When Nixon flew to China in February and he met with Mao Zedong. Nixon’s visit included a vast shift in the Cold War balance‚ putting the U.S. and China against the Soviet Union. Several months later‚ Nixon traveled to the U.S.S.R. and met with Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders. The result this trip was the signing of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. The treaty restricted the number of ICBMs each nation could manufacture
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purely for the benefit of the USSR. Dubcek‚ a reforming communist‚ replaced Novotny. Brezhnev‚ leader of the USSR‚ supported this move. Dubcek promised the people socialism with a human face‚ and launched a series of reforms known as the Prague Spring. The reforms aimed to improve standard of living‚ allow for greater freedom and democracy‚ and introduce trade with West Germany. Dubcek tried to reassure Brezhnev that his changes wouldn’t threaten the USSR and that Czechoslovakia wouldn’t leave the
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Margaret Thatcher and the Thatcherism (A short summary of Margaret Thatcher’s policy) University of Miskolc Göncző-Dutkay Renáta English teacher – MA Correspondence student Introduction Margaret Thatcher - the British prime minister of the 1980’s – entered into the history as an epoch-making politician. She was a controversial‚ but sometimes irresistible person‚ who was rated as a pattern in other countries too by the believers of the strict and
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RICHARD M. NIXON Throughout the course of history in the United States there have been controversial individuals. These people bring attention to themselves through good deeds or misdeeds. This is the case for the 37th president of the United States. His name was Richard Milhouse Nixon. His rise to power and fall from grace will forever be a topic of debate and discussion. Nixon was born on january 9‚ 1913 in Yorba Linda‚ California. He was the second of five children born to Frank Nixon and
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solutions: interstitial solid solutions‚ ordered phases‚ intermediate phases‚ compounds Equilibrium in heterogeneous systems Reading: Chapter 1.3 of Porter and Easterling‚ Chapters 9.5‚ 9.6‚ 9.9‚ 9.10 of Gaskell MSE 3050‚ Phase Diagrams and Kinetics‚ Leonid Zhigilei Solid Solutions (terminology) Solid solutions are made of a host (the solvent or matrix) which dissolves the minor component (solute). The ability to dissolve is called solubility. Solvent: in an alloy‚ the element or compound present
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In 1980 Leonid Brezhnev‚ the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union agreed to a grain embargo with Jimmy Carter‚ the President of the United States. Shteyngart explains the trade deal stating “Russia gets the grain it needs
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Struggled to make decision on Poland and eastern Europe‚ the “Pandora Box of infinite troubles” Finally decided eastern European governments would be freely elected but pro-Russian The Yalta compromise over eastern Europe broke down almost immediately Even before the conference‚ Bulgaria and Poland were controlled by communists who arrived home with the Red Army - Postwar Potsdam Conference of July 1945 o Long-avoided differences over eastern Europe finally
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sustained‚ as the Soviet Union had grown so large in size that the planners simply could not come out with effective economic policies anymore‚ it had proven to be too much for a central government to handle. (Worldology‚ n.d.) Under the rule of Leonid Brezhnev‚ growth was in a steep declined starting from the ninth 5-year plan (1970-1975) with a growth rate of 3% approximately and 1-1.9% and 0.6-1.8% in the subsequent 10th and 11th 5 year plans. The factors that caused the Soviet economy to go into
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End of the Soviet Union The coup attempt sparked anger against the Communist Party. Gorbachev resigned as general secretary of the party. The Soviet parliament voted to stop all party activities. Having first seized power in 1917 in a coup that succeeded‚ the Communist Party now collapsed because of a coup that failed. The coup also played a decisive role in accelerating the breakup of the Soviet Union. Estonia and Latvia quickly declared their independence. Other republics soon followed. Although
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