esteem soon disintegrated as it became apparent that he was determined to dictate Cuba at all costs. Overriding the entire election process‚ Batista seized power through a military coup and silenced political opponents through terror and censorship; notably‚ Socarrás would be the last Cuban leader to ever be voted into presidency. Yet despite Batista’s callous tactics‚ the United States government continued to support him‚ because Batista was friendly to foreign economic involvement and America had
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1950s shifted the focus of the Cold War from Europe to Asia Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship‚ Alliance and Mutual Assistance February 1950 This treaty was initially between the Soviet Union and Nationalist China called Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance in 1945. The treaty was reformed and signed by Stalin and Mao‚ allying Communist USSR and Communist China. Soviet Union officially recognized the PRC and renamed the recognition to the ordinary Republic of China. Within the treaty‚ Soviet
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VICTORY! “When you walk into the gym you leave everything behind. It’s like a total different world. It’s you second family. We gymnasts spend more time in the gym then with our parents. We do gymnastics not to please our family but to please ourselves.” The day I found out all my training was worth it‚ was at the Glencoe- Silver Lake Gymnastics Invite. I got to this moment by joining gymnastics and making the high school team‚ going to practice every day and giving it my all‚ and all the other
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Was Dunkirk a moral victory or a military disaster? Firstly‚ let’s set the scene for this event. Neville Chamberlain had declared war on the Nazis eight months ago and currently there was a stalemate between both sides called the “Phoney War.” On May 10‚ the Germans launched a blitzkrieg attack on the Netherlands and Belgium. By May 15‚ they had already broken through the French defenses and started to head straight for the English Channel. A week later‚ German forces had the British Expeditionary
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What Extent was Gorbachev to blame for the Collapse of the USSR Gorbachev was to blame for the collapse of the USSR for various reasons‚ mainly because of his two new policies‚ ‘Glasnost’ (New Freedom and Openness) and ‘Perestroika’ (Economic Restructuring). However‚ there were a few external factors which helped cause the collapse of the USSR‚ such as the effect Yeltsin had on Russia and how countries were growing tired of the whole communist system itself. Gorbachev’s intention was to make the
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and highly manoeuvrable Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missile (BVRAAM) air-to-air weapon. Guidance is provided by an active radar seeker benefiting from enhanced technologies drawn from the MBDA Aster and Mica missile programmes. The meteor was designed to equip the Euro fighter Typhoons of the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF)‚ Germany’s Luftwaffe‚ Spain’s Ejército del Aire and Italy’s Aeronautica Militare Italiana‚ the British and Italian F-35s (both in the Air Force and Navy)‚ the Dassault Rafales of France’s
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Stalin: Modernising the USSR Joseph Stalin is now remembered as one of the most ruthless and powerful dictators of all time. His regime was one of terror and oppression‚ and resulted in the deaths of millions of Soviets. As a young man‚ Stalin was involved in the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. In 1904‚ he met Lenin at the first national Bolshevik conference in Finland before becoming the delegate to the Social Democratic Party. His job was to gather support for the Bolshevik
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The Cuban Revolution The Cuban Revolution was one of the most defining events in Cuba’s history. With blood hardwork and a dream the Cuban Revolution was one of the most influential and defining moments in Cuba’s history. The Cuban Revolution was led by Fidel Castro and a few other key figures such as Che Guevara and his brother Raul Castro. Before Castro’s revolution the Cuban government had been taken over by Fulgencio Batista. He made Cuba into a puppet for countries to take resources from without
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suppressed. US intervention during the Spanish-American War in 1898 assisted the Cubans in overthrowing Spanish rule. Subsequently‚ the 1901 Platt Amendment to the Cuban constitution authorized the US to intervene in Cuba in the event
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Why was central planning abandoned in Eastern Europe and the USSR? Abstract “If a universal mind existed‚ of the kind that projected itself into the scientific fancy of Laplace – a mind that could register simultaneously all the processes of nature and society‚ that could measure the dynamics of their motion‚ that could forecast the results of their inter-reactions – such a mind‚ of course‚ could a priori draw up a faultless and exhaustive economic plan. The bureaucracy often imagines that just such
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