Unfortunately, this was a harsh reality for many soldiers in World War Two, more specifically the prisoners of war in Japan. The treatment of prisoners of war in the pacific was extremely unfair and unjust. ... This was because of the extreme cruelty and inhumane treatment that their prisoners of war received. ... As World War Two came to a close, nations around the world got wind of the conditions in Japan. ... Prisoners of war were not animals meant to be locked up and abused. ...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... During World War II for the US economy were truly "golden": with the beginning of military operations from Europe to America poured a huge flow of capital greatly stimulated its economic growth. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be financially dependent on the United States. ... The establishment of the ruined economy of the country also participated huge army of prisoners of war. However, by 1945 th...

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During the French and Indian War of 1754, British troops provided blankets that had been infected with smallpox to the American Indians. ... During the 19th century, when President Lincoln and 12 other public officials were assassinated, these were acts of terrorism connected to the Civil War. ... Because of the global concern about terrorism, the U.S. war on terrorism is justified. ... Moreover, economist feel that once the worst of the war is over, the stage would be set for a healthy recovery, probably even sometime next year. In the past, wars have ha...

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The idea of human rights is ancient, but it was only after World War II that a concern was raised for the protection and enforcement of human rights and freedoms. After the horrific events of World War II the United Nations and the international community believed it was time to guarantee the respect for human rights universally. ... It was in 1942 that President Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of England met to resolve the atrocities of World War II. ... It was after World War II that the international community saw a need for an international organization ...

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I have been invited here to speak to you about Australian women and their changing roles since World War II. After World War II the roles of Australian women in society have changed greatly from being the domestics housewife who were pretty, well kept and great managers for their time. ... After the war they were many reasons why women wanted or need to go out and work. One of the very common reasons were husbands not returning from war or those that had been to war and returned in a state that they could not go out and get a job. ... During World War II women made up to 40% of the working f...

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Even with the covenant of the League in place, war broke out in 1937 after other blatant acts of aggression by Japan, Italy and Germany. The League may have failed in the sense that it could not prevent World War II, but it did in the time after its founding leading up to war have its own successes in humanitarian endeavors and general peace-keeping. ... Before the outbreak of World War II in 1937, the League of Nations experienced both great success and great failure. ... In retrospect, this power was not strong enough or fast enough to repress the oncoming conflicts that would begin ...

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After the end of World War II the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons and both the U.S. and the Soviet Union identified ways to increase the explosive yield of nuclear weapons by using the fission core (or primary) as a thermal source that stimulated fusion of hydrogen isotopes that would form a secondary yield of the nuclear weapon. ... At that point, nuclear weapons were no longer weapons of war, they were political tools useful for avoiding nuclear war and manipulating domestic and international politics. ... The world obviously survived nuclear weapon use in Japan and the hundreds of ...

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The assassination had sought to win Bosnia form Austrian rule, but failed and led to the outbreak of World War I. ... Other famous people who were assassinated because of their beliefs were Martin Luther King Jr., and Pope John Paul II, who was shot, but survived. ...

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Topic: Overpopulation II. ... It is a problem that is not as clear as war, or even as simple as famine. ... It is a problem that is not as clear as war, or even as simple as famine. ... The Habitat II conference was next and it provided another key step in realizing the devastation of overpopulation. ...

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The United Nation idea was first brought to head during World War II, when 26 nations of the world pledged to work together as one. ... Iran-Iraq War - In 1980 Iraq invaded Iran and all hell broke loose. ... Although most of the fighting was left up to the Americans, the achievement that the UN got out of this war was that it put forward a cease-fire on the war in 1988. ...

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The Nuclear Age was born from the destruction of World War II. ... From this same fury and disturbance of war came other creations which were more optimistic. From the remnants of World War II came the United Nations, an organization that would promote international cooperation to achieve peace and security, which twice in the lifetimes of its creators had brought "untold sorrow to mankind." (3)The United Nations was viewed as a place where representatives of nations could gather to resolve the world's problems with civility rather than bombs. On occasion, it has succeeded in dramatic and...

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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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II. ... Eventual escalation would then lead us to nuclear war. ... Neither of these nations is ready, at this point and time, to allow diplomacy to bring an end to the cold war that exists between them. ... Secretary the mass destruction and breakdown that Nuclear war could give rise to. ... Soviets are as reluctant to enter into Nuclear war as the US, I am sure. ...

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Peacekeeping initially developed during the Cold War. ... The main purpose of peacekeepers is to help two warring parties make an agreement and stop hostile actions. ... After the Cold War approach to war changed. ... After World War II every U.S. ... Civil war exploded because of the two ideas. ...

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The age of nuclear weapons really began when the U.S. used two atomic bombs on Japan at the end of World War II. ... This is where the Cold War comes into the picture. ... The U.S. entered into the war on South Korea's side and this action brought China into the war. ... With the Cold War and the threat of nuclear war, people saw a need to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. ... The independence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, based in the north, was announced on September 9, 1948 with Kim II Sung as their leader . ...

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When it comes to humanitarian law, the United States War on Terror" has done as much, if not more, against these international laws than the terrorists! ... 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 U.S. has been too zealous in this war: I remember a while ago the States bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan that was making AIDS vaccines because they thought it was developing chemical weapons for terrorist use! ... At the Pentagon, Presi...

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The Allied victory in World War I led to Belgian military rule in Burundi in 1916, known then as Ruanda-Urundi. ... After World War II, Ruanda-Urundi was changed from a League of Nations Mandate to a trust territory under the United Nations. ...

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The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, which succeeded the Permanent Court of International Justice after World War II. ... In instances of threats to or breaches of the peace short of war, they may decide politically to take anticipatory action short of force. ...

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"We the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of a human person, in the equal rights of men and women in nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom."" ... As security interests ...

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Iran is a nation surrounded on all sides by some of the States deemed most threatening to World order in recent years, its decline from democracy to an extremist Theocracy earning strict UN supervision, economic sanctions and a place among George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil." Iran's path to peaceful Dem...

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The World Bank is an international organization that was started to replenish Europe after World War II, but since has taken over the role of funding many of the world's projects for development of third-world countries. ...

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It was an urgently needed child of a world that very nearly did reach the brink of annihilation during the Second World War. In 1941, during the height of the war, U.S. ... "After World War I, the League of Nations was formed, and after World War II, the United Nations. ... We had better not wait for World War Three before seeking to make the U.N. more effective."" ... s various subsidiary organizations may be advantageous in preventing these potential wars through...

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As we go about our lives in these days and times, we look and see a division between people. More than a month ago, terrorists attacked our nation, and now, more than ever, we need spiritual guidance. Instead, we have attacked each other as a people, and burned religious edifices. We have cast down ...

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THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AND THE `LEGAL AND POLITICAL STRUGGLE' OVER INDIGENOUS RIGHTS[*] ABSTRACT/RESUME Many Indian leaders have recognized that the Supreme Court of Canada has changed direction very significantly on issues of treaty and aboriginal rights. As a result, Indian ...

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The European common market is a step that has been in progress since the second world war and the European countries have been delaying it until its prerequisites are ripe "Europeans lefts to make sure that each step of the integration was accompanied by double series of measures " (Amin 7). ...

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