General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

creating the ultimate chance for the rise of a new leader. Adolf Hitler was a “powerful and spellbinding speaker who attracted a wide following of Germans desperate for change” (“Hitler comes to Power”). Hitler and his party, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi party), made it easy for the Germans to blame Germany’s hardships on one particular group. In this case, the blame was put on Jews. Hitler was able to convince many Germans that “the Jews had been the source of defeat…

Russia is in a strategic location and borders 14 other countries, which include but are not limited to China, Mongolia, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Lithuania, and Poland. There are many bodies of water that surround Russia, which include, Sea of Japan, Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea, Pacific Ocean, and Sea of Okhotsk. The Russian terrain consists…

As McCarthy's reputation as the nation's number one Communist-hater grew, Eisenhower refused to lower himself to McCarthy's level. The quotation "'I'm not going to get down in the gutter with that guy,' summed it up."19 One of the reasons why Eisenhower did little to remove the power from McCarthy was because…

whom but Mao? Instead, after twenty-seven years, the question posed was who after Mao? Thus, the PRC had fallen victim to the Achilles heel of communist regimes — the predicament of succession. As with all Leninist systems, succession…

Congress, 2008). Because of North Koreas difficult terrain, concentrations of population have widely been determined by ease of access, weather conditions, and arable land. Thus, the urban settlements of North Korea can be broken down into three general categories; western coastal and coastal plain cities, eastern coastal cities, and interior river valley cities. Interior river valley cities are not ideal for urban development and so they consist mostly of smaller towns and villages that are…

protesting illegally in 1981, he resolved the issue by firing 11,345 protesters who were part of PATCO (federal air traffic controllers union)and replaced them quickly this allowed conservatives to weaken labor unions it also expanded the power in the executive branch. Another massive success credited to Reagan was in October 25,1983 when he disposed of a communist leader and a violent coup in Grenada,…

Castro was respected by his followers for he brought them a sense of hope; he promised general elections, free land, free speech and improvements to their quality of life. He promised to free them from the oppression under the regime of President Batista. His Marxist views resonated with the poor and uneducated in Cuba and the life he sought for them and the vision he conveyed allowed him to build followership and elevate his power and status. “It is true that it (the revolution) follows its…

his memoirs, he would refer to this as his first political defeat (Barr 14). After graduating from Duke University Law School, Nixon represented California in the House of Representatives and later the Senate. He soon served as Vice President under General Dwight D. Eisenhower. On January 20, 1969, he was inaugurated…

interests, but wanted to “preserve an American-centered order” (“The Quiet Clinton Era”). Clinton wanted to maintain the status quo of the American unipolar power structure that occurred after the fall of the Soviet Union (“The Quiet Clinton Era”). On Clinton’s policy on military intervention, the general goal was to act as a regional stabilizer (“The Quiet Clinton Era”) but to avoid engagements in conflicts and areas that “posed little threat to American interests, narrowly defined” (Power…

Discusses how due to various causes including the aging of Russian nuclear systems, the lack of modernization in the Chinese nuclear systems, and the vulnerability of these country's systems in general, it can be seen that the United States is at a point where it is close to if not able to carry out a successful first strike. It also talks of the effects this has on the world. 25 Newman, Richard J., Thomas Omestad, Franklin Foer, and Major Garrett…