On the night of 17 July 1936, the Spanish army, inspired most of all by General Franco, started the Spanish Civil War by rebelling against the Second Republic. ... The Spanish Civil War continues to shape people's lives. ... It was the military intervention of foreign nations that fuelled the Spanish Civil War, and from one perspective, actually On the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War the leaders of the military uprising immediately asked the German government for help. ... On the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War Mussolini failed to keep his promise of immediate aid. ... On the outbreak...

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The Mexican War The first in a long line of US intervention in Latin American affairs began rather peacefully in 1821, when American Moses Austin obtained a land grant to establish a colony in sparsely populated Texas, then Mexican territory. ... Surely enough, Mexico attacked Taylor's troops and killed 11 Americans; that was all Polk needed to declare war on Mexico. ... Spanish-American War Having already annexed Hawaii and forced Japan to embrace western contact by duress, the United States was already beginning to embrace both territorial and economic imperialism as a foreign polic...

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In a little over a week most of America and the rest of the world are largely destroyed and depopulated. ... A vaccine of sorts is developed, a non-lethal strain of a disease which is recognizable to the zombies but not deadly to humans and the movie ends with another montage with Lane narrating detailing the war to reclaim America and the rest of the world from the zombies. There is an open ending in which Lane declares that the "war has just begun.". Atypically, "World War Z" zombies (Zeeks) are shown to be very mobile. ... Philosopher Stefan Molyneux also takes a modernist view of the zo...

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Jamaica belongs to a group of islands created by the summits of a submerged mountain range connecting Central America to present day Venezuela. ... The Spanish Occupation (1494-1655) During his second voyage to the Americas, Christopher Columbus learned from the natives of Cuba of an island lying to the south rich with gold. ... In response, the Spanish introduced enslaved blacks brought from Spain, and these were later supplemented by slaves brought directly from Africa. ... Despite Spanish efforts to maintain Jamaica and other colonies, by the mid 1600s the Spanish empire was in v...

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The common belief about the end of the Cold War was very strong in American political circles. ... The last European country being included before 90s to NATO was Spain and it was in 1982. ... Valid arguments can be made against NATO enlargement, but this particular argument is spurious.7 To sum up this part of essay, NATO is a key part of American military domination in Europe. ... Americans started preparation to take their part in the war in Near East with almost full support of most western countries including (at least formally) Russia. ... Obama's administration would avoid to nam...

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We will then examine the United States' entry into both World Wars and also how the United States dealt with the USSR in the Cold War. ... President Washington understood this and also realized that engaging in this war did not make sense geographically due to the fact that the United States was still occupied in parts by the Spanish and British. As Kaufman notes, "if the United States became embroiled in the French Revolution, the young nation would become perilously vulnerable to France's British and Spanish enemies sitting athwart its vital flanks " (Kaufman 8). ... Kaufman notes ...

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Of all the Spanish colonies, Costa Rica enjoyed the least influence as a colony. ... When Mexico rebelled against Spain in 1821, Costa Rica and the rest of Central America followed suit. Two years later, a faction in Costa Rica even opted to become part of Mexico, sparking a civil war in the country's center between four neighboring cities. ... The Costa Rican civil war erupted in 1948, after incumbent Dr. ... Culture The vast majority of Costa Rican people are White, mainly of Spanish decent. ...

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Although African American slaves were now introduced to Native American communities, they still used their own prisoners of war as slaves as well. ... Her husband was killed during a war with the Muskogees and she fell in, took his place, and finished out the war with his weapon. ... Spanish explorers brought with them an African slave and came upon a Native American tribe in their travels. ... Some of the tribes also began buying African American slaves during the Revolutionary War. The Native American slave trade was only in existence until about 1730, after the trade led to a series of d...

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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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In Spain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, Orwell had witnessed the danger of absolute political authority in an age of advanced technology. ... The world of 1984 also reflects various aspects of the social and political life of both the United Kingdom and the United States of America at the time of creation. Orwell is reported to have said that the book described what he viewed as the situation, both politically and socially, within the United Kingdom in 1948, when the British economy was poor, the British Empire was falling apart at the same time as newspapers were reporting its triumphs, and ...

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On other hand, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina, to Ernesto Guevara Lynch, a Civil Engineer of Irish descent, and Celia de la Serna of Spanish descent. ... At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the long series of squalid political crises in Argentina which culminated in the 'Left Fascist' dictatorship of Juan Peron, to whom the Guevara de la Sernas were opposed. ... Ernesto joined other Castro followers at the farm where the Cuban revolutionaries were being given a tough commando course of professional training i...

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From a realist perspective the United States has taken action to protect our national security by declaring war on Iraq. ... These differences show the variety of concepts of war. ... It is the United States of America's job to protect its citizens and it is the United Nations" job to stop potential threats. ... This important resolution would end the Gulf War in a ceasefire agreement. ...

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Lefebvre's work is often presented as the classic interpretation, although arguably the central factor in this was the fact that World War 2 took place after the publication of 'Quatre Vingt', and so nobody challenged his arguments. ... Many historians argue that foreign policies and war significantly influenced the outbreak of the French Revolution by causing great financial difficulties. Since the late 17th century, France had participated in a series of wars: the Nine Years' War (1688-1697); the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713); the War of the Austrian Successi...

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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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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. ... Italy had long-standing problems that were made worse by the war. ... This was the background for the more immediate problems that Italy faced after the war. Inflation and unemployment were perhaps the most destructive effects of the war. ... After the war, these groups formed the base of Mussolini's fascist movement. ...

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Shortly after the Civil War, imports and other domestic materials replaced hemp for many purposes. ... After the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Mexican immigrants flooded the U.S. seeking refuge from the chaos in their homeland, introducing the recreational use of marijuana to the American culture. The Spanish speaking refugees were recognized by the Americans as outsiders, the unfamiliarity of their culture cultivated fear and prejudice among the American people. ... An article from the American Journal of Medicine elucidates how "Marijuana users will suddenly turn with murderous violence upon ...

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It is mentioned in Irish History that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. This seems an impressive feat and we seem to be able to confirm it as fact as Ireland is indeed a country without snakes. However, the more realistic, and more mundane reason why there are no snakes in Ireland is because the country is an island surrounded by the sea. It was separated from the land mass of Europe around 6700 BC before snakes and other varieties of plant life were common in the country. ...

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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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A number of miscalculations, however, along with the strain of continuing the war with Germany, paved the way for a Bolshevik coup in November of 1917. ... After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... Meanwhile, World War II was fast approaching. ... But he wanted to avoid war at all costs, and in 1939 he signed the Nazi- Soviet Pact, which pledged that the two dictatorships would not attack one another, and granted Stalin permission to take over the Baltic States and eastern Poland, and prosecute a war i...

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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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To this end I would like to outline the lives of two of Anarchism's most important spokespeople who greatly influenced the Anarchist movement in America - Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. ... Like most immigrants who left Europe, because of low wages and miserable living conditions in the eastern European working-class, Emma and her sister envisioned America as the land of economic opportunities. ... We, too, Helena and I, would find a place in the generous heart of America. Our spirits were high, our eyes filled with tears" (3) Unfortunately, working-class life in America was not ...

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Religious parties in Israel The religious parties aim to establish a Jewish State governed by the Jewish religious code, the Halacha. Some parties do not recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel and are thereby making a concession towards their ideology by participating to the democrati...

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All major powers had anticipated war, and the pre-war planning, such as the Schlieffen Plan, exacerbated everything. ... The youth had slowly been indoctrinated for war. Society itself was familiar with the possibility of war. ... The solution, again, was war. ... The determination to go to war did not emerge from domestic pressures, or one party would have opposed war as a way to weaken the other one politically. ...

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In fifteen months as much as a quarter of the American country had heard his message. ... I find Whitefield to be significant in this point of American religious history because it opened the eyes of thousands of people. ... This constant reference illustrates a sense of respect for the groups attempt to start and settle within American. ... This faith was introduced to American's as the European settlers came to the new land, and conquered specific areas (Marty, page 38). ... Due to the Church of England belonging to the Protestant faith, and with its colonization in the America's, ...

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By creating this smooth governmental machine lead to maturity and progress, even while dealing with the Napoleonic wars. ... Napoleon defeats Alexander again at the Battle of Friedland, fooling his officer Bennigsen into a trap; bringing an end to the war of the 4th coalition. ... Russia and France are now allies, which puts an end to the opposition and war. ...

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