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    The Cold War starting from 1945 to its end had lasted for 44 years. 44 years of different degrees and stages of tension between the two Superpowers. Who was to blame for the outbreak and development of the Cold War? Both sides were to blame‚ and the Soviet policies between 1945 and 1949 were‚ thus‚ responsible for it to a certain extent. Economically‚ the Soviets did not allow its Eastern Bloc to receive the US’s Marshall Plan aid‚ and set up Comecon to oppose it‚ and these actions by the Soviets

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    The Cuba Missile Crisis‚ referred to as the Caribbean Crisis by the Russians‚ was an event that lasted from October 16‚ 1962 through October 28‚ 1962. This crisis occurred as a result of the Russians placing nuclear weapons in Cuba‚ which is only about one hundred miles from Florida. The docudrama “The Missiles of October”‚ and Russian Chairmen of Ministries Nikita Khrushchev’s personal writings‚ give us insight to the events of the crisis. Khrushchev’s writings‚ and the “The Missiles of October”

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    with warring nations‚ which ultimately caused them to join the war. If the United States had stayed out of the war completely and remained isolated‚ then the nation’s economy would spiral into a state of depression. Because of the illegal British blockade on Germany’s water boarder‚ the German U-boats and the Zimmerman Telegram‚ the United States was forced to enter World War I in order to protect its economic interests abroad and maintain its economy. By the end of World War I the economy and political

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    Joseph Stalin the leader of the Soviet Union wanted to expand communism‚ he believed that communism was the superior ideology. The United States being capitalist contain communism by using the Berlin blockade and airlift to their advantage‚ the Korean war‚ and The Cuban missile crises. The Berlin Blockade‚was one demonstration of how the United States was containing communism‚ a good example of how the United States was containing communism is when they would send flights to drop supplies to the

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    History Coursework - The First World War. Explain how the Schlieffen plan was meant to work. The Schlieffen plan was the strategy Germany planned to adopt in the event of a war in 1914. It was intended to bring a fast‚ effective victory for Germany‚ and was devised by Count Alfred von Schlieffen who was the Chief of the General Staff of the German Army. If a war broke out‚ Germany would be faced with a war in the west against France‚ and a war on the east against Russia. German generals knew that

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    Strategic decision success is heavily reliant on the attitudes that managers take toward the decision-making process and toward the decision itself. The Cuban missile crisis is the most well known case of strategic decision making at the level of the nation-state. The nature of the case was such that the use of evaluative frameworks and concepts along with the right managerial attitudes eventuated in a successful strategic outcome. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States

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    the war at sea more important or was the war at the Western Front more important? To support or contradict this view‚ we need to considerate the importance of the following things: the U-boat threat to Britain‚ Britain’s supply line‚ the British Blockade and the connections between the war at sea and the Western Front. In this essay‚ I’m going to write down the points that are for and against this view. In conclusion‚ I will give my own opinions and say why I had chosen to support‚ or to contradict

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    anaesthesia‚ individual tolerance and physical condition of the patient. The major advantage of bupivacaine appears to be in its ability to cause differential blockade of sensory and motor fibres. This property is used when bupivacaine is administered in extradural space in obstetrics when adequate analgesia is achieved without significant motor blockade‚ so that the patient in labour is able to move her legs71. 0.25% bupivacaine should be used for postoperative analgesia and operation in which muscle relaxation

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    Why Did Germany Loose Ww1?

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    France who got support by other countries after a while but why did Germany loose the war? Well it’s hard to practically point one thing out and say this is why but most probably a mix of different causes would be the right way to say. The Naval blockade‚ the entering of the U.S. is two heavy causes but the strategic errors are things they could blame themselves for and with some clever changes maybe the war would have looked different. Strategic errors The strategic errors are for some one of

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    After the ending of World War II l‚ the United States and the Soviet Union rejoiced. The worst war in human history was over. However‚ the peace did not last. The United States and Soviet Union had many ideological differences. The Soviet Union was the birthplace of communism and a huge proponent of it. Communism and capitalism are directly opposites. This caused tension between the countries which eventually led to the culmination of the Cold War. It was an obvious fact that the Soviet Union wanted

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