The impact of total war on the home fronts of both Germany and Britain required each of the governments to implement controls that would enable an effective conduct of war while maintaining social and economic order. ... Additionally, in 1917 the government established the Womens Auxillary Army Corps where women served in positions that men previously held, and in 1918 the Women's Royal Air Force was established for a similar purpose. ... The severity of the decline in living standards on the German home front can be seen in Source G which exemplifies the means of finding food which some ...

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They held that it might have a bad effect on school spirit." ... When troops trudged home after the war, they're also tainted with the images of war, much like Gawaine trudged home with the knowledge that the magic word had no effect on slaying dragons. ...

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Yet, Remarque was the only one to actually acknowledge this fact in writing, having witnessed the epic chaos of the front for months before sustaining injuries serious enough (from grenade splinters) to warrant sending him home. This combination of awareness and honesty would render Remarque both praised by many for his literary genius and despised by the ultra-Nationalist Nazi regime - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. ... Remarque also displays the feelings of confusion and contempt held by the soldiers, who feel as thoug...

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The events of the Cuban missile crisis bought home to the two sides that an arms race was not a solution, and that they need to come to some agreements that would attempt to avert the chance of a heating up of the situation. ... This paradox was bought home to both superpowers in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. ... The means of communication used during the crisis appear quite absurd when considering the high drama and imminent peril both powers found themselves in at the time, and it was these set of circumstances that bought home to the USA and the USSR the need to find a different modus ...

• Word Count: 1917
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Their freedom found under Gorbachovian reforms lashed out of control striking at all who held power over them, with the exception of those they freely elected. ... If he could maintain a supposed belligerent foe and keep socialism firmly in place at home, he would have no problems contrary to Marxism-Leninism. ... He sought to achieve these goals through his policies both at home and abroad. ...

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Fred Korematsu refused to obey the wartime order to leave his home and report to a relocation camp for Japanese Americans. ... Justice Black held that "Hardships are part of war.Compulsory exclusion of large groups of citizens from their homes, except under circumstances of direst emergency and peril, is inconsistent with our basic governmental institutions. ... United States, held that the attached curfew was also constitutional13. ...

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Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible"...

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Basic freedoms, like those held by Americans, are guaranteed unconditionally and cannot be abused without the entire world knowing. ... The worldwide web is the ideal place for intercontinental communication: "No one owns the internet, it is totally decentralized, no one can turn it off, it can potentially reach into every home in the world -(62). ... Investors are now able to buy and sell stocks from around the world from their home computer, using Internet brokerage sites that provide free information and tools to make educated trades. ...

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We clearly see the many nationalities of the soldiers that were held captive in these camps, ranging from Russians to French under the authority of the German soldiers. ... Elsa highlighted to Marechal and Rosenthal when they first met that the portraits in her home were of her brothers and husband who were unfortunately killed during the skirmishes of the Great War. ... Firstly, we see Renoir drawing a humane imagery of the Germans, who did not mistreat the POWs, but even allow them to receive care packages that are filled with food and alcohol from home. ...

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Industrial capitalism being the traditional "job for life" deal where the "bread winner" in the household went to work every day to the same job, then came home to a family and community with strong social bonds where each individual knew what was expected of them within their social role, and worked to maintain that image. ... Attitudes commonly held at the time are illustrated by the following; "Hayek insisted that international planning was a nonsense" and that it showed "complete disregard for the individuality and rights of small nations" (Mazower 1998: 208). ...

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Arms control is arguably one of the most prominent issues every nation of the world has to deal with, this is because every man woman and child on the planet may potentially be affected by the arms another country posses. In today's society more than ever the worry over the nuclear capability of countries is at the foreground of debate, some countries possess weapons of mass destruction a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the most notorious of which are the USA and the Soviet Union. These two countries became the s...

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Once the ship was within two days of the Halifax Harbour, Ottawa, which was under pressure from high ranking officials and politicians, had refused to grant the Jewish refugee families a home in Canada (National Post News, 2011). ... The Jewish refugees were held in eight different camps across Canada from which only two also housed Nazi prisoners (The Jewish Daily Forward, 2013). The point that 7000 European Jews had arrived on Canadian shores and were held in eight different camps across Canada whilst there were only two camps for the Nazi prisoners illustrates the vast majority of Jewish ...

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In my opinion such an invasion in what the Russians would see as "home affairs" could give a birth to a major mistrust and even hostility between the two states. ... By 1945, Stalin was the veteran revolutionary, a man who had held the reins of Soviet power and authority for nearly twenty years. ... The Soviet Union has seen America as a state with the desire for an Empire, who was interfering with their home policies; the US has seen a direct threat in the foreign policies of the USSR and therefore has seen their role as state which would lead the whole world to democracy. ...

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Diverse systems of politics, and forms of criminal justice can be found spread throughout the entire world. Moreover what becomes even more significant is the ideals that each of these systems provides to the world community. With different developments of law enforcement related to each individual ...

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"She hated the people at home when white people talked about their peculiarities; but she always hated herself more because she still thought about them, because she knew their pain at what she was doing with her life. ... They told and held on to these stories from the war because it was the first time in their lives that their Native American blood and culture did not matter to the outside world and they were equals, they didn't want to give that freedom up. ...

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Described by religious imagery ("The Monuments" ch.2 pg12, "Sacred Kingfisher" ch.4 pg29) Jim's home is an Eden. ... This retains the anonymity of the soldier and emphasizes that his identity is held within his costume, the uniform, therefore a changeable object. ...

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From this, we too are shocked as the effect of the war on soldiers is finally brought home to us thorough the use of such comparisons and through the use of many others involving words of ugly texture, for example "blood-shod", which reflects the angry tone and illustrates his emotions in as much detail as he possibly could go into. ... In this poem, Owen tries to inform people of the ghastly effects of war and emphasises how isolated the victims of war become when they arrive home. 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 w...

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In the samurai tradition, the Emperor is held at a God-like status and therefore, is considered above politics, so therefore he never intervenes, and was never expected to intervene in political issues, his role was to sanction decisions made by the Cabinet, whether he personally approved of them or not. ...

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One of the most obvious misconceptions I had held as an American involved the horrific aftermath of the bomb on the streets of Hiroshima. ... America was responsible for the destruction of his home, and the death of many people that he cared about! ... Surrender immediately after the bombing was devastating, because it seemed that the death of their neighbors and destruction of their homes were unnecessary. ...

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Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. The humiliation imposed by the victors in the Great War, coupled with the hardship of the economic Depression, created bitterness and anger. That anger frequently found its outlet in an ideology that asserted not just the importance of the nation, but its unquestionable primacy and central predestined role in history. ...

• Word Count: 1866
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Hirohito's interests in the sciences had fueled his new belief that the throne was not connected to holiness and despite attempts to be persuaded otherwise by Prince Kimmochi Saionji, Hirohito held steadfast with the realities of science. ... Putting their opinions behind him, Prince Hirohito continued to announce the betrothal but unbeknownst to him, the future held a number of similar attempts to undermine his decisions. ... It was because of this incident that Prime Minister Tanaka resigned but the anger Hirohito held would only grow in the future with the continued dishonesty and...

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"The fact is that the automobile has become hypnotic...the opium of the American people." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Fami...

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This was supposed to supersede Land Courts by giving the Tuhoe Tribe de facto home ruling and self-governance, leading the Tuhoe tribe to believe that they would finally be given chieftainship as guaranteed in the Treaty. ... He held this view for three reasons. ...

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About 1,600,000 women had joined the workforce between 1914 and 1918 and held positions in government departments, in factories, on farms, in public transport, in post offices and also in business to name a few (Martin, 2009).Women became immersed in the male role which was out of their ordinary positions. ... Women's role during the war was crucial, as they helped organize home defense, and they provided themselves with uniforms and trained with riffles (Chenier, 2006). ...

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This policy was also most of the publics view at the time anyway, as the Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell, was a strong supporter of it and he held a lot of power within the political world. ... Another thing was that during the Vietnam War, a lot of it was televised back to Australian homes and the public saw the suffering of the Vietnamese and realised that they were not all communist monsters. ...

• Word Count: 1983
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