Not just empire's but events such as the cold war, WII or even the crusades have brought and gave new revolutionary inventions and equipment. ... The Roman Empire brought a fascinating range of languages as well as that they also used these languages to communicate with each other during war so their enemy wouldn't understand what they were attempting to plot. ... After the period of the crusades, after WWI and WWII there was a Cold War. ... The cold war also saw a revelation in tanks as the most developed main battle tanks with harder shelters and a greater range in shooting power w...

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World War II was part of Ralph Vaughan William's inspiration for his tuba concerto. One of the residual outcomes of World War II was the Cold War, another major historical event that had a great amount of influence over Europe and the rest of the world during Vaughan Williams' composing of his tuba concerto. ... That is the Cold War. ... The beginning of the Cold War is perfectly represented in the second movement of Vaughan Williams' tuba concerto. ... World War II and the Cold War served as major inspirations for the piece that defined the latter portion of Vaughan Williams&...

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During World War II, many countries had been suffering the fire of war until the Allies won the eventual victory. ... How did those countries that involved in World War II recover from the destruction of the war? ... During World War II, there was a civil war in Greece. ... This civil war had lasted three years and ended with ceasefire. ... Both Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine made the United States win the favor of other Western European countries and declare Cold War to the Soviet Union. ...

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The world is on the brink of war... ... Hundreds of thousands young German soldiers lost their lives as an accordance to the extremely cold, rough winter of 1942/43 and the lack of resources. ... The United States of America had joined the war in _1941____ . ...

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The Cold War engulfed the entire world for nearly half a century. ... During the Cold War, the world was engulfed in a game of "us- verses "them- ¯whichever superpower could gather the most countries, develop the fastest technology, threaten other nations with nuclear warfare, or walk on the moon first would win the race to superiority. ... When the Cold War ended in 1989 with the falling of the Berlin Wall, not only did Germany unite; globalization was introduced, establishing trade between nations: "Two nations who traffic with each other become reciprocally dependent; for if one has an ...

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After World War II, Europe was in wreck. ... The end of World War II was quickly followed by the birth of a new war, the Cold War. ... As the conflicts of the Cold War were intensifying in Europe, the Berlin Wall became the symbol of two opposing ideologies; capitalism in the West and socialism in the East. The struggle of these two totally different concepts was the driving force between the rivalry of western and eastern countries during this 'silent' war. ... Furthermore, the fall of the Berlin Wall marks the end of the Cold War and also more importantly it stamps the 'dea...

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He saw the carnage of two world wars, the destruction of empires through revolutions in Austria, Germany, Hungary and Russia, the surfacing of mass communist and fascist movements throughout Europe, the misery of the third Reich, the division of Germany and the cold war. ... Two years later, at the age of eighteen, he was almost expelled from school for disagreeing on whether it was necessary to defend his country in a time of war. During the First World War Brecht found himself working as an orderly in an emergency hospital until he was released from service having openly expressed a s...

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After World War II, Europe became the center of the cold war, which divided Communist-controlled Eastern Europe from non-Communist Western Europe. ... Winters in Moscow (Russia's capital) are severe with plenty of snow and bitterly cold temperatures. ... Rapid population growth and rising urbanization have characterized the region since World War II. ...

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There would be no stand still cold war that developed later on because at that point we would be the inferior nation. ... If this never occurred we would have never been involved in the Korean War which was a complete slaughter of innocent American soldiers forced to fight for freedom. Shall we not mention the destruction of our country, and soldiers and families with the drawn out saga of the Vietnam War. ...

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This were mainly people fleeing from war-torn Asian countries like Cambodia and Vietnam. ... Additionally, other cold war conflicts that extended into the 1970s saw a tremendous immigration from Eastern Europe countries and Cuba. ... In fact, during the World War II, immigration had significantly crushed. ...

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Throughout World War I increased engine power made faster flight and larger aircraft possible, however the transportation industry went down do to skeptical feelings towards the new invention and that people only associated planes with surveillance, bombing runs, and aerial dogfights. After World War I the surplus of airplanes that were made for military usage caused multiple production companies to go bankrupt. ... Whenever tired he would stick his head out the window and take in the cold air to wake him as well as having a slight instability built into the plane to keep him awake and focused...

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Imagine the wars which could happen with countries fighting over the oil and claims on who gets to mine where. ... The war on Iraq at the moment is all about fighting over oil; it would be exactly the same, except a whole lot colder! ... If Antarctica became a mining area then all the bans would become completely irrelevant and wars would be almost inevitable. ...

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Also, when it comes to mammoths, the size of the animals have been increased even in the cold and moisture. ... "As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might shew that America, though but a child of yesterday, has already given hopeful proofs of genius, as well of the noble kinds, which arouse the best feelings of man, which call him into action, which substantiate his freedom and conduct him to happiness, as of the subordinate, which serve to amuse him only."...

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Some of the more notable death marches included the mass march from the Warsaw Ghetto to the camp at Auschwitz and the march from Dachau to Tegernsee towards the end of the war. ... The tormented prisoners were starved, sick, wounded, and greatly exposed to the cold weather (Holocaust, 586). ...

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Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin notes that in the post-Cold War era, America's power and prestige may ultimately depend less on being a military superpower than on being an information and entertainment superpower. ...

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