[johnmartineu]

it's a start thanks but I know some of that all ready. Maybe you have some stuff on Mcarthyism, the berlin air drop or the Cuban missile crisis?

You dont have to tell me all this just give me the weblinks. Thanks.

[babyface00]

just give me the weblinks

http://www.google.com

[NittanyLion]

Maybe you have some stuff on Mcarthyism, the berlin air drop or the Cuban missile crisis?

Sure. Here goes:

The Cuban Missile Crisis was experienced when Cuba ran out of missiles and therefore could not defend itself from American attacks during the Berlin Airdrop. Jenna McCarthy has since gained great fame due to her significant role in the Berlin Airdrop, when she shot down the famous German flyer Amelia Earhardt. "McCarthyism" has since come to be associated with "MTV", as well as breast implants.

That's "some stuff" for you.

[Mugwump]

Okay, for McCarthyism, Google the word "venona". You'll find some surprising info there. Look up the words "glasnost," "detente," and "perestroika."

For background, review the following: Karl Marx, Fredrich Engels, Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein), Mao Tse Tung, and Vladimir Lenin. That will give you the basis of understanding communism. You do have a tall order here, and if I were doing it (even in high school), I wonder if 10 pages would be enough... Good luck.

[weegee]

Maybe you have some stuff on Mcarthyism, the berlin air drop or the Cuban missile crisis?

McCarthyism is completely irrelevant to your account of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It IS relevant to a discussion of the the inroads the Soviets were trying to make in influencing American politics and culture (government, protest, and indoctrinating arts). The KGB files seen after the fall of the USSR bear this out.

And for all of the talk that your teacher probably gave you that Henry Miller's "The Crucible" was about "McCarthyism", Senator McCarthy was not the catalyst for Mr. Miller to write the play (he already saw these hearings before Mr. McCarthy was involved).

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs also have no real significance to a 10-20 page paper on the fall of the USSR. There were also other near battles in WWIII (aka the Cold War) but some of them are only coming to light 20+ years later.

[johnb838]

[Bon mots]

If you want to know about Capitalism, begin by telling your teacher something that is historically important, for example about:
1.) Adam Smith and the "Invisible Hand". You can further state that Adam Smith developed the concept of "Absolute Advantage". This is a Macroeconomic concept.
2.) You should then mention David Ricardo and his development of the concept of "comparative advantage", which expands on the concept of absolute advantage developed by Adam Smith.

Oh, and by the way, in case you don't already know:
Macroeconomics- Economics as it affects nations
Microeconomics- Economics as it applys to business / firms.

Now you need to get into Communism. Begin by learning this:
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Karl Marx developed much of what he knew from Hegel. Marx was not an Economist, and had a flimsy grasp of economic concepts and economics in general. He was in fact, a historian. An idiotic one at that.

Every country which experimented with Communism, quickly learned that it was a miserable failure.
Lenin learned this by 1924, and thus developed his NEP (New Economic Plan) to try to inject a little capitalism into the - by then - failing Russian economy.
Hungary allowed free enterprise to some extent to ameliorate the abject failure of communist systems, and they called it "Goulash Communism".
Poland also allowed a fairly large measure of private property ownership, enterprise and private agriculture for the production of domestic staples.
East Germany coped with the failures of Communism by building a wall to keep its unhappy subjects as prisoners. The first known example of a country building a wall to actually keep people in a country!
North Korea copes by starving millions of its people to death each year, so that the succeeding year, has less mouths to feed.
Communist China allows a large measure of capitalism now, therefore, people there are no longer starving to death. You now have a totalitarian state, with corrupt politicians allowed to practice capitalism... albeit tightly controlled (fascism by definition.)
Chile was lucky, Augustus Pinochet shot and killed the commies, and installed a successful system which rescued Chile from the ravages of the marxist Allende government. Chile to this day, has the best economy in all of Latin America.
Cuba has an interesting model. Since Castro took over, they cannot support themselves. They can no longer depend upon sugar production. One thing which brings Cuba lots of money is the tourism industry. It is popular with Europeans as a "sex-tourism" location because the poverty that Communism ensures, creates a desperate situation among the residents. Mix that with tourism, and you have rampant prostitution on an epic scale.


Some important names to look up:
Milton Friedman
Friedrich Hayek
Ludwig von Mises
Joseph Schumpeter
Ronald Reagan
Ayn Rand


Some imbeciles you should be aware of:
Castro
Che Guevera
Eric Honecker
Michail Gorbachev
Nikita Kruschev
Josef Stalin
Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov)
Mao Tse Tung (Mao Zedong)
Ceacescu
Jaruzelski
Salvador Allende
Kim Il Sung

[FourPeas]

You know, were I going to try a rouse, I'd make it a tad more believable. The subject for your term paper is obviously too broad. I started to say that any high school senior would know that, but since you're trying to play stupid, it fits.

You look completely stupid, though, when you ask for information on:

Mcarthyism, the berlin air drop or the Cuban missile crisis

Look, it IS Friday and that tends to be a more playful day here at FreeRepublic, but please try to be at least a bit more imaginative, and well, interesting. My six year-old could come up with a better cover story.

[tdadams]

You dont have to tell me all this just give me the weblinks. Thanks.

We're only on the first 50 posts and your motivation is transparent.

You only want us to give you links, huh? And why would that be?

Maybe because you expect us dangerous right-wing fanatics to point you to neo-nazi, American guerilla, soldier of fortune type websites so you can then run back to DU and brag about how you suckered FReepers into revealing their true hateful nature?

Sorry, I don't know any of those sites. The only hate speech website I know of is here.

[rbmillerjr]

martineu....The French oi