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Viet Minh Viet Cong
1,274 wordsIn the wake of the temporary partitioning of Vietnam at the Geneva Conference of 1954, the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration was determined to do what it could to ensure that South Vietnam remained out of the hands of Communists. Eisenhower suggested in a 1954 speech that if the Communists were victorious in Vietnam, the rest of Southeast Asia would "topple like a row of dominoes" to Communist ideology. The Eisenhower administration believed that if Southeast Asia turned Communist it would eff...
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Who Was To Blame For The Cold War
1,440 wordsI GOT AN A STAR AT GCSE LEVEL FOR THIS ESSAY, ENGLISH SPELLING... HOPE U LIKE... Everyones opinion is different, some say one thing, some say another but the big question is, who was to blame for the Cold War? The United States of America? The Soviet Union? Maybe it was inevitable and bound to happen, but maybe it was partly both of their faults. Could the Cold War have been prevented? There are many points that can argue and back up all of the above opinions. I will be examining different sourc...
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Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
1,381 wordsAtlas Shrugged The novel Atlas Shrugged was written by Russian-born writer and philosopher Ayn Rand and published in 1957 in the United States. It is a controversial and widely popular work. According to a 1991 Library of Congress report, the novel was recognized as the second most influential book after the Bible in the lives of its readers. A complicated combination of mystery, love story, social criticism, and philosophical concepts, the more than a thousand-page long novel embodies the autho...
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Soviet Republics Soviet Union
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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Communist Ideology Centrally Planned
2,521 wordsRussia Economic Transition In August of 1991, the collapse of the communist system in the USSR and its neighboring republics occurred. Out of the smoke emerged fifteen new republics and a union known as the Commonwealth of Independent States. These new regimes faced formidable obstacles. The collapse brought massive inflation which in turn forced the economy into a spiraling decline and a state of almost worthless value. Many people were quick to point the finger at their communist past, and eve...
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Order To Achieve Lenin
2,278 wordsDocument Question: The Russian Revolution And The Document Question: The Russian Revolution And The New Soviet State 1917 - 1929 1) a) Document A refers to the grain seizures of 1918. ? The term? revolutionary enthusiasm and discipline? refers to the way in which Lenin and his Bolsheviks wish the actions to be carried out. ? He expects his fellow comrades to be enthusiastic about working for the good of the state and to be disciplined and focussed on their task. ? However, this order was given s...
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Fall Of Communism Soviet Union
795 wordsDuring 1989 the world looked on with amusement as communist governments in Eastern Europe collapsed and were replaced with governments committed to democracy and the free market. The Soviet Union and its republics started to break apart and eventually got their independence. Political, Social and Economical factors all contributed to the fall of communism is Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the 1980 s and 1990 s. A major political factor was the ruling of Mikhail Gorbachev. He set up a ref...
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Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin
1,055 wordsThe Russian government is a time bomb just waiting to explode, you have a whole country in economic turmoil, and the leaders are frantic to try and diffuse the situation. Two leaders have tried to turn their nations around Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, and Boris Yeltsin of Russia. Although different it is surprising they both had the same common goal? Mikhail Gorbachev was born in a small town in the Red Guard district of Stavropol province called Privolnoe. Gorbachev was accepted by th...
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Majority Of People Hong Kong
1,759 wordsCHINA 2000 What is China? Is it maybe the image of the ancient times with the glorious old dynasties, the powerful emperors, the wondrous temples, the fascinating winding gardens? ? Or is it maybe a strict communist world with uniformed people wearing Mao suits and living in dreary gray concrete apartment blocks? ? Or perhaps it is the skyscrapers of Hong Kong and Shanghai, the horrendous traffic, the buzzing commotion, ultra modern electronics and plate glass buildings? ? In reality, China is a...
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U S S R Five Year Plans
3,048 wordsRed Freedom. The Application Of Reformed Socialism Red Freedom. The Application Of Reformed Socialism For A Fairer Future. In recent years there as been a major decline in support for that doctrine which originally looked so promising and had so much support & ends socialism. With the collapse of the Soviet Socialist Empire in Eastern Europe, and closer to home the movement to the right of the British Labour Party it seems that socialism has ceased to be an important ideology. Even in China,...
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