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…to prevent Russian interference and believed that America felt the same. The opinions of nuclear physicists on their creation of atomic weaponry were mixed. Atomic scientist James Byrne was aware that the atomic bomb was not needed to win the war…

…and Industrially, which also antagonized the great powers of Europe. The attitude of Kaiser Wilhelm II was a factor. Her growing powers and allies forced Britain to join the French and the Russians to balance out the power. Finally, when Germany signed…

…on Animal Farm. Pearce does not intimate that Tolstoy alone influenced Orwell in Animal Farm. He agrees that “there are parallels between Russian history and the plot of Animal Farm” (par 6). However, he asserts that Orwell was not limited to one country’s…

…people and the standards these people live by. During the middle ages with the Catholic Church, the propaganda and the almost hypnotic brainwashing of the people of Germany under Hitlers rule, Stalin’s iron fist over a powerless Russian peoples are all…

…Peter I, was born to Alexis Romanov and his second wife Natalia Naryshkina on May 30, 1672. Peter grew up in a chaotic period of Russian history. His father’s early death at the age of thirty-one left a bitter struggle for power between the family…

…Ukrainian Culture The best way to begin to understand Ukrainian culture is to review early Ukrainian history. This will give us a good step from which to look at traditional Ukrainian culture. Unlike the Russian people, who descended from northern…

…seriously. He particularly feared that its interference in Latin America might provoke Britain to take Cuba, which he believed in the natural course of things would join the United States. He was also alarmed by the Russian Czar’s edict of 1821, in which…

…of San Stefano, which created a large Russian controlled state in Europe, allowing plenty of access to Mediterranean. This was too favorable to the Russians, and the world had a problem with it. The problems eventually forced the Russians to have…

…into France. This plan accepted the risks of an early Russian attack on the eastern front, so when the French destroyed it the German objective wasn't attained and it left the Russians with an open window for an attack. The Russians took this opportunity…

…on the part of Berlin. However, the apex of successful Germany foreign relations arrived in 1887 when the German Foreign Office signed an alliance with the Russian Empire.4 Within a mere 15 years, the German Empire had become the predominant continental force…