Also just as important were the troops from African nations that fought with the Allies not only in Africa but also in Europe along the Western Front. ... The reason the French Army was so desperate to have these men fighting was due to the massive casualties that they were taking all over the Western Front not to mention as a result of battles like Verdun. ... In total of the 140,000 men from Black French Africa who went to battle in Western Europe about 30,000 of them or 22% of them became fatalities . Algerians were the most common of all African nations to be found fighting in Western ...

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To follow from that, what happened fifty- six years ago - the end of World War II. ... In the words of Dean Acheson "The great thing which creates purchasing power is people if the people can develop their own countries, they will become an increasing market for all goods including our own"2 Also Western Europe appeared open to influence by the USSR. ... The defense of Western Europe came to rest solely in NATO. By the terms of NATO, the USA took the lion's share of defending Western Europe against attack. ... Indeed the U.S leaped from one extreme to another, instead of going fro...

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Setting the Scene As suggested by scholars like Loescher (1996, pp 11-92; 2001 pp21-81) and (Erika, 2001; Labman, 2009), the issue of refugee crisis is old wars and conflicts around the world-from Europe to the Balkans, to the old Soviet Union, Asia, to the Americas and to Africa, the story of wars and conflicts can never be divorced from the associated mass refuge crisis. ... Together with other hybrid of international agencies, national governments and voluntary international nongovernmental organizations, the UNHCR has positioned itself to fulfil its mandate and obligations to refugees in s...

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In 1815, at the Congress of Vienna, Tsar Alexander was quite prepared to use the congress to pursue the traditional aims of foreign policy, in particular the aims of westward expansion and European dominance, which greatly angered the Western states. ... The socialist Bolshevik regime believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their intentions. The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. ... They were so far ahead of all the other countries in power and influence that they were called "superpowers". ... Both Washington and ...

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The Germans had an idea that was quite similar to one that the Americans had in its early days. This idea was manifest destiny, or the idea that Germany should own all land from ocean to ocean and that they were superior people and were able to conquer everyone in their path. ... It was held from July 17 to August 2, 1945. ... In Western Germany, a new style of government was introduced to the people. ... It united the three Western zones of Germany together into one economic zone (Prittie 30). ...

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But not all countries of the camp of the winners were able to conduct this fight, since suffered serious losses in economic terms. ... This is primarily to assist in removing the United States from the theater of operations and the associated security investments. ... It was with these weapons the US administration has decided to pursue a policy of defending its national interests in the world, "the US military said this quite openly. ... However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ... In addition, the Soviet troops were pushed forward away from its immediate bor...

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Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms). ... In January 1912, Stalin was nominated by Lenin to the Central Committee; by now Lenin was quite impressed with Stalin's writings (which he generally worked on while in exile). ... On November 15, Stalin revealed the Decree on Nationality, which stated that the new Bolshevik government would treat all ethnic minorities within the Soviet sphere equally, and would respect the right of ...

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(Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) ... At this point, Stalin began his rise to dominance by destroying his rival Trotsky, expelling him from the party in 1927 and exiling him from the Soviet Union in 1929. ... But while his rivals from the '20s had suffered defeat, they were still alive and in the Party. ... So began the "Great Terror," the aptly named period when Stalin effectively liquidated all traces of opposition to his rule. ... All of the confessors were sentenced to death. ...

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All allowing for the conquest of Lebensraum or living space in the east for the cramped German folk at the expense of Judeo-Bolshevism. ... Hitler's revisionism did contain special traits from the start that would set him apart from other fringe politicians, and set him down the course to eventually developing his program. ... Hitler wastes no time and on the very first page of his book mentions the "moral right to acquire foreign soil and territory" and continued: "The sword is then the plow, and from the tears of war there grows the daily bread of generations to come." (1) Thi...

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These resources are what originally brought western countries to the area. ... Lockard describes the perspective of colonialism from a world view; he states "it served primarily to link Southeast Asia more firmly to a world dominated by the West and to introduce Western ideas and technologies". 1 As Lockard is right in that instance, the conquest that came along with colonial power demonstrated to be a culture clashing experience. ... Both of these countries had dominated over quite a few regions within Southeast Asia. ... Despite all the confusion and controversy in the government, ...

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The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. ... They all would come to the aid of the one threatened from an outside attack. ... With these two different pacts, Europe was torn in half, Western Europe being with NATO and Eastern Europe with the Warsaw Pact. ... The Army stayed in Germany until 1994 when the Prince said during a speech on October 28th, 1994, concerning the disarmament of the army: "the momentous events in Russia, Central Europe and Germany have brought changes for us all in Western Europe, almost all for the be...

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France fell into German hands however, and only the English Channel separated Great Britain from the enemy. ... Because Britain remained free Hitler was unable to quash all resistance in Western Europe and was forced into the war that no German ruler has ever wanted or desired: A two front war of attrition. The dramatic turnaround from the infallible and indestructible blitzkriegs and total victories of the past several months to a long, slow, seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of enemies that would never give up and never surrender was orchestrated by perhaps the most iconic and respect...

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World War I, the first globally destructive conflict that the Western Civilization produced, has been the subject of various analysis, interpretations and reevaluations of the various causes that led to it. ... He indicated that "not all imperialistic policies were inspired by direct economic interests." ... Therefore, in all belligerent states the war was unanimously accepted. ... The author concluded his work admitting that, in a different time, a historian will see causes from a different perspective. The following historians wrote in different decades and approached the causes of WWI from...

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My extended family is quite large, my mother is the middle child of five and my father is the middle child of six. ... The actual history dates back somewhere from 7000 to 3000 B.C. ... Exhausted from the invasions Korea became isolated. ... They closed the doors to all foreigners and became known as the "Hermit Kingdom."" ... All the peace talks between North and South Korea take place here. ...

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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. ... How this took place during and after the Cold War is in many ways quite dissimilar. However, more importantly than the all encompassing quadrangle, it is the strategic geometry within the quadrangle that is most interesting and illustrates best, the changes and nuances in the transition from Cold War to post Cold War. ... As Mandlebaum suggests "Indeed in Asia, the structure of politic...

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Source C, however, is a much later source, as can be determined from the approach it uses to "persuade" people to enlist, preventing the "mad brute (of) militarism", in this case, a raving gorilla, that represents Germany, from reaching out from Europe (bottom-centre, right) which has been decimated, to the shores of "America" (bottom, centre). ... All the sources stress the importance of duty to the cause, in particular, source C that evokes the prospect of a holy, or just war, in defence of the majority of the people. Respect also plays a significant role in all three sources, and, in what ...

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If the Soviet Union were the face attack from these capitalist powers it would need a stronger industrial platform with which to launch a successful war effort. ... However, it is quite possible that Stalin overstated the probability of war deliberately to push through his ambitions and to strengthen his personal power within the party. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a revolution from below. ... The N.E.P had created a large amount of friction within the party at all levels and this was beginn...

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In western culture, the Christian characterization of the snake and its identification with the Devil is quite apparent in the story of the fall of man in the Bible. 5Therefore, snake has symbolic meaning of evil, tricking and slick. ... First at all, he visited planet which there was a king lived lonely at there, as if he was the supreme ruler of the vast empire. ... From his view, the amount was locked in the drawer was the all. 13The figure of businessman signified the greedy and ignorance of adults, especially about money. ... 'A geographer is a scholar who knows the location of all t...

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Today, the U.N. is an all-inclusive body. All but four of the world's nations belong to the United Nations at present. ... However, it branches all across the world. ... The entire history of the U.N. has been quite inexpensive. ... It is rather upsetting to realize that a better world for all is not far from reality: "Count out sixty seconds and thirty of the world's children will have died for lack of food and adequate health care. ...

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Only second behind Britain, this Empire was still at its greatest extent by 1945 but, by 1962 it had lost all its major territories with nationalism emerging throughout this period. ... Conveniently, the President of the Union was elected by the French Parliament only and there was no representatives or associates from the states or protectorates. ... With a history of emerging nationalism in Vietnam where French rule was not desired, the French had to remove three Emperors from 1885 to 1917 and this did not solve their problem. ... While it can be considered that this perhaps was an unwise mo...

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A leader is as strong as his will but in the case of Emperor Hirohito, his will was in places far from military and warfare. ... Chang Tso-Lin, the northern opposition to Chiang's KMT forces, was boarding a train on the Manchurian Railway when it exploded killing all on board. ... It was becoming clear to Emperor Hirohito that he had no control over his military and anger began to surface for all to see. ... The inferiority complex felt by Japanese against Western whites was causing the military to campaign towards total domination in Asia. ... In what was seen as a semi-successful co...

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