Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. ... The Rise of the Third Reich With the end of the First World War Germany was left in shambles both physically and economically. ... To illustrate this the military expenditures for Germany in 1932 were a mere 1% of the nation's GNP. ... In the early morning hours of September 1, 1939 Nazi Germany, under the command of Adolf Hitler, would invade Poland and spark the largest conflict in modern history. ... This would lead to the involvement of most nations on the planet...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. ... One result of the war was the US economic leap, predefined and adequate growth of their political ambitions in world politics, what mood pr...

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Like every other war, World War 1 took many lives and money and changed the balances in the world. ... In the Gallipoli War, which was a part of the World War 1 there were different sides which were joining the war for different reasons and goals. ... The following pages that will be about the Gallipoli War that took place during the World War 1 will not include all of the sides that entered this war. ... The terms of the alliance were: 1. ... Gorgulu points out that Liman Pasha refused better offers for him in other regions of the World War 1 and specifically wanted the Gallipoli region....

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIA "This is the only region in the world where so many combinations and permutations of two- three and four- and even two plus four or three plus three- power games can be played on the regional chessboard with all their complexities and variations." ... From 1948 onwards, a more or less clear-cut line divided Europe into two main political and military blocs: the communist bloc and the free world of Western Europe, resulting in an almost perfect bipolarity. ... In addition, five others also helped to shape Soviet policy 1. ... The great post-war exception was ...

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The Second World was the Communist world led by the USSR. ... The Three World variable classifies the countries into the three worlds model, First World (1), Second World (2), and Third World (3). ... This variable separates the countries into established multi-party democracies (1), recently established multi-party democracies (2), one-party regime (3), military/monarchial/theocratic regime (4), and disordered state or a state in the midst of a civil war (5). ... The scale goes from least free (1), to most free (7). ... Figure 1 clearly shows a relationship between % Female Legislation a...

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The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. The sectional divisions between the North and South caused tensions leading up to the Civil War, but the issue of slavery would ultimately lead to war. ... Though these tensions caused discomfort between the two sides, the issue of slavery would push both sides to war in 1861. ... In 1860, the South was still predominantly agricultural, highly dependent of exports to a world market. ... In fact, she says, "cotton productivity, no doubt due to the sharecropping system that replaced slavery, remained central to the American economy for a very ...

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The term World Bank refers to only IBRD and IDA. ... MIGA facilitates the movement of private foreign direct investment to its developing member countries by providing investment insurance to foreign private investors in theses countries against political risks such as expropriation, breach of contract and war. ... In 1947 it gave its first loan to France for $250 million to finance post-war construction. ... The 11th replenishment (IDA11) will finance projects over the three years starting July 1, 1996. ... IFC investment typically ranges from $1 million to $100 million....

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After the 11th September, the world was again changed. ... This was first proved in the Vietnam War, when Americans woke each morning and watched horrific images of war being shown on channels such as CNN. ... One year after gaining power, he started a conflict with Iran; a conflict that would eventually drag out for 8 years and cost the lives of over 1 million Iraqi soldiers. ... And the World will still continue to watch on CNN. ... It would also be hypocritical to accuse America of policing the world and being imperialistic, for Europe was only to happy to let America take the lead role...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. ... The colours of political maps changed as these emerging nations either retained or repudiated old allegiances and declared new ones, such as to the World Communist Movement. ... In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. ... French public opinion had long turned against the war and "sale guerre" ("dirty war") was on everyone's lips. ... Diem had earnt a reputation for hones...

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The Six Day War was the most dramatic Arab-Israeli conflict of the 20th century. ... This essay will explain that the origins of the Six Day War was a combination of domestic and external factors on both Israeli and Arab sides including: pre-war provocations and Palestinian guerrilla attacks, divisions within the Israeli government, the Arab League and the "water wars "; with Syria being the primarily belligerent actor against Israel. ... As early as 1914, 40,000 Jews entered Palestine to ˜colonise it and establish a base for the further restoration of Palestine as Israel'.1 Howe...

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This was brought to a halt by the First World War and the bout of anti-free trade protectionism that led to the Great Depression in 1930. ... The end of the Second World War brought another great expansion of capitalism with the development of multinational companies interested in producing and selling in the domestic markets of nations around the world. ... The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union ended the cold war between the forces of capitalism and socialism with capitalism triumphant. ... The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was established in the wake of the Wor...

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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. ... Historically, it is on record that the League of Nations was founded in the aftermath of the first world war by the Treaty o...

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Since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, the United States have been occupied fighting the war on terror, while China over the past few decades have encountered rapid accumulation of economic, technological, and political power. ... With the Afghanistan war coming to and end and the official closure of the Iraq war, U.S. president Barrack Obama has focused his national security team to the Asia-Pacific region in efforts to deal with the rise of China as a major global entity, which therefore calls for a redistribution of the superpowers military personnel (Gaugers and Latv...

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 The Life and Death of Détente: Nixon, Carter, and Reagan, 1968-1988 "If we can learn to live together on these issues and work together and negotiate on these we may change the world. ... By the 1970's, the destructive capabilities of the world's two superpowers along with an emerging third power in the nation of China, had combined to make the world a dangerously unstable place. ... "Kissinger believed that international stability was the best way to preserve American power and one way to assure that was to allow China to enter into a bala...

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Is it really possible that the status quo from 80s and the revival of the Cold War is a fact? ... In this essay I would like to take a closer look to that issue and make an effort to answer the questions above.1 To appropriately understand the subject being here discussed, one has to go far back of the historical processes. ... Attacks at World Trade Center were a watershed and a huge shock for the whole West as well as for Russia. ... Obama's administration would avoid to name that tensions as a Cold War. ... The first quarter after the end of the Civil War was more of mutual cooper...

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"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. ... She separates each concept into individual parts that make up the entirety of her book "World as Lover, World as Self ". ... "There have been small groups throughout history that have proclaimed the end of the world "(1), Macy gives examples of these "groups " of peoples correctly predicting mass deaths affecting multiple cultures such as the Bubonic Plague that wiped out 60% of Europe's population, these predictions were created upon a religious context, of a belief in an angry but just God that had the will to punish his chi...

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Nevertheless, somewhat paradoxically, at no time during the post-war period has the prospect of further liberalisation generated so much global public resistance and anxiety. ... However, this theory is criticised mostly on four basic assumptions it makes: 1. ... The increase of protectionism in the 1930's is also linked with the rise of fascism in Germany and the start of the Second World War. After World War II, the general attempt was towards the reinstitution of freer trade policies that would manage economies more efficiently. ... Post war trade liberalisation has brought impo...

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Plastic surgery as it is known today gained popularity at the beginning of the Second World War (Erhardt). After the First World War, soldiers around the world who had lost limbs and had been severely damaged physically and emotionally during their time in Europe, began looking for ways to treat their injuries and disabilities. By the time of the Second World War, it became evident that weapons had become sophisticated beyond the ability of modern medicine to treat and heal injuries. New technologies and treatments were researched and investigated by medical scientists around the world in orde...

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According to the Council On Foreign Relations, there are six different types of terrorism: 1. ... World-wide. ... 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. After the war, the world began to globalize around great poles: USSR and USA, each of which strived to globalize many states and nations within its ideological and living spheres. By the end of the cold war the global social area collapsed instead, the west pole area extended and increased. ...

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My answer is because people all over the world love and desire all forms of entertainment, and professional wrestling in the past 100 years has been transformed into something coined sports-entertainment thanks to the style of wrestling implemented by the World Wrestling Entertainment and its creator and current chairman, Vincent Kennedy McMahon. ... Bret "The Hitman" Hart in a 60-minute Ironman match for the World Heavyweight Championship. ... One fan on May 24, 1976 felt so much hatred towards a top heel named Ole Anderson that he jumped the barricade separating the fans from the...

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The future of Afghanistan after this milestone is anyone's guess, but history has shown that given many of the current indicators, the potential for civil war is high. The foremost catalyst for civil war are the Taliban, who were ousted by the allied forces in 2001. ... Through extensive research of reports from nongovernmental agencies, NATO, the World Bank, and various news media sources, the progress made can be summarized to assess the current state of affairs in Afghanistan, highlighting where the risks lie for peace and progress in 2015 and beyond. Literature Review Famously preci...

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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. ... World Wa...

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Through its evolution the world has turned into an interconnected global society. ... Ghemewat believes that the world is not globalized and needs to move away from its previous world views to a newer World 3.0, while Friedman believes that the world is being flattened and the global playing field is being equalized and not growing. ... In Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat" as well as Pankaj Ghemewat's "World 3.0," there is an attempt to describe how globalized or non-globalized this technologically based global society is. ... While reading The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, i...

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The World Bank has framed education policy as a developmental issue for LDCs. ... The World Bank The World Bank is an International Financial Institution created at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (so-called Bretton Woods conference) in 1944 and formally established in Washington D.C. on 27th December 1945. ... The mission of the World Bank is to reduce global poverty. ... These 8 ambitious goals are commonly described as a "roadmap for world development by 2015": 1. ... Develop a global partnership for development In this paper I will focus on education as a pr...

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With the broad explosion of automobile production in post-World War II America, the automobile had far-reaching societal and cultural impacts beyond the production lines in Detroit. ... At the close of World War II, "domestic production of automobiles had been virtually suspended for three and a half years. "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 f...

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