In the period following the fall of Rome until year 1400 there were three predominant areas of military power; Western Europe, Middle East, and the Asians. ... In contrast to the West, The Middle Eastern Arabs didn't value human life or a code of honor. ... The Easterners along with the Middle East and Byzantines were effective with their mobility for short time; however, West in the end started to pull ahead of the East because of better economy, technology, and wealth. ...

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Middle Eastern Bloc: Pretty much agrees and sides with the African Bloc, yet is more interested in political issues then overpopulation. The Middle Eastern Bloc also has very strong spiritual beliefs. ...

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America's historical warpath is so long and well walked that no one seems to notice a small middle eastern nation being bombed day after day, and that bombs are misaimed and innocents are killed far too often. ...

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But the most important ones are the ones which were located in Eastern Europe (Poland,Estonia etc.). ... The ethnic conflicts had caused great troubles in Bosnia, Kosovo and many places in Eastern Europe so many wars in Caucasia and middle Asia are expected. ... The collapse of communism had also caused many nationalist competitions in Eastern Europe. The West should encourage the former Eastern Europe Communist States (satellites) to build up capitalist systems and have more relations (trade etc.) with the Western Europe capitalist countries. ...

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When World War II ended a post war Europe was divided between Western Democracies and Soviet army occupied nations of Eastern Europe. In the middle of it all lay Germany, divided and occupied by the four allies. ... During 1948 the government of Eastern European countries were under communist control. ... The death in March 1953 of Soviet leader Josef Stalin undermined the positions of many communist leaders in Eastern Europe and gave the peoples of East Europe hope that regimes would be liberalized. ...

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Winston Churchill warned that an "Iron Curtain" was descending the middle of Europe, the Cold War began. ... The people of Hungary and the rest of Eastern Europe were completely ruled over by communist Russia. ... Although Stalin died in 1953, Moscow's control over Hungary and Eastern Europe did not weaken. ... The Soviets permitted the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe in the late 1980's and early 1990's. ...

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Once America lost Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, the East, and even the West would be in danger. ... On the other hand, the civil war had led Greece to a different development from other Communist Eastern European countries since it accepted the aid of the United States. ... It was essential that Turkey keep its territory complete for the sake of maintaining the order of the Middle East. ...

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We were attacked on September 11th and also in the years beforehand from many Middle Eastern countries. ... The cultural conflict in the Middle East involves warfare on an almost constant level and the ability that the people have to have freedom of thought or political reasoning is the lowest possible allowance. ...

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WWII Peace brought neither stability nor lasting prosperity to the Western democracies, which paid a heavy price for their victory in World War I. Although, the United States suffered comparatively minor financial losses, huge war debts threatened the economic and political stability of Great Brita...

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In addition to this, the Ottoman Empire had crumbled during the war, leading to newly "independent" Middle Eastern nation-states (which were quickly snatched up by Britain, France, etc.)The end of the war also caused a temporary economic bubble, which soon popped and the Great Depression began....

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Churchill took a major role in setting the foundation of the welfare state in Britain, he prepared the Royal Navy for world war I , and he helped settle the political boundaries in the middle east after the war. ... As secretary of state for air and colonies, he had a major role in setting the political boundaries for Arab states in the Middle East, while supporting a Jewish national home in Palestine as an act of historic and humanitarian justice. " The Middle East is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma... Winston made changes in the people's every day lives, ...

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As a large, multinational empire, the Ottoman Empire was plagued by the nationalism of its minority groups, particularly the Arabs of the Middle East. ... This had the added effect of encouraging central and eastern European Jews in the hopes of empowering their opposition to Austria-Hungary and Germany. ... The Western Front was idle, the periphery was violent, but not essential, the Eastern Front exposed weaknesses on both sides, and total war forced unimaginable sacrifices and unprecedented changes at home. ...

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Nevertheless, by the middle of the 1960's Hungary was one of the most industrialized states of Eastern Europe. ... The increasing importance of international trade in the Hungarian economy and the different composition of Eastern and Western trade have presented special problems to the economic planners. ...

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With the U.S.S.R having all of Eastern Germany, which held the city of Berlin. ... To many people that lived in the Eastern half of Germany nothing changed. ... They had Hitler during the war and then in the post war Eastern Germany had Stalin in charge. ...

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From the times of the Anglo-Saxon wars of pre-middle ages to the struggle for hegemonic power with Spain and France over colonization rights and the system of mercantilism. ... The rise of the imperialistic attitude in the middle ages led England to flourish as a global power for centuries and became one of the most influential national powers the world has ever seen. ... The treaty was a major response by the west in order to combar the cold war against the aggressive threat of a continued mobilized Soviet military presence in Eastern Europe. ...

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The city states that were characteristic of ancient Greece, the feudal principalities that defined Europe in the Middle Ages, and the empires that have existed throughout recorded history (both Eastern and Western) have largely been replaced by the nation-states as the dominant actors within the international arena. ... The Medieval Background (Middle Ages: An Age of Faith 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D) The Medieval Synthesis refers to the relationship between the 1. ...

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However, whereas in WWI the fighting was largely concentrated in Europe (Eastern front=Russia; Western front=France) and the Middle East, the Second World War saw fighting on every continent except the Americas (3 main fronts: Russia, the Pacific and North Africa). 4. ...

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As stated before, however, the experience of the Yugoslavs during WWII was much different than that of other Eastern European countries. ... This is due to the fact that any attempt to do so would immediately see an outpouring of support from non-communist countries that want to see Yugoslavia stay in the middle. ...

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Stalin Essay Stalin's Childhood The man who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, a small town in the southern reaches of the Russian Empire. He was the third child born to Vissa...

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Hitler: Ein Verruckt gemachtes Psychopath "The soul and the hour meet each other. What is given to us, we have to do." These were the comforting words by world-renowned rabbi and concentration camp survivor at Theresienstadt, Leo Baeck, who was known as "The Pope of German Jews." Baeck realized i...

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His pride in the United States was coupled with his Orthodox Jewish faith, although not too deeply observed, having been exposed to a more secular socialist leaning Jewish culture through the "Workmens' Circle" and by reading the "Daily Forward" the leading secular Yiddish newspaper in the United States during the great immigration of Eastern European Jews prior to World War I and subsequently served the needs of that generation until it more or less died out in the later part of the twentieth century. ... Dora's arrival on the SS Rotterdam is documented in the Ellis Island website, ...

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All of which reject any possibility of coherent intention or program in Nazi Germany's foreign policy.(2) The ferocity of this debate, perhaps best personified by the AJP Taylor, Trevor-Roper duels, has only increased the stubbornness of each side, and impeded any sort of configuration of a middle group.(3) It seems almost impossible to prove that any side can be completely and inequivocally correct due to the vast amount of sometimes contradictory statements made by Hitler which can be used by both sides equally. ...

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The United States and its allies may possible attack Iraq any minute from now, The prospect of peace in the Middle East is in its lowest ebb ever, India and Pakistan are threatening each other. ... What would be Russia's response to a perceived threat of encirclement by breakaway republics, a resurgent United States that is fast assuming the role of a global policeman, an industrialised China, a dynamic Japan, Terrorism and a "hostile Islam-, an economically unstable Eastern Europe, and a modernised NATO? ...

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"Necessity is the mother of all invention", and so it was taught and learned throughout all of World War 2. During World War 2 weaponry had to be upgraded and revised to fit every situation. The engineers of the war had to constantly develop new and better weaponry. Much like the engineers, the g...

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What is war? Is it a battle? Is it struggle? What is war defined as? Well, for a debater it may be outsmarting the opposition with words. For an environmentalist it may be saving that last tree. For a traffic control officer it may be his constant battle with the traffic. However war is generally de...

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