PEOPLE: FDR - President during WWII Truman - President who decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan Churchill - British Prime Minister Eisenhower - Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied troops in D-Day MacArthur - General who returns to Philippians - Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific Rommel - General in charge of Afrika Korps Hitler - poorly educated Austrian; joined German workers party, became leader, changed name to Nazi; became Dictator of Germany Mussolini - in Fascist Party; declared himself Dictator of Italy Tojo - Dictator of Japan Stalin - Dictator of USSR F...

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However, not to say that native peoples of North and South America did not influence Europeans. ... Word spread rapidly of the riches the new world had to offer when Columbus returned to Spain. ... Spain quickly amassed great wealth in gold and silver strengthening their over all power globally. ... Ultimately Europeans took the final step in their selfish behavior and took Indians as slaves, created war and plagued them with disease. ... When natives refused to give anymore to these new comers, they started wars killing many and taking some as slaves. ...

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In the Americas alone, 182 are endangered by the end of the century. ... Wars, earthquakes, tsunamis and such kinds of natural catastrophes can shift the balance between languages. ... An example of a language in Europe which is demanding more freedom within its territory is Catalan, in Spain. ... Catalan is spoken in Andorra, the Spanish region of Catalonia and other parts of eastern Spain, the Balearic Islands, and the regions of Sardinia in Italy and Rousillon in France. ... This decrease was due to two world wars, television, and the increasing choice of Wales as a place for retirement for...

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Recent low mortgage interest rates have dramatically increased housing affordability for many Americans creating a concomitant increase in demand. ... Over the past five years, real house prices have increased at average annual rates of 8%-12% in Australia, UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain. ... The Economist concludes that house prices continued to climb despite a stock market crash, global economic slowdown and the Iraq war, and have fueled the belief that they can only keep rising. ... The largest falls are recorded in Ireland and Spain, the countries with the highest rises in house pr...

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This age of discovery and exploration led to the expansion of European powers in the Americas and in parts of Asia. ... After the 1820's many Western European countries had lost many of its colonies, such as France in America and Spain in South America. Of course, Britain had also lost its crucial colonies during the Revolutionary War North America. ... After losing its thirteen colonies in North America, Britain had begun to lose its economic edge. ... These colonies, as well as those of other countries, offered a greater sense of power and provided rest and refuge in time of war. ...

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With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American powers. ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. ... The epidemiological impact of the Old World destroyed not only Native American societies, but also a potential labor supply. ... Without this diss...

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Because of the lost wars such as the War of the League of Augsburg and the Seven Years War with England, France had a war debt of half its annual budget. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... Napoleon proved to not only be a genius at war, but also at politics and domestic reform. ... He lost his navy, he lost to guerilla warfare in Spain, and his fatal loss occurred when he attempted to invade Russia and led his army into the unrelenting winter, which destroyed his troops and his hope at ever succeeding at...

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Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... Their investment in human labour continued and grew and in 1488, the profit margins generated were so large that they almost solely funded the Christian nation's war against Islam in North Africa. ... That being the Portuguese settlers in the Americas or the "New World" were given loans with easy repayment and interest plans to buy more slaves and develop sugar plantations. ... The French Revolution lead to a huge social upheaval and the French Revolutionary wars between the new Fren...

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Similarities can be seen with the evolution of Latin American countries into military rule through the caudillos following independence from Spain. ... Arguably though, the development of some military personnel and infrastructure for colonial benefit(also a pool of manpower for extraterritorial wars, such as the French in IndoChina) provided a potent enough springboard for the military to play a role in post-independence affairs. ...

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As Erica Benner (2013) mentions in Nationalism: Intellectual Origins, a German reaction to the revolutions in America and France, which "claimed to found new national forms of legitimacy on universal, republican principles" (Benner 2013, p. 45), which was when the confederation of German states in 1800, or the Holy Roman Empire, were collapsing due to the pressure of the revolutionary wars. ... Considering revolutions were taking place throughout Europe, it accounted for further tensions – Already the revolutions in Spain, the Two Sicilies and Greece in 1820-21, and later in the 1830&#...

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