But with the rise of the oil monarchies in the Middle East, the balance of power shifted, and vast amounts of money has been put into the hands of nations that less than a hundred years ago were still locked in tribal societies. ... Iraq has also persistently pursued the development of weapons of mass destruction, by spending large portions of its oil revenues to import technologies that facilitate the development of these weapons. ... In 1998 Clinton said, " will be more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. .....

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The United States provided support in the form of weapons, bombs, money, etc to French military. ... (intro)"The Roosevelt administration viewed Southeast Asia as a strategically important area with vast resources of tin, rubber, and oil" (Lessons 20). Vietnam could provide cheap raw materials and oil that would help the economic growth in the United States....

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One example is the Yemeni Government issuing a decree in August 1998 implementing severe punishment--including execution--for kidnappers and stepped up enforcement of the law on unlicensed weapons in major cities. ... In Korea, the Middle-East has been a keen interesting region since the oil crisis of 1973. ... The advances and studies of the Middle East, however, have been confined really to the oil-rich countries and the confronted nations with the Israeli struggle. ...

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It is the countries with advance weapons technology that are feared and powerful, whether they have "good soldiers" or not. ... The wealth of the Iraqi nation seen through a Westerners eyes isn't based on credit, but on oil and we are trying to seize it. Although we aren't dependent on Iraq for bartering currently, but once we overthrow their government and create a democratic country, then we will export their oil. ...

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While being bombarded from the sky, a naval blockade strangled Japan's ability to import oil and other vital minerals, and its ability to produce war materials (Long). ... In the course of time, the effective naval blockade would have starved the Japanese into submission through a lack of oil, rice, medicine, and other essential materials, according to Chief of the U.S. ...

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For the developed countries, technology has been utilised to make nuclear weapons. ... It has been in a forefront to campaign for democracy in other nations especially in the Middle East countries where in the process, has enabled it to extract oil mines (Katusic, 2013). This has led to the compromisation of the political, social and cultural control of this oil-rich countries by taking control over them making it a super power nation. ...

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PEOPLE: FDR - President during WWII Truman - President who decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan Churchill - British Prime Minister Eisenhower - Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied troops in D-Day MacArthur - General who returns to Philippians - Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific Rommel - General in charge of Afrika Korps Hitler - poorly educated Austrian; joined German workers party, became leader, changed name to Nazi; became Dictator of Germany Mussolini - in Fascist Party; declared himself Dictator of Italy Tojo - Dictator of Japan Stalin - Dictator of USSR F...

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And why have economic sanctions become the weapon of choice in diplomatic confrontations in the wake of the Cold War? ... To force an end to apartheid the United Nations implemented a voluntary arms and oil embargo in 1963 against South Africa, which became mandatory in 1977. ...

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America is tight with isreal, thats why the whole iraq deal happened, why desert storm was such a huge success was because iraq wasn't able to get isreal involved you see because once it hit isreal, isreal would come back that would provoke all the other Arab nations to jump in so saddam now is basically saying yeah america hit me and ill hit Israel and you'll see what will happen.everyone says we go over there for oil, no in 1991 when the war first started schartzcof *dont know how to spell his name but was the general in charge of desert storm* any way right before it started ame...

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During the end of the WWII, the USA was at the verge of becoming the world's largest superpower, producing more than 50% of the globe's manufacturing outputs, owning a navy that was as big as the rest of the globe's combined navies, and possessing the only weapon of atomic bomb in the world, and this was demonstrated even before the end of the war (Todd, 2011) Therefore, Roosevelt demonstrated deep interest to fill the power vacuum in Europe when the Nazi Germany would be defeated by spreading the doctrine of democracy (Todd, 2011). ... For instance, according to The Churchill C...

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An example of a hard power exercising military forces can be the invasion of Iraq by the US in 2003 over the concern of Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (UCLA International Institute, 2014). ... The sanctions were created to limit the US' investment in Iran's oil fields. ...

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Introduction As the world modernizes, the relationship between nations becomes increasingly important. Globalization has taken over, allowing countries to lower transactions costs across areas of economic trade and social interactions. This has prompted international governments to create trade, soc...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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