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...

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• 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. ...

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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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• 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
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate