Throughout the twentieth century there were forty million individuals were killed during some sort of Genocide. ... There were several genocides that occurred throughout the twentieth century. ... The Bosnian Genocide there were three groups call the Balkan States that never got along and were then forced to live together among them were the Serbs, Croats and the Bosnians, this genocide was allowed as the Serbs tricked the government into believing it was ethnically cleansing, which the government then allowed. ... Any possible signs of genocide that occur needs to be reported to the world and...

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If the league needed an army then they would need to ask a country to lend them troops, if there were casualties (and there always are casualties) the the president of the country who lended them the army would be responsible and would need to take all the blame from the families of the casualties so it might then reflect on their elections or the amount of support he has, so no country would want to lend their army because it is in the interest of the politicians to keep their army safe. ... The league has provided some racial equalities, for example the members of the league were mostly euro...

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The american invasion into Normandy, then into the center of France, was a success which proved allied superiority, and was the breakthrough for the preceeding allied invasion towards Germany. ... From then on it was a disaster for the Germans because they barely had any reinforcments and supplies due to heavy air raids on French transportations systems before the allies landed on Normandy. ... There was no clear response if an invasion ever happened due to disagreement of strategies between Rommel and Rundstedt if an invasion were to occur leaving the military decisions solely up to Hitler wh...

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In fact, there is significant evidence to suggest that the Japanese Canadians were loyal to Canada. ... Although there is evidence, which indicates one government agency's intelligence service was ineffective, there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that they were all so poorly equipped. ... Let it be assumed in a hypothetical scenario that it is possible no subversive actions were taken by the Japanese community. If there was no subversion, then there would be no evidence of subversion. ... This man could be a four star general but then again he might not. ...

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Amongst scholars which find that the bombings were necessary, there are three main evidences utilized to support their argument: is that it will end the war, saving American lives, and show off the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union. ... Even then General, later president, Dwight Eisenhower said in a Newsweek interview "The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.... The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.&quo...

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America is tight with isreal, thats why the whole iraq deal happened, why desert storm was such a huge success was because iraq wasn't able to get isreal involved you see because once it hit isreal, isreal would come back that would provoke all the other Arab nations to jump in so saddam now is basically saying yeah america hit me and ill hit Israel and you'll see what will happen.everyone says we go over there for oil, no in 1991 when the war first started schartzcof *dont know how to spell his name but was the general in charge of desert storm* any way right before it started ame...

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There was a time when everyone was going hysterical over nothing, thousands of artists were getting laid off for no good reason, and a national communist scare had the nation at a standstill. ... There were several communist scares in the United States such as the Red Scare in the 1920s and the Palmer Raids that followed, but in February 1950 Senator John McCarthy acquired quite a following when he began pointing fingers at alleged communist sympathizers. ... Black listing, which was a list that had prevented the people on it to acquire jobs because of the potential communist threat, made many...

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There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. ... He worked in Tiflis, and then in the Black Sea port of Batumi, organizing worker protests, which led to his arrest in 1902. ... But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda (there existed no real difference between these "wealthiest" peasants and all other peasants), and collectivization reaped disaster--the government persecuted and killed the peasantry, famine swept the country, and as many as ten million may have died. ... For in his mind, there was no question of his primacy: he was to be first, period; there was ...

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Since humans created this supposedly perfect government, and run it, then how can those just morals be applied? ... I interpret this pact much like the proverbial bully and the milk money fiasco were the bully hits kid for milk money and then the bully is punished but we all know the whiny kid will get his for telling on the bully. ... After World War Two had ended Turkey and Greece had fallen into an economic depression, that Britain could no longer afford to help out. ... If Communism and Democracy are so similar and one doesn't work then the other must have similar flaws. ... After bot...

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Then in 1940, the U.S. government initiated its own development program on atomic weapons. ... Then the United states began to way its two options. ... Although this bomb had engendered tremendous damaged in a matter of seconds there was no immediate Japanese surrender and three days after Hiroshima America sent another atomic bomb on its way. ... Buildings and landmarks were completely destroyed or unrecognizable, and other strong modern structures had significant damaged in addition they had also been pushed off there foundations. ... Although the after effects were horrific both these citie...

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As is well known across Australia, that referendum was never passed, not because Australians refuse the idea of a republic, but as Natasha Stott Despoja put it, Australians were asked, if they wanted to have a president elected by parliament-and 55 per cent voted no. ... Australians were born and bred into servitude, first to mother England as cannon fodder in World War 1 and then as a testing ground for nuclear weapons. When we could take no more of our control by England we thought to break free, yet quickly went back to our lapdog service, this time for the United States of America. ... T...

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There weren't any fighter planes flying over countries dropping bombs, no tanks no ground troops, no actually deployment of missile, and no ground troops. However there were a stockpile of nuclear weapons, money was being spent like an actually War was being fought, propaganda, and there were two superpower enemies but no actually fighting occurred. ... This war causes a bipolar system in the world where there were two dominant powers fighting to become the dominant power. ... The way in which the US and the Soviet Union formed their alliances were through the spread of their ideology ...

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However eventually when the country was taken over by a left wing regime of the new military, the U.S were then reluctant to provide as much military support to Ethiopia(shinn). Ethiopia needed to turn elsewhere for the military support that the United States would no longer provide them with, so the turned to the Soviets the country that the united states were trying to stop from spreading communism throughout Africa(shinn). This now meant that the U.S no longer had a country in that region of Africa so they also had to look elsewhere (Shinn). ... This is a clear example of globalization ...

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President Truman then made a rather offensive statement to the Soviet Union claiming them to be just like Hitler's regime was, "There isn't any difference between the totalitarian Russian government and the Hitler government they are all alike. ... The main principal of N.A.T.O was that if the Soviet Union were to attack any one of the joined allies then it would be considered an attack on all of them. ... Those who were believed to a "Communistic" were denied entry to Am! ... It was a policy that would allow each other to examine one another through the use of spy planes to ens...

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So on Aug. 6, 1945 the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, "causing death or serious injury to about 160,000 people," (HIST, 426) then later there was a second bomb dropped on, "Nagasaki killing between 60,000 and 80,000 people," (HIST, 426). ... There is no way we would be able to tell exactly how many lives were saved just by the fact that we would no longer need to invade Japan but given Japan's history of resistance the number of casualties would have exceeded that of the atomic bombing. ... "In the first two decades of the Cold War, there were a number of ...

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A unipole world is a world where there is only one major source of power that faces no competition in the international landscape. ... In a unipolar world there is no alliances for counter-balance the major power. ... Both were double-edged swords. ... " According to the realist approach in a multipolar system is the most peaceful division of power, since there is no main source of conflicts if the power is so spread out through out the globe. ... After discussing the many divisions of power in the international landscape one can conclude that some divisions of power are more stable an...

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The Versailles Treaty helped cause World War II by treating Germany harshly, and letting Germany has no response to the Treaty. ... These pieces of evidence support the idea that military restrictions helped cause World War II because Germany had no military power and Germany was being overpowered by the nearby countries. ... In Articles 232 and 233 of the Treaty of Versailles when talking about Germany paying the damage off, it says, "She will make compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied and Associated Powers and to their property during the period of the b...

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In this passage, protagonist Tayo tells about how Native Americans were identified by the outside world while they were enlisted and in active duty, "White women never looked at me until I put on that uniform, and then by God I was a U.S. ... In this film, there is an immediate sense of discrimination while the troops go into the mess hall to receive their food rations. ... As this unfolded, one of the Algerian, French soldiers, knocked over the entire wooden crate full of tomatoes and stated that if he could not enjoy them, then none of the other soldiers can, because even though they h...

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There were several legal and procedural hindrances that were to be solved in order that the Nuremberg trials were conducted in the way that the 4 winning States wanted. ... There were over 20 of them who were placed on trial. ... Because even though the allied countries had also killed over millions of people, caused damage to other countries, they were not accused of such atrocities because they were the winners, and because of luck of not being of an organization such the international criminal court, like there is one nowadays, no one could accuse them of anything. ... Before the Nuremberg...

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Firstly, there is no doubt that various alliances between different countries contributed to the outbreak of the First World War in a major way as they allowed a small conflict to quickly involve many countries, hence when Germany Invaded Belgium and Great Britain got involved. ... Secondly, there is no dispute that the assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand was the trigger of the First World War. ... The idea was that Germany would first invade France through Belgium and then attack Russia before it could fully mobilized its troops. ... The major powers of Europe were entirely envious...

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the governments after the war were weak. they were coalitions (made up of more than one party) and were not able to take decisions. there was rising unemployment and this led to unrest in many cities and many people began to support the Communists. ... Once he was prime minister, Mussolini persuaded the king to allow him to rule as a dictator for one year and then passed the Acerbo Law. ... After the war there was ongoing fascism in Spain, Portugal, Greece, Hungary and elsewhere. ... (The headquarters were finally officially shut down in 1996.) ...

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Currently there are no international laws banning nuclear weapons, but there are restrictions on testing these weapons. ... They may have bad relations with some of the member states at the convention, this raises a problem, there is no possible way to make states comply with terms that in fact other countries have set down, it seems that for arms control to create stability each country has to take the guidelines and restrictions that arms control carries it cannot be forced or compromised. ... There are however, several disadvantages of adhering to the CTBT. ... There are definite fears thro...

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In the Samurai tradition, a part of the honor code is that "hopelessness in a battle is no reason to surrender" (Long), so the Japanese were not concerned about surrendering merely because the situation looked hopeless. ... Apart from the fact that the Japanese had long wanted a peaceful end to the war, there were a number of alternatives that the Americans could have taken, as opposed to dropping the atomic bomb. ... The Japanese were completely cut off from the rest of the world, as Robert Butow said, " the scales of the war had been tipped so steeply against the Japanese that no counterweig...

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Thus, different orders of power were seen to be the source to sustaining a fruitful society. ... There have been many examples of such acts throughout centuries. ... The sanctions were created to limit the US' investment in Iran's oil fields. ... Surrounding countries began to look up to Japan, which then created a much more relaxed proximate for it. ... However, there are some parties who believe that, in this occurrence, the Russians are also using soft power. ...

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On both occasions Spielberg took a realistic approach by not using black soldiers because during the 1940's, American society segregated black people and so there were few mixed regiments, if not any. ... Not only today's fabrics, cuts and manufacturing different from then, its very difficult to duplicate everyday wear and tear. ... There is no one criterion by which the term realism of a media text may be judged. ... There are many ways a text or media can be identified as real but there are four criteria to what is real. ... This is what the effect of realism had on the audience of...

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