Another factor supporting this theory is that when a war takes place in a democratic nation, their leaders must accept blame for that loss, by the voters of that particular nation. In a democratic nation, voters have a large say in what takes place in their country. ... Israeli relations have evolved from an initial American policy of sympathy and support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in 1948 to an unusual partnership that links a small but militarily powerful Israel, dependent on the United States for its economic and military strength, with the U. ... While the Vietnam War was taking...

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It took place from February 4 to February 11, 1945, at Yalta, Crimea, a port/resort. ... The Russians caused much pain to this small country, Romania, killing many people and making them pay for being allied to Germany for a small part of the war. ... Freedom is took for granted and the pain that a small country like that had to go through will not be forgiven in the years to come. ... I will criticize FDR for doing this to Eastern Europe, because it ruined one of the most beautiful, and educated places in the world. ...

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Fishing makes up a small, but important amount of the economy. ... Small businesses in the cities of South Korea make up an increasingly important amount of the urban population. Most workers in South Korea are farmers if they aren't small business owners that sell household items, clothing, and food (Kummer, 71). ... Both the U.S and South Korea obviously trade with other countries, every place needs a sort of good that they do not have in order to prosper. ... The company itself is a South Korean multinational company, which means that it makes much profit to many places. ...

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Effects of a Tragedy Pat Frank's Alas Babylon published in 1959 is a priceless example of a small community who, using their knowledge and ability to function as a whole, rebuild a new, self-sufficient population from the previously annihilated community. ... Throughout the novel Frank focuses on one particular group of people who live in the small town of Fort Repose, Florida. ... The catastrophe of the war in many people's eyes would be a terrible thing but, in the novel Alas Babylon this war makes the people of the small community realize just how lucky they are. ... In Alas B...

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Small protests broke out amongst college students across America, but these began to become very serious. ... They felt as if they were being sent in place of whites, but in fact only 12.5% of all troops in Vietnam were black, and it was merle stretched facts and media influence that caused the black eruptions in America (Westmoreland, VHFCN). ... The camera had become small enough and agile enough to be carried almost anywhere. ... Black Americans were not a target of the American government to be used in place of white troops. ... These may only be a few small facts that are a grain of sand ...

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Ireland, originally a distinct and independent country, was invaded by Britain and forced to become part of the then small, but growing, British Empire. ... The Chinese government claims that the union formed at that time was never legally broken and because of that Tibet, the smaller of the two countries, has an obligation to become absorbed into China. ... The society could greatly benefit from more land, and the government saw taking over Tibet as a possible way of gaining land and making life more comfortable for the Chinese people, although with a country as small as Tibet one would think...

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Andrew Jackson Higgins started out as the owner of a small company called A.J. ... Higgins was so perplexed and dedicated to finding a solution; he decided to turn away from the depleting business of timber supplies to concentrate on small boat construction and design. ... General Holland Smith described the common situation between Higgins and the Marines as: A small unit attached to a large force like the Navy which, crippled by its own meager appropriations, tossed us the crumbs. Despite the BCR's weak designs, they would not admit their inferiority to a small southern boat bu...

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While other national leaders, including Kaiser Wilhelm II, seemed relieved that Serbia chose a peaceful and apologetic path, the Austrian leadership focused on small discords expressed by the Serbs. ... The maneuvering of the Austrian government during the crisis compels me to place a large portion of the blame on Austria-Hungary for the outbreak of WW I. ... So, I cannot place the blame squarely on the Tsar or Russia, despite their major role in the overall war. ... The other half of the blame I place upon the bloodthirsty shoulders of the Austrian government who, I think, were deter...

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"With Communist regimes in place, the nations of Eastern Europe could be controlled by Russia and, by their location, protect it" (Healy 1). ... In 16th October, the United States discovered that the Soviet was placing offensive nuclear missile sites inside Cuba. ... North Vietnam's invasion of South Vietnam was a relatively small conflict in South Asia. ... Every state has to know their answer of its cultural identity, which defines the state's place in world politics, its friends, and its enemies (Huntington 126). ... Civilizations usually have one or more places viewed by th...

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U.S. peacekeeping missions have taken place in such places as Somalia and East Timor. ... When a conflict has been resolved, a process called "peace building" takes place. ... To keep peace in the world that is a small price to pay. ... Placing 50,000 without a home and killing many other East Timorese people. ...

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This assault took place at Anzio beach. ... The Germans thought that the invasion would take place in May. ... There were only three days the invasion could take place, June 5,6,or 7. ... The invasion took place with almost total surprise to the Germans. ... The Allied troops traveled to the beaches in small landing crafts lowered from the docks of larger ships waiting in the English Channel. ...

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The government figured if they gave him a small amount of power, it would tone down his need for harsh actions against "non-Aryans- as Hitler liked to call them. However, the government was mistaken, this small amount of power was all Hitler needed to make the beginnings of the mass genocide of anyone Hitler did not see would fit into his superior race of people. ... Much of the killings took place in death camps where Jews were put in gas chambers. ... During WWII, Hitler appointed himself Commander in Chief; this held his place of having command of all military operations. ...

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While in an arctic climate, with snow on the ground, the burlap would be white with small shreds of black. ... They also find the time to mask it from discovery by painting it in camouflage like colors, and placing burlap strips over the barrel and scope. ... Reasons for this include, the loss of ambient light, and the trouble of acquiring a target through a small field of view. ... Many hunter kill missions take place during the daylight hours most of the time anyway, this leaves little use for night-vision scopes. ... Once the process of target acquisition has taken place the trainee then...

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Highways were built to take people quickly from one place to another, bypassing small towns and helping to create central marketing areas or shopping malls. ... People carrying small transistor radios listened to music, which could be heard in any location because it was now portable. ...

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There were several devastating environmental effects that took place after/ during the dropping of the atomic bomb, not just for Japan but globally as well. ... Children who were exposed to radiation while still in the womb were/are smaller in stature, weight, girth of chest, and breadth of shoulders, than standard measurements. In some cases, children with small bodies and heads were widespread, and were "emotionally and intellectually retarded" into adulthood. ...

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The Battle of Vimy Ridge took place on April 9th 1917. ... However, that is a very small number compared to the prior offenses that took place. ... Juno beach, where the Canadians forces landed was one of the central beaches, so most of the fighting took place here. ...

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When Hitler rose to power, he blamed the Jews for the economic inflation that took place following WWI. ... Some of the experiences Wiesel describes include burning pits of babies and adults, babies being tossed up in the air and used as target practice with machine guns, people killing each other over small scraps of food, children being hung, and more (Wiesel). ... The book is a very accurate description of some of the atrocities that took place during the Holocaust. ... For the sake of humanity, we must remember the atrocities that took place during the Holocaust so that we know ultimatel...

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Both nations concluded that distributing multiple warheads against multiple cities was far more effective; thus the small MIRV became the strategic tool of choice. ... Other nation states used them as symbols of their place in the world pecking order. ...

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At the bottom, Hitler places the black race, Slavs, Gypsies and Hebrews, groups that gave him feelings of exacerbated hatred. ... In North America, where the population is prevalently Teutonic, and where those elements intermingled with the inferior race only to a very small degree, we have a quality of mankind and a civilization which are different from those of Central and South America. ... They supported the idea that Hitler had a well-organised plan to take the power and to set the Third Reich, and places him in the centre of National Socialism. ... Regarding Germany's foreign policy...

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The Cheka enforced the revolution and made sure that no counter- revolutionary action could take place "counter-revolutionaries were "to be shot on the spot . ... A Terror more similar to that of Russia took place in China in 1949 after the Communist victory. " "High on the list of priorities" of the new communist government was the punishment of Tchiang and other war criminals (McAleavy 1972 32)" (O"Kane 1991 196) this is similar to the event in Cuba 1959. However summary executions then took place for people accused of infringing the new law after that executions ...

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Both of them hated the farm and sold it to invest in a small general store, which failed and they went broke. ... These freeways made it easy to get from place to place. ... It doesn't take long to get from place to place. ...

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Being such smaller nations aliened themselves with either the U.S or Russian, depending on their political ideologies, locations, and interdependence on the superpower. ... Had the U.S not had enough power and the ability to mobilize those resources Russians may have succeeded in strategically placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. While the U.S. influenced the Russians not to do so, the Russia influencing the U.S. to remove strategically places nuclear weapons in Turkey as well. ...

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The concentration camps were setup because they need a place to put the people who they arrested because normal jails was too small so they put them in the camp. ... It was a place where they killed all the Jewish....

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Being forced to accept the blame for the war as a whole (clause 231 – the War Guilt Clause), which in turn provided a justification for the allied forces to put in place the requirement that £6.6 billion in reparations need to be paid to them as a payment for all war damages. ... The National Socialist party saw themselves gaining support from white-collar middle class, the lower middle class, small merchants, clerks, craftsmen, civil servants, farmers and professionals who were ruined as a result of inflation. ... He was setting up new laws in order to make Germany a more pleasura...

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Roosevelt during the 1940's, after the chaotic bombing on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, stated the events taken place on that tragic day. ... The events that took place on December 7, 1941 on Pearl Harbor obviously show that this sparked the United States into Entering World War Two. " It was "the classic moment when an innocent America, on its paradise island, is pulled into the world scene by a surprise attack," says historian John Dower." ... This was thought that the United States was already in the war but played a small role. ...

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