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    States government, the public, and the newspaper press believe that the novel, Fail Safe by Eugene Harvey and Burdick Wheeler creates controversy about the Military Forces. The USAF claims that the Fail Safe novel will just make the public believe that war can be caused by an accident, which is putting a horrible impression on the U.S. forces and puts the U.S. forces at fault. The USAF and the United States government also believes that the Fail Safe novel could be put into the hands of the…

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    This investigation aims to discuss the extent to which Tito-Stalin split in 1948 created new type of communism or “Titoist” communism. It will mostly focus on Yugoslav policy between the Second World War and the Tito-Stalin split, (1945-1948), the Yugoslav policy after Tito-Stalin split and consequences of that split. The research question that this study will seek to answer is “To what extent it can be said that Tito-Stalin split in 1948 created ‘Titoist’ communism?” I chose this question…

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    During the Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet union escalated because of the political ideologies of democracy and communism. In the case of the Vietnam war the US government backed south vietnam ed by the nationalist Ngo Dinh Diem and the communist led north vietnam, two halves which claimed to be the rightful leaders. In the midst of the Vietnam war the Sixties became the essential period in both revolutionizing social norms and ending the Vietnam war. The…

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    as the Red Scare and the Red Scare led to a range of actions that had impacts on America’s policy and society both positive and negative.[ History.com Staff “Red Scare” history.com accessed date June 4th ,2017 http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare] Then, this situation brought up a question why did they afraid of Communism? Let’s start with what Communism is. “A political movement that believes in an economic system in which the state controls the means of producing everything on…

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    content as well as history have been reinvented and redefined for different purposes. On the issue of colonial legacy, it would be interesting to complement the discussion by a more systematic study that historicizes the transformation in the post-war period, for example, through a study that combines both hard facts and literary representations. By doing so, hopefully, the conundrum of Taiwanese identity could be solved in the near future.…

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    Soldiers of the Charlie Company were ordered by Lieutenant Calley, on March 16, 1968, to leave the village of My Lai destroyed. During the Vietnam War, the United States supported South Vietnam and were in the process of fighting North Vietnam because of their communistic viewpoints. The fighting had been different than any other war, the Viet Cong's fighting style consisted of sneaky sniper attacks and booby traps. Their fighting style had aggravated the United States soldiers and they soon…

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    always been boiling, wars everywhere and at all times. Few regions managed to escape from wars or declare themselves neutral in order to lose less if nothing can be obtained. There’s no war without an aim. It is known that a war is considered to be successfully won if one of the parties could reach to its aim. We can justify this by Machiavelli’s statement “The end justifies its means”. As a result, there have always been a large number of losses- victims and prisoners of wars. Could these…

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    "South Boston Korean War Memorial" is located in South Boston, Massachusetts nearby the Fourth Independence. A. Monti Granite Company did this sculpture in 1993 to honor the twenty men from South Boston who lost their lives in the Korean War around the 1950s. The company made this piece of granite using the carving technique. The sculpture has an average human's size featuring a man soldier in winter soldier's uniform. A. Monti Granite Company mounted this piece in 1993 with complete condition…

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    One of the most well-known examples of a modern dictatorship is Kim Jong Un’s “leadership” over North Korea. So well known that Hollywood ended up making two satirical films about how poorly North Korea has been lead, one being the assassination of Kim Jong Un called “The Interview” and the other about assassinating his father, Kim Jong Il, called “Team America: World Police”. Kim Jong Un was born into power as an heir to Kim Jong Il and was given the position as supreme leader of the Democratic…

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    -Truman and his band of foreign policy believed that Stalin intended to exploit any Western weakness and to take over any territory he thought to be vulnerable. -In a speech, Truman stated that “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities and outside pressures.” In this speech, Truman did not state that the armed minorities were the Communists; however, no one at the time or thereafter doubted that…

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