Up to the 20th century, there was not any international institutions with monitoring function. There was no authority over and above the heads of independent kingdoms like England, France, Russia, or Sweden. ... He/she can then claim a right of resistance against oppressive state power. ... None of the treaties that were adopted during the 19 th century didn't addressed the relationship between citizen and state. ... Petitions were never heard. ...

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The 1930s were a very difficult time for most of America. ... After World War 1 many Americans developed a strong sense of isolationism because they felt that we were tricked into the war and did not gain much compared to the amount of lives we lost. ... It wasn't until 1937 when President Roosevelt gave his famous "Quarantine the Aggressors" speech that finally started to get Americans to open their eyes and admit that if we did not help our allies in Europe then we would be next. ... Roosevelt said we needed "A navy second to none" as a "Contribution to w...

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The men of Britain saw only the good parts of the war that occurred because the government would censor the material that was shown to the public so that they did not the true horror of the war that was being fought, however the government did allow journalists through but these journalists had to be approved first and there material was also censored if it showed too much of the truth, moreover not even soldiers letters were left to the way they were written even these personal notes were censored. ... However in 1916 the first reporters were allowed to go and report their findings on the fro...

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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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At 1933, there had been well over nine million Jews living in Europe. ... Or was there perhaps, in his rants against the Jewish people, a hidden, practical, political reasoning behind them? ... He goes on to verbally trash everything which Jews have accomplished, saying that "there has never been a Jewish art and accordingly there is none today either; that[]architecture and music, owe nothing original to the Jews" (Hitler 303). ... Not only were Jews evil, they were also the reason behind which Germany was attacked and defeated by the English and French forces. ... As Flood puts it, "Hitl...

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There are many reasons why Napoleon Bonaparte was indeed a ruthless warlord (dictator). ... While fighting with the Russians, many French soldiers died due to starvation and the freezing temperatures, for none of the French were issued any gear for the winter. ... The sanitary conditions of these camps were horrible; for instance, there was only one bathroom for four hundred people; therefore, they had to stand on line for hours in snow, rain or heat. ... There were many true death camps, and these camps were the following seven: Chelmo, Treblinka, Auschwitz (Birkenau), Sobibor, Maidanek, Belz...

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During the course of World War II there were a number of turning points that impacted the outcome of the World War II. ... The soviets also known as the red army in towns around Stalingrad had started to cut of Germanys forces to and from Caucasus, in return the German forces were forced to withdraw, allowing the Russians the get the upper hand on Germany and ruining there plans of cutting off access to the oil reserves and factories. ... The German war prisoners were compelled on death marches or they were put to work on repairing/rebuilding Stalingrad, most or many of them weakened by star...

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There were many reasons for this "termination " some good hearted and some not, like ending restrictions on the purchase of liquor and firearms, eliminate costly federal spending, to settle land claims, and stripping Natives of tribal land. ... The Navajo code talkers were a key role in major battle in the Pacific. ... I doubt very much if there's a European or Asiatic country who are very much if any poorer than our own Navajo Indian tribe and none of them who need help any worse, and they owe their obligations to us North American Indians First. " President Truman tried to silence the p...

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Although none of their ideas were original or new, they had a difference in their views and the way that they spoke to their audience to manipulate their beliefs. ... If they were not to his expectations, then he would soon execute them as well with the Jews. ... There was no rational reason as to why they did it, but there is reason to why they took so much effort into killing so many people. ... On the bottom of his ranking were the Jews and Gypsies, which he said that they were "unworthy of life." ... Although there could have been consequences for them, there also could have been more ...

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There are two instances that occur almost 50 years apart that demonstrate this clearly. ... Although in reality, US soldiers would not see combat until 1918 and even then only for months rather then the Brits who had been involved for years. ... World War II saw the induction of modern day tactics, modern day technology, and the idea of global domination was in fact an idea of the past that should stay there. Alliances were made in the colossal clash of arms that stand today, but none as strong and stable as that of England with the United States. ... Reparations and the war crimes trials ...

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Numerous theories have been put forward to somehow explain the popularity and audiences' seemingly endless macabre fascination with, what were truly horrendous events in the course world history. ... In this war, America was the undeniable heroine and defender of moral virtue, as opposed to the Vietnam War where the lines between good and evil, right and wrong were more questionable. ... There are literally hundreds of fictional or documentary-drama pieces about the Holocaust with a number of themes in use. ... Themes popular throughout this era were the depiction of Jews in hi...

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In the Gallipoli War, which was a part of the World War 1 there were different sides which were joining the war for different reasons and goals. ... Some could reach few of the things they have planned before, while some could reach none of their goals. ... The terms of the alliance were: 1. ... There were some reasons for Germany to make such an alliance and get Turkey into the war and these reasons and the general strategy that was followed by Germans were illustrated in the text "The intentions of Germans in the Gallipoli War- by Assist. ... Then, the author explains how Germans' ...

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However, the politics in Asia during the same period were more dynamic and nuanced than just the simple East-West divide of Europe. Here, there was none of "the sharp structural clarity of Europe," no drawing of a line, no Iron Curtain; rather, there existed a more complex web of international relations, because of the physical presence of three great powers: the Soviet Union, China and Japan. ... Through the 1960s, there were 4 main triangles in the Asian political arena: Soviet Union-China-North Vietnam, Soviet Union-Japan-US, Sino-Soviet-Indian- and Soviet Union-China-North Korea. In the 19...

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That this was accepted by many, was partly because the war was seen as an adventure, and perhaps because the last war where there was mass recruitment was almost one hundred years previous, the majority of those fighting in the interlude being well-trained career soldiers. ... This is shown between the posters, the former merely being straightforward recruitment posters, while the latter may be seen to provide external reason for hostilities, due to the massive damage committed by the somewhat deranged gorilla. 3) Once mobilisation begun, the recruiting offices were swamped, with an aver...

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Articles were published deeming the Kuniyoshi family medically inferior and "likely to sell out to the whites-. ... Wakatsuki ultimately failed in the attempt to carry out his emperor's wishes and the Japanese military continued on its campaign throughout China which eventually pleaded to the League of Nations for intervention who then voted 42-1 against Japan with the only vote coming from Japan supporting the action. ... Between 1931 and 1937 there were four coup de 'tat attempts three of which failed and one was only partially successful against Emperor Hirohito and one assassin...

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Both his parents were peasants. ... There he married his first wife, Yekaterina Svanidze. ... Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms). ... There he resumed the editorship of Pravda. ... Ultimately, though, Stalin's defense of the region proved unsuccessful, the Red Army units in the area lost 60.000 men while he was there, and the Whites were later able to capture the city and hold it for an extended period. ...

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