With the current environment and situation of Italy and Europe of this time, help could be found within Communists and slowly people began to support Communism and it's popular ideals. Now at this time, Mussolini, seeing the situation he found his homeland in and the weakened state of the current government, grabbed at his Fortuna when he could. He founded the Fascist party within Italy and set himself up as a powerful and lively man who could "sort out" Italy's problems. ...

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The United Nations has won the Nobel Peace prize more times than any other recipient in history. The efforts put into resolving conflict and keeping peace in the world are historically significant. If not for the efforts of the United Nations, many disputes and disagreements would have led to war...

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When Costa Rica declared war on Nicaragua, Walker found that much of the native population had rebelled to join the Costa Ricans and suddenly found him outnumbered. ... Driven from power, Walker returned to the United States, where he would finally be tried and found guilty of neutrality law violations. ...

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Anthrax is a bacteria that usually affect cattle and sheep, but if it gets into the right atmosphere and germinates all it needs is amino acids and some other elements that is found in human and animal blood. ... In 1991 after the Gulf War, Iraq was found to in violation of the NPT for having a large scale nuclear program. Also, around the same time North Korea was found to have violated their NPT agreement, for harvesting weapon-usable rods from a reactor. ...

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Although strict sanctions had been put in place, Hitler was able to easily circumvent these by creating arms and munitions that were meant for "police" or a "small standing army". ... " (Eastwood, 2010, 1298; Der Giftpilz, Streicher, 1933) It can be seen the clear anti-Semitic values that were placed on the German children at this time, and it is no surprise that they were easily indoctrinated to buy into these views that the Jews were the problem. ...

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The British Empire found itself in a difficult position when Nazi racism was apparent, meaning Britain's claim of legitimacy of a superior race ruling another was no longer valid, meaning the colonised country could see its own destiny, not needing an empire to rule them. ... He may have found the decline of the British Empire difficult to accept, being a conservative, meaning his reasons for its downfall would simply be because Britain felt it was its duty essentially "let go." ... With this, it is understandable as to how nationalist leaders could easily influence the colony to break aw...

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During the 1960's America was ripped apart by a war in a far off country in Asia. Seeing an enemy that was hoping to gain power and eventually rule the world and the nation stared war against communism in the face. The US was faced with the decision, to watch as its friends in other countries faded into the depths of communism, or to come along side and help its international friends put a stop to communism. The USA sent many soldiers to fight against the enemy, never quite realizing what it was truly sending them against. From the US viewpoint, it was thought that the War in Vietnam ...

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The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...

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American posters focused on tradition and patriotism with largely positive messages and could be found anywhere that did not already have paid advertisements, including schools, railway stations, malls, restaurants and apartment buildings (Poster Campaigns, Terrance). ...

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The period following WWII was a period of tension characterized by conflict at diplomatic, economic and all levels short of actual armed conflict between the principals on either side. The origins of the Cold War can be traced to conclusion of World War II and the disagreements between the USSR and the Western Powers. It was a direct result/consequence of the inability of the left and center to co-exist after the disappearance of the right. Beginning with the Yalta Convention in 1945, and continuing with the Potsdam Conference later that year, the United States and the United Soviet Socialis...

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There had always been events that played major roles for changing the balances in the world throughout history. Unfortunately, most of the time, these events were nothing but the cruel wars that resulted in the loss of millions of people and in waste of huge amount of money. Like every other wa...

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These missiles could easily reach the coast of Florida and some could reach the east coast, where many major American cities are located (Finkelstein 42). The United States, through their reconnaissance missions with the U-2 spy plane, found these missile sites on October 14, 1962 (Finkelstein 42). ...

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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. ... The present world, the way we see things today, is founded on the principles that the various leaders of the two superpowers believed in. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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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 Atlantic Charter, the United States and the USSR agreed to give Korea its independence. At Potsdam, the U.S. and the USSR divided Korea at the 38th parallel. ...

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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 Atlantic Charter, the United States and the USSR agreed to give Korea its independence. At Potsdam, the U.S. and the USSR divided Korea at the 38th parallel. ...

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