Later, Woodrow Wilson was charged with continuing America's influence on a moral basis, as well as tying America into the First World War in Europe. ... This necessity was brought into the limelight when a United States ship had to travel the lengthy passage around Latin America in order to reach the revolution in Cuba. ... Beyond the Panamanian strip, America found the constant revolutions, unpaid debts and general instability in its own backyard to be a magnet for European interference. ... While America was occupied with Latin America, it did not fail to recognize that it had vital int...

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The technological changes of the industrial revolution made decentralization economical as well. By the 1950's many older Americans had grown weary of depression and war. Younger Americans were often apolitical. ... However, the biggest consumer revolution was the growth of the television industry. ... In an iconoclastic conclusion, The New Deal may not be viewed as a revolution. ...

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In particular, the revolution of scientific breakthroughs of inventions and discoveries have changed the humans' ways of building, travel and discovery. ... In addition to the invention in design of Gothic Cathedrals, the revolution of the compass has impacted the world today. ... The revolution of the compass has inspired people in creating highly accurate GPS. ... In the beginning, on March 16, 1926 an American physicist, Robert A. ...

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Takaki speaks of each ethnicity in America and gives voices to their oppression by the Europeans when they lived in America. ... Indian-Americans began joining with America's armed forces, and supporting the financial crisis at home until the war ended. ... From there Africans were slaves the moment they stepped foot onto America. ... California was needed for the market revolution, so the Mexicans began working in ranching and agriculture. ... Soon, the Irish were being accepted as equal communities in America. ...

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In just viewing one of these great social changes occurring within the United States at this time, the sexual revolution, which effectively broke down the pre-existing gender roles, sex laws, and the sexual morality of mainstream American society, one may see that this change, though beginning slowly eventually became so great and so widespread that it not only affected American culture, but, also, the legal institutions of the United States as well. ... ACLU (1997) the full extent of the effect of the sexual revolution upon the Supreme Court can clearly be seen. ... Few people were willing...

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Still, Americans remained aloof, and as in the WWI, contributed mostly with supplies for the Allied troops. ... Meanwhile, Americans lived under the guise of safety and in relative prosperity. ... With America finally involved, there was hope for an end to this dreadful conflict. Meanwhile, back home, women experienced a revolution of their own "with husbands and sons off in battle, females had access to jobs that had never been available to them before, and the staunch, determined attitude personified by "Rosie the Riveter-, their mascot, defines how important this movement became. .....

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With the rise of The Communist Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union developed awkward relations with the United States. ... America began a widespread hate to all Communists. ... In agreement the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, to help Cuba in case America wanted to attack, due to the conflicts between Cuba and America regarding trade issues of denying export of sugar to America. ... Castro's 26th July Movement, was established to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, and to create the Cuban Revolution. ... America de...

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However, this redefined American image was launched by dramatic changes initiated by the conclusion of World War I, as well as the consumer ideology that began to dominate American culture. ... Economic prosperity continued after the war as more Americans had jobs and work wages increased. ... The post-war period saw the increase in anti-immigration sentiment within American society. ... However, by the 1920s, there were growing fears by the American public that these new immigrants were a threat to their American values because they were taking away jobs from American citizens since they were...

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The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... Others supported the revisionist view and would claim that it was not an aggression but a self - defence policy and that the American involvement in the South America and therefore its Imperialism resulted in the Cold War. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the...

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The Americans supported Capitalism, which meant minimum interference of state in economy, competition and individual reward, and the right of voting, variety of political parties and freedom of speech and press among others (liberal democracy). ... Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need ...

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America has now become a multi-community nation with almost every community in the world represented. ... (Mandelbaum, 2003) Increasing integration with the world economy is at a higher rate driving America more productive. ... The information technology revolution has also facilitated international trade in a superb range of services. ... In the process, more jobs in the America labor force become increasingly vulnerable to international competition. ... The aggregate unemployment rate in China has not been visibly affected by the American imports of foreign goods. ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's...

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Also, in another poster, a woman in nurse suit and is wrapped in an American flag is summoning more and more women voluntary workers to her organization, the Red Cross. ... With the history background of the time, audiences viewing these posters would find it more comparative, both virtually and spiritually, to the problem that the poster are addressing, therefore more conviction would be carried to the audiences to join this revolution. ... As a summarize, all of these posters tend to magnify women's potential/power, by either creating a heroic feature, or presenting a successful revol...

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Recognizing that the Iraqi army would not pose any threat to them, American soldiers did not respect Abu Ghraib prisoners' dignity. ... As in the case of the Syrian Civil War, Al-Assad's regime had used violence against the non-violent protesters to annihilate the Syrian revolution against his regime. ... This resulted in death of thousands of innocent Syrians, who were not taking part in the Syrian revolution. ...

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In American eyes, only China looms as a likely future rival. ... The foreign policy objectives of a communist China however are not purely national in spirit, because Mao firmly believed in the ideological superiority of communism and claimed for China the role of leadership in the drive to world revolution. ... The USSR sheltered China under a "nuclear umbrella" from possible American aggression and was the only conceivable source of development aid as it offered the only model of communist development. ... Once USA became deeply involved in Vietnam, it became a matter of national pride to th...

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Milton Mayer, an American social scientist, interviewed a group of ex-Nazis on their feelings toward parliamentary democracy. ... Of course, because Jews have the money .Germans should unite and fight against the Jews We must struggle until the last Jew is removed from the German Reich, even if it comes to a coup and even more, to another revolution." (Spielvogel, 30,31) Hitler's ability to captivate an audience and manipulate emotions from a war torn people proved treacherous to the Jewish inhabitants of Germany as Hitler's call for revolution eventually materialized in the form ...

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For example, Cuba being a sphere of influence of the United States had greatly benefited Americans up until Castro's revolution in 1958. ... This American alliance included most of western Europe. ... This formation of American alliances in Europe also helped the American policy of containment of soviet Expansion in Europe. ...

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I will begin by discussing the first major age of change and development, in this case, the industrial revolution. It now seems that the industrial revolution heralded the beginning of a new system that would concentrate on continuing development and heightening technology, not least when the military could find uses for them. ... America had emerged as the forerunners of manufacturing and their civil war is described as 'the first industrialized war'. ...

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Furthermore, the period preceding the American Revolution prompted various skilled Italian musicians, painters, artisans, and sculptors to explore into various opportunities provided by the American Revolution era. ... Even so, the number of Italian immigrants in various American contexts was not noticeable. ... Deductively, immigration of Italian Americans into the United States changed over time. ... This made it difficult for the Italians to transition and fit into the American culture and environment. Certainly, the new and unpredictable American environment was not as easy as expected. ...

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Historically, Huntington describes the transition from "the Peace of Westphalia" (Huntington, 1993) to the French Revolution, quoting R. ... Palmer from 1793 along the way, when he said 'The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun', then quickly moved to how the Russian Revolution and World War I "yielded a conflict of ideologies" (Huntington, 1993). ... Huntington states the "most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating" (Huntington, 1993) what he identified as eight specific civilizations: ...

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But American foreign policy suffered a major setback in April 1945 when President Theodore Roosevelt died and President Harry S. ... When the American army moved in to occupy South Korea eight days after the Soviets had moved into the North, they were also welcomed with much fanfare. ... Hodge, the commanding general of the American military government in Korea, was assigned to " remove Japanese imperialism, maintain order, and prepare the Koreans for eventual self governance" (Cumings 1983:107). ... The occupying American forces suppressed opponents to this regime, which often resulted in ...

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American feared another economic depression and required the European market. ... Americans still believed that the Soviet Union was out for world domination, as she attempted to expand outside of Eastern Europe. ... Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. ... Both the Ameri...

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"(2) Brezhnev believed that eventually, the capitalist West would experience revolution and would turn towards their socialist brothers for support. ... This attitude in America served to heighten American concerns over Soviet influence abroad and increased paranoia in the United States. Thus, the failure of American detente in the 1970s was inevitable without cooperation in some way by the Soviet Union. ... The 1980s brought a new face to the American presidency and a new look to the Cold War. ... This 'New Thinking' offered an entirely new attitude to Leninism-Marxism and all the p...

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For example, people may move from Italy to North America. ... In addition, the development of regional trade agreements, including the establishment of a single market for the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Technically speaking, the information technology revolution led to the improvement of mass communication by fax, email and internet. ... For example, after World War II, the United States worried about the rise of communism, to encourage and support the interests of film advertising and effective capitalism in the global scope of the United States of Ame...

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The ideology has been linked by some scholars to the socially radical Jacobins of the French Revolution, but others see it as a reactionary extreme-right conservatism against the 19th-century ideals of the Enlightenment (RoSo, 2002). The motivation of fascism is also disputed as either being one of aspirations (for a cultural "regeneration") or of anxieties (e.g. for a communist revolution); both of these points of view are legitimate (RoSo, 2002). ... The 1920s and "30s saw African-Americans intimidated by cross-burnings, and beaten and lynched at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan (RoSo, 2002)....

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