However, in America, the idea of a League was not very popular and Woodrow Wilson needed the approval of his Congress. The Republicans campaigned for America to be isolationist and it won. So, when the League opened for business in January 1920, the American chair was empty and it never joined. ... Only Japan voted against. ... They discussed economic sanctions but without America (Japan's main trading partner) they would be meaningless. ...

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The arms race between the United States of America and the Soviet Union (the Cold War), nearly lead to World War III. ... The nuclear bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was a 12.5-kiloton atomic bomb, "an explosive blast equal to 12,500 tons of conventional high explosives (such as TNT) and caused high pressure waves, flying debris, extreme heat, and radioactive fallout." Examples of chemical weapons would include the nerve agent Sarin that was deployed by a religious cult in Japan in 1995 to kill and injure the general public, and mustard gas that was used durin...

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Many Americans built bomb shelters where they would live during the inevitable nuclear exchange that would surely accompany World War III between the Soviet Union and the U.S. ... Through the early years of the cold war Americans believed that nuclear weapons were war fighting tools that were likely to be used in an international conflict involving both the US and the Soviet Union; however, nuclear weapons were not used on China during the Korean War for fear that the Soviet Union might retaliate with a nuclear weapons attack on the U.S. ... US Policy began to shift subtlety in 1990 to also ...

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The "New League" Platform was criticized by all participating nations, the Americans and British wanted the new League to be a force to encourage change, the smaller states involved were antagonistic due to the minimal power they would receive, the French wanted more emphasis with regards to keeping Germany from regaining any type of military power. ... States could join and leave whenever it was convenient thus reducing the Leagues collective security and at one point 17 states withdrew their membership or were evicted some states included Germany, Japan, Italy and the Soviet Union. ... The U...

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Big powers like the USA, Japan, Russia, China and India, are obliged to handle East Asia delicately on matters of bilateral and multilateral relations considering that East Asia is "at the core of China's strategic zones" (Hickey & Guo, 2010 p. 57). ... The status of China as the 'world factory' made the Americans " relocate [their] domestic and labour-intensive industries" to China, which then develops a symbiotic relationship between Chinese and American economies (Uberoi, 2008 p. 124). ... Guo and Hickey (2010, p. 43) report that " China offers a...

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The choice of the nonpermanent members is based on regions: three seats for Africa, two for Latin America, one for Asia, one for the Arab nations, one for Eastern Europe and two for Western Europe. ... Japan, which is the second country in financial contributions to the organization, also deserves a permanent seat. ... Many insiders of the UN say that it is impossible to have an effective United Nations without very strong American implication in the organization. ...

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To do so would be to risk supporting democratic economic alternatives abroad that might lead more Americans to question how just their own economic system has become. ... Hunger is plaguing our society, its a disease that kills many people every year, and the sad thing is that so many people in rich countries like the United States, Japan, and etc, will never know the truth about World Hunger. Everyday I can see America indirectly making the situation worse and worse. ...

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Empirical data and statistics provide substantial evidence that exposure to global economy has significantly boosted the economic growth in many developing countries especially in Asian countries like China, India , Japan and Singapore. ...

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