The English Civil War was a radical time period in which England suffered tremendous hardships. ... The British were fighting themselves, this allowed for the greatest form of isolationism for the American colonies and in 1660, the restoration of Charles II was complete. "Charles II accepted as terms of the Restoration settlement the principle that he must rule jointly with Parliament"4. This quote explains the new way of leadership after the restoration of Charles II. ... The following years presented a fight to gain power between Charles II and King James II. ...

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Sir Winston Churchill World War II will never be forgotten and will forever be studied as one of the most important, if not the most important events of the 20th century. ... World War II ended in 1945, leaving a new world order and a new set of political leaders that had shaped the events and outcomes of the war and that had also been shaped by this event. ... Churchill was a politician and Prime Minster of the United Kingdom during the years of WW II and is widely regarded as the single greatest British leader of the 20th century. ... Churchill started the war not as the Prime minister ...

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In 1895, he became a war correspondent during the Cuban Rebellion. ... In 1911, he was elected first Lord of Admiralty, during World War I. ... He led England through a great victory against the Germans during World War II. After World War II, he was again kicked out of office. ... He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, II. ...

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This essay will go into detail about the Canadian roles in World War I and World War 2. ... More than 60,000 Canadian soldiers died in World War I. ... Meanwhile, in the air war, Canada had not been absent. ... Canada was not obliged to follow as they were in World War II but they followed anyway on September 9 Canada's senate had approved support to Britain and France. ... The Canadian Navy expanded dramatically through the war, at the beginning of the war, the navy had 13 vessels and 3,000 active members. ...

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English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. ... The war of 1812 was a depiction of English relentless cling to the land that it had lost. ... Prior to the US" inception into World War II, a policy known as the Lend Lease Act was invoked in which the US blatantly supported the Allied Powers (UK, France, and the Soviet Union) via materiel and arms sales. ... World War II saw the induction of modern day tactics, modern day technology, and the idea of global domination was in fact an idea of the past that should stay there. .....

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People called this war as the World War II. ... Hong Kong people were taken in on their war and forced to live a brutal life. ... Through out the First Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, Japanese Annexation of Korea, and the World War I, Japan gained their force and imperialized. ... On the other hand, when the World War II started, Japan was facing a shortage of military demand, thus they had to rely on their occupied territories to make up for those shortages. ... However, Hong Kong was captured by Japan in eighteen days, and the capitulation of Hong Kong was signed on December 26, 1941,...

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In 1899, during the Boer War, I raised an ambulance corps and served the South African government. ... Yet in World War I I again organized an ambulance corps for the British before returning home to India in 1914. ... Early in World War II I demanded immediate independence as India's price for aiding Britain in the war. ...

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The Sepoys rebelled against the British and the outcome of this, First Independence War, was making new laws which promised equal treatment among the chiefs, princes and peoples of India. ... The peak of this movement came during World War II. ... That movement stated that India wants complete independence after the war. The British became aware that they are in an economical decay and that after the war is over India will continue with its revolts. ...

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King Leopold II of Belgium obtained personal title to the Congo in central Africa. ... The End of Colonialism Colonialism ended surprisingly quickly and quietly in most of Africa after World War II. ... The United States and the Soviet Union became military "superpower" nations after the war. ... A civil war is a war within a nation, as opposed to a war with other nations. ... Great Britain assumed control of South Africa in 1795, after the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. ...

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The Boer War had depleted the English Treasury and this war finally came to an end, in favor of the Africans, in 1902. ... The war ended in 1902. (Glennon 24) The minister of war was killed on June 5th, 1916. ... This was called shell shock, and was diagnosed first by the French and then lost until World War II. (Glennon 121) World War I ended on November 11th, 1918. 4.75 million people were killed during this war and many more people were injured. ...

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Churchill wanted the House's approval of the new government and cooperation in the war against Nazi Germany. ... II. ... I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all of might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. ... He had served his country in India, Sudan, South Africa, and World War I (Cannadine, 1989, 1). In South Africa, where he went as a war correspondent, Churchill's capture and daring escape from the Boers late in 1899 won him celebrity ...

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Decline of an Empire The end of World War II brought about the erasure of Great Britain as a super power. ... After the war, the former Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, was voted out of office. ... Following the war, the Allies of WWII had begun a prosecution of Axis war leaders for their crimes in the infamous Nuremberg Trials. ... The prosecutors had charged the defendants with conspiring, launching aggressive war and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. ... This marked the beginning of the Cold War. ...

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Charles V(Charles I of Spain) 1516-1556 abdicates and divided his possessions between his son Philip II, 1556 - 1598, who got Spain, Spanish colonies, and the Netherlands while his brother Ferdinand I, 1556 - 1564, who got Austria and also the nominal title of Holy Roman Emperor. ... The Thirty Years War 1618 - 1648 The Thirty Years war was fought essentially within the Holy Roman Empire. ... Four Major Wars of Louis XIV were the War of Devolution 1667-1668 against Spanish Netherlands, Second Dutch War 1672- 1678 against Dutch, War of the League of Augsburg 1688-1697 and War of the Spanish ...

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Issues like how the Arabs revolted during World War II forced Britain to take the easy way out as they "judged the support of the Arab population in the Middle East as more important than the establishment of a Jewish homeland, and shifted to a pro-Arab stance" (British Empire, Wikipedia). ... The scars of the World Wars also added to the decolonization of the Third World. However, the World War did not single-handedly contribute to motivating the colonies to want to fight for independence. ... It was not certain whether or not Britain and France could have prevented decolonization due to the ...

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The first significant voluntary migration came to the island after the 1580 unification of Portugal and Spain under King Phillip II. ... British Colonial Rule 1655-1838) Being occupied by the greater distractions of Ireland and Europe, British interests in the Caribbean remained at a low level until the end of the English Civil War and Charles I's execution in 1649. ...

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It gave white settlers living in Kenya what they wanted also after the war (world war II) in 1945 Kenyans who had fought during the war returned, they were not satisfied with the return to substandard condition in Kenya. ... As the Kenyans soldiers had experience in the war therefore they knew how to fight and they also learnt strength and weaknesses of the British. Also they saw the white man being destroyed in the war (Germany- who were white got beaten in world war II). ... Also Kenyans soldiers were also familiar with the Atlantic charter that Roosevelt and Churchill had signed during the ...

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The United States was very anti-communist during this post World War II (Cold War) era, and with the Soviet Union bordering the north of Iran, the last thing he U.S. needed was Iran and the Soviet Union teaming up together against our ally, the United Kingdom. ...

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By the time World War II roles around, it is evident in the movie that Britain has become numb to this "little" problem in India, due to the fact that it is fighting a much more tremendous battle in many other places, and finally gives India its independence. ... Gandhi experiences this civil war with great dismay, for all he has lived for is being destroyed. ... And when there are two distinct religions, races, or cultures, it becomes a power tug of war where there is only one winner. ...

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The British Empire was able to take advantage of Australias natural resources to rapidly develop its agricultural and manufacturing industries and to make a major contribution to the British effort in World Wars I and II. ( ~Education: Through stories and rituals, children learn the unwritten laws of the land. ...

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II. ... During the Napoleonic Wars, the French isolated Great Britain; the English took advantage of Ireland's resources. ... England's economy fell into a post-war depression after 1815, and created further problems among Irish farmers. ... Wars and rebellions were commonplace in seventeenth century Ireland. ... After the Civil War came the industrialization of the United States. ...

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According to the essay read in class about the diamond wars and this charter, the destiny of Africa was controlled by Europe and even the United States in 1963, and is still controlled to some extent today. ... Essays read in class such as Mark Twain's "Soliloquy of King Leopold" and the Diamond Wars essay also demonstrate this. ...

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The first two stanzas refer to the Kenyan conflict, while the second two address the war within the poet-as-outsider/insider, between his roles as blood insider but geographical outsider to the Mau Mau Uprising. ... Ironically, wars between people are described as following the beat of a drum - an instrument made of an animal hide stretched over a cylinder. ... The poet appears to condemn such an attitude by comparing the Mau Mau Uprising to the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Leaders of France and Great Britain wanted to avoid another war that would engulf all of Europe, so they introduced a no...

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"All war is so contrary to our interest," they reminded field employees in 1681, "that we cannot too often inculcate to you our strictest aversion thereunto." ... In 1661 they picked up another site when, for a paltry annual rent of 10, King Charles II handed over a barren island called Bombay, which had been part of his dowry from Catherine of Braganza. ...

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