“It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.” Vladimir Lenin said this‚ he was the founder of the Soviet Union‚ a command economy that collapsed in 1991. This quote summarizes the type of control that he believed was required to create a utopian country. In a command economy‚ the government makes all decisions on jobs‚ land‚ and production‚ which leads to many social and political ramifications. This fact‚ along with a multitude of other factors‚ led to the
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What was the original purpose of NATO? In which ways has NATO "reinvented" itself in the post-cold war world? Suggestions: Concise coverage of NATO + CW Belief of many politicians that NATO had become redundant re: end of CW How NATO has defied this prediction Eg expansion of NATO -> PFP -> NATO+Russia Kosovo 9/11 Afghanistan At present two important formal alliances dominate the international security scene. By far the most powerful is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
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of World War II (1939–45)‚ many people considered the 1950s to be the beginning of a modern world‚ full of new products that would make their lives easier. The bright‚ the shiny‚ and the new were valued above all‚ and fashions reflected this. Hair spray‚ made of liquid plastics and vinyl that harden when they are sprayed on the hair to form a kind of shell that keeps the hair from falling out of its style‚ became very popular during the 1950s and early 1960s. Styles were crisp and clean‚ and hairstyles
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The Fall of Rome The Fall of Rome The Fall of Rome The Roman Empire was without a doubt the most powerful governing body in the Mediterranean ever. Why did Rome fall? There was not any single cause to the fall of Rome. It was many things occurring in succession to each other. After the Punic wars with Carthage‚ Rome acquired many new lands that it did not have before. During peace times it was easy to govern these areas but during war times it proved difficult. The government had to pay soldiers
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1950s Nostalgia Real and Imagined: A Structural Analysis of Stephanie Coontz’s “What We Really Miss about the 1950s” Stephanie Coontz is a professor of Family History at the Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington. She is a nationally recognized expert on the family and an award winning writer. In her 1997 book “The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America’s Changing Families”‚ Stephanie Coontz wrote an essay entitled “What We Really Miss about the 1950s”. In Stephanie Coontz’s
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fifties the vibrant and rebellious sixties would have never been possible. Political‚ racial‚ and social tensions are what pushed many of the events that happened in the sixties. From teenage conformity to loosing to the Russians and sputnik in the space race the events of the fifties were screaming for a drastic change in America. The political struggles of the fifties did not sit well with the American government. The truce of the Korean War in the early fifties led to the desire to regain
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of the caliphate gradually disappeared‚ until there remained nothing but the name. The weakening of Abbasid caliphal authority can be attributed to the interrelationship between many factors that contributed to the Abbasid collapse in the early 4th/10th century. It can be argued that the major challenge to caliphal authority was uniting a multi-ethnic and massive empire. The decline in imperial revenue lay in the loss of profit from the agricultural heartland of Sawad and political
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sends half a million military personnel to Nam. And started bombing north Vietnam./ Nixon began withdrawing troops‚ took 4 years to pull out. 51. VIETCONG- the South Vietnamese communist 52. GULF OF TONKIN/ GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION- USS Maddox was in the Gulf of Tonkin‚ 5 Vietnamese PT boats attacked the Maddox and then the USS Turner Joy joined the Maddox. 2 days after the attack on Maddox torpedoes were coming at the 2 ships so they opened fired on the
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After the second world war‚ many of Europe was completely devastated from all the warfare that had taken place since the beginning of the first world war. Two straight generations participated in a war that killed tens of millions combined‚ while destroying infrastructure all over the world. By the end of the second war‚ many were just focused on finally being with their families and recovering what little they had left. So the idea of “change” was most likely coming second to a lot of people. Many
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The sheer magnitude of US human‚ economic and military resources was too much for the Germans to counter. The US wartime production level was brought Eastern Front- you said it was American-British joint cooperation but without the US’s assistance they wouldn’t have Why did the Allies win? ASSIST Economic assistance If they didn’t supply them with money (lend-lease) or equipment how on earth would the allies manage to produce enough resources . THEY WERE RUNNING OUT AND NEARLY LOSING UNTIL
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