It provided economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey, which were in a state of devastation after World War II, and in fear that these weakened countries may succumb to communist pressure or turn to communism as it offered a solution to their problems, the Truman Doctrine was introduced to offer help. ... In conclusion, the Truman Doctrine was not important in causing the Cold War. ... Thus, Truman doctrine is not important in causing the Cold War. ... It was responsible for causing the start of the Cold War as the actions taken by the Soviet Union were offensive towards America, hence ...

• Word Count: 2144
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• Grade Level: Graduate

But where did the commonly chosen war weapon of propaganda originate from and why was it so successful in accomplishing country wide persuasion? ... The documentary "Pyongyang Diaries" (1998) directed by Australian Solrun Hoaas documents the aftermath of the death of the North Korean 'Great Leader', Kim II Sung. ... World War II saw continued use of propaganda as a weapon of war by Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbels (World War Two, 2009). ... This poster was intended to spread the notion, throughout Germany, that the Jewish population were the antagonists of the German pe...

• Word Count: 1873
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• Grade Level: Graduate

This essay analyses the responsibility of Neville Chamberlain and his highly controversial Appeasement theory which hypothetically prevented the outbreak of the Second World War. ... Hitler's aggressive views, illustrated by his aim of gaining Lebensraum, proves that Appeasement is by definition, unable to restrain belligerence as war is inevitable. ... Highly controversial, this perspective asserts that the Munich agreement succeed in delaying a general European war in 1938 (Taylor, 1963). Since Hitler was only "an ordinary German statesman" (Taylor, 1963) and did not have a...

• Word Count: 874
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

Totalitarianism was exposed in World War II as a system that annihilates any trace of human individuality by indoctrination; this is with the final goal of justifying any atrocity: everything is possible. ...

• Word Count: 1800
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

This essay will give detailed analysis on the reasons that contributed towards their downfall such as the rise in nationalism, the Second World War and arguably the First World War, the rise of the US and other such factors. ... After World War II for example, with the defeat of the tyrannical and imperialistic enemy, Nazi Germany, nations like India gained a new outlook on their place within the world, not needing to be ruled by a greater force, such as the British Empire. ... Countering this, it can be argued that there are two sides to this argument of a spread in nationalism after the war,...

• Word Count: 4015
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In an attempt to advance their political dominance, both the Whigs and Tories viewed the War of Spanish Succession as a means to advance their cause. ... In part this was perhaps because of the Church of England's difficulties with the Glorious Revolution because, having developed firm views on the unlawfulness of resistance to kings, some of its clergy found it impossible to justify the deposition of James II and his replacement by William III and Mary II. ...

• Word Count: 595
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Coming out of World War II, the government of the United States fostered an inflated view of its capabilities in foreign affairs. ... Mecklin proves this to be the case when he states how these beliefs were reaffirmed when the Americans had arrived there, since "among most of the ten million people of rural South Vietnam, terms like democracy, Communism, imperialism, and Cold War were meaningless," (Mecklin 4). ... For Hoopes, a fighter pilot in the latter years of the Vietnam War, it was clear that what constituted victory and defeat was not shared equally by both sides, since the Americans...

• Word Count: 849
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• Grade Level: Graduate

"Reefer Madness" and Declining Public Support In addition to waging a personal war on opiate type drugs, Henry J. ... For the first time the federal government fails to acknowledge any medical uses of Marijuana, even though the government used Marijuana for pain management through several wars. ... Changes in Federal Laws and Government Acceptance Although the federal government's stance has been slower to change; change has still occurred to include the US Courts unanimous agreement that the federal government cannot revoke a medical physician's license solely on the phy...

• Word Count: 2339
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

This is evidenced by an account chronicling the final meeting between King Richard II and the leader of the revolt, Wat Tyler, in which Tyler demanded "equality among all people" and that "all men should be free" to maintain their own income and refuse certain work. ... Post-Colonial globalisation was the outcome of financial, strategic and political decisions enacted after World War II, primarily by the Americans, British, French and Germans, where re-starting the world economy was the primary concern. ...

• Word Count: 1673
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

People of post-World War II Yugoslavia viewed the university as a vital factor in the construction of an advanced, industrialized society , because it could produce a skilled middle class of individuals who would allow the state to modernize. ... Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo composed almost seventy percent of the population during the post World War II era, but they held only one third of white collar jobs, forty percent of administrative positions, and only one third of security and defense positions . ...

• Word Count: 1659
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Out of all this will come forth Europe, a solid and united Europe - This was the preface to a declaration made by Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister (1948-55), as Europe lay in ruins in the aftermath of the Second World War. ... A generation of mobility in the labour market and the long-term effects of World War II influencing the migration of labour from the Middle East and Northern Africa into Western Europe have led to a growth of the "multi-cultural" society. ... In Western European history, the majority of tensions have primarily been between Germany and France, dating back to t...

• Word Count: 2876
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In Jane Naomi Iwamura's article, "Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion,"" the author argues that: "what has emerged from the collective experience of war and internment is a faith that is tied to no particular religious tradition, but that takes racial-ethnicity identity as its starting point. ... In other words, the author states that the experience of internment and war for the Japanese people left the community with a sense of ethnic identity to which that community is able to create a new civil religion around. The Japanese American experience during World War II w...

• Word Count: 1127
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• Grade Level: Graduate

The tensions between the closely residing religious people, erupted in 1690 in the Battle of Boyne, where William of Orange led the Protestants to victory over King James II, bringing much of Ireland into the hands of the non-Catholics. ... Therein, within the diminutive region of Northern Ireland, the opposing religious sects have chosen to pursue and continue the medieval war of the conflicting faiths through commando and terrorist activities that have made Northern Ireland perhaps the bloodiest and most violent battleground of the 20th Century. ...

• Word Count: 695
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• Grade Level: Graduate

In this essay we will discuss performance enhancing drugs but I´m going to focus more on doping through blood transfusion, athletes use this process because it boosts the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream and it gets the athlete more exited and he is able to give a better performance in ...

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This conflict, though not visible to tourist mindsets, has been subliminally effervescent since the mistreatment of the Japanese Americans during World War II, and its dormancy beneath the everyday smiling faces of Japanese and American bystanders is awakened heightening tension in the small island community. ... This silence is not of hate present in the minds of the citizens, but rather of fear that interaction of higher frequency may re-catalyze the destructive feud that ensued nine years earlier, as the white citizens looked the other way when their fellow townspeople, the Japanese-America...

• Word Count: 950
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Private military and security companies fill the vacuum mainly left in three types of unstable situations: (i) in zones of low-intensity armed conflict (the new asymmetrical wars) where the armies are not fully deployed or in post conflict situations with a high level of insecurity; (ii) in armed conflicts when international organizations do not intervene; and (iii) in troubled areas in developing countries where there is no presence of the State and extractive transnational corporations operate.5 Under the emergent system of international criminal law the individual is a subject of the law. ...

• Word Count: 9871
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• Grade Level: Graduate

After the cold war, the rapid development of globalization has greatly promoted the level of economic and cultural exchanges and interdependence between countries and regions, constantly transcending the boundaries of the original nation, thus impacting the traditional concept of sovereignty (Held & David, 2003) By reconstituting traditional forms of sovereign statehood and reordering international political relations, the very foundation of the world order has changed. ... II) As a matter of fact, a world of competing cultures, seeking to improve their comparative status rankings and enlarge ...

• Word Count: 1487
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Modern human rights discourse and language, as well as its implementation and applicability within international law was borne out of the 'Western' response to the atrocity and trauma experienced within humanity not only by the Nazi and other Fascist, totalitarian regimes during World War II but within the wider 'West' too. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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"We the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of a human person, in the equal rights of men and women in nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom."" ... As security interests ...

• Word Count: 2668
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Collective Resilience: Decreasing Vulnerability Paralleling an exponential growth in global population, increasing worldwide energy production and consumption generates vulnerabilities in human and environmental health. The global dependence on energy creates a demand for the production of variou...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

The shattering defeat experienced by Germany in WWI lead to the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II's monarchy in favour of a republic. ... Moreover, The Allies refused to grant Germany the time required to recover from the Great War, when the nation stated that it was not possible for them to complete the reparations by 1924. ...

• Word Count: 1205
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Article Reviews As editor of the book, "Exploring Post-Development," Aram Ziai provides an introductory look at the discussions of post-development theory, taking a cursory look at the various arguments for, or against, post-development. Ziai expertly delivers an overview of the post-development movement, having arisen in the 1980s as a response to the dissatisfaction with the concept and practice of "development" already in place. Ziai more or less defines this movement as placing an emphasis on alternatives to development via grassroots, local and regional movements. Alongside su...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

At the time this Report is being released, the world economy continues to emerge slowly from the most serious economic crisis of the post–World War II period-one that has deeply transformed the global economy and highlighted the increasingly important role that emerging markets and developing economies play in the global economy. ...

• Word Count: 4162
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate