1. Modern World History - WWI, WWII and Exploration
The western mountains in between Burma and India forming the java arc consists of pinnacles as high as 12,000 feet, the Bay Of Bengal and the Andaman Sea at the southern boundary, on the south east Burma shares an extended border with Thailand. ... The Chindwin drains the western portions of the country, and the Salween and Sittang Rivers drain the regions in the east. ... Lord Louis Mountbatten and members of the South-East Asia command authorised Wingate which was the a major general to lead an assault into north central Burma and capture Myitkyina and mogaung and repel the Japanese tha...
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. ... On the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, he went out on to the battle fields as a mere war correspondent for the London Morning Post, but within only months of his arrival he was captured when accused of acting more like a soldier than a journalist, by the Boer officer, Louis Botha. Winston was then taken to a prison camp in Pretoria, where he made a dramat...
The Soviet Union organized its East European satellites into Warsaw Pact in 1955. ... Cuba, South Africa, Israel, India, Pakistan, Brazil, and Argentina were not among countries that signed NON-proliferation treaty in 1968. Argentina and Brazil engaged in a prestige race to become South America's first nuclear power but nuclear programs were bankrupting therefore both countries dropped their programs. ... South Africa started its nuclear program 1974 because of Soviet expansionist threat but in 1990 the threat disappeared therefore South Africa was the first and only state to give up t...
First American military aid arrived on South Vietnam soil in 1955, just on the rising wake of cold war. ... By 1950's South-East Asia became place where interest of superpowers, such as United States, China and USSR, as well as fading colonial empires like France and United Kingdom, created deadly tensions. ... Cuba, Algeria, China, and some African countries already fall into the communist hands, and many others could follow. Pro-communist guerilla movements spread across South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. ... Government overstates danger, and understates, or did not report tru...
South Africa has stated they feel the United States is putting itself in a very uneasy situation by attempting to take the law into its own hands. ... The general feeling in the Middle East and Islamic world is that it would be very difficult to maintain close allies with the United States, even in the war against terrorism, if they decided to strike on their own. ...
The Australians advanced from the south coast and succeeded in stopping their advance and eventually driving them back and off the island of Papua New Guinea. ... The first was ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, United States) which was formed in 1951 and the second was SEATO (South-East Asia Treaty Organization) which was formed in 1954. ... This was when the allies moved in to stop it because they believed it would spread all through South-East Asia to Australia. ... An example of this was the peacekeeping force Australia sent to East Timor when they wanted to become independent from Indonesia, ...
One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater part of the world faces daily, and expects in the future, are inconceivable to those in wealthy nations. World peace through international government and law is an ancient idea that has mightily fastened itself on the minds of people throughout the ages. Never before, however, has the human race b...
Britain got colonial possessions that it had occupied during the war, including Malta, Ceylon, and South Africa. Holland lost Ceylon and South Africa but got Belgium. ... In First World War the Austro-Hungarian, Turkish, and czarist were eliminated and Japan was confined to Far East. ... Whole of Africa and Asia became nations from colonies and the centre of international politics shifted from old world to new world. ...
During this period of wartime, African-Americans from the rural South where the prejudice existed for blacks moved into the northern industrial cities, where they could possibly get their jobs in factories and have more freedom, which was Great Migration. ... In 1924, another law that restricted foreigners was established, which was called National Origins Act that this new rule prohibited immigration from an entire East Asia. ...
Some other battles, like Jutland and Tannenburg were fought more in the East though. Jutland for example was fought in the Baltic Sea, South of Sweden and North of Germany. ... Other colonies in Africa fought for the country that ruled them from Europe. ...
It's a fact that since the Gulf war in the early 1990s, over $60,000,000,000 dollars worth of arms and ammunition have been sent by the United States to the Middle-East and central Asia. The USA has maintained their military presence in Asia and the East for decades as if it was their own land to do what they want with. ... Was the United States not the last to impose sanctions when hundreds of thousands were dying in South Africa because of apartheid? ...
Vietnam had been divided into two, in the midst of a communist administration in the North under Ho Chi Minh and an egalitarian government in the South under Ngo Dinh Diem. ... Despite their rivalry for leadership of the communist bloc of nations, the Soviet Union and China collaborated to support North Vietnam's effort to destroy South Vietnam. Ho used guerilla warfare in South Vietnam, piloted by Viet Cong divisions, with the target of bringing together the country under communist decree (Westdad, Cuban and Vietnamese Challenges). ... They finally had to pull out of South Vietnam after...
All allowing for the conquest of Lebensraum or living space in the east for the cramped German folk at the expense of Judeo-Bolshevism. ... He was willing to do almost anything to gain allies, which at that time meant Italy, even renouncing German claims to South Tyrol. ...
The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Ardennes, known to the United States as the Battle of the Bulge, was the greatest battle this country had or would participate in. At its height more than 500,000 American forces were engaged with nearly 600,000 German soldiers. The Americans were at tim...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...