There had always been events that played major roles for changing the balances in the world throughout history. Unfortunately, most of the time, these events were nothing but the cruel wars that resulted in the loss of millions of people and in waste of huge amount of money. ... Germany, Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France, New Zealand and Australia and Russia are the most important countries that existed in the name of Gallipoli War. ... One of the most important conflicts about the goals of the rivals in the Gallipoli War is considering England generally. ... First of all, it is impor...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be financially dependent on the United States. ... The establishment of the ruined economy of the country also participated huge army of prisoners of war. However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ... The geographical position of the United States played an important role in the prosperity of America in the war years, in the new condition...

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The concept of an international "system" itself implies that events are not random, and units within the system are interrelated in some patterned way. ... However, more importantly than the all encompassing quadrangle, it is the strategic geometry within the quadrangle that is most interesting and illustrates best, the changes and nuances in the transition from Cold War to post Cold War. ... The most obvious and famous of the triangles linked the Soviet Union, China and the United States, but the Soviet-US- Japan triangle was also important. ... Indeed the others owed much of their dynamic to...

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In order to understand the Cold War, one must understand Soviet motives for expansion following the WWII and the consequences of such expansion, most importantly in regards to Poland, all of which will be examined. This will be followed by a discussion of the events of the Yalta conference. ... Lastly, it is important to consider how American economic and military concerns provided further motivation for the creation of a new threat. ... Secondly, it would allow the Western powers to directly influence events on the European mainland. ... He was unsuccessful however, as the Poles refused to n...

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Although this rally was not one of the largest events for the counterculture it was one event that inspired the events of that summer which became known was the Summer of Love and the Human Be-In movement which took place in the Golden Gate Park as well. ... This event was one of the largest movements during the counterculture area and was really the kick start to the counterculture. ... Although the traditional things associated with the hippies were present at this event it really did have a deeper and more important goal to bring together the political activists against the Vietnam War th...

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On the surface, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, seemed to be the cause of the events that led to a European and, eventually, a world war. Although the assassination precipitated the events that led to war, the true causes of the Great War were much deeper and much more convoluted than a gunshot and the death of a statesman. In order to fully grasp the causes of the First World War, and in order to eventually determine responsibility for the war, the state of affairs before its inception, including the events and intellectual climate in the previous century, ...

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Rua Kenana's passive resistance against Maori enlistment and conscription during the First World War was an important event that affected New Zealanders, especially at the time. The most significant factor that contributed to this event was the government's confiscation of Tuhoe land along with the prophet movement and Te Kooti's legacy. ... Other events that also affected New Zealand society include Rua's subsequent imprisonment as well as the social and economic decline of Maungapohatu. ... More importantly, the influence of the prophet movement, in particular Te Kooti&#x...

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Two kinds of War Powers Legislation awaited final action in the Senate and the House in 1973. ... The other, more importantly, allowed Congress to use Congressional power to prevent the Executive from taking us into a third Indo-Chinese war. ... Then too, as with the undeclared war in Vietnam, this was a bi-partisan phenomenon. ... One difficulty was foreseeing the contingencies under which war may arise. ... Fore-shadowing the recent events in the Middle East, Fulbright feared that under these provisions a future President might cite secret or classified data "to justify almost any con...

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It would take three years and drastic changes in "the gentlemanly art of war- for Great Britain to achieve victory. ... This new found source of wealth, and the imperialistic fervor that was prevalent at the time, set the stage for war between the British and Boers. ... Ignoring the ultimatum, the British maintained their positions and at 17:00 on the 11th of October war was declared. The fighting for the next three years of the war was characterized by three distinct phases of battles and styles of warfare. ... As the Boers took the initiative in the opening days of the war, they had great su...

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Given this groundwork, it is apparent that memory can have a paramount and considerable effect on how events, stories, information and more importantly, history is written and passed on from generation to generation. ... For the most part, the bombing of Pearl Harbor will go down in history as the tipping point of the tumultuous relationship between the United States and Japan and in particular, the event that triggered the United States to enter World War II. Unfortunately, one piece of the story that is sometimes overlooked and lost in the history of Pearl Harbor and World War II is the seri...

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WHAT IMPACT DID THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAVE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN? ... Much of his research is centred on the impact of the war for women who were in employment. ... This is indeed an important viewpoint, as the war was inevitably going to cause upset to normal everyday life. Women were empowered as they never had been before, stepping in to the spaces that the servicemen had left. " They played an important role in agriculture, industry, the armed services, civil defence and other vital work during the second world war." ... They are important to consider as even when the conflict was at it...

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Abstract The root causes of the refugee crisis have been the incidence of the two world wars of the 1914 to 1919 and 1939 to 1945. ... These continued until the Second World War era. After the Second World War, the development of the international refugee protection regime continued to gather momentum irrespective of difficulties. ... In the process, Many Armenians fled to Syria, Western Europe and Middle East in during the First World War between 1914 and 1919. When the first world war ended in 1919, there was massive redrawing of boundaries by the western heavy weight countries of the w...

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Nonetheless there is however a general consensus amongst historians that the frightful events of world war one, distilled a sense of fear and regret amongst British society, and consequently Britain strived to prevent any future war, through whatever means necessary. In the aftermath of World War 1, lay a mutual understanding between the British government and society that never again should a catastrophe such as World War 1 occur, it was described as the war to end all wars reinforcing the view that it was a cataclysmic event which should never be re-enacted upon society. ... In order...

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Nixon "I don't see why we need some fancy French word in dealing with the Russians; we already have a word for it- Cold War.... For all his arguable faults and failings, Richard Nixon, given his strengths in compartmentalization, his capability of strategically dissecting the world by geopolitical relevancy, and his uncanny vision for analyzing the long-term outcomes produced from near-term events, made Nixon the right man and the right president at the right time. ... The Vietnam War had a deep impact on the United States' application of foreign policy, especially, relative to ...

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It is therefore important that Cesira returns home when the food shortage becomes unbearable in Rome. ... She says, "We'll go to the country, and we'll wait there for the end of the war. ... In both the film and the novel, the horrors and deprivations of war induce the abandonment of all moral values. The instincts of the peasants to self-interest, indifference and greed occur in the extreme times of war. ... As her role is to grieve for the sins and the sufferings of mankind (Wood 66), Rosetta becomes a scapegoat of the events of the war and for those who, as Michele says, " are...

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Introduction In today's society we are damaged with events considered "out of our control " which can result in a traumatic event. Traumatic events are experiences that cause physical, emotional, psychological distress, or harm; This event is perceived and experienced as a threat to one's safety or to the stability of one's world (University of Maryland Medical Center, 2014).Succeeding the experience or witnessing of serious events such as military combat, terrorist incidents, or physical or sexual assault in adult or childhood describes the psychiatric illness known as Posttrau...

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All this took place in the middle of a civil war, right after a presidential assassination, when part of Rwanda's ruling party took control over the state and managed to eradicate their political rivals, and declare war on Tutsis (Straus, 2006). ... The question that arouse from this event is what lead these innocent people to commit genocide and how did it spread so fast across the country? ... The most important characteristic of it is that it focuses on the context in order to determine the mobility of state's population to commit genocide. ... It argues upon the current events in...

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He sentences former friends and prisoners of war to death, while giving the impression that he will show mercy; he never acknowledges that he holds any responsibility for the bloodshed he has initiated. ... To begin with, Henry comes across as almost a "boy" in a man's job as others easily sway him when the church (Canterbury and Ely) persuades him to go to war. ... He is ready for war after an unappreciated gift of tennis balls from the Dauphin, Henry states that whatever happens is because "the will of God" destined it. ... It would be very important to please her at the time. ...

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"After the war, the change in American society was dramatic and quick. ... It is at this important juncture that cars and culture collide. ... "However, after the end of World War II, production levels quickly reached those of 1940, as American factories that had been converted for war quickly converted back. ... In the post-war era, "it soon became clear to the stylists that the debris of war could be recycled into the stuff of fantasy." ... The cost and styling of the car were two important factors. ...

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America's Revolutionary War is a subject that engenders perpetual curiosity. By any sensible reckoning, Britain should have won the war. ... Losing the war was inconceivable, and outright impossible. ... The surrender of Cornwallis effectively ended the war. ... When England lost the war, political and military leaders found themselves on the wrong side of history. ...

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James Otis The Revolutionary War brought out dynamic personalities of men, which have made freedom a reality for us. ... Such orations led to political unrest, often times inciting fellow patriots to seek war. ... Yet, his mid war selling out to the British, proverbially "bit him in the back."" ... Without question, the most overblown out of proportion event leading to the war, was that of the Boston Massacre. ... In the event of the 1770 massacre, the warfront effort was shaped socially, politically, and theoretically. ...

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For Political Science, this is relevant so we may combine historical and present events in order to figure out the causes of sudden trends in terrorism. These conclusions will therefore impact International Politics because we may find events that have happened internationally have caused terrorism. ... Before answering these questions, it is important to know the structure of this paper. ... The period of World-Wide Globalization really began with the World War II, when all the continents were involved in the procedure of world dividing. ... By the end of the cold war the global social area c...

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This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. ... It was also an event for which no definite argument had been published, so it was optimal for this task. ... Common events to both histories include the Soviet 20th Party Congress and the de-Stalinization process which followed. ... Essay The context in which history is written influences its interpretation of the events. ... Waung implies that Mao reinterpreted events until it became obvious to ...

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Hemingway's style was influenced by his years as a newspaper reporter, both before and after World War I. ... As explored in an essay by Zoe Trodd, Hemingway's propensity for brevity was developed out of a sense that war had 'used up his words'. ... On the snippet, Hemingway prefaced the James quote "The war has used up words " by writing "on the debasement of words by war"."... As we have shown, it was praised almost immediately in The New York Times as being "unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature"." ... (Hemingway, Short 192) In the foll...

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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" for these crimes. ... Practically the entire country had been destroyed in the war by the allied forces and rebuilding was highly hindered by the strict sanctions that were put in place on Germany following the war. ... The country needed a leader to rally behind and promise to "rest...

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