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…, once again destroyed the French navy at the battle of Trafalgar. This forever ended Napoleon's hopes of invading England. Napoleon's armies kept fighting, capturing Vienna, the Austrian capital. On December 2 1805, Napoleon met the Austro-Russian…

…the Russian participation in the war against the Japanese was unnecessary. While Truman attended the Postdam Conference in July , 1945, he learned about the successful test of the first atomic bomb. When Truman told Churcill about the bomb, Churchill said…

…The main preoccupation of the new soviet sate was survival. It was faced with civil war, invasion, attempts to achieve independence by some of the nationalities (the new regime only controlled one seventh of Russian territory) and by economic and social…

…on territory regarded by Russia as a Russian 'sphere of influence' (Manchuria). Russia warned Japan off and Japan retreated, intimidated by Russia's huge size and recent alliance formed between Russia and France. Japan felt humiliated because their military power…

…the threat of encirclement by the rival alliance of France, Great Britain and Russian - otherwise known as the Triple Entente. Similar calculations required the French to rally to the side of Russia in order to ensure Russian help against Germany in some future…

…. Austria and Russia were defeated at Austerlitz on Dec. 2, 1805. Napoleon crushed the Prussians at Jena on Oct. 14, 1806, and the Russians at Friedland on June 14, 1807. His triumphs were marked by treaties (the Peace of Tilsit) in June-July 1807 that brought…

…changing to recreate the violent entry the Russian spring makes as the harsh winter dies and the whole world feels like its breaking apart, which it is composed to represent. DYNAMICS AND EXPRESSIVE TECHNIQUES The work has a wide range of dynamics, ranging…

…UKRAINE. Ukraine - basic facts Ukraine is a state in Eastern Europe, bounded on the north by Belarus, on the north and east by the Russian Federation, on the west by Poland, Slovakia, on the southwest by Hungary, Rumania, and Moldova…

…the Americans thought that the Russians were aiming to incorporate Western Europe (the US & British sphere of influence) into their sphere of influence (Eastern Europe) by supporting the communists in these countries. Their fears were enforced when a "coup…

…. by the late Dr. John Ziegler. Along with “being a physician and scientist, he was also an athlete”{4}. He was a “leading weight lifter”{5} in the U.S. In 1956 he traveled to Vienna, Austria for a wrestling meet. While he was there, he talked to a Russian…