On June 25 1950 North Korea crossed the thirty-eighth parallel, officially invading South Korea, and marking what has been recorded historically as the beginning of the Korean War. ... This different stance argues that the Korean War was more of a Korean civil war, which has its roots in circumstances on the Korean Peninsula that began at least five years before the official dates that the conflict began. ... The letter is a warning that there " is a possibility of a civil war developing between the communist and nationalist factions in Korea (Lee 2001:6). In this light, the factors that he...

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Korea From the day when North Koreans attacked South Korea on June 25, 1950 to the day of the armistice on July 27, 1953, the events of the Korean War revealed the mass destruction, pain, and suffering Koreans had to endure. At the end of the war, more than 3 million Koreans died while millions of refugees remained homeless and displaced. ... The Korean War can be divided into three phases. ... The second phase of the Korean War was essentially the Southern unit's attack and retreat from North Korea. ... By the end of the first phase of the Korean War, 111,000 South Koreans died a...

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In answering the question "In what ways was the concept of American Exceptionalism evident in the Cold War during the years 1947-1961?" I intend to start by looking at the root of the idea and how its history manages to evoke passionate responses of American Nationalism in the transition period between the end of World War One and the Cold War. ... I shall then move onto the Cold War itself, identifying the use of exceptionalism in three key areas; warfare (with specific focus on the Korean War), an ideological persuasion of weak nations (particularly the vulnerable west Germany) and...

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Globalization in South Korea can be a challenge. ... Graph of South Korea's annual export from 1971 to 2007. ... This will decrease conflicts and war that occur due to territorial issues. ... There are many wars that happen due to territorial issues (Frieden, Lake, Schultz, 2014). ... When nations decide to disregard boundaries drawn by history, culture, language, and religion, there will not be unnecessary tension and war. ...

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The Nuclear arms race, covert operations, and the Korean War all played rolls in the tension which led to the Cold War. ... The Korean War was a major cause of the Cold War. ... Japan had ruled Korea from 1910 until August of 1945 at the end of W.W.II. ... The Chinese were the major supporters of the North Koreans. ... For the U.S., the Korean War increased fear of Communist aggression and prompted a hunt for spies on whom to blame Communist gain. ...

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To begin to talk about life after the end of War World II without discussing the war in detail may due it some injustice, but after all it is only a fifteen page paper. ... This and a loyalty to war and peace time allies is the basis for the Truman Doctrine. ... The one thing according to Shlaim that Truman was weary of was war over Berlin. ... Not long after the Berlin Crisis and the possible war that could have developed out of it came another communist threat and possible World War III. ... On June 25th 1950 South Korea is attacked by the North Korean People's Army. ...

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Since the ancient times societies have been involved in battles and wars which reinforce patriarchal views of the world. Rarely has a war been fought where the soldiers have not used native women of the country they are invading sexually. ... During World War II the Japanese military was involved in the trafficking of Asian women. ... According to the US military, security provides justification for their presence because North Korea is a threat to South Korea. ... War and prostitution coincide because they are both acts of dominations in the face of patriarchy. ...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. ... This movie a positive insight to the war through the main character. ... It was the British who instigated and prolonged the war. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... Differences between the former Allies after it was generally uniting them during the war aim, moved to another plane. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be financially dependent on the United States. ... The establishment of the ruined economy of the country also participated huge army of prisoners of war. However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ...

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Ranging from th e times of the Chinese in California to the migration of Japanese and Korean workers on the sugar plantations in Hawaii, all faced various forms of racism and dealt with individual problems in their own fashions. ...

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The War in Iraq Was President Bush right to attack Iraq? ... It seemed that leading up to the war everyone in America had their own opinion on the war, what should be done, and why that should be done. The war support was not defined by political party. ... The war in Iraq was a continuation of business unfinished by the Gulf War. ... However, Saddam Hussein views the war as a tactical defeat or a small battle lost. ...

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The War in Iraq Was President Bush right to attack Iraq? ... It seemed that leading up to the war everyone in America had their own opinion on the war, what should be done, and why that should be done. The war support was not defined by political party. ... The war in Iraq was a continuation of business unfinished by the Gulf War. ... However, Saddam Hussein views the war as a tactical defeat or a small battle lost. ...

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To follow from that, what happened fifty- six years ago - the end of World War II. ... At the end of the Second World War, whole countries were left in disarray and destruction. ... Twenty years after the First World War had come to an end, realists has shown that the human element of greed and annihilation was too much for the Fourteen Points; World War 2 being the obvious and excruciatingly painful proof. ... Yet another irony both super powers did not want another war to start but they were plunging themselves into another war the Cold War. ... However the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, j...

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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. ... The 1950's began with the first armed conflict of the Cold War, that is, the Korean War. Officially known as a United Nations police action, this battle between the communist North Koreans, supported by the Sino-Soviet Bloc, and the capitalist South Koreans, backed by the US and its allies, revealed the extent to which the Cold War would affect US foreign policy, as well as, domestic issues. ... This reverse...

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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. ... Iraq's consequent invasion of Kuwait in 1990 was the reason for the Gulf War, a war that he thought the West would ignore but one that resulted in his forces being driven from Kuwait by an American-led coalition. ... The justification of a war just on these grounds seems to be even more hypocritical after the declaration by North Korea that they have re-started their production of weapons-grade nuclear plutonium. ... America also removed...

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The origins of the Cold War can be traced to conclusion of World War II and the disagreements between the USSR and the Western Powers. ... The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World War II. ... Events before, and after the war, as well as conflicting ideologies and the U.S. military involvement in Japan as well as the prevailing military reality resulted in the inability of the Great Powers to solve those conflicts and led to the Cold War. ... Western allies during the First World War sent in arms and troops to support the White army to de...

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Sukarno was one of the leaders of the Bandung Conference in the mid fifties that brought together newly-independent Third World nations for the first time, in order to reject the Cold War, started by Churchill after World War II. ... The capitalist and communist blocks were then to compete politically by fighting proxy wars in the Third World. ... After the Second World War, the only viable economy left in the world was the American economy. ... Under his British influenced successor Truman, an alternative 'Cold War' path was taken. The Cold War strategy was used to keep wars goin...

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After the WWI formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still going on in the US. ... Nevertheless, the conscientious objectors were targeted in the Red Scare after the war. ... This split occurred when Europe entered the war. ... However, some of the more prominent American Socialists, strongly supported the war. ... After the war formally ended in 1918, all the groups which opposed the war came under fire. ...

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That being the immigration of those seeking escape from war. ... Reasons People Have Immigrated To The United States People have not only immigrated to the United States to acquire a better life through work, freedom to practice religion, and/or escape from war and famine but for other reasons as well. ... During August of 1619, a small group of Nineteen Africans are brought to Jamestown by a Dutch man-of-war as indentured servants (www.fofweb.com). ... The Chinese were the second non-Christian group to migrate followed by Japanese and Koreans the west coast and Hawaii. ...

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If not for the efforts of the United Nations, many disputes and disagreements would have led to war. ... One was to assure Allied victory in the war, the other was restructuring a broken Western Europe. ... A resolve by all members to deal with conflict and aggression, rather than commit open war, by constructing a system of shared security. ...

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The Statue was placed upon a granite pedestal inside the courtyard of the star-shaped walls of Fort Wood (which had been completed for the War of 1812.) ... After 1901, the care and operation of the Statue was placed under the War Department. ...

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By 1895, after the first Japanese and Chinese (Sino) war, the islands were under the controlling victor, Japan, as stipulated by the Treaty of Shimonoseki ("Overview," 2009). ... The islands were eventually abandoned due to the onset of the second Sino-Japanese war in 1937, and have remained uninhabited since (McDevitt, 2014). ... After World War II, all territory under the Treaty of Shimonoseki was transferred to the Treaty of San Francisco, giving control to American forces. ... The war torn history of Japan and China is a large part of why the two governments refused to surrend...

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Granted, that was in the past, and the actions of the U.S. to end the Japanese attack on the U.S. in World War II can't really be used to describe the current state in which we live due to terrorism, though it does paint a picture about the way terrorists interacted in the world prior to 9/11, and it is proof that the terrorists at that time weren't from the Middle East, as is so often the assertion today. ... With so many countries in possession of nuclear weapons – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea, to name a few –aren&#x...

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The liberal democratic peace theory claims that liberated countries never go to war against each other (Sa-rensen, 1993: 93). ... Therefore, it should be demonstrated that liberal states really go not to war against each other, which was not possible, because different researchers found wars between democracies in history (Sa-rensen, 1993: 93). For example, Great Britain and the United States of America went to war in 1812, even though they were both democracies at this time (Smith, et al, 2008: 52). ... As soon as all countries in the world are liberal there would be no war anymore, which cou...

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After Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan, and thus Germany and Italy with the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact and latter the Tripartite Pact, and after was slingshot into the Cold War, and after the September 11 attack, concepts that may have been unthinkable before the attack are being considered such as torturing detainees and racial profiling and, arguably, security has been further fortified in airports and other public places. ... In 1895 Japan seized Formosa, in 1910 Korea, in 1914 the Marshall, Mariana and Caroline Islands, the list continues (Shapiro 91). ... (Rev...

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