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Soviet Union. Cheka
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Soviet Union. Workers and Peasants Red Army
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Teamsters Union
Teamsters Union U.S. labor union formed in 1903 by the amalgamation of the Team Drivers International Union and the Teamsters National Union. Its full name is the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America (IBT). In 2005 the union had 1.4 million... Read more |
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Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987
INTERMEDIATE-RANGE NUCLEAR FORCES TREATY The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987 (INF) was the first nuclear weapons agreement requiring the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) to reduce, rather than merely limit, their arsenals of nuclear... Read more |
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Labor Unions
Labor UnionsI. Theories of the Labor MovementMark PerlmanBIBLIOGRAPHYII. Labor Movements and Collective Bargaining in EuropeAdolf SturmthalBIBLIOGRAPHYIII. The Structure of Unions in the United StatesPhilip TaftBIBLIOGRAPHYIV. Influence on WagesH. Gregg LewisBIBLIOGRAPHYI. THEORIES OF THE LABOR... Read more |
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Trade Union Educational League
TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE (TUEL). Established in Chicago (1920) under the leadership of William Z. Foster, TUEL grew from left-wing labor activists' efforts to build a progressive union movement. Used by the Communist Party to strengthen leftist forces inside... Read more |
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Rus. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, former republic. It was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. The Soviet Union was the first state to be based on Marxist socialism (see also Marxism ; communism ). Until 1989 the Communist... Read more |
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Yuri Vladimirovich
ANDROPOV, YURI VLADIMIROVICH (1914–1984), general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1982–1984). Y... Read more |
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James Addison Baker 3d
James Addison Baker, 3d 1930-, U.S. political leader, b. Houston, Tex. After graduating from Princeton Univ., he served in the U.S. Marines and earned a law degree from the Univ. of Texas. A successful corporate lawyer, he switched from the Democratic to the Republican party in 1970 and served... Read more |
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Reagan, Ronald
Reagan, Ronald (1911–2004...liberal in his youth, Ronald Wilson Reagan helped create a...his action to curb unions (most notably when...traffic controllers' union), Reagan had no intention...denunciation of the ... |
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INF Treaty
...S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general...all U.S. and Soviet ground‐launched...1,846 similar Soviet systems, and it...1970s, the Soviets deployed new, highly...range mobile Soviet SS‐20 ... |
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Thatcher, Margaret
...doing so. The trade unions were tamed; Arthur Scargill...the US president, Ronald Reagan, and despite some differences (the Soviet oil pipeline, Grenada...relationship with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...intermediary with President ... |
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Religion and War
...present day. Religious values supported American ideology in the Cold War and offered President Ronald Reagan a vocabulary to define the Soviet Union as the “evil empire.” Religious motives often fueled opposition to the Vietnam War, as... |
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Containment
...expansionary tendencies of the Soviet Union, and later of other...privately for resistance to Soviet expansionism in 1944–1945...confrontational stance of President Ronald Reagan's first term, led to...Gorbachev inaugurated, and ... |
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Shipbuilding
...carried in American‐flagged bottoms. Naval construction expanded greatly during the Ronald Reagan administration, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union, U.S. military expenditures declined. Despite periodic bursts of activity, American... |
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Anticommunism
...Society, who regarded Soviet espionage and...Forward; labor‐union officials like...revival during the Ronald Reagan administration, led...Hollywood. Under Reagan, anticommunists...dismantling what Reagan termed the ... |
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Weinberger, Caspar
...secretary of defense. President Ronald Reagan appointed Weinberger, a former...Weinberger worked to implement Reagan's defense program, stressing...to counter the threats of the Soviet Union, which Reagan labeled the “evil ... |
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Ford, Gerald
...Treaties that they felt favored the Soviet Union, and with Ford's support of...Helsinki Accord, which acquiesced in Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe.While the conservatives, led by Ronald Reagan, were unable to wrest the Republican... |
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Low‐Intensity Conflict
...conflict between Soviet‐backed Havana and Pretoria. The...of LIC during the Reagan and Bush administrations...Beirut. President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State...Desert Storm), Reagan was wise enough to...Castro and the ... |
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Reagan, Ronald Wilson
Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911–2004) 40th president of the United States. Reagan was born in and spent his childhood...successful was his policy toward the Soviet Union. Reagan negotiated a major intermediate-range... |
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evil
...others. The saying is recorded from the mid 16th century.the Evil Empire a term for the former Soviet Union, deriving from a speech by Ronald Reagan in 1983. The name is often used allusively of a political approach focusing exclusively on the... |
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second Cold War
second Cold War the period from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 to the Reykjavik summit in 1986, during which time President Ronald Reagan increased military spending and actively sought U.S. dominance of the Soviet Union. |
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evil empire
evil empire derogatory the Soviet Union. The term was popular in the United States during the administration of President Ronald Reagan. |
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Strategic Defense Initiative
...Initiative SDI a proposal by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to construct...ICBM s), potentially from the Soviet Union. Popularly referred to as “Star...political controversy, the fall of the Soviet Union, and ... |
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Thatcher, Margaret
...growth rates. The trade unions were tamed; most state...with the US president, Ronald Reagan, and despite some differences...relationship with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...economic and monetary union. In her famous Bruges...economic ... |
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Carter, Jimmy
...signed the SALT II Treaty with the Soviet Union (1979), announced the Carter...Egypt (1979). After the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he ordered...was defeated in a landslide by Ronald Reagan (1980). |
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Teller, Edward
...President Harry S. Truman approved the project after the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb in 1949. The hydrogen bomb was tested...nuclear weapons, and was a major influence in President Ronald Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative. |
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Goldwater, Barry Morris
...the demand for lowered taxes, brinkmanship with the Soviet Union, and reduced government. Although he suffered a crushing...underpinned the Republican presidencies of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush. |
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Profile: Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union and nuclear weapons
...Special 06-05-2004 Profile: Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union and nuclear weaponsHost...from NPR News, Remembering Ronald Reagan. I'm Neal Conan. Despite...evil in the world. President RONALD ... |
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Q: Did the Reagan doctrine cause the fall of the Soviet Union?(Ronald...
...Russians! The former Soviet ministers didn...of the courage of Ronald Reagan. He set out to...the Cold War that Ronald Reagan deserves the most...trap for, to the Soviets, detente signified...understanding the ... |
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The man who changed the game plan. (Ronald Reagan's Soviet policy)
...to talk about how Ronald Reagan and his team - a...with the Soviet Union. But he did so...adversary in this way, Reagan followed a plan...The fact that Reagan was prepared to...moved to contain the Soviet ... |
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Ronald Reagan's Soviet Success
...School. I was born in the Soviet Union and came to America in...article "Sweeping Up After Reagan" {op-ed, Sept. 20...a suicide leap before Reagan pushed it." I disagree...contras was the best way the Reagan administration could help... |
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Eight Years That Shook the World.(Republicans reveal Ronald Reagan's plan to...
...are tossing good ideas overboard; but new information on Reagan's plan to destabilize the USSR should give heart. In a...their foreheads in the dust and swore eternal fealty to the union bosses whose only membership gains in recent years have come...President John Sweeney merely grunted, ... |
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Reagan's Secret Anti-Soviet War.(Ronald Reagan)
...United States, Ronald Reagan initiated a...Polish free union, Solidarity...jihadis on Soviet soil, these...unnerved the Soviets by its pace...Democratic Union, who was seen...Siberia to the Soviet-Czech ... |
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The Reagan Riddle.(Soviet intelligence during the Ronald Reagan years)(Brief...
IF RONALD REAGAN'S biographer, Edmund...lots of company. Soviet intelligence tried...attack on the Soviet Union. The KGB's preoccupation...reported, he observed Reagan close up for an hour...did he learn? That ... |
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KNOWING THE MYSTERY AND SUFFERING OF RUSSIA WRITER-HISTORIAN SUZANNE MASSIE...
...capable of penetrating Soviet airspace at altitudes...enormous influence on Ronald Reagan and his changing views of the Soviet Union. Or how mysterious...in January 1984, Reagan first listened to...Massie, who led ... |
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Ronald Reagan and the defeat of the Soviet empire.
...collapse of the Soviet Union. Former KGB General...foreign policy of Ronald Reagan. From the Communist...of the 1980s, "Soviet leaders stated with...line toward the Soviets, a trend that accelerated...Afghanistan Carter and ... |
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Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, staunch foe of Soviet communism, dies at...
...1981 to 1989, Reagan fixed his eye on the demise of the Soviet Union and Eastern European...superpower.Reagan's famed "Star...program drew the Soviets into a costly...declaration to Soviet leader Mikhail...Sunday hailed ... |
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