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  • South Korea, South Africa, Syria, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam. Amnesty International was in particular a thorn in the side of the ...
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  • two controversial movements: the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in the United ... in the United States against the Soviet Union's policy of persecuting ...
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  • who opposed the increased influence of Soviet, Eastern bloc and Cuban officials ... military support to movements opposing Soviet-supported, communist governments. ...
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  • the doubling of Bengali quota in the defense services. It may be noted ... aid from the U.S. because of its anti-Soviet stance, which would subsequently ...
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  • had occupied that country in fear of a Soviet invasion. Eichmann at once ... "following orders"–the same defense used by some of the Nazi ...
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  • The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center" (or Pyatakov ...
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  • the CIA worked to limit the spread of Soviet influence elsewhere around ... two days before had taken photographs of Soviet-nuclear missile sites. The ...
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  • tanks and suffered severely against Soviet T-34s, which were superior ... with radios (all U.S. and German, some Soviet; British radios were common ...
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  • by the Miskito Indians, and establishing a Soviet-style communist dictatorship ... ), and most importantly the Sandinista Defense Committees (CDS). The ...
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  • had already been drifting away from the Soviet Union, then left the Soviet ... 21s, SA-2, SA-3, SA-4, (Returned to the Soviet Union prior to the war), ...
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  • ) was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations ... In 1921 the Troops for the Internal Defense of the Republic (a branch ...
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  • created out of the occupation zones of the Soviet Union and United States established ... On August 6, 1945, the Soviet Union, in keeping with a commitment ...
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  • The Red Terror in Soviet Russia was the campaign of mass arrests and ... Uritsky and the attempted assassination of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. ...
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  • II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States ... occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union. Instead, the "war ...
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  • , and air cover precluded an effective defense. The French were defeated ... However, France still controlled all defense issues and all foreign relations ...
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  • ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet ... rapid conquest of the European part of the Soviet Union west of a line connecting ...
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  • crimes, and eleven convicted, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. ... located country, thus preventing the Soviet Union from doing the same ...
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  • ancient monarchy, the Ethiopians enjoyed Soviet Union support until the end ... Ethiopia came under the influence of the Soviet Union. ...
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  • of the Republic gained the support of the Soviet Union and Mexico, while the ... aid and could purchase arms only from the Soviet Union. These arms included ...
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  • ===Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union=== into Bolshevist Russia and later into the Soviet Union (USSR). Leo Tolstoy ...
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  • The KGB was the umbrella organization for the Soviet Union's ... general sense to refer to the successive Soviet State Security organizations ...
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  • though diplomatic, confrontation with the Soviet Union, accompanied by dramatically ... of nuclear war and the moral threat of the Soviet Union; it greatly affected ...
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  • Late on April 30, as the Soviet forces continued to fight their way ... Weidling, the commander of the Berlin Defense Area, unconditionally surrendered ...
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  • bombers"); and fighters for fleet defense and bomber escort duties ... the need for this ship class for fleet defense from aerial attack. In April ...
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  • meetings with the France's National Defense Committee on July 17 and ... given the terrain in Vietnam; a static defense line stretching to Laos ...
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  • As both a scholar and an activist in the defense of human rights, Hook never ... She was a Communist Party member who went on to work at the Labor ...
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  • Hughes fashioned his company into a major defense contractor. The Hughes Helicopters ... thereby turning the aerospace and defense contractor into a tax-exempt ...
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  • supporters, having been expelled from the Soviet Union, considered the Comintern ... as embodied by the leadership of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin ...
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  • by NATO. NATO was chosen, since the mutual defense organization had suitable ... as time progressed, he began to view the Soviet Union in less ideological ...
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  • ), was a Soviet revolutionary and politician. He was an Old Bolshevik ... authored a letter that claimed the Soviet Union was using the Labor ...
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  • Arm (FAA) Sea Harriers between them for defense against the combined Argentintian ... Sidewinder missile, supplied to us by U.S. Defense Minister Caspar Weinberger ...
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  • Association of Writers for the Defense of Culture with Louis Aragon. ... up leading Brigade Alsace-Lorraine in defense of Strasbourg and in the ...
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  • Cold War, McCarthyism, and the extent of Soviet espionage in the United States. ... member of the communist underground and a Soviet spy." ...
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  • Hamburg Senate (1961-1965), as Minister of Defense (1969-1972), Minister of ... of missiles in Germany in response to the Soviet Union's missile superiority ...
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  • and as a buffer state against the Soviet Union. Incessant conflicts ... example of this tactic is the successful defense of Changsha numerous times. ...
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  • Tubman gradually extended ties to the Soviet bloc, but he supported the ... In 1959, Liberia concluded a mutual defense pact with the United States. ...
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  • Africa) Division. The 7th Indian Division's defense was based largely on the "Battle of the Admin Box"—formed initially from drivers ...
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  • ===Indian defense of Kashmir=== Indian forces, rapidly airlifted to ... The war ended the following day. The Soviet Union, led by Premier Alexey ...
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  • great powers, the United States and the Soviet Union sought to expand the ... between the United States and the Soviet Union. At the conference ...
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  • remained in the country, just as the Soviet Army remained in East Germany ... northwest, United States in the south, and Soviet in the east. The former ...
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  • , was an American writer and editor. A Communist party member and ... Boris Bykov, the GRU Illegal Resident (a Soviet spymaster who resides in ...
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  • view. The most influential philosophical defense of this idea has been promulgated ... to socialism that had been taken by the Soviet Union was appropriate for ...
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  • both rushed to the bridge to direct her defense, until both were killed ... * 3rd Group - 36 A6Ms for defense and strafing ** 9 A6M - Ford Island ...
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  • The Polish-Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed ... successful Red Army counterattack. The Soviet operation threw the Polish ...
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  • The Soviet Union (USSR) was a command economy which already had an ... with relatively modest peace time defense budgets. By the end of the ...
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  • and even became a strong critic of the Soviet Union after a visit there ... mass society and wrote passionately in defense of an empathic individualism ...
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  • on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents. Originally coined ... in World War II and allied with the Soviet Union, the issue of anti ...
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  • aggression Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union joined with Germany ... Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a mutual defense agreement, the Tripartite ...
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  • policy, and opposed Détente with the Soviet Union in the late 1960s and 1970s. ... Democratic Party's leftward drift on defense issues in the 1970s, especially ...
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  • The Soviet Union also later engaged in censorship as Lenin believed ... Following World War II, the Soviet controlled East Germany censored ...
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