After the introduction of the National Insurance Act (1911), benefits were extended to underpin the true nature of the scheme (Hill 2004, p20). ... Immunizations were introduced in 1941 and saw Diphtheria drop from 3,000 before the war to 818 in 1945. ... Before 1914 private renting of accommodation was normal. ... Housing had become the major domestic issue during World War 1 after the wave of strikes by housing tenants protesting against landlords' exploitation. ... After World War 1 Lloyd George promised "Homes for Heroes" in the 1918 election, and the Housing and Town Planning Act c...

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The world had made a commitment after the Holocaust that genocide would never happen again, but there were three other large scale genocides that occurred after this commitment. The world just needs to figure out when state sovereignty will only go so far before they need to act. ... After World War Two the Genocide Convention was held among the United Nations. ... The international community needs to better communicate on the Genocide Convention on how many lives have to be lost before the mass murders can be considered genocide. ... The United States needs to be devoted to the protection fro...

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Just before the turn of the century, there was an increased number of Japanese immigration to the United States. Fifty years before this, many Chinese immigrants arrived to take advantage of the Gold Rush in California. ... After the attack on Pearl Harbor, fear of Japanese-American citizens escalated to a fever pitch. ... After the attack, President Roosevelt classified nationals of the Axis powers as enemy aliens. ... After the war many sought restitution for their imprisonment. ...

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Before World War I, the declining Ottoman Empire had two rising movements that would begin the conflict in the Middle East. ... "Palestine was simultaneously the scene of a confrontation with Zionism that became a key issue between Ottomanists and Arabists throughout the Empire in the five years before World War I. ... "The movement made progress before 1914, but it remained a minority movement until 1918, when the Arab revolt, the British agreement with Sherif Hussein, and the British defeat of the Ottomans left the dominant faction of the Syrian and Iraqi Arab notables with no alte...

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Historians continue to debate the causes of World War I nearly a century after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand; the event that most agree was the spark which ignited the flames of war. ... Before any one country can be identified as "most responsible- for the outbreak of war, one must first consider the parties involved and their role in Europe in 1914. ... They issued an ultimatum to Serbia that called for reparations and remained aggressive even after Serbia responded to their ultimatum respectfully. ... Diplomacy and intervention on the part of Sir Grey could have hel...

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In an article by David Zucchino in the Los Angeles Times, he reports how war molded Tim and his motivations for fighting before and after the war. ... Tim Kahlor remarks that he originally joined the army to fight after he felt a patriotic urge to serve his country after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, like much of the other youth. ... Before the war, he was looking forward to the apparent rewards. During the war, he realized that the rewards come after horrible costs. ... This reveals that the soldiers are deprived of their bodily integrity before they have even entered into battl...

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Shortly after Fredrick started work at the saw mill, it fell into bankruptcy. ... For a number of years after the fire Weyerhaeuser mainly focused buying land. ... Weyerhaeuser's business was booming before the First World War and, after the onset of the war Weyerhaeuser began making sending spruce from Weyerhaeuser forests to build World War I airplanes. ... Most times the complaints needed extensive research before they could be logged in. ... This class helped me because before that class I had very limited knowledge of unions and how they worked. ...

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While Hitler probably lusted after some people throughout his life, his main lust was after power: He wanted to conquer the world in the way that the Romans had two millennia before him. ... Once Hitler received some of the power he lusted after so dearly, he became even hungrier for it. ... After this, is the seventh circle of Hell, divided into three parts. ... The eighth circle of Hell, punishment for those who committed usual fraud', is divided into ten pouches, each sin slightly worse than the one before. ... As has been stated before, he did try to create a different religion that ...

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Before Trumbo was involved in the "Hollywood Ten," he was a writer. ... After high school he went on to the University of California and Southern California, after attending the Universi! ... It was after that that he completed some of his best scripts. ... Dalton was suffering from cut-rate prices and needed to move to Mexico before the government found out his real identity. ... The article involved a British soldier that was badly flawed after World War I. ...

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The common uncertainties we were left with after the Great War gave rise to many new ways of thought and practice that inevitably shaped the world we live in today. ... Before Existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard surfaced the validity of absurdity by explaining the acceptance of Christianity as a "Leap of Faith". ... I couldn't tell whether America made the movements to deal with uncertainty before or after the Great Depression. I know the partying was before, but throughout the section, you linked all of the responses without specifying the time reference.) ... The complaints were valid ...

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Just moments after the two had been shot; authorities arrested the culprit, Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian student, who was believed to have been linked to the Serbian terrorist organization, The Black Hand. ... Nationalists believed that their own nation's needs must be met before that of other nations. ... Within Europe during the early years of the twentieth century, a system of military alliances was formed to provide European powers with a sense of security before the commencement of the war. ... The conditions of the alliance changed after Italy was added and stated that countries w...

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Russia, recognizing its mobilization problem, planned to compensate for its lack of railroad by mobilizing before the war began. ... In 1915, Italy entered the war on the side of Allies, encouraged by the promise of control of the Adriatic Sea after the war was over. ... Seeds of the Russian Revolution, however, had been sown years before. ... Petersburg had been renamed Petrograd after the abdication). ... After all, it had been selected by the democratically-elected Duma. ...

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The World of Yesterday, an autobiography by Stefan Zweig, was written after he left his hometown Austria in 1933 owing to Hitler's rising power in Germany. Zweig didn't finish the book until the day before he and his second wife committed suicide in Brazil in February, 1942, during the period of the Second World War. ... After he obtained the doctor degree and terminate his university career, he made up his mind to devote himself in literature, feeling was finally outwardly free and remained equally free inwardly. ... The path laid clear before him. ... After the grandiose order &quo...

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After the war ended, the achievements of the Canadian corps earned us a separate signature on the Treaty of Versailles. ... "vi Not long after the war had ended, The Statute of Westminster was passed by the British Parliament at Westminster in Great Britain on December 11th, 1931vii. ... As stated in the statute:" No Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the commencement of this Act shall extend or be deemed to extend.... Many obstacles stood before the Canadian troops, some drowned before even reaching the beach. ... Barbed wires and mines are some examples of the b...

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After a sharp debate, Congress complied with the request. ... Even before Pearl Harbor he had spoken with Prime Minister Churchill in a naval vessel off Newfoundland, Canada, and had joined in issuing the Atlantic Charter on August 14, 1941. ... Shortly after this peace talks began, but collapsed in the winter of that year. ... During and after the mid 60's a distrust in the American government grew out of this conflict. ... In theory, Star Wars would allow the United States to intercept enemy missiles before they hit their targets. ...

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She was a relatively new country but one that was rapidly growing financially, militarily and industrially; this threatened to disrupt the delicate balance of power achieved in Europe after centuries of conflict. ... The system of alliances that existed before the respective wars can also be seen to show similarities, although there are some obvious differences in this factor as well. ... Before the outbreak of WWI the economic state of the countries involved was not major issues, Europe was booming in the post industrial revolution prosperity and reaping the benefits that her many empires g...

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After the end of the First World War, in 1919, the Allies met and, as part of the Treaty of Versailles, forced Germany to accept the complete blame for starting the Great War. ... Before the question can be answered, it is important to look at the situation in Europe at the time before the First World War started. ... Austria-Hungary was the country with the most problems just before the war. ... Austria-Hungary had tried similar things before, but this was the first time she received assured support from Germany. ... The Allies were suspicious of Germany's actions before the war, when th...

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After he recovered he was assigned lighter work in Munich. ... After creating this symbol for the followers, Hitler became very popular among the people. ... The world had the opportunity to stop Hitler before he even started, but no one ever took the time to read the book. ... After being announced Chancellor of Germany he was one step closer to reaching his goal. ... Soon after the first concentration camps were started to form outside of Berlin. ...

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Frankly, the allies were running out of time before they either starved to death, or ran out of money (ww1.com). ... After constant defeats and up rises in mutiny the French were beginning to falter. ... This up serge in American troops causes German officials to try and win the war before the AEF can have a major impact on the outcome of the war. ... F. that after the battles fought by the AEF, the fields would be littered with the bodies of men and animals and would remain there for days after the battles. ... After the soldiers had made it through the gaps, then the tanks would fan out ...

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Before this, Jim "had been merely drifting." ... At "le Havre," Jim and Wizzer Green narrowly avoid a "sudden, unexpected confrontation," after Jim allegedly trips the man. ... In the midst of the fighting, "a month after they came over, a Saturday in February," Jim is "first touched" by the war. ... A few days later Jim goes to visit Eric in hospital, where he is confronted with the truth that not everything "has a place in the world," as he believed before the war. "Listen Jim" Eric tells him, "who's gunna look after me I got no one I got nobody who's gunna look after me, ba...

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The crack of the guns is heard long after the roar of the explosions (Remarque, 61). ... Even with the cruelest of deaths, they feel indifferent because they have seen it all before, and know that they will see it again. ... The style of trench-warfare was a new type that proved even more dangerous than ever before. ... After the inspection was over, they were forced to give back this new set of gear and put back on the torn, dirty, ragged gear that they were in before. ... The details are something that no author during Remarques time period dared to do, and no one had experienced before....

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After the war there was a boom in the British economy, however this boom was short-lived and soon led to a major bust. One can say that the problems which were present shortly before the general strike (lack of investment in the industry, poor conditions) were not sudden but had been developing since before the war. World War One was inevitably a period of great unrest in Britain as was the period of time shortly after with revolutions abroad, the disruption of family life and inflation all adding to social pressures. ... In an essay by Joyce Howson she comments on the miners r...

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Russia had been experiencing major problems, both social and economic, long before war broke out in 1914. ... Even after these serfs were emancipated and given basic human rights, very little actually changed in their way of life and they were forced to pay excessive land taxes (redemption payments) or leave their homes. ... These two groups inhabited the major cities of Russia and pioneered her industrial revolution, decades after other nations such as France, England and Germany had begun theirs. ... While in theory the Duma would make Russia a constitutional monarchy and put power into th...

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Abstract In this paper I will attempt to show how Nazism came to power in the events before and during their time. ... (lecture) After the resulting war was the string of events to cause the rise of Nazism. ... Mostly in 1923 and before they were thugs and tried to take power by force instead of politically. ... After the crash in 1929 Germany fell into a political crisis. ... Issuing the same decree after the Reichsburg burns. ...

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Before the First World War, rising living standards, increased education, and general progress, gave people an extremely optimistic view of their future and the world around them. ... The works of a man by the name of Friedrich Nietzsche, who lived from 1844 until 1900, were later discovered and revived by many radical thinkers after the war. ... Although it is notable to point out that Nietzsche eventually lost his sanity before the turn of the century, his writings were nonetheless influential in bringing change to modern philosophical thinking, and in contributing to an overall sense of unc...

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