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    Harry Truman Years in Office: 8 | Term: 1945 - 1953 | Political Party: Democrat Domestic Affairs - Dismissed MacArthur during Korean War - Ordered desegregation of military - Executive Order 9835 - GI Bill of Rights Foreign Policy - Containment: prevent spread of Communism - Authorized atomic bomb usage - Potsdam Conference‚ Marshall Plan‚ NATO - Truman Doctrine - Korean War – domino theory – contain communism at all costs - Recognized Israel as a country Trivia - The S in Harry

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    Crim Notes

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    Key Terms : Potsdam Declaration ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ Manhattan Project Enola Gay J. Robert Oppenheimer Harry Truman Hiroshima and Nagasaki Isolationism USS Missouri Cold War Begin: Cold War “Communist Contagion” Iron Curtain Containment “Long Telegram” Truman Doctrine European Recovery Plan (Marshall Plan) Berlin Airlift NATO Early Cold War Domestic Politics and Society GI Bill of Rights New Deal & Fair Deal Taft-Hartley Act (1947)

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    Mikhail Gorbachev’s decisive role in a Cold War’s end : Was it possible that the end of the Cold War happened without Gorbachev? Introduction The very end of the Cold War happened ’suddenly’ in 1991. A dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was consequentially connected to the Cold War’s end. However‚ The Soviet Union had a strong military power both conventionally and strategically until 1985‚ and its economy could still endure more. In 1985‚ Mikhail Gorbachev‚ the last leader

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    Nixon Commeral Analysis

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    budget between 1961 and 1998. Some of his most acclaimed achievements came in his quest for world stability. During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow‚ he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973‚ he announced an accord with North Vietnam to end American involvement in Indochina. In 1974‚ his Secretary of State‚ Henry Kissinger‚ negotiated disengagement agreements

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    The command system‚ which is also described as Marxism‚ socialism‚ or communism‚ is both a political and economic philosophy. In a communist economy‚ the government owns most of the firms‚ subsequently controlling production and allocation of resources. One of the most well-known and well-documented cases of a communist government took place in the Soviet Union‚ beginning in 1917 and eventually falling in 1992. Idealistically‚ communism eliminates social classism and provides equal work for all

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    Communism in the Soviet Union and Why it Failed Communism is defined as "a system of political and economic organization in which property is owned by the community and all citizens share in the enjoyment of the common wealth‚ more or less according to their need." In 1917 the rise of power in the Marxist-inspired Bolsheviks in Russia along with the consolidation of power by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin‚ the word communism came to mean a totalitarian system controlled by a single political

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    “Capitalism and communism were prevented from cooperating… because of their ideological differences‚ jealousies‚ suspicions‚ and power politics” (Packet). After World War II‚ the United States of America and the Soviet Union had many differences that made it difficult for these two superpowers to work together. Since the atomic bomb was introduced‚ the threat of nuclear weapons spread across the world and the Allied Powers worked to prepare. Countries either sided with the Western powers and ideas

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    Early Life Richard Milhous Nixon grew up in Yorba‚ California the son of Quakers Frank and Hannah Nixon. During Nixon ’s childhood in Yorba‚ the family was always on the edge of poverty. The lemon grove was unfruitful‚ and there was little money for anything beyond food and clothing for the growing family. The Nixons never ate in a restaurant or took even a brief vacation. Nixon ’s early life was one of boyish stubbornness. He swam in the dangerous Anaheim Canal in spite of repeated warnings from

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    surrendered on May 8. Hitler was already dead and committed suicide in his berlin bunker on April 30. Germany was divided into four occupation zones‚ that are controlled by the Soviet Union‚ Britain‚ the United States‚ and France. The united nations is built off of the principle of collective security. Collective security is supposed to prevent future conflicts that will happen. Collective security is used so if a nation attacks another nations everyone should help the nation being attacked to prevent

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    When his father lay dying‚ the Welsh poet‚ Dylan Thomas‚ wrote one of the immortal poems of our time‚ “Do not go gentle into that good night.” In it he urges his father: “Do not go gentle into that good night‚ Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage‚ rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right‚ Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.” In the last question to Yudhishtra at the lakeside‚ the Yaksha asks:

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