Introduced in World War Two, the assault rifle revolutionized warfare and has since developed into the two main firearms today. ... This rifle was developed for a number of reasons in late World War Two. ... Haenel Waffen und Fahrradfabrik started development of a new rifle. ... This rifle brought into play a whole new way of cycling rounds. ... This new system proved reliable and deadly to enemies. ...

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At that time the new Super Powers were wary of each other, and the new found strengths that both had; the United States, (the more dominant force along with Britain and France, had a prominent place in Western Europe, while the Soviets were the undisputed and sole rulers of Eastern Europe. A New World was the phoenix that emerged out of the ashes and smoke of World War II, a world where two large and colossal countries were bitter adversaries, both with nuclear weapons. ... World War 2 had made the United States and Russia the two most powerful countries in the world. ... Another way of lookin...

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The horrors of World War 1 created an immense market allowing British authors, both professionals and amateurs, the leeway to express what they witnessed in the frontline (Das 9). ... Among those: Ivor Gurney, whose development of poems of originality, broken poetic form, urgency for change in attitude and disruptiveness call of the war, has made him one of the great World War I poets. ... This traumatic combat led to Gurney's change of thinking and transformation of language, evoking a new broken stream of expression and consciousness, attributes of modernism (10). ... His writing, much ...

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He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted international leadership in building a new world order. In 1917 he proclaimed American's entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world "safe for democracy." ... First they persuaded him to run for Governor of New Jersey in 1910. ... The treaty also fixed the boundaries of the new nation. ... Woodrow Wilson had interventions with New Mexico. ...

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Three times, however, in one century, the victims were so numerous and their trauma so documentable that society could not ignore their suffering - World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. ... (Fussell 73) World War I, considered one of the greatest conflicts in world history, was new kind of war, a war where you never even met your enemy. ... New technologies also made the battlefield a horrifically terrifying place. ... The surfacing of shell-shock during World War I took the whole world by surprise. ... Since psychiatry was still in it's infancy, it only found new wa...

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Seeing an enemy that was hoping to gain power and eventually rule the world and the nation stared war against communism in the face. ... This was further refined in Vietnam, the outcome being a new system, which was called the DEROS (date of expected return from overseas) system. ... The veterans of World War II spent weeks or in extreme cases even months with their respective units returning on ships, or planes from all over the world. ... Green troops or "f---ing new guys" with almost no experience in combat were thrown into their places. ... In World War II and almost every other war in Un...

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Politically, he began to have strong nationalism and traces of anti- Marxism which would be the basis of his new regime. ... At the breakout of the first world war, in 1914 he volunteered. He was accepted into the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment and fought bravely. ... He then made a statement that would forever change his life and the lives of people throughout the world... He developed a new system of political propaganda, one that emphasized mass emotionalism and violent provocation. ...

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Southerners said that slave owners provided shelter, food, care, and regulation for a race unable to compete in the modern world without proper training. ... All of these views eventually led to an attack on the slavery system in the South, and showed opposition to its spread into whatever new territories that were acquired. ... There were numerous causes of World War One; all with their own amount of contribution, some which had loomed around for many years others that were quick impulsive contributions. ... Rick Shroder stars as Major Charles Whittlesey, a soldier who received the coveted Co...

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At a young age, Cummings graduated with his masters and traveled the world, and began to observe the world in a way that would later profoundly impact his writing. ... Also, the "old sith avenue el" refers to an old elevated subway train that ran through New York City, and was torn up to trade to Japan. 3 Now, to put the ideas together, the "nipponized bit of the old sixth avenue," is the metal Japan acquired from the U.S. to make into bullets for Japanese soldiers during World War II. ... As war continued to rage through the world, Cummings" continued to write his concerns. ... Despite pop...

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In 1910 Japan annexed Korea, installing a harsh rule over its people. During the 1930's an independence movement arose. Led from abroad by Syngman Rhee, who attended Harvard University at the time, it started a fire in a man that would continue to grow as time passed. With the principles of the ...

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In 1910 Japan annexed Korea, installing a harsh rule over its people. During the 1930's an independence movement arose. Led from abroad by Syngman Rhee, who attended Harvard University at the time, it started a fire in a man that would continue to grow as time passed. With the principles of the Atla...

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