At this time the United States was beginning to transform itself from having an isolationist foreign policy to beginning to influence many nations around the world. ... Not only did the US acquire control of these countries, they also watched over the Cubans during the construction of their constitution, and the US ended up owning a naval base called Guantanamo Bay that was situated in Cuba. ... Once again, Hawaii's annexation led to more profit for the United States in the long run, and although some Hawaiians may have been strong advocates of annexation by the US (Doc F), it was still...

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Shortly after Imperial Japan's infamous attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. ... We start with Article II of the United States Constitution, which outlines the powers and duties of the Executive. ... A wartime president deemed that a certain group of citizens, in this case citizens around the DC area, an imminent enough danger to suspend certain rights applied by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. ... United States. ... United States, held that the attached curfew was also constitutional13. ...

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Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendous technological advances as well as, drastic social changes throughout the world and especially within the United States. ... In just viewing one of these great social changes occurring within the United States at this time, the sexual revolution, which effectively broke down the pre-existing gender roles, sex laws, and the sexual morality of ma...

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"Foreign policy is a relatively consistent course of conduct pursued by a state over an appreciable period in its relations with other states. ... (American Foreign Policy: pg 42) The framers of our constitution believed in the purpose of creating a government that would survive the tests of time, but when it came time to write Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, which states, "The President shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur." several different opinions on who should have domineering power in...

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"Jim Crow" laws dominated the United States, and they dominated the battlefields of the war as well. ... Minority soldiers returned to the states ready to participate in society. ... It was argued that this major discrimination was a violation of the constitution's 14th amendment of equal protection. ...

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One factor behind this establishment was the involvement in the United States' honor to defend the ten protected European countries against an attack. ... The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to divide Korea at the 38th parallel, the "halfway point" in separating the Soviet North and the United States south (Ferrell 110). ... The United States, fearful of Rhee spontaneously attacking the north at any time, denied Rhee military planes and tanks (Ferrell 111). ... After a supervised election in South Korea in 1948 without North Korean involvement, the United States' troops lef...

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Arguably, the most vivid symbol of the Cold War was the Berlin Wall, isolating West Berlin (the portion controlled by West Germany and allied with France, England and the United States) from East Germany, which completely surrounded it. ... The United Nations, and many individual states ( including the United States) refused to recognize the remaining confederation of Serbia and Montenegro as the continuation of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, although they accepted it as constituting a state. This situation is now resolved, with the admission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavi...

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States have invaded other sovereign states for reasons that seem to be dubious by the international community. ... If states claim a right to make their internal decisions unmolested, they have a duty to allow other states to do the same. ... During the post-World War II era, the competition and balance of power between the two leading bloc nations --the United States and the Soviet Union -- reduced the likelihood of direct intervention in the former colonial areas. ... While article 2.7 of the United Nations Charter prohibits unilateral or multilateral intervention in matters that are "essen...

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States have invaded other sovereign states for reasons that seem to be dubious by the international community. ... If states claim a right to make their internal decisions unmolested, they have a duty to allow other states to do the same. ... During the post-World War II era, the competition and balance of power between the two leading bloc nations --the United States and the Soviet Union -- reduced the likelihood of direct intervention in the former colonial areas. ... While article 2.7 of the United Nations Charter prohibits unilateral or multilateral intervention in matters that are "essen...

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Despite the constitution defining the actions as treason, no persons were executed and Hashimoto only spent twenty odd days in confinement. ... Hirohito's excuse for his lack of action has always been that he did not want to damage the constitution by seizing control of the military despite the constitution clearly stating the action was justified as long as a single member of the war ministry agreed which there was. ...

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In 1943 Congress declared its resolution to end isolationism and adopt collective security as the postwar foreign policy of the United States. ... The Constitution assigns the power "to declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Capture on Land and Water" to Congress, but realistically it has been the President acting as on his own accord as commander in chief who has far more often ordered US troops into fighting. ...

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The German Supreme Court is in charge of all judicial reviews, and anything in regards to the constitution. ... Misdemeanors and petty crimes, however are brought forward to Judges in order maintain quick but fair justice, much like with the United States. ... The German state police also known as the Landespolizei are tasked with public order with the 16 states of Germany. ...

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Question: Discuss the evolution of the international protection regime and explain the rationales that underlay the decision to amend the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees reflected in the elimination of the temporal and geographical limitations. ... The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA) established in 1943(and dominated by the USA influence and made up of 44 signatories) and the International Refugee Organisation formed in 1946 played crucial but controversial roles. ... This regime comprises of the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to th...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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After World War I, the emperor and military commander of Germany relinquished their political power, leading to its ultimate transfer to the hands of the German Social Democratic Party. This was a large groups of "moderate" Marxists that pushed for socialist reforms but not the great changes of prop...

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