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    North Korea has a communist‚ state-run‚ one-man dictatorship. However‚ North korea has gone through many steps to get where they are today. In 668 A.d.‚ Koreans were united by the Silla Dynasty. This dynasty united three kingdoms of Korea which included Silla‚ Paekhe‚ and Koruryo. After the unification‚ Korea obtained a more organized bureaucratic model which was in accord with China. This system divided the Korean peninsula into 9 different provinces. The system also included systems of ministries

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    capitalism‚ for example‚ tend to have more civil cooperation than totalitarian and communist countries with enhanced bureaucratic control. During times of war‚ governments frequently implement extreme bureaucratic measures that affect the disempowered and minority populations the most. The U.S. government exhibited some of this extreme bureaucracy during World War II after the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Fueled by the attack and the fear that Japanese Americans were a threat to national security

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    INTRODUCTION In 1945‚ post-World War II‚ Eastern Europe was somewhat divided into two sets of states; Germany and its former allies (including Romania and Hungary)‚ and countries who had fallen victim to the Nazi regime (including Poland and Czechoslovakia). The continent of Europe itself was left in a ravaged and desolate state after the war‚ leaving its economies in disrepair; most notably in the East. Due to the dire social and economic situations in these eastern countries‚ there was a growing

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    The Cold War‚ one of the most scariest times in America’s‚ or even the world’s history. The threat of nuclear war was real‚ very real. At any moment America or the U.S.S.R. could destroy the entire world with their assault of nuclear weapons‚ just at a call and a click of a button. This is one of many important times in history‚ and still affects us today. Not only did the North Atlantic Treaty Operation come from the tensions‚ but the bay of pigs‚ the cuban missile crisis‚ the berlin wall (the construction

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    but have you ever wondered how they took those pictures during the Cold War? The cold war was a time of one-up manship‚ new ideas‚ and new intention that we previously thought was impossible. It lasted from 1949-1991 and even though there was no actual fighting between the United States and the USSR‚ there was atomic bomb threats‚ proxy wars‚ and the race to get to space. During the Cold War many people got new ideas‚ and a lot of money was spent for the United States and the USSR to outdo the other

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    to our young government. He also predicted what would most likely happen to the United States. In his address‚ Washington told the United States government to not form political parties. Washington predicted that they might distract the public councils and weaken public administration. Republican and Democratic parties have and have not helped government issues that affect the United States today. One big issue political parties have and have not helped with is healthcare. President Obama fulfilled

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    Crisis happened during the Cold War. This was a tense event following World War II. This almost caused Russia and US to be involved in a nuclear war. Another symbol of the Cold War was the Iron Curtain which divided the Soviet Union after World War II from Europe by the Berlin Wall. Soviet Union built this this wall to prevent people from leaving the Soviet Union and prevent interaction with Europe. People were segregated from the rest of the world. This tension between the United States and Russia caused

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    The Cold War was a major event that shaped the American scientific community and the university system. Universities targeted their focus on creating more doctorate students particularly‚ in scientific fields such as Physics in order to man the large scale science projects happening in the United States. The scientific community became more dependent on the support of the government to create laboratories and provide equipment for their research and development. Though this aid created a lack of

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    The Cold War era was guided by the policy of “containment”. The word was mainly used only in its foreign policy version‚ first articulated by George F. Kennan in 1947. Through actions of the United States‚ the power of the Soviet Union would not endanger national security if it could be contained within a clearly defined sphere of influence. (The Sources of Soviet Conduct) However‚ this term also describes the United States government’s response to other postwar domestic developments. Although many

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    other in the Second World War to defeat a common enemy‚ differing political ideologies resulted in high tensions between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The Soviet communist government‚ initiated during the Bolshevik Revolution‚ posed a direct threat to the goal of the United States to spread democracy and capitalism across the globe. These rising tensions manifested themselves in the form of the Cold War-a series of conflicts and antagonism between the two nations that did not involve any direct

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