During the cold war era globalization also had a part to play in the degrading of a number of African countries. During the cold war Ethiopia was a reliable ally to the United States who were trying to stop the spread of communism in sub Saharan Africa (Shinn). ... The main point of the cold war was for the two supers power of the world at that point try to spread their ideologies of how the think countries of the world should be run. ... Now Somalia and Ethiopia are both know around the world in a negative light due to the entire problem they have undergone lately, such as civil war, poverty ...

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Not just empire's but events such as the cold war, WII or even the crusades have brought and gave new revolutionary inventions and equipment. ... The Roman Empire brought a fascinating range of languages as well as that they also used these languages to communicate with each other during war so their enemy wouldn't understand what they were attempting to plot. ... After the period of the crusades, after WWI and WWII there was a Cold War. ... The cold war also saw a revelation in tanks as the most developed main battle tanks with harder shelters and a greater range in shooting power w...

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World War II was part of Ralph Vaughan William's inspiration for his tuba concerto. One of the residual outcomes of World War II was the Cold War, another major historical event that had a great amount of influence over Europe and the rest of the world during Vaughan Williams' composing of his tuba concerto. ... That is the Cold War. ... The beginning of the Cold War is perfectly represented in the second movement of Vaughan Williams' tuba concerto. ... World War II and the Cold War served as major inspirations for the piece that defined the latter portion of Vaughan Williams&...

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The Cold War engulfed the entire world for nearly half a century. ... During the Cold War, the world was engulfed in a game of "us- verses "them- ¯whichever superpower could gather the most countries, develop the fastest technology, threaten other nations with nuclear warfare, or walk on the moon first would win the race to superiority. ... When the Cold War ended in 1989 with the falling of the Berlin Wall, not only did Germany unite; globalization was introduced, establishing trade between nations: "Two nations who traffic with each other become reciprocally dependent; for if one has an ...

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Looming not too distantly on the horizon was the juggernaut of World War II. ... Yet all this was put to a stop, for a time, as the nation was hurled headlong into the war. ... Hundreds of thousands of troops were shipped off to aid the war in both the European and Pacific fronts. ... And Hollywood, who had before been ridiculed for its works, now began producing pro-war films and propaganda, helping enormously with the "home front-, maintaining civilian confidence and keeping the country afloat in times of war. ... This fear, and standoff, we owe almost entirely to the creation of nuclear we...

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Two horrific wars have been fought and caused by European countries, in which countless lives of soldiers and civilians were lost. ... Also, advances in science lead to the development of weapons that can pose a global threat, which was highlighted by the Cold War, are but some of the many changes that have occurred in Europe over the past century. ... When the Aftermath of the Great War and World War 2 was over and life started to return to normal, the European nations decided they had seen enough blood-shed and slaughter, which is why they began to think of preventative's, rather than ...

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Also, when it comes to mammoths, the size of the animals have been increased even in the cold and moisture. ... "As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might shew that America, though but a child of yesterday, has already given hopeful proofs of genius, as well of the noble kinds, which arouse the best feelings of man, which call him into action, which substantiate his freedom and conduct him to happiness, as of the subordinate, which serve to amuse him only."...

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Victory in the aforementioned war meant that Britain was never occupied or defeated like the other six founding countries members. Although Britain had suffered greatly in the Second World War, the people of Britain had not been as directly affected by European differences; so the desire to form a stable Europe was not as urgent as on mainland Europe. ... Every British Prime Minister (PM) from World War II onwards has had to make a choice between the EU and the US, which has been especially visible in recent months when taking into account the recent situation in Iraq. ... However Wright ident...

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In addition, there is evidence that parasites were much more common in Asia than in the colder European countries, leading to additional depletion of the human capital stock. ... Brick became a common building material in Poland in the fifteenth century , and its use spread across Europe over the next several hundred years, thus protecting the Europeans from the ravages of fire, and helping to protect them from their own wars. ...

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Some kind of 'cost benefit analysis' is not so easy when globalisation is perhaps the most over used and under specified concept in the international policy sciences since the passing of the 'Cold War'. ...

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Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin notes that in the post-Cold War era, America's power and prestige may ultimately depend less on being a military superpower than on being an information and entertainment superpower. ...

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Some of the more notable death marches included the mass march from the Warsaw Ghetto to the camp at Auschwitz and the march from Dachau to Tegernsee towards the end of the war. ... The tormented prisoners were starved, sick, wounded, and greatly exposed to the cold weather (Holocaust, 586). ...

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The importance of securing natural energy resources is taking center stage in the European Union's (EU) future plans. Turkey, a candidate for a full membership to EU, is located close to 70% of the world's oil and gas reserves. Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. This would give all the countries involved a necessary alternative to the Russian supply routes - and it would become the fourth most dynamic energy corridor for Eu...

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