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Ukraine, and the Baltic states, which eventually led to sabotage and assassination operations abroad and the entrance of the CIA into [eastern european] politics in the 1950s through support of "liberation" groups. The recruitment and role of [nazi general] Reinhard Gehlen, whose "organization ... left the most substantial imprint on the United States" because its analysis of the USSR "became widely accepted in U.S. intelligence circles and remains so to this day (...) the U.S. Army disregarded its own

part of his memoirs, “Years of Decisions, 1945”. Truman had a strong conviction that the presidency was a job that required choices, often difficult, and that he would not avoid his responsibility. On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States dropped on the city of Hiroshima the first of the only two nuclear bombs ever employed against human population, killing more than 115 000 people, probably as many as 250 000 according to the highest estimates. Three days later, on the date the

Faisal, though the British retained military bases and transit rights for their forces. King Ghazi ruled as a figurehead after King Faisal's death in 1933. The Hashemite monarchy lasted until 1958, when it was overthrown by a coup d'etat of the Iraqi Army, known as the 14 July Revolution. In 1968, Abdul Rahman Arif was overthrown by the Arab Socialist Baath Party*. In 1979, Saddam Hussein took power as Iraqi President after overthrowing his close friend and the leader of his party (Ahmed Hasan Al-Bakr)

The Tet Offensive, a turning point ? The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that began on January 31, 1968. The Vietcong and the North Vietnam Army (NVA) fought against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and the United States. The purpose of the offensive was to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the Saigon government, thus ending the war

growth, Japan only reached a 5,474.2 billion dollars GDP in 2010 when China’s GDP reached 5,745 billion dollars. According to a projection made by some financial institutions, including the World Bank, China could challenge perhaps even surpass the United States by the next twenty years (Le Monde : 15/2/2011). Indeed, China has been enjoying for the last years a growth rate slightly over 10%. Taking an interest in the world ratio of Chinese and American goods and services export is enough to acknowledge

persecution or economic reasons. More recently, immigration has become a hot political issue. To start with, we are going to deal with a series of definitions: What is Great Britain? Which countries are in Great Britain? What is the United Kingdom? Where does the name “United kingdom” come from? What is the difference between England, Great Britain and the UK? What do we mean by “the British isles”, “the Commonwealth”, and “the British Empire”? I – The British Isles The British Isles is the

thereby increasing pressure on the Allies (Discovering U.S. History). The Soviet Union further alienated the Allies when the new Russian leaders began to stir up revolutionary activity against Western governments. In fact, Britain, France, and the United States found the new Russia so intolerable that in 1920 a coalition of the Western powers and Japan landed troops throughout the Soviet Union in an effort to kill the Communist revolution in its infancy (Discovering U.S. History). The ultimate goal of

18-29 Abstract (summary) The main exportation Product from ivory coast are cacao, and coffee, but the worldwide trade is more competitive. the brazil and Columbia take more part for exporting coffee and cacao in Europe and United States. How to diversify the exportation product and services to get the competitive advantage and been more flexibility in the exportation. In this paper we will see the Strategies for enlarging the export diversity in ivory coast for helping the

One of the largest groups to leave Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is that of the Irish who went to serve in the huge continental armies of Europe. Between 1634 and 1660, more than 30,000 Irish men were recruited into the French army. And another estimated 30,000 soldiers left Ireland to fight in Irish brigades for France in 1691. These were mainly family groupings who tented to form clusters of Irish settlements in specific parts of cities. The most popular destinations were Galicia

of the generation of the “Renaissance Men” – Hume Wrong, Norman Robertson and Lester Pearson – who represented the face of Canada’s international policy during the Golden Age Era. That Age was also characterised by a powerful army: in 1945, Canada had the fourth largest army in the world with 1.1 million soldiers. In 1951, Canada invested 6.6 per cent of its GNP in his international policy whereas today it spends only 1.1 (44). Andrew Cohen says: “The problem begins with money and manpower” (47)