As a result of their outstanding efforts during the war, Canada gained an international status by winning their own seat and participating at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. ... Canada also obtained a separate seat on the League of Nations, an international organization that was established at the Paris Peace Conference. ... The fighting may have been over, but the war of finding peace between Canadians may persist because of the unresolved issues. ...

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In times of war, these feelings are heightened as fault lines begin to emerge and disputes, grievances and long running feuds that have been held in check by times of relative peace rise to the surface. ... After his death, the region descended into a vicious civil war which ended with the creation of separate states representing each of the ethnic groups. ... But perhaps the outcome will be a planet where different groups and communities bound together by a common religion, race or tribe are no longer forced into artificial national creations that simply create conflict and friction and c...

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"I always hear Caesar did, Caesar conquered. Was not there at least a cook along?" "Bertolt Brecht In 1914, the world witnessed one of the most terrible and bloody wars in the history of mankind to that date. World War One, at that time entitled the Great War, began as a result of the conflict ...

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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was one of the most controversial self-declared saints or holy men in modern history. He lived in Russia from 1869 through 1916. "Rasputin was born in the Tyumen district of Siberia, far away from the glittering salons in the Imperial Capital of St. Petersburg" (Bob Achin...

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Therefore, the Bolsheviks sign a separate peace treaty with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk on very unfavourable terms, giving up 1/3 of the population and 1/3 of the productive lands of the Russian Empire - including the Baltic States, Finland and some territory of Ukraine. ...

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World War I, the first globally destructive conflict that the Western Civilization produced, has been the subject of various analysis, interpretations and reevaluations of the various causes that led to it. Initially, the guilt was placed upon Germany and its allies. Eventually, historical analysis...

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