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Paplitoad right now seriously has the worse treatment of all the Unova Pokemon and likely his entire team. He started with great personality that could have been carried throughout battle but they nerfed it greatly unlike the other water types had. He was supposed to be Ash's water Pokemon battler when Oshawott was not but he has been absent throughout majority of Unova and outside of gyms and tournaments. He cannot beat Oshawott in entertainment and he does not appear at all. WORSE PART is he has no role on Ash's team anymore. Everybody had done something outside of battling but the Toad. The reason he is really on the team is for evolution and if he does not evolve, his capture will be meaningless. It is very sad.
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Kingler, Muk and Tauros by a long shot.
MEowth should have gotten more battles, because he talks hes just the IDEA GUY for team rocket
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Matt Owen is Head of Social at Econsultancy. He looks after Econsultancy's global social media strategy and architecture, where he has led community engagement and growth since 2010.
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This week saw the release of a controversial report from Forrester, claiming that 'Facebook is failing marketers'. In an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, analyst Nate Elliot asked why Facebook ads were delivering so little return for many advertisers.
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As I write this energy supplier nPower is currently in the midst of a mini-Twitter storm following announcements of an 11% price hike about to hit consumers, but the backlash is nothing compared to the furious storm that hit British Gas last week following a similar price increase.
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Recently I've been running a variety of social ads to promote the Festival of Marketing, but due to a glitch in our purchase process, measuring the exact return has been more difficult than usual.
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Whether comments are made on a blog, or spread across the social web, every business wants customers to make a (positive) noise about them.
But while they are great for increasing engagement, comments come with problems of their own.
In a week which has seen YouTube finally take steps to clean out the well of eternal torment that it uses as a comment section, and Popular Science is doing away with the chatter altogether, I thought it would be a good opportunity to look at the various systems in place around the web designed to keep us talking...
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Last week I was lucky enough to attend our Digital Transformation: Innovation and Agility Breakfast Briefing, chewing the fat (and some very tasty sausages) with various digital leaders about the actual business implications of digital transformation.
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It's Thursday, and as our usual meme-wrangle Ben Davis is off on a well-deserved break this week, it falls to me, dear reader, to take you by the hand and hurl you into the whirling vortex of fun-ness that we call t'interweb.
Here's a whole buncha stuff that made us shoot milk out of our noses, including tweetfails, the internet of things and the long awaited return of Batman...
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With more than 9,000 messages being sent every second, Twitter can be a noisy place, so it's always important to distinguish yourself from the crowd.
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Superman. Batman. Iron Man. Of the three, the DC characters have historically been far more recognisable.
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Facebook announced the latest in its never-ending series of updates last night, with some significant changes to competition and promotion rules.
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The notion that display of
The notion that display of the American Flag may be offensive to some is patently absurd. After all, it's not like this is controversial. People can debate all they want about the display of religious symbols in public places, display of the Confederate battle standard (not to equate the two), these things are open to spirited debate and most likely situations when reasonable and rational adults can agree to disagree. The flag is quite frankly not.
The flag is a national symbol, no different from the Great Seal of the United States. Would we complain that the President should not display this on the podium when he comes to address our country?
Obviously, you have an emotional reaction to the flag when you've seen it flown above boots, helm and rifle in the sand in ceremony. I know I do. I wouldn't even ask that everyone understand that feeling or react in the same way. I just think it's not too much to ask tell people who might raise an objection that their objection is inappropriate.
If you live in this country, you should not flinch at reminders that you're actually IN this country, such as a flag might be seen.
Political Correctness asks for tolerance of things which may be different from our own experience. One should think that this philosophy would support the open mindedness to allow for the display of respect for the country that allows such openness and consideration to so many viewpoints.
The sad thing is that this has even been a question in places.
Well stated Seventh Son, you summarized more succinctly and eloquently than I could have.
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If the American Flag is offensive to some, then they deserve to be offended.
Try understanding this one.
Try understanding this one. I was joining my group of American Legion Riders at our local Veterans Day Parade. I was told by our Officers to remove my 3 x 5 American flag from the back of my motorcycle, I asked why, and they told me there was only one American flag allowed per entry. Well, I knew that was not the case. I looked behind me and an American Legion Post had a float behind us and it had 5 large American flags flying on it. However, I did not argue at the time, I removed my flag and put it away in my trunk. Then I started to boil and am still boiling over this. Needless to say, I removed my American Legion Patch from the back of my vest, and as we are required by the American Legion, to turn in our Patch if we quit or die, I complied. However, after paying $60. for the patch, I did not want anyone else to wear my patch so I cut it up in four pieces, Then I was told by our Vice President that I was disgracing their colors and showed disrespect. He also told me to Kiss his Ass. hahha!!! I am still in disbeliefe that something like this could ever happen in an American Legion Organization. I am still waiting for some kind of disiplinary action to be addressed. I guess I should not hold my breath. I did quit the American Legioin Riders on November 9th at the stated meeting. I do still hold an office in my local American Legion Post. I have not given up completely. I would hope that eveyone at a Veterans Day Parade would be flying and American Flag. Thanks for listening, Buzz Haviland
It has been a few years now,
It has been a few years now, but some time around 2003 or 2004, a homeowners association in Henderson, Nevada had a complaint against one of it's homeowners flying of a flag on a pole in front of his house. He notified a few people and then the local press and then went before the Henderson City Council. There were Veterans that had been in the Europe and Pacific Campaigns, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War and Desert Storm not to mention a few of us who had stood guard a few months earlier at the McCaran Las Vegas International Airport just a few miles away post 9-11. There were plenty of family members and civilians there to argue against such a disgusting policy/rule as well. The only person there in support of the rule against flags in front of individual houses, a representative of the business that controls that particular homeowner's association. Well, that was a slamdunk, even for politicians(especially for local ones), if you have the press present and a bunch of angry or tearful voters and one corporate stooge in a suit, the voters win. A unanimous vote by the City Council created a City Ordinance saying Homeowners Association Rules can not bar a person from displaying a reasonably sized flag at their residence, in accordance with appropriate Federal Guidelines.
When dealing with "those people" always try and get it to be an issue for the local politicians, they understand what 50 votes mean, sometimes they remember that is was a number smaller than that even that got them their job; put 50 voters in front of a Congressman and he may not even have the decency to lie to you and tell you he cares (a truth which daily proves itself in National Politics).
Some years ago our American
Some years ago our American Legion post wanted to put a flagpole in front of the post where a tree had died. Since we are on Main Street, that required an easement from the city. That application met with some skepticism from some in the staff and on the council. During the deliberation and a public hearing on the easement, one of the city council members at the time was heard to say, "if we allow this easement for the Legion to put up a flagpole, then everyone will want to do the same." Well, duh.
Can you think of a better reason to grant the easement or a poorer reason to oppose it. Fortunately enough of the city council recognized the importance and the easement was granted. That flagpole stands in front of the post today.
This is where rules are made
This is where rules are made to be broken by flying the flag properly whenever a American wants and the hell with the consequences. It is up to the real citizens of this country to stand up to these nonsense rules and say enough is enough. You realize how much blood was shed for that flag and to let some yuppy ass neighborhood tell them they can't fly the flag is not right. Give me a break.
I am a 3rd generation
I am a 3rd generation American .I love our country and our Flag.I am a veteran grunt of Vietnam(Nov '65-Nov '66;M Co,3rd Bn 7th Marines)with a Purple Heart. Reading about those knuckleheads who don't wish to honor our Flag as it should be honored makes my blood boil.But then I recall when Rick Monday of the L.A. Dodgers was in the outfield of Dodger Stadium when two malcontents ran onto the field with an American Flag with the intent to set it afire. The heroic Rick Monday immediately raced up to the two idiots,snatched Old Glory from their grasp,and kept the Flag safe while the trespassers were arrested. The crowd went wild,cheering in support of Rick Monday for saving our Flag. Mr Monday will always be a hero in my book/
I proudly served in the
I proudly served in the military for five years, (last two for enduring freedom.) THIS IS AMERICA, PEOPLE! I didn't serve the american flag for it to be trashed. If you are an AMERICAN CITIZEN, YOU SHOULD HAVE GREAT PRIDE THAT YOU CAN LIVE FREE IN THIS GREAT NATION! For the rude comments about the flag, if you were in another country and made those comments, you would be in front of the firing squad. No questions asked. Freedom comes at a price, unlike other countries, they don't have as many freedoms as we have, and they think THAT gives them the reason to bring down the flag. AMERICA!! LOVE IT, OR LEAVE!!
I actually went to college
I actually went to college and studied political science, etc. and learned about what we were supposedly fighting for, like the rule of law, etc. Apparently I was in the minority. The statement above about Love It Or Leave It, is FASCIST, not democratic. I live in the bible belt, drive by confederate flags daily, and the people who fly them are not my friends.
I defended the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and the Constitution, etc. not some symbol on a flagpole. We believe in the rule of law, not the rule of privilege of some citizen to decide on their own because they made a contribution to some politician or sheriff, etc. that they can do as they wish. That's what I was taught anyway, but maybe I was the fool. Perhaps the rules have been changed by superpatriots who are scared and think they have the answer and we should just shoot everybody who doesn't agree with their chosen preacherman.
I served too, and I ain't buying into the 'be a scared victim' bullshit these people above are trying to preach.
Mr Manning, to which law are
Mr Manning, to which law are you specifically citing that was broken here? I also went to college for political science, and then to law school, and frankly some of the logic here is way beyond me.
You seem to like using the whole "superpatriot" thing without actually defining who that is as well, if you could that would be great.
@ Seventh Son "if we allow
@ Seventh Son
"if we allow this easement for the Legion to put up a flagpole, then everyone will want to do the same."
That really made my morning. The unintentionally hilarious and fundamentally true statement.
Re: the whole fascism argument. I can see an argument if you're forcing people to fly the flag, wear Patriotic "flair", etc...I guess there's more of an argument there if you're talking about someone being persecuted for NOT wearing a flag pin or something. The issue is not forcing people to fly the flag, it's about allowing them to fly the flag, which just so happens to be the symbol of the country, if they're doing it in a manner consistent with, and appropriate to, the Flag Code-it happens to be one of the few, if not the only, objects we actually have a Federal Code governing the proper display of.
Call me crazy, I was just a Fine Arts major without any fancy Political Science degrees, but I took a crazy amount of history and politics classes because when I had space for electives in my schedule, all the art classes everyone usually took for their easy A's in elective slots were already used up on my Major coursework. So, that being said...I like history, I've studied a lot of it. I'm reasonably well read on the topic.
I've studied some fascistic states. I'm always kind of surprised to see people equating this country with a Fascist state, and usually assume they are doing so because they have no real frame of reference for comparison.
Comparing "superpatriots" to Fascists is pretty much the internet equivalent of throwing a grenade in a room and starting a flame war. It doesn't really help matters or progress the state of helpful discourse. If one truly is a student of Political Science and values open and honest discourse, then you would hope that they would understand that using terms like FASCIST [sic] in all caps is really not being open, it's taking sucker punches.
Mr. Manning, thank you for
Mr. Manning, thank you for your service. What exactly are you getting at? Is it not the right, as defined by the Constitution, for citizens to have free speech? Can we not raise the symbol of our country? Can we not have the desire to see that symbol protected? Our national anthem calls out our flag specifically. Yes, it is a symbol, a very proud symbol, feted in both song and picture by average Americans doing above average things. It's a powerful symbol, that evokes strong emotions in battle (Mount Sirabachi comes to mind) as well as in protest. Why do protesters in other countries burn images of our flag? To get a response, because the national flag is the one symbol that all nations cherish; why should ours be any different?
Why did you have to mention that you studied political science in college? Is that particular course designed to give you unique abilities or insight far above the rest of us in regards to the flag or how we should view it? Does going to college (I went, also) make your opinion more important and correct than anyone else who didn't go to college? Common sense isn't something learned in a poli-sci class and being proud of the main symbol of our great country isn't something to marginalize, it's something to celebrate.
Back to my comment from
Back to my comment from earlier. I have, not now, or have ever been, politically correct. You want to know about being politically correct, talk to a crooked politician. I guarantee that 80% of the government and politicians have never served in the military, in which that is what they need to do, before being elected into office. That way they can see what the troops see day in and day out. That is my opinion, and please take it for what it's worth.
Studying Political Science,
Studying Political Science, means you are free to do what you want in a school. Bring back Basic Citizenship in high school, stress US History. Thank all of the Vets for your, what is left, Freedom to speak and write. Try China and Russia, Hanoi, Teheran, see how free you are to express your opinions in public.
Too many namby pambies in our Country. God Bless the Flag, America, and the Mt. Soledad Cross in San Diego, Ca.
Served in Army Jr. ROTC, Color Guard. Would do it again. Retired proud Vet, Am. Legion member.
Superpatriot = someone who
Superpatriot = someone who places national symbols like flags above societal norms, rules and regulations. Or laws. Someone who values their personal ideas of patriotism above those the society at large. Someone who thinks we should round up foreigners and dump them somewhere else. Someone who is so scared they think it's okay to torture and detain others with no evidence. etc. Someone who believes free speech only applies to those who believe in prayer in schools, etc. but forget that the Constitution as amended applies to those who disagree with you
Yes, I mentioned political science because I value collected wisdom of humankind above common sense which is often used to justify doing something that cannot be justified through reference to law, knowledge or something you don't agree with.
I believe the terrorists are winning because many in our society are willing to forget why we fought against these same abuses of privilege, position and status. We didn't like little Georgie porgie thumbing his nose at our sense of human dignity. Then or now.
Wait a minute, you argued
Wait a minute, you argued rule of law earlier, and now you are criticizing those who wish to enforce our immigration laws? "Thumbing his nose at our sense of human dignity"? Um, are you serious? Your sense of human dignity is shaped by our elected representatives? I thought it was our representatives which are selected for their ability to responsibly articulate our values?
I'm utterly confused by your support for "societal norms, rules and regulations" one minute, and then completely tossing them out to make a point later in the same comment. Lest you forget, "Georgie porgie" was elected via our "rules and regulations" presumably in confluence with out "societal norms."
"...because I value collected
"...because I value collected wisdom of humankind above common sense which is often used to justify doing something that cannot be justified through reference to law, knowledge or something you don't agree with."
For brevity sake, I will only pick one case: Dredd Scott v Sandford
Sometimes the law is wrong.
I really learned a lot from
I really learned a lot from reading your insights and information given in this very interesting and educational article. Thanks a lot!!! :D - The Philippines
I really wish Mr. Manning
I really wish Mr. Manning would have returned to explain himself, but perhaps he had to get back to class.
First, I would like to ask
First, I would like to ask Mr. Manning to state his source for his definition of "superpatriot."
Second, as for the "rule of law."
Look into Public Law No: 109-243. Approved by Congress and signed into law July 2006.
A condominium association, cooperative association, or residential real estate management association may not adopt or enforce any policy, or enter into any agreement, that would restrict or prevent a member of the association from displaying the flag of the United States on residential property within the association with respect to which such member has a separate ownership interest or a right to exclusive possession or use.
I suppose I'm gonna have to
I suppose I'm gonna have to read up some more but this is a really good spring board.
Exactly the cognition we was
Exactly the cognition we was trying to find. Taken to change our outlay habits presently.


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Died January 22, 1973
San Antonio, Texas
U.S. president, vice president, senator
Lyndon B. Johnson suddenly became president during one of the darkest times in U.S. history—following the assassination of the popular John F. Kennedy (1917–1963; served 1961–63; see entry). Johnson proceeded to fight hard for the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, but is best remembered for serving during the tumultuous period of the Vietnam War (1954–75). In his 1986 book Big Daddy from the Pedernales: Lyndon Baines Johnson, historian Paul K. Conkin said Johnson "was confused and almost helpless." The personal toll on the president "was almost overwhelming. He had aged ten years in only two and was now visibly an old man, shaken, ineffective, almost beleaguered in a White House surrounded...
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Kennan, George F.
Born February 16, 1904
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
U.S. diplomat, historian, and author
George F. Kennan is considered one of the greatest diplomats and statesmen of the United States. Kennan played a major role in formulating U.S. foreign policy, especially on the issue of Soviet-U.S. relations during the early stages of the Cold War. The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1945 to 1991. After World War II (1939–45), Kennan was the person who first suggested the policy of containment to control Soviet expansion. Kennan continued to have an important impact on foreign policy into the 1980s. His ideas frequently spurred considerable public debate. A historian, he authored many books of exceptional scholarly standards.
Princeton grad
George Frost Kennan was born into an affluent family...
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Kennedy, John F.
Born May 29, 1917
Brookline, Massachusetts
Died November 22, 1963
Dallas, Texas
U.S. president, senator
In 1960, John F. Kennedy became the youngest person elected to the presidency of the United States. He was forty-three years old. He assumed the office in the midst of the Cold War, an intense political and economic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1945 to 1991. Kennedy successfully led the country through two of the most alarming Cold War crises: the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Soviet construction of the Berlin Wall. The Kennedy administration also crafted sweeping civil rights legislation that was signed into law in 1964. Kennedy's presidency came to a shocking end on November 22, 1963, when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Young Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the second of nine children born to Joseph Patrick...
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Khrushchev, Nikita
Born April 17, 1894
Kalinovka, Russia
Died September 11, 1971
Petrovo-Dalneye, Soviet Union
Soviet premier and first secretary of Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev was the most colorful Soviet leader during the Cold War. After being a loyal supporter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1879–1953; see entry) through his early political career, Khrushchev denounced Stalin's policies when he assumed Soviet leadership in the mid-1950s. Khrushchev had a loud and blunt personality that took other leaders by surprise. His efforts to introduce major domestic reforms within the Soviet Union during his long period of leadership while fending off pressures from old guard Soviet communists led to erratic foreign policies that confounded U.S. leaders, including presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969; served 1953–61; see entry) and John F. Kennedy...
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Sung, Kim Il
Born April 15, 1912
Man'gyondae, Korea
Died July 8, 1994
P'yongyang, North Korea
Premier of North Korea
Kim Il Sung was a communist dictator who ruled North Korea throughout the Cold War. The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1945 to 1991. Asserting his rule with an iron hand, Kim Il Sung was the longest-serving leader of a communist government in the twentieth century. He created an almost mythical cult status for himself within North Korea, but he was little known elsewhere because he purposely kept North Korea isolated from the outside world.
Early years
Kim Il Sung was born Kim Sung Ju in April 1912 to a middle-class Korean family in the village of Man'gyondae,...
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Kirkpatrick, Jeane
Born November 19, 1926
Duncan, Oklahoma
U.S. diplomat
Jeane Kirkpatrick was the first American woman to be named a permanent representative to the United Nations (UN). The UN is an international organization that was established at the conclusion of World War II (1939–45); its purpose is to peacefully resolve conflicts before they lead to war. Kirkpatrick held this post from 1981 to 1985. She exercised greater influence over the formulation of U.S. foreign policy than any other representative before her. Respected for the strength and conviction of her views, she remained active in American political life long after leaving office. In 1985, Congress awarded Kirkpatrick its highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Political beginnings
Born Jeane Duane Jordan on November 19, 1926, Jeane Kirkpatrick was the daughter of Leona Kile Jordan and Welcher F. Jordan, an oil-drilling contractor in the town of Duncan,...
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Kissinger, Henry
Born May 27, 1923
Fürth, Germany
U.S. secretary of state and
national security advisor
German-born Henry Kissinger was a major influence on U.S. foreign policy through most of the Cold War. He worked as an author and as a consultant to various federal agencies and later became national security advisor and secretary of state. He was the architect of détente, the policy of easing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. He led the effort to reestablish formal relations with communist China, and he was a key negotiator of the peace settlement in the Vietnam War (1954–75). He was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for facilitating the peace agreement. Kissinger also negotiated the first strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT I) with the Soviet Union, which was signed in 1972.
An international beginning
Henry Kissinger was born in Fürth, Germany,...
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Kohl, Helmut
Born April 3, 1930
Ludwigshafen, Germany
German chancellor
Helmut Kohl became the chancellor of West Germany in the early 1980s. After West Germany and East Germany reunited on October 3, 1990, he became chancellor of the entire country, winning Germany's first nationwide elections since World War II (1939–45). At the end of the war, Germany had been divided along zones of Allied occupation. The Soviet zone was called East Germany; like the Soviet Union, East Germany had a communist government. The three other occupied zones, controlled jointly by the British, the French, and the Americans, were called West Germany. Like the occupying Western countries, West Germany had a democratic government and a capitalist economy.
Kohl engineered the reunification of his country and then oversaw its rise to economic dominance in Europe. He was the longest-serving German leader since 1945, acting as...
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Kosygin, Aleksey
Born February 20, 1904
St. Petersburg, Russia
Died December 18, 1980
Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
Soviet chairman of the
Council of Ministers
For many years, Aleksey Kosygin played an important role in government administration and economic planning for the Soviet Union. At the peak of his power, he served sixteen years as chairman of the Council of Ministers, a top leadership position in the Soviet Union. He attempted to reform the failing Soviet economic system, but because of strong resistance from other Soviet leaders, he had little success in this effort. He was also involved in several key foreign affairs issues, including the Vietnam War (1954–75) and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). Unlike many other Soviet leaders, Kosygin's overall philosophy regarding government policy involved using pragmatism, or common sense, rather than communist ideology as the basis for his decision making.
Early years and education
Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin was born to a working-class family in St. Petersburg, Russia, a city later known as Leningrad. His father was a lathe operator in a local factory. Young Aleksey became caught up in the revolutionary fervor of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, when Vladimir I. Lenin (1870–1924) and his communist...
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Kurchatov, Igor
Born January 8, 1903
Simskii Zavod,
Southern Ural Mountains, Russia
Died February 1960
St. Sarov (or Arzamas-16),
Russia, Soviet Union
Nuclear physicist and
developer of the Soviet atomic bomb
Abrilliant nuclear physicist, Igor Kurchatov headed the development of the atomic bomb in the Soviet Union. Kurchatov's successful development of the bomb played an important role in Cold War politics. The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1945 to 1991. When the United States discovered by way of spy planes that the Soviet Union had detonated its first atomic bomb, it felt compelled to accelerate its own nuclear weapons program. Like his American counterpart, J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967; see entry), Kurchatov in his...
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MacArthur, Douglas
Born January 26, 1880
Little Rock, Arkansas
Died April 5, 1964
Washington, D.C.
U.S. general
Considered a war hero in World War II (1939–45) as commander of the U.S. Army and Air Forces in the Pacific campaign against Japan, Douglas MacArthur played a crucial role in rebuilding Japan during the early years of the Cold War. The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry from 1945 to 1991 between the United States, the Soviet Union, and China with limited military conflict. MacArthur later led U.S. forces during the first year of the Korean War (1950–53). Holding very strong anticommunist views, he became the most controversial U.S. military figure of the Cold War. Promoting a military conquest of communist China and reunification of Korea, he was a major critic of U.S. foreign policy toward the Far East.
A military family
MacArthur was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 26, 1880, to Arthur MacArthur, a soldier and decorated Civil War...
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Macmillan, Harold
Born February 10, 1894
London, England
Died December 29, 1986
Birch Grove, Sussex, England
British prime minister
Harold Macmillan served in the British government from 1924 to 1963. During that period, he was one of the first in British government to oppose German aggression in Europe, established later useful relations with other Allied leaders during World War II (1939–45), and then guided Britain through some difficult years of the Cold War (1945–91). The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry from 1945 to 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union falling just short of military conflict. During his period of leadership, it became clear that Britain had lost much world influence that it had wielded for centuries before. The two new superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union clearly held domination in world events.
Born into British privilege
Harold Macmillan was born to an upper-middle-class family in...
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Zedong, Mao
Born December 26, 1893
Shaoshan, Hunan Province of China
Died September 9, 1976
Beijing, China
Chairman of the People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong imposed an ideology upon an entire society and created a regime that eliminated opposition. He led the long struggle that made China a communist nation in 1949. Communism is a system of government in which a single party, the Communist Party, controls all aspects of people's lives. In economic theory, it prohibits private ownership of property and business, so that goods produced and wealth accumulated are shared relatively equally by all. Communism was adapted from the theories of German philosopher Karl Marx (1818–1883) and Russian revolutionary Vladimir I. Lenin (1870–1924). Mao's interpretation of Marxism for colonial and peasant-based economies became known...
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Marshall, George C.
Born December 31, 1880
Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Died October 16, 1959
Washington, D.C.
U.S. secretary of state, army general, and
U.S. Army chief of staff
George Marshall was a highly respected U.S. military leader and U.S. official. He served as an army general, secretary of state, and secretary of defense. He was the first military person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the European economic recovery following World War II (1939–45). Most importantly, the Cold War (1945–91) took shape during his time as secretary of state. The policies he developed would influence the next forty years of rivalry with the Soviet Union.
The young officer
George Catlett Marshall Jr. was born on New Year's Eve in 1880 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, son of Laura Bradford and George C. Marshall Sr., a...
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McCarthy, Joseph R.
Born November 14, 1908
Appleton, Wisconsin
Died May 2, 1957
Bethesda, Maryland
U.S. senator
Joseph McCarthy, an infamous and highly controversial U.S. senator from Wisconsin, became America's leading anticommunist figure. His influence peaked between 1950 and 1953. McCarthy gained national attention by asserting that communists had infiltrated the U.S. government at its highest levels. Some called McCarthy a patriot; others accused him of making vicious, untrue charges against innocent Americans, ruining their careers. McCarthy's sensationalized committee investigations greatly contributed to the anticommunist hysteria sweeping the country. The United States' diplomatic efforts toward the communist countries of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Asia were adversely affected for several decades.
Pre-Senate years
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McNamara, Robert S.
Born June 9, 1916
San Francisco, California
U.S. secretary of defense
Robert S. McNamara played an important role in U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War period of the 1960s. The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry from 1945 to 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union, falling just short of direct military conflict. Smart and ambitious, McNamara came from the business world to serve as U.S. secretary of defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy (1919–1963; served 1961–63; see entry) and Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973; served 1963–69; see entry).
McNamara was one of a group of superior managers emerging from World War II (1939–45)—smart, arrogant, and seemingly capable of tackling anything. He was young and vigorous and seemed—along with the rest of young President Kennedy's advisors—to be the new face of the new superpower, the United States. McNamara became famous for applying his sharp, mathematical mind to the problems of troop deployment...
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Molotov, Vyacheslav
Born February 25, 1890
Kukarka, Nolinsk region,
Vyatka province, Russia
Died November 8, 1986
Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
Soviet revolutionary,
politician, and statesman
Vyacheslav Molotov was the closest friend and loyal aide of Joseph Stalin (1879–1953; see entry) throughout Stalin's reign as leader of the Soviet Union. Won over to communism as a teenager, Molotov never strayed from the strict party line and always viewed Stalin's policies, however terror-filled, as correct. Molotov's talks with Western powers in the years following World War II (1939–45) helped fuel the Cold War (1945–91). The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry from 1945 to 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union, falling just short of military conflict.
Young revolutionary
Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Scriabin was born to middle-class parents...
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Nixon, Richard M.
Born January 9, 1913
Yorba Linda, California
Died April 22, 1994
New York, New York
U.S. president, vice president,
senator, and congressman
Richard Nixon was the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He also served as vice president for both terms of U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969; served 1953–61; see entry) through the 1950s and before that was a member of the U.S. Congress from 1947 to 1953. As a result, his public career spanned over half of the forty-six years of the Cold War (1945–91). Politically benefiting from a strong public anticommunist position in the 1940s and 1950s, Nixon would open the door to formal relations with communist China and pursue détente, or the easing of tensions, with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s. He would also become the first U.S. president to resign from office after facing almost certain impeachment over a domestic scandal....
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Born August 22, 1904
New York, New York
Died February 18, 1967
Princeton, New Jersey
Physicist and developer of the
U.S. atomic bomb
At 5:30 A.M. on July 16, 1945, the United States successfully detonated the world's first atomic bomb. The scientist in charge of the U.S. project to develop the bomb was J. Robert Oppenheimer. A brilliant physicist, Oppenheimer watched in amazement as the New Mexico sky and landscape lit up brighter than a hundred sunrises. That moment marked the dawning of the nuclear age. Nuclear weapons developed and manufactured for decades thereafter influenced Cold War (1945–91) politics more than any other single issue after 1945. Oppenheimer's part in the Cold War would be a push for arms control and turning nuclear power into a benefit for mankind....
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Rand, Ayn
Born February 2, 1905
St. Petersburg, Russia
Died March 6, 1982
New York, New York
Novelist and philosopher
In describing her beliefs, Ayn Rand stated, as noted on the Ayn Rand Institute Web site, "My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievements as his noblest activity, and reason … his only absolute [most important quality]." Rand's early experiences while growing up in Russia, coupled with the philosophy of objectivism (which says a person's own life and happiness is the ultimate good; see box), made her a vocal opponent of communism. Her position as an internationally published author and widely read philosopher made her a prominent and highly respected figure during the Cold War (1945–91).
Earliest years
Alissa (Alice) Zinovievna Rosenbaum, later known as Ayn Rand,...
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Reagan, Ronald
Born February 6, 1911
Tampico, Illinois
U.S. president, governor, and actor
Ronald Reagan was the fortieth president of the United States. Previously a radio sportscaster and Hollywood actor, his exceptional skills as an orator brought him the label "the Great Communicator" during his political career. Appearing easygoing with a folksy charm, he brought a hardline anticommunist direction to the White House. Reagan has been credited as one of the key individuals responsible for ending the Cold War (1945–91). The Cold War was a prolonged conflict for world dominance between the two superpowers, the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union. The weapons of conflict were commonly words of propaganda and threats.
Sportscaster and movie actor...
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Rice, Condoleezza
Born November 14, 1954
Birmingham, Alabama
U.S. national security advisor
Condoleezza Rice was America's top advisor on the Soviet Union during the administration of President George Bush (1924–; served 1989–93; see entry), helping to write U.S. policy regarding the unification of Germany at the end of the Cold War in November 1990. The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry from 1945 to 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union, falling just short of military conflict. For her part, Rice said she felt fortunate to have been given the chance to help shape America's response to these extraordinary events.
Rice was front and center at one of the most historic scenes in modern political history—the end of the Cold War era: In 1991, the Soviet Union broke apart and relations between the...
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Sakharov, Andrey
Born May 21, 1921
Moscow, Russia
Died December 14, 1989
Moscow, Russia
Physicist and Soviet dissident
Andrey Sakharov, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the twentieth century, was often called the father of the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb. He also spoke out internationally against the oppressive Soviet system of government. His wife, Yelena Bonner (1923–), was also greatly involved in protecting the human rights of Soviet citizens. Together, they were among the leading advocates of democracy, economic reform, and intellectual freedom in their country. A democratic system of government allows multiple political parties whose members are elected to various government offices by popular vote of the people. Sakharov and...
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Shevardnadze, Eduard
Born January 25, 1928
Mamati, Georgia, Soviet Union
Soviet foreign minister and
president of Georgia
Eduard Shevardnadze, foreign minister of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1990, helped reform and transform the internal structure and international relations of his country. Led by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–; see entry), their overall policies were known as glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring).
Shevardnadze encouraged cooperation and compromise with the United States. He and Gorbachev became the much-heralded architects who brought about the end of the Cold War (1945–91). The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry from 1945 to 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union, falling just short of military conflict. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Shevardnadze returned to his native Georgia to head its government.
Eduard Amvros'evich Shevardnadze, the son of a teacher, was born in the village of Mamati in western Georgia. Georgia was then a republic in the Soviet Union. As a youth, he joined the Komsomol, the Communist Youth League, and rose to leadership positions within the organization. He graduated from K'ut'aisi State Pedagogical...
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Stalin, Joseph
Born December 21, 1879
Gori, Georgia, Russia
Died March 5, 1953 Kuntsevo, Russia, Soviet Union
Premier of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin was the brutal and absolute leader of the communist Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. By the late 1930s, Stalin staunchly opposed the growth across Europe of the Nazi Party of Germany's Adolf Hitler (1889–1945). When cutting deals with Hitler failed to halt the Nazi army, Stalin allied with the United States, Great Britain, and France during World War II (1939–45).
At the end of the war, Stalin immediately imposed communist rule over the countries of Eastern Europe, giving government positions to men who adhered to the strict Communist Party line and answered directly to him. Yet soon the Soviets became locked in the Cold War (1945–91). The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, falling just short of military conflict. Stalin was the dominant figure in the...
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Thatcher, Margaret
Born October 13, 1925
Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
British prime minister
It was in May 1979 that Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister. She would be reelected in 1983 and again in 1987 to become the first British prime minister of the twentieth century to win three consecutive general elections. Thatcher served for eleven-and-a-half years until her resignation in November 1990. Her Conservative Party victory in 1979 was a major triumph over the Labor Party, which had held power for much of the previous fifty years.
The perceived threat of the communist Soviet Union had come to be a dominant concern of the Western world at the time. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an alliance of Western-styled democracies, was founded in 1949 at the key instigation of Great Britain. It was a response to the growing efforts by the Soviets to control Eastern European...
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Tito, Josip Broz
Born May 7, 1892
Kumrovec, Croatia, Austria-Hungary
Died May 4, 1980
Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
President of Yugoslavia and revolutionary
Josip Broz Tito established a communist government in the country then known as Yugoslavia. Fiercely independent, Tito managed to successfully distance himself and his country from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1879–1953; see entry) and Soviet control. During the entire Cold War period, Tito took his country down a liberalized path in agriculture, management of workers, trade with Western nations, art, education, and travel between Western nations and Yugoslavia. The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry from 1945 to 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union falling just short of military conflict. Tito stressed nonalignment, the right of nations to be neutral and not align with either superpower, the United States or the Soviet Union.
Early years
Josip Broz was born the seventh child in a large peasant family of fifteen children (he acquired the...
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Truman, Harry S.
Born May 8, 1884
Lamar, Missouri
Died December 26, 1972
Kansas City, Missouri
U.S. president, vice president, senator
"I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me." Harry S. Truman spoke these words to a reporter on April 13, 1945, the day after being sworn in as U.S. president. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945; served 1933–45) had died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage, and Truman was faced with leading the American people through mounting international crises.
Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United States, would be cast as a central player in the quickly developing Cold War (1945–91). The Cold War was an intense political, ideological, economic, and military global rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies, involving hostility and conflict but not direct warfare between...
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Enlai, Zhou
Born March 5, 1898
Huaian, Kiangsu province, China
Died January 8, 1976
Peking, People's Republic of China
Premier and foreign minister of
People's Republic of China
Zhou Enlai was a leading figure of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its founding in 1949 to 1976. He served as premier (head of state) throughout this lengthy time period and was also the PRC's foreign minister from 1949 to 1958, but remained the country's leading foreign affairs expert for decades. As a result, Zhou was the most visible PRC official and gained great respect from other world leaders for his superb negotiating skills.
Zhou was responsible for all of communist China's foreign policy through most of the Cold War and much of the PRC's domestic policy as well. The Cold War was an intense political and economic rivalry from 1945 to 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union, falling just short of military conflict.
Student activist
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