Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War that lasted from 1955 to 1975, of which Australian forces only served 10 years, from 1962 to 1972 lead to the destruction of many areas in South Vietnam, veterans that were both physically and mentally scared from the war and a mass change in values and beliefs among the Australian population. These and many more reasons overall meant that whilst the war was changed as a result of the conflict in Vietnam it was not an overall beneficial change. The Australian
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1989-1991 saw the end of the Cold War. George Bush took office that year. He and Gorbachev's organizations were exceptionally careful about one another, and did not predict the Cold War finishing at any point in the near future. Then again, the occasions of the 1980's had so debilitated Communism that it would just take moment changes from apparently insignificant pioneers and people to bring the whole Soviet framework down. Hungary had constantly sought after freedom from the USSR. By 1989, its
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Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 to March 5, the day of his death. During Stalin’s reign he not only killed many of his enemies ,but many of his own people as well. Stalin's dictatorship affected millions of people and transformed Russia from a backward country into a superpower. Before Stalin was in power he was studying to become a priest in the capital of Georgia (now Tbilisi). Stalin never finished his studies instead getting involved with the cities revolutionary
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Without Robert Goddard creation of the liquid fueled rocket in 1926 America would not be anywhere in space exploration it is today. Robert Goddard was and still is a huge role in the exploration space in so many ways. Robert Goddard was not very known when he worked best. People that have known him thought he was crazy because he came up with one of the most crazy theory of all time. This not thought of theory was that a Rocket could one day could carry a payload thru a vacuum. People thought
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Growing up behind the Iron Curtain - St. Petersburg - deep within the Soviet Union, my father and I would hold our regular clandestine meetings, hovering over an AM radio, listening to our only link with the outside world and Voice of America. I was a boy, then, and yet, as I look back now, reading from the Economist, Foreign Affairs or the Herald Tribune, I remark inwardly on how fortunate I was to be able to have a world view that includes the other side of the Curtain. In my first years at university
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involved in almost every war in the 20th century. His years of experience have brought upon many challenges, many American’s believe that McNamara was singlehandedly responsible for the devastation and loss of the Vietnam war. In 1995, he took a stand against his own conduct in that war, confessing that it was “wrong, terribly wrong.” In Errol Morris’s 2003 documentary, The Fog of War, McNamara shares the eleven lesson that helped shape his role and crucial impact in these wars. I am going to explore
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Since the initial creation of nuclear deterrence, two U.S. Presidents have offered grand proposals to bring salvation and save humanity from the threat of its own creation, nuclear warfare. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the first of such proposals, a constellation of space- and ground-based systems that was ‘envisioned by President Ronald Reagan’ would render nuclear weapons ‘impotent and obsolete’. In March 1983, President Reagan gave a speech announcing the program, suggesting that
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Butchery of Hitler and Stalin." Policy Review, no. 167, 2011, p.a 69+. Student Resources in Context, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&sw=w&u=bake57164&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA260062419&it=r&asid=eda6a25dee1b7708bdba9e2cce35a5fa. Accessed 21 Mar. 2017 Shaw, Martin. War and genocide: Organised killing in modern society. John Wiley & Sons, 2015 University, Stanford. "Stalin killed millions. A Stanford historian answers the question, was it genocide?" Stanford News. N.p., 15 Apr. 2016. Web. 21 Mar. 2017. Naimark, Norman
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After the end of WWII, the nation of Germany was divided into four separate occupational zones in the effort to plan for a better future after such a gruesome war. Britain, France, and the US combined their three western sections of the country and West Berlin into one economic and executive unit, while Russia controlled the eastern part of Germany and East Berlin (Berlin Crisis). However, in 1948, tensions were rising as to who would gain control over the capital; the democratic western powers or
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Sputnik was a satellite launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. It was the first artificial satellite launched into space. Sputnik was a small satellite, only being 22 inches in diameter and weighing 184 pounds. The launch of the satellite marked the beginning of the space race between America and the USSR. The Soviets claimed Sputnik was used to study the Earth’s atmosphere and the solar system. However, many Americans believed feared the Russians’ new technology. AMerican scientists
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