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Joseph Stalin.
... of the republic (1920-23) and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets (since 1917). In April 1922 Stalin became general secretary of ... of state-guided crash industrialisation and the collectivisation of agriculture. In spite of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
Cuban missile crisis
... of a compromise. The solution came from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, as he proposed what would eventually become the Unites States ... in the form of a letter by Acting Secretary General U Thant. He proposed that the United States "voluntarily suspend" ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Vaclav Havel: Living in Truth
... -communist Transformation of Society, "During the rallies in November 1989, when Vaclav Havel referred to the general secretary of the Communist Party ... out to a typical Czech pub. "As for heads of state," he once told the Czech newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes, ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Account for Stalin’s rise to power in the period 1922 to 1929
... organising body, Head of the Workers' Inspectorate, and General Secretary of the Communist Party�. The combination of these offices ... focal point of this limited development. "Circumstances ensured that inside the mutating power of the party-state he (Stalin ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
... he was replaced. Another key clue was on November 25 Secretary of War Stimson wrote in his diary that FDR said ... of the Far East desk of the Office of Naval Intelligence, wrote the eight-action memo. This memo outlined eight different steps the United States ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
Revolution Throughout the Cold War
... secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).? The next day, the Politburo elected Gorbachev general secretary of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
This essay is is about the story and life of Winston Curchill, the leader of Great Britain during W.W.II
... Kent and supervised a literary factory of secretaries and assistants who helped him write hundreds of newspaper articles and several more ... U.S. Congress made Churchill an honorary citizen of the United States. Churchill died peacefully at his town house in ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
The Cuban Missile Crisis
... Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara described the first letter of the 26th as an impassioned proposal most likely written by Khrushchev himself, probably in an inebriated state ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts
Oswald Mosley the Godfather of British Fascism
... of Lord Curzon, the foreign secretary. Through his marriage he had gained both money and good connections. Although Mosley soon became frustrated with the "old gang" of ... many ideas in this area, many of them involving state intervention. He argued that the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
The Build-Up to the Emergence of Bangladesh
... � From� � � West� East� � Central Services� � � � Secretaries� 19� 0� � Under Secretaries� 510� 38� � Other categories showed a similar pattern.� � Armed ... . Because of the large size of the state, the army and the bureaucracy could offer a lot of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts