While Britain and France were constantly in quest of expanding their empires at the cost of their adversaries, the United States was not in the war for Empirical gains. ... Some liberties were not even introduced until after the war such as all women being able to vote in Britain; or in France the discontinuation of the constant persecution of pacifists. ... One difference was the remobilization of the French and British people to war by using democratic ideals to rally support for the war. ... Also, democratic leaders with democratic ideals ruled Britain, France, and the USA while Germany and...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to find those promises withdrawn when they con- flicted with principles of self-determination. Italian claims to the west coast of the Adriatic, for instance, were denied by Yugoslavia. Italy received most of the Austrian territories it demanded, but many maintained that these were inadequate rewards for ...

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It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman ...

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