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…people had doubts and fears about communism and this gave rise to many people who thought that communist sympathizers should be punished. The most popular of these hateful people by far was Senator Joseph McCarthy. The cold war came about almost…

…Vaclav Havel: From Playwright to President The president of the Czech Republic was not always a politician. Vaclav Havel's first career was in the theatre. Throughout his work in drama, Havel satirized the Communistic government…

…career was in the theatre. Throughout his work in drama, Havel satirized the Communistic government of Czechoslovakia. He became a dissident because of his writings and soon began political movements that eventually brought him to power in his country…

…to Volograd to downsize Stalin’s importance. Next in 1921 Stalin led the invasion that won his homeland, Georgia. The next year Stalin became general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party. As a aide to Lenin, Stalin methodically assumed…

…, and weapons to fight against the Vietnamese. There were various reasons for American involvement in the Indochina War, but the main reason lay in the “domino theory.” President Truman believed that if South Vietnam fell to Communist North Vietnam then one by one…

…was the Vietminh, named after their leader Ho Chi Minh; would have to leave the South along with the French. The South, were told to leave the North. The North became Communist and many refugees moved to the south. By this time America was clearly a world power, having…

…, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong had the higher death toll in the end. Although the Northern Communists lost the most men in the offensive, the ARVN and the South Vietnamese were the ones who suffered the most in the long run. The Têt Offensive…

…to be accused of communism. McCarthy claimed, “he had the names of two-hundred and five persons in the U.S. State Department who were members of the communist party”(Martine 8). McCarthy’s lists of people who were communists became to be known as his blacklists…

…of the international communist movement gathered in Moscow for the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Here Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union would overtake the United States in the production of both heavy industry and consumer goods within 15 years…

…, and on the southeast by Greece. The Albanians' name for their country, Shqiperi, which means "eagles' land," aptly suggests Albania's isolated, rugged terrain and its strongly independent people. In the 1990s, after more than four decades of Communist rule, Albania began…