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United States Senate Foster Dulles
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German Army Soviet Union
968 wordsAfter losses and failure of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler now had new objectives in the war. He planned to drive Soviet forces out of the Southern Steppes and the Caucasus region and taking over the abundant supply of natural mineral wealth, especially oil, which was a key ingredient for Germany's war machine. Another reason was that Axis forces could have direct access to the Middle East and be able to have the military capability for a final annihilating sweep Northward through Soviet forces in...
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Cuban Missile Crisis East And West Germany
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Second World War Bomb Was Dropped
3,349 wordsAt 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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Revolution Of 1905 Workers Of The World
1,041 words... e workers' revolutionary apprenticeship. The growing number of strikes, their extension and increasing duration pointed towards a possible ' General Strike, that is, to the impending social revolution. Each particular strike was a facsimile in reduced scale of the General Strike, and a preparation for the final insurrection. The increasing revolutionary will would not be measured by the success or failure of political parties, but by the frequency and vehemence of the strikes. The revolution...
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States And The Soviet Union United States And The Soviet
1,081 words... ding whether to intervene in a now war torn Afghanistan. In December 1979, some " 85, 000 Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan" (Ambrose 1997: 287). Carter's sentiments were extremely hostile towards this invasion and saw it as an event that "could pose the most serious threat to world peace since the Second World War" (Ambrose 1997: 287 - 8) and moved to boycott the upcoming Olympic games to be held in Moscow. Washington seemed to be floundering in the Cold War attempt at dtente and the very i...
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Cold War The Changing Relationship Of Superpowers
628 wordsThe United States and Soviet Union, the single most important rivalry of the twentieth century, started as a partnership. This irony was caused by the fact that the Germans were taking over Europe, which forced them in this relationship. Once Hitler was eliminated and Berlin destroyed, the tensions began rising. These two nations had completely opposite ideologies from the economic system to the political system. The changing relationship has evolved from a forced partnership, a possible world w...
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Soviet Union Expansionism In The Cold War
807 wordsWhat specific actions of the Soviet Union had when expressing expansionism and threats to stability? Write in defense of the Soviet Union. The Cold War dominated world politics or needed to dominate world attention of what it was about and such a large event it was being a global phenomenon which was difficult for reaching agreements. In fact, interpretations as to the origins of the Cold War are dominated by three schools of thought. Traditionalist, Revisionist and Post-revisionist. While the T...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis In Film Thirteen Days
1,161 wordsThe film Thirteen Days shows the viewer a blockbuster look at the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis that challenged the Kennedy administration. It does a reasonable job of sifting through history and picking the pieces that allow the audience to understand the historical event and enjoy the movie without being overloaded with information. The character of the Presidents fiercely loyal aid, Kenneth OConnell played by the actor Kevin Costner is followed throughout the film to give a more personal feel to ...
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
1,254 wordsWord Count: 4067 Abstract The Chinese Civil War, which took place from the end of World War II up to October 1, 1949, directly led to the creation of the Peoples Republic of China, the worlds most populous communist nation. The purpose of this essay is to explain why the Chinese Communist Party was able to achieve victory over the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War. In this paper, the role of international powers, namely the Soviet Union and the United States, Kuomintang policy, and Chinese Com...
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Cold War Era World War Ii
1,667 words... it further divided them in their quest for non-proliferation. The situation that formed in Asia and the Pacific Rim after WWII was basically a battle between the West (America, capitalism) and the East (USSR, communism). The war created two super-powers in Russia and the USA. Russia immediately began to convert all their territory gained into communist puppet governments. This caused disagreement between the US and the USSR. The US then tried to suppress the spread of communism. This started...
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Spheres Of Influence End Of The Cold War
1,485 wordsPoliticians and citizens alike during the early 1970 s viewed d tente as the first step towards ending the Cold War. This agreement to a cooling off of East-West tensions, initiated by U. S. President Nixon and Soviet Premier Brezhnev, gave hope for the first time that the two superpowers could coexist. In addition to political acknowledgement of each other s spheres of influence, d tente consisted of armaments limitations and reductions agreements starting with SALT in 1972. Moreover, economic ...
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Opened The Door Bolshevik Revolution
2,386 wordsSoviet Propaganda By: Philip Luongo The soviet communist party, or the Bolsheviks, always new that strong propaganda was essential to increase the consciousness of the masses. As stated in the Encyclopedia of Propaganda, propaganda was central to Marxist-Leninist ideology long before the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. (675) The power of persuasion and coercion were exercised with great force by Soviet leaders. The two leaders whom utilized propaganda to influence public opinion in the USSR were V...
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Ho Chi Minh 38 Th Parallel
1,168 wordsThe Cold War was characterized by mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings by the United States and the Soviet Union. At times, these conditions increased the likelihood of a third world war. Elementary and Middle School books tell about the cold war being the struggle of the evil east against the democratic west. This leads students to believe that the cold war was one major battle, but really the cold war was made up of many smaller events. The United States accused the Soviet Union o...
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Soviet Military Soviet Union
2,359 wordsDISTINCTIVE ASPECTS OF SOVIET AND RUSSIAN MILITARYDISTINCTIVE ASPECTS OF SOVIET AND RUSSIAN MILITARY THINKING This research paper will argue that there are four main areas in which Soviet thinking about war, strategy and defense was, and to a large extent is, distinct from Western thinking. Firstly, Soviet and Western thinking were governed by different aims. While the Soviet aim was messianic, the West was content to defend? national interests. ? Secondly, Russian military thinking is more holi...
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Central And Eastern Europe Soviet Troops
2,886 wordsHistory 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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Nuclear Arms Race War With Japan
3,347 wordsRegret is unacceptable in terms of using a destructive weapon in times of war. Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was, if not a complete mistake, poorly timed. Unfortunately, the moment it was used, it may have seemed to be the only solution to bring peace. This paper will examine the untimeliness of the bomb as manifested in postwar regret and nuclear warfare. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, thrust the United States into World War II, and thus helped reshape modern warfa...
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Brest Litovsk Bolshevik Regime
3,739 wordsMajor Sources Of Discord Between The Bolshevik Major Sources Of Discord Between The Bolshevik And European States Major Sources of Discord between the Bolsheviks and European States: 1917 to 1921 There were several major sources that created discord between the Bolsheviks and western states in Europe from 1917 to 1921. Conflicting ideologies that each attacked the very fabric of the others respective society led to the notion that capitalism and communism could not coexist. The attempts of both ...
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Cuban Missile Crisis Missiles In Cuba
1,093 wordsThe Cuban Missle Crisis According to Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, in May 1962 he conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba as a means of countering an emerging lead of the United States in developing and deploying strategic missiles. He also presented the scheme as a means of protecting Cuba from another United States-sponsored invasion, such as the failed attempt at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. After obtaining Fidel Castro's approval, the Soviet Union worked quickly ...
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National Missile Defense Christian Science Monitor
4,041 wordsStar Wars and National Missile Defense: Unnecessary Yesterday, Unnecessary Today Ever since nuclear weapons of mass destruction have existed, people have been attempting to create ways to prevent a war that would bring about a worldwide Arma-gordon. Many of today? s top military and government officials have been studying ways in which the United States can protect itself from a nuclear missile attack. What they have come up with is the National Missile Defense program, or NMD. The NMD would con...
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