The first and most obvious one is that the trials were not going to based on the laws of one country and they all had to agree on how to move forward and conduct the trials in a more fair way to both sides, that is to let the losing side defend themselves for their action, which is what they United States of America initially wanted. ... With other things in it, the Charter described three types of crimes that were to be issued against the Nazi's; the crimes included both the civilian officials and the military official. ... The three types of crimes that were defined were as follows; cr...

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A war crime, using the definition adopted since World War II can fall into any of three categories: crimes against peace involving initiation of war; war crimes including murder, torture, or deportation of civilian populations and crimes against humanity including political, racial, or religious persecution against any civilian population, either before or after a war, also including genocide (Encyclopedia Britannica Online). ... Since there was no clear cut formula for meting out justice to the offending nation, the Allied powers, in 1945, drew up a format based on American and European court...

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People of all classes were now able to spend more money leading to a consumer based culture. On the other hand, the passage of the 18th amendment that banned alcohol changed the US into a breeding place for organized crime and law breaking. ...

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The Atlantic Charter was a document that reiterated the four freedoms; Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear, and set the standard at which the post-World War II world would base its values. ... The Holocaust proved a need for an international system of justice for war crimes, which led to the creation of the International Military Tribunal which held the Nuremberg Trials. ... These trials set the precedent for later international war crimes trials. The Nuremberg Trials set the definition of what constitutes a war crime: "Violations of the laws or...

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Both Hitler and Stalin engaged in the Holocaust and mass-murder "purges" respectively, and both had ambitions for total control over their own citizens: privacy was a crime against the state (Segre, 2002). ... The chosen scapegoats here were immigrants, particularly Muslims, who, according to Le Pen, were responsible for high unemployment and crime, and threatened French national identity with their presence (Elliott, 2002). ...

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Like the trust broken between Briony and Cecilia, and the humans easily killed in the war by guns and bombs, World War II is not a crime that can be easily repaired. ... How can one honestly justify giving birth to a story so inexperienced and unreal without at all crediting the reality from which it is based? ...

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The Second World War created an atmosphere of instability, suspicion, and fear, which blanketed the entire western world. Threats real and imagined existed everywhere. Since confederation, anti-oriental sentiment has been a part of white Canadian society. Japanese-Canadians were specifically stig...

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Perhaps the most famous of these poems is that of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est", a poem based on a re-occurring nightmare that Owen says haunts him "In all my dreams". ... The irony in the poem is that it is based around a veteran that fell for a lie of a promise for glory, as he was a victim of propaganda, and in thinking that he would achieve fame and glory by securing his country's future, he instead gave up his own to experience rejection from his people, isolation from the society he was once part of, loss of his limbs and a profusion of time to reflect on the horrors of his pas...

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With the US naval base in Pearl Harbor being bombed by the Empire of Japan in 1941, the US was once again thrust into global warfare. ... Reparations and the war crimes trials were also discussed at this meeting and partially planned out. ...

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The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. ... Even if they had, the prisoners had theoretically committed a crime, while the Jews that Battalion 101 murdered were only guilty of being Jewish. ...

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Globalization is defined as a process that, based on international strategies, aims to expand business operations on a worldwide level, and was precipitated by the facilitation of global communications due to technological advancements, and socioeconomic, political and environmental developments [Nic12]. ... 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 crime and this is all a result of the long term effects the cold war left on these two countries. ...

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Art is a medium that allows people to express their thoughts and feelings on various world issues affecting citizens today through the use of descriptive paintings and drawings. Currently, more and more teenagers are being exposed to and experiencing the negative aspects of the modern world such as the concept of stereotypes and emotional instability. They are beginning to lose their true identity and are falling captive into what is accepted as "normal" in the modern society. The intriguing theme of human frailty has made an appearance in many works of historical and contemporary ar...

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Once in power, Stalin began a drive to industrialize and modernize the Soviet Union, with a Five-Year Plan (1927-32) based on Marxist principles championing government control of the economy. ... In an amazing scene that was broadcast around the world--and which played a large role in exposing the true nature of the Soviet regime--every one of the accused Bolsheviks confessed their supposed crimes. ...

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Although these ideas were rather extreme, they did foster a sense of nationalism based on the idea of the superiority of a race. ... Freud developed a theory of psychoanalysis in which the individual is governed by the conflict between the subconscious, base desires of the "id" and the socially imposed morality of the "superego." ... When the recent history of each of the major contributors to the outbreak of war is examined, a interest for war, based on increased nationalism, can be discovered for each. ...

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Genocide Bahutu The historical background to the Bahutu people (also known as Hutu) is important. Burundi achieved independence from Belgium in 1962. It had a population estimated at about 3.5 million in the 1970's and a land area of slightly more than ten thousand square miles. The original i...

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The United States has attempted to impose democracy based upon traditions that are foreign to Middle Eastern cultures. ... Yes other countries should have a say over what happen in Iraq so that the crimes committed by the Hussein government do not happen again however, it is primarily the opinion of the Iraq people that should count in deciding the future course of their government. ...

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These "practical contributions" were the reason of his expelling from the Georgian Social Democratic Party in 1907; when he took part in a series of bank robberies and other crimes (supposedly in order to raise funds for the "professional" revolutionaries like himself). ...

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