Indeed, this movement particularly, across international borders that people invented, has become an important policy issue for the governments all over the world because it affects the lives of people in many areas. ... It is separated from the continent by the North sea and by the England channel, which narrows to 34km ( 21mi) at the straits of Dover.It stretches over about ten degrees of latitude on its longer, north-south axis, and occupies an area of 209,331km2 (80,823 sq. mi) excluding all the smaller surrounding islands of archipelago. The North Channel, Irish seas George's channel...

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The first reason for the eruption of World War I was militarism. ... Imperialism was the cause of this self-destruction, which is otherwise known as World War I. ... When the Tripe Alliance was formed, there were still conflicts over the possession of the Adriatic Sea between Italy and Austria-Hungary. ... It is clear that the alliance systems played an enormous role in causing the onset of the First World War. In conclusion, World War I, as unnecessary as it was, arose from three deeper factors, other than the assassination of the Archduke. ...

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It might have seemed that with their territorial advantage and early start, the Spanish colonies were best posed to take control of the new world. ... The US's initial struggle to pursue favorably teams of trade with the outside world left the US with a tendency to take the side of postcolonial nations in disputes with colonial powers. ... Initially these moves are necessary to protect the US's interests with the sea power described by Alfred Mahan, later they will become the stepping stones for the US's path to nation building. ... But extraterritoriality and unfavorable trad...

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In the latter portion of the 20th century a group of English colonies in the New World felt that they were being taxed unfairly. ... The First World War actually began friendly British/American relations similar to that of today. ... In the fall of 1939, Adolf Hitler with his 3rd Reich and Blitzkrieg tactics once again brought the world into war. ... Yalta is located in the Crimea, a peninsula in the Black Sea. ... This was a collective security measure tying the majority of the western world together. ...

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Jamaica lies in the center of the Caribbean Sea, 90 miles south of Cuba and 100 miles west of Hispaniola. ... Spanish expansion in the New World was centered on the extraction of precious metals, conversion of the indigenous population to Catholicism and obtaining strategic positions to protect Spanish interests. ... The rise of Britain as a world power began humbly with a failed effort at colonization in 1585, but by 1600 the British had moved to correct several errors from their previous colonial and empire building efforts. ... Cromwell personally viewed the Spanish occupation of the Car...

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By the end of the century, Southern Africa had become, for the first time, a significant contributor to the world economy. ... The Boers tried to secure their own economic footholds by searching for an outlet to the sea. ... The republics remained extremely poor, compelled to compete with African societies for land and livestock, and only communicated with the outside world by the long ox-wagon routes passing through the British colonies to the coast. ...

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They appeared in the Indian seas in the three-fold character of merchants, missionaries and pirates. ... We have engrossed to ourselves - an altogether disproportionate share of wealth and traffic of the world. ...

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In his 1980s book The Origins of the First World War, historian James Joll offers an explanation linking the entire social, political and economic spectrum of 20th C. ... Britain had an Empire to defend; Russia was pushing in the Middle East and was already present in Persia; Italy wanted to live up to its glorious past and Germany wanted to create its own sea power, or Weltpolitik. ... An agreement would have been achieved if "the Germans had been prepared to abate their claims to naval hegemony and world power." ... Mommsen criticizes the work of another historian, Fritz Fischer, who pointed...

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