlin Wall Cold War
1,247 words
... new permission to go to the East side of the
wall, but they could not take anything with them.
They were allowed to stay for only a week, and
they could only do this a couple times each year.
"As I talked to my German roommate who lived in
West Germany, he told me about all of the
hardships that the people in East Germany went
through. He visited East Germany and he told me
about all of the hassle he had to go through just
to see friends and family. He said he believes it
is as bad as being ...
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Americans And British British And Americans
2,722 words
... Roosevelt supported the British, and the
American military succeeded only (several months
later) in getting an agreement that no more troops
would be put into the Mediterranean area than were
already there, all others being assembled in
England for a cross-channel attack in 1944.
Roosevelt gave his military another shock when he
announced that nothing short of unconditional
surrender would be accepted from any of the Axis
powers. The policy was meant to reassure the
Russians, who would have ...
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World War Ii Ballistic Missiles
1,170 words
WAR FROM THE COLD WAR TO PRESENT The end of World
War II was the spawn of a new war that would
continue for over fifty years: The Cold War.
Technically this war was not a fifty-year physical
confrontation between two countries but more of a
political confrontation between the world's two
remaining super-powers. The dropping of the atomic
bomb in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the
beginning of a new arsenal that would lead to the
development of nuclear weapons. After Japan and
Germany were de...
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House Judiciary Committee Richard M Nixon
1,818 words
... area, Nixon traveled to Italy, Spain, and
Yugoslavia, and visited the United States Sixth
Fleet, stationed in the area. The tour included
meetings with NATO commanders, an audience with
Pope Paul VI, and visits to England and Ireland.
The change in administrations had little initial
effect on the Vietnam peace talks being conducted
in Paris. However, in June 1969 President Nixon
announced that he would begin a phased withdrawal
of American forces. The first contingent of some
25, 000 men ret...
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Adolf Hitler Soviet Union
863 words
Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889, in a small
town in Australia called Brandon. His dad's name
was Alios Hitler and was a customs official. He
was 51 years old when Adolf was born. Klara Post,
Adolf's mother, was a farm girl and was 28 when
Adolf was born. Klara and Alios had 6 children,
but only Adolf and his sister Paula survived
childhood. Adolf was a good student in elementary
and got good grades. When he reached high school
his studies dropped, and he dropped out of school
when he was ju...
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Witch Hunt Soviet Union
707 words
Today's yellow-bellied Liberals and insane pushers
of the left-wing agenda are trying to convince us
that the so-called McCarthyism, in sixties, was
nothing but a modern day witch-hunt. But the
buggers go even further they suggest that the
Communism itself was based on the progressive
ideas of equality. They say it was just being
wrongly interpreted just like Christians suggest
that the Inquisition was just a slight deviation
from the shining truth. Well, let us remember what
the Communism actua...
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World War 2 Soviet Union
735 words
P 5 IP On December 7, 1941, Japan had attacked
Pearl Harbor. It marks the time when United States
entered World War 2. There was another effect of
this attack, which had a direct consequence on the
outcome of war it allowed Stalin to relocate 20
Soviet Siberian divisions to Moscow to defend it,
when Germans reached the outskirts of this city.
The relocation of these divisions turned the
balance of power in Stalin's favor. Because Hitler
failed to conquer Moscow, Stalin was able to
regain his str...
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Matter Of Time Adolf Hitler
2,960 words
Letters of Albert Teshke (fictional) Albert Teshke
was born in 1910 in Berlin, Germany. He was a
third child in the family of German teachers. In
1914, Alberts father Joseph volunteered to German
army and in 1918, he was being killed near Ypres,
during the course of British gas attack. (1). In
1929, Albert began to study philosophy at
University of Berlin. In 1932, he became a member
of NSDAP, because he considered this party as only
the one that could prevent German Communists from
inflicting t...
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Nuclear Arms Race World War Ii
1,876 words
Dr. Strangelove vs. WWII The truth is bad enough -
but nowhere near as bad as you probably think. The
truth will do away with a lot of silly ideas, a
lot of completely wrong notions, which millions of
people now believe about the atomic bomb. These
ideas could easily cause great panic. And right
now the possibility of panic is one of the best
weapons any enemy could use against us. "
(Gerstell, How to Survive an Atomic Bomb, p. 1)
The World War II has taken lives of millions of
people. It produc...
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United States Entered Balance Of Power
1,548 words
Power in America According to P. J. Taylor (334)
Power is the ability to be successful in a
conflict; this maybe overt through force or the
threat of force; or covert through non
decision-making or structural advantage. The term
power will be used to discuss how the United
States can be described as the most dominate
hegemony of the past century. Power can also be
defined or generalized into many characteristics
that describe how a country functions
geographically. Power is a major role in polit...
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Nazi Ideology Illegal Immigrants
1,722 words
German History The German defeat in 1945 has
spanned a specific anti-nazi literature, which was
to show that there was a popular discontent with
Nazi regime among Germans. This, of course, is
very far from truth not just the overwhelming
majority of Germans were supporting Hitler but
also many Jews. Ursula His Stones From the River
is a story of physically challenged girl Trudi
Montag, who grows into adulthood during time of
Nazi rule in Germany. She was a dwarf and it was
causing her much suffe...
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The Building Of American Ballistic Missile Part 1
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THE BUILDING OF THE AMERICAN BALLISTIC MISSILE
SYSTEM This seems to be a picture from the book
for children, but it is an image from a report
made by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Space
Commission. The given report recommends to
abrogate the purpose of international laws
(highly, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967) that aims
at the keeping the space free from war and, induce
that the President "have the option to deploy
weapons in space. " National Missile Defense,
started as Star Wars during ...
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Ballistic Missiles Ronald Reagan
1,737 words
... a direction of a gas jet may work. However,
now designers begin to refuse from the application
of gas rudders, replacing them with several
additional nozzles or turning the main nozzle. For
example, on the American rocket constructed under
the project "Avant guide", the engine it is fixed
on hinges, and it can be rejected on 5 - 7 O.
Really, at the beginning of flight when the
density of air is still great, the speed of a
rocket is small, therefore rudders badly operate.
And there, where the...
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Division Of Labor Communist Manifesto
1,680 words
Final Paper (1) In 1848 Karl Marx and Frederic
Engels published so-called Communist Manifesto,
which stated that all people in the world are
divided on bourgeoisie and proletariat, which are
the biggest enemies and that there can be no
reconciliation reached between them. They
predicted that historically, bourgeoisie is doomed
to physical annihilation, to prevent it from
exploiting proletariat any further. Marx and
Engels suggested that there is no other purpose of
ones existence, but materialis...
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Threats To Democracy In Modern Part 1
1,779 words
Threats to Democracy in Modern America The main
feature of our post-industrial era is that modern
societies are becoming increasingly anti-utopian.
Even in as recent as 1960, the idea of punishing
individual for simply having an emotional feeling,
would have been thought of as utterly unacceptable
by the majority of people. Yet, the ill-famed hate
law is nowadays' reality and there is no public
outcry against it, as people are being brainwashed
that hate is necessarily evil, even though it is a
...
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Wall Street Journal York N Y
1,175 words
Euro vs. Dollar Will the Euro replace the Dollar
as the worlds most popular currency to hold? When
the countries of European Union started to use
Euro in their everyday cash operations, it
definitely buried traditional national currencies
of European countries such as German Deutsche mark
that was the historical symbol of economical power
of Germany. Germany, by the way, is one of the
most important trade partner and investor of
Russia. Besides, Deutsche mark was quite popular
currency for Russi...
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Latin American Countries 20 Th Century
2,224 words
From its very formation a civil society of any
state had two tendencies of development: dem 0
oceanic tendency and antidemocratic one.
Antidemocratic tendency includes military regimes
and bureaucratic authoritarianism. Until 1980 s
many Latin American countries were under the rule
of military regimes and dictators. The leaders of
them thought that they would be able to protect
nations from corruption and inefficient in
economy. Though they ruled with heavy repression,
and their policy was lack ...
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Anti Sex League Form Of Government
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Research/Analysis George Orwell's 1984 is the
best-known novel anti-utopia of modern times. He
wrote it in 1949, before the advent of Cold War.
Back than, it was considered a bad taste to
criticize Soviet Union in Western countries, as
Soviets still were considered great allies that
helped so much in bringing down Hitler. There was
a wide spread notion among people that Soviet way
of life is actually a progressive one and
evolutionary changes within Western societies
would lead to the same resul...
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Toxic Parents By Dr Susan Forward
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Toxic Parents by Dr. Susan Forward The legacy of
parental abuse is one that continues to haunt
person throughout his life. The emotional traumas,
inflicted by such abuse, cannot be healed easily
and it usually takes a long time, before painful
memories can be erased from ones memory. Reading
Susan Forwards book Toxic Parents helped me to
deal with my own psychological trauma, which came
as a result of my upbringing by a single mom, back
in Soviet Union. In a way, my childhood
experiences can be ...
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