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Vietnam's Postwar Socioeconomic Changes

combat, drastic measures were required to try and drive the Vietnamese out of their strongholds in the countryside. A policy of ma...

20 Years of Important Environmental and Political Events

Century. This collapse has resulted in numerous world developments. One of the most important has been the attempted transition ...

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Russia and Islam

production and distribution system, something called perestroika (1999). That contributed to the breakup of the centralized struc...

American Foreign Policy Development

This paper considers how American developed its foreign policy concerning relations with Europe, Latin America, and the Soviet Uni...

Weapons and Their Costs and Damage to Human Life

at taking 75 years and costing $50 billion. This is described very clearly in an article by Glenn Zorpette published in Scientific...

1919 League of Nations and Why the Soviet Union Should Have Gained Acceptance

In six pages this paper discusses how World War II could have been prevented by a 1919 acceptance of the Soviet Union into the Lea...

Human Trafficking and Organized Crime

(2) products (drugs, prostitution, gambling, loan-sharking, pornography) that have been outlawed " (Organized Crime, 2001). Tod...

1956 'Secret Speech' of Nikita Khrushchev

This paper examines the far reaching impact of the 1956 speech made by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev consisting of 10 pages. T...

David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb

In 5 pages this paper discusses Remnick's version of the Soviet Union's collapse and also offers different ideological interpretat...

Lenin's Tomb by Remnick

In five pages this text review criticizes the author's credibility and biased depiction of Communism and the Soviet Union's collap...

John Lewis Gaddis' We Now Know Rethinking Cold War History

In six pages this paper presents a summary and thematic analysis of this text and the author's assertion that the Soviet actions c...

The Greatest President? Ronald Reagan and a Decade of Dignity

II. Faith Restored & Freedom Redefined - The Reagan Era "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" ~ Ronald Reagan, 1987 (Beichman A19...

Post 1945 East European and Moscow Security Affairs

In seven pages this paper discusses the fall of the Soviet Union and the increase in Poland's Solidarity power. Seven sources are...

Operations of the Central Intelligency Agency

In seven pages the Cold War arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is discussed in terms of CIA experiences and the roles...

Great Purge of Josef Stalin

In ten pages this paper examines the infamous Great Purge of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Twelve sources are cited in the biblio...

Cold War Ideological Separation of the United States and the Soviet Union

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

The Division of Europe

help of the Soviets Europe would effectively be divided into two sections (1993). By the time 1950 rolled around, the world looke...

Democratization of Russia

addition, have proven to benefit from the mindset expansion that accompanied the political fall. "A new breed of Russian civil se...

War Films Made by the Soviet Union

the USSR, World War II served as "the great patriotic war," and filmmakers would often examine the war from the human perspective ...

Relations Between the Soviet Union and the United States and the Truman Doctrine

nations of World War II as destinations for possible conquest. In response, that leader, Josef Stalin, grew to hate and mistrust t...

Analyzing a History of Yugoslavia from 1918 until 1991

of which was regarding the Istrian peninsula with Italy. This dispute continued despite the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920, the Memoran...

Lack of Anti Satellite Weapons' Control by the Soviet Union and the United States

this position we need to look at the way it was reached including the historical context, as this is the way the current military ...

Soviet Union Work Assignment Policy

there were both positive and negative aspects. In terms of the positive, the most important was that each person was guaranteed a...

Communism's Global Success and Failure

humanity it had suffered as a result of the industrialization of the German economy(Marx, 49). However, it can be stated that the...

Arkady Shevchenko's Breaking With Moscow

days later that the world learned that Arkady Shevchenko had defected to the United States. In 1957, Arkady Shevchenko, a Commu...

Communism, China, and the Paradox Represented by Chairman Mao

important to recognize their interaction with the West prior to the revolution was extremely limited. Indeed, even European merch...

Perspectives on the Cold War

Cold War possessed many instigators from American paranoia to a lack of mutual cooperation to the outright compromise of foreign p...

Enigma of 1989 by Jacques Levesque

of the U.S.S.R. and what it all means. One is left with a sense that what occurred in the headlines is really more than the defeat...